Paris Hilton promoting her new CD 'Paris' at Best Buy. Los Angeles, California - 18.08.06

The hotel heiress insisted she was cut off from her famous family financially when she moved to Hollywood because she wanted success on her own terms - not because she could buy it.

Hilton says, "When I moved to LA, I swear on my life I didn't have anything. I was living in a crappy model apartment.

"I told my mom I didn't want any money and I've done it all on my own. All this, I bought for myself: my cars, my house."