She set fact-checkers reeling four years ago when she took credit for the selfie.
And Paris Hilton showed she wasn’t giving up when she again claimed on Monday to have invented selfies with her friend Britney Spears, 39.
The 40-year-old reality TV icon retweeted the duo’s now-iconic snaps nearly 15 years later to celebrate National Selfie Day on June 21.
She’s at it again! Paris Hilton, 40, again claimed to have invented the selfie with Britney Spears 15 years ago, though there’s abundant proof that she didn’t; seen Sunday in NYC
Paris originally raised questions about the creation of self-shot photos on November 19, 2017, when she posted two photos of herself and Britney.
She claimed the photos were snapped 11 years earlier and were the first selfies, though it’s difficult to tell which of them took the pictures.
’11 years ago today, Me & Britney invented the selfie!’ she wrote at the time.
For her updated post, Paris wrote, ’15 years ago,’ with camera and heart emojis and the hashtag, ‘#NationalSelfieDay.’
Taking credit: Paris claimed that she and Britney, 39, invented the selfie in November 2006 when she posted the photos 11 years later to Twitter
Even earlier: In a 2017 interview with W Magazine, the Simple Life star claimed she had actually invented the selfie years earlier as a kid with a disposable camera
The original photos appeared to have been taken at a Playboy-themed bar, and photos she later posted from the same night show the pals posing in front of illuminated red shelves in the shape of the Playboy bunny logo, while Paris wore charcoal bunny ears.
In a 2017 interview with W Magazine published months before her tweet, the Simple Life star claimed she had actually invented the selfie years earlier.
‘If a beeper had a camera, I would have taken a selfie with it,’ she joked, before taking credit for the popular photography trick. ‘I think I have a selfie from when I was a little kid, like on a disposable camera.’
Although she takes credit for the selfie — and also gives it to Britney — there’s a wealth of evidence suggesting selfies were around long before Paris was born — and even before her parents were born.
Late to the party: But a deep dig from The New York Times in 2017 showed that the earliest selfie dates to 1839, and several can be found early in the 20th century. Even George Harrison and Madonna took them; seen Sunday with her fiancé Carter Reum
Shortly after her original post, The New York Times spoke with University of Southern California Professor Stephen Marino, who taught a writing course that used selfies extensively, but he was unable to find any way to interpret the heiress as the inventor of selfies.
An 1839 photo by Robert Cornelius is believed to be the very first self-shot photo.
However, he wasn’t holding the camera himself, but other photos of people taking pictures of themselves while holding cameras date back to 1920, and selfie sticks have been used at least as far back as the 1930s.
Even if one generously defines a selfie as featuring a famous person taking photos of themselves, it doesn’t work in Paris’ favor, as artists including Andy Warhol and Cindy Sherman had already done that, as had pop stars like Madonna.
The Beatles’ George Harrison even took several famous selfies of himself during a 1966 trip he took to India, including a famous photo he snapped of himself standing in front of the Taj Mahal.
Back for more: Paris recently snapped one of her iconic selfies with her mother Kathy Hilton to celebrate her joining The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills
Paris doesn’t appear to have ever addressed whether she might have been joking in her tweet, though she seems to have doubled down with her newest retweet.
Even though she’s not the inventor of the selfie, she’s still a devotee of the DIY art form.
Late last month, Paris snapped another selfie, this time with her mother Kathy Hilton, as they celebrated the matriarch joining the cast of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills and joining her daughter and her half-sister Kyle Richards on a reality series.