Question: Who was an inspiration for characters in The Beautiful People, and was "New York's leading It girl" in 2001?

Context articles: Beautiful People (film)
The Beautiful People (professional wrestling)
Claire Fitzsimmons
List of Beautiful People characters
Audrey Munson
Paris Hilton
Marylin Bender
Jasmin Dizdar
Café society
The New York Enterprise Report

Beautiful People is a 1999 British satirical comedy film written and directed by Jasmin Dizdar.
 The film won an award for the best film in Un Certain Regard category at the Cannes Film Festival, and is listed in The New York Times guide to "The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made".
 "Beautiful People" is set in London during the time of the Bosnian War.
The Beautiful People was a stable of professional wrestlers in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
 The stable has counted Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, Cute Kip, Madison Rayne and Lacey Von Erich as members throughout its several incarnations.
 The team are known for their narcissistic gimmick, and holding the TNA Knockouts Championship and the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship simultaneously.
 Their characters were portrayed as arrogant blonde Barbie dolls, whose main goal as a team was to "cleanse" the TNA roster "one ugly person at a time", based on the belief that their physical attractiveness was greater than that of others in the company, however various incarnations have portrayed them as faces.
 Original members Angelina Love and Velvet Sky came up with the characters, inspired by Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.
Claire Fitzsimmons, better known as Ms. Fitz, is an Australian stylist and artist living in New York City.
 She was named one of Time Out Magazine's "Most Stylish New Yorkers" in 2010 and MTV's "Top Style Bloggers" in 2011.
 In 2012 she was named one of Paper Magazine's Beautiful People.
 She was also awarded "New York's Best Nightlife Personality" at the Annual New York City Nightlife Awards in 2012.
Beautiful People is British comedy series, following the life of Simon Doonan, a schoolboy living in Reading, England in 1997.
 Simon is also seen in present-day New York (and in the second series, present day Reading) using short prologues and epilogues in the show.
 Alongside Simon, are his mother, Debbie, his father, Andy, his older sister Ashlene and his best friend, Kyle "Kylie" Parkinson.
Audrey Marie Munson (June 8, 1891 – February 20, 1996) was an American artist's model and film actress, considered "America's First Supermodel," and variously known as "Miss Manhattan", the "Panama–Pacific Girl", the "Exposition Girl" and "American Venus".
 She was the model or inspiration for more than 12 statues in New York City and was the first American movie star to appear fully nude in film, in "Inspiration" (1915), appearing in four silent films.
Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American businesswoman, socialite, television and media personality, model, actress, singer, and DJ.
 She is the great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, the founder of Hilton Hotels.
 Born in New York City and raised there and in Beverly Hills, California, Hilton began her modeling career as a teenager when she signed with New York-based modelling development agency Trump Model Management.
 Her lifestyle and rumored short-lived relationships made her a feature of entertainment news and tabloid magazines, and Hilton was proclaimed "New York's leading It girl" in 2001.
 In 2003, a sex tape with Hilton and her then-boyfriend Rick Salomon, later released as "1 Night in Paris", was leaked to the public.
 Released only three weeks before the premiere of the reality television series "The Simple Life", in which she starred alongside her long-time friend Nicole Richie, the sex tape became a media sensation.
Marylin Bender (born 1924), or Marylin Bender Altschul, is an American journalist and author.
 She worked as a reporter for the "New York Journal American" (1951–1958) and was a reporter, editor, and freelancer at "The New York Times" from 1959 to 1978 and 1985 to 1992.
 From 1976 to 1977, she was editor of the Business and Finance section at the "Times", and from 1985 to 1991, she edited "Business World".
 She wrote several books, including "The Beautiful People" (1967), "At the Top" (1975), "The Chosen Instrument" (with Selig Altschul, 1982), "Nouveau is Better Than No Riche At All" (with Monsieur Mare, 1983).
Jasmin Dizdar (born 8 June 1961) is a British-Bosnian film director, screenwriter and author best known for his multi-award-winning feature film "Beautiful People" and his World War Two thriller "Chosen" starring Harvey Keitel.
 Jasmin Dizdar received the highest honor from Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic Roger Ebert who selected "Beautiful People" in his The New York Times Guide to The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made.
 Jasmin Dizdar also published a book on cinema, which achieved a high volume of sales, with over 50,000 copies sold.
Café society was the description of the "Beautiful People" and "Bright Young Things" who gathered in fashionable cafes and restaurants in New York, Paris, and London beginning in the late 19th century.
 Maury Henry Biddle Paul is credited with coining the phrase "cafe society" in 1915.
 Lucius Beebe created the term "chromium mist" for the cafe society lifestyle he chronicled in his weekly column, "This New York," for the" New York Herald Tribune" during the 1920s and 1930s.
The New York Enterprise Report or "' NY Report"' is a media company based in New York City, New York.
 The company is founded on the belief that all business owners should have access to the expertise that will help them grow their companies.
 The business caters to entrepreneurs and executives who constantly seek better ways to operate and grow.
 Through NY Report’s multi-media platforms, they provide their readers with access to knowledge from experts and inspiration from successful entrepreneurs.The publication mainly covers local small businesses, that are located within the Greater New York Area.
 The magazine uses expert-written news articles, tips, advice and other helpful resources to help small business owners expand their company.
 The New York Enterprise Report puts out a monthly publication as well as publishes daily articles and interviews on their website to help people grow their businesses.