For Paris Hilton, a trashed room is part of a long night.
A pillow fight gone awry at the Hard Rock Hotel might have turned into more than a financial nightmare for Paris Hilton's latest millionaire boyfriend.
The fierce room trashing also might have dampened Hilton's new relationship.
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Spies tell me a sprinkler head was broken during horseplay about 7:30 a.m. Sunday, flooding rooms, setting off fire alarms and causing evacuations.
A table was thrown, shearing off the sprinkler in the ninth-floor room, several sources said.
Hilton's baby-faced beau, 20-year-old Greek shipping heir Stavros Niarchos, was seen shirtless and with white feathers in his long hair, while his bodyguard told Hard Rock supervisors, "Why are you so upset? It's all going to be paid for."
At least four rooms suffered water damage. An informant said Niarchos, whose family is worth a reported $7.5 billion, could be charged more than $100,000 for the damage. He had to call his father to get the credit card charge OK'd, a spy said.
Four women who stayed in a room near Niarchos' party room said the problem began when fire alarms went off twice, first at 7:30 a.m. and then a half-hour later.
Hilton, who was partying with Kelly Osbourne in the penthouse suite at the time of the pillow fight, came down to the room afterward and was overheard telling Osbourne, "I don't want them (the Hard Rock) to think I bring in people who do this stuff."
The four women I interviewed on Sunday showed me photographs of the damaged room. The photos revealed a room carpet coated with feathers with a garbage can placed under a leaking sprinkler nozzle.
"Every lamp was broken," one of the women said.
"A maid told us they ruined every down pillow in the room," another said. After security showed up, "the feather trail got heavier and heavier."
THE SCENE AND HEARD
"Lunchtime with Ira, Live from the Las Vegas Hilton" launches today with Ira David Sternberg, Hilton vice president of communications, interviewing a trio of locals in the Shimmer Cabaret.
The weekly show airs on KDWN-AM, 720, or on the Internet at www.kdwn.com.
Guests: Rossi Ralenkotter, president and CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority; Jay Kornegay, executive director of the Hilton's race and sports Superbook; and yours truly.
SIGHTINGS
Chris Heinz, stepson of U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., setting off hunk-alert buzz when recognized in the VIP section at Tao (The Venetian). He was spotted chatting up two scandalously clad blondes. ... At "Beacher's Madhouse'' (Hard Rock Hotel) on Saturday: Osbourne, presented with a sheet cake and a salute from 21 little people who marched onstage at her 21st birthday party at The Joint. Also there: Hilton and Niarchos, and baseball's Reggie Jackson, Pete Rose, Jason Giambi, Marty Cordova and Denny Neagle. ... At Rain (Palms) on Saturday: Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz; Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child; basketball star Vlade Divac, in town for the Serbian Unity Conference; and Christine Smith, Playboy's Miss December. ... Heavyweight boxer Hasim Rahman, showing off his fancy footwork in the VIP room at OPM (Forum Shops at Caesars) on Saturday while taking verbal shots at recently retired champion Vitali Klitschko. "This is how you dance," Rahman said. "(Klitschko) is home doing the chicken dance." Their title fight, scheduled for Saturday, was called off last week for the fourth time after Klitschko injured a knee and subsequently announced his retirement. ... A rare Kirk Kerkorian sighting: the billionaire casino mogul in the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hilton on Saturday, chatting with Siegfried & Roy and Lynette Chappel. Siegfried & Roy were there to receive a humanitarian honor from Western University of Health Sciences.
THE PUNCH LINE
"School bullies now have to deal with the feds." -- From David Letterman's "Top Ten Good Things About Being An 18-Year-Old Mayor," after Tuesday's election of teenager Michael Sessions to lead the city of Hillsdale, Mich.
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