Hilton memoir tells about growing up rich

NEW YORK -- Paris Hilton is trying on a new outfit: a hard cover. The model-reality TV star has written a 198-page memoir, "Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose." Though the missing Chihuahua saga was too recent to make the book, Hilton writes about her youth as a hotel heiress in a "really close" family. Excerpts of the book, to be published by Fireside on Sept. 7, are in the Sept. 6 issue of People magazine.

Actor fined for violating wetlands protection laws

HAILEY, Idaho -- Bruce Willis will pay a $21,000 fine for violating federal wetlands protection laws by clearing a half-acre island in a pond at his central Idaho home. Willis was cited last October for clearing the small island, installing a sprinkler system and adding topsoil to level depressions so sod could be laid. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials claimed he also dumped 10 cubic yards of fill material in a stream to provide access to the island. The wetlands had been part of a spring-fed tributary of the Big Wood River.

Penthouse founder must sell mansion furnishings

RED HOOK, N.Y. -- The contents from Robert Guccione's old summer getaway are about to be put on the auction block. Some 400 items owned by the Penthouse magazine founder, ranging from a hand-carved 16th-century Italian canopy bed to a 17th-century hand-carved Flemish cabinet, are to be auctioned Sept. 4. Guccione lost the 16-room mansion in Staatsburg 80 miles north of New York City after defaulting on a $14.5 million loan in February. Kennedy Funding of New Hackensack, N.J., then acquired the 55-acre estate in Dutchess County when Guccione declared bankruptcy.

Oprah invites fellow jurors to talk show

CHICAGO -- Oprah Winfrey said she wouldn't want to serve as a juror in a murder trial again, but enjoyed getting to know her fellow jurors -- and invited them to her show to talk about the experience. "You're not allowed to discuss anything to do with the trial until the whole thing is over, and so you get to know people really, really well because you're trying to talk about everything else," Winfrey said during a show taped Tuesday and broadcast Thursday. Winfrey was one of 12 jurors who convicted a Chicago man of murder Aug. 18. -- From wire reports