Hollywood star Paris Hilton has only been single for a matter of weeks, since splitting from U.S. baseball star Doug Reinhardt.
But she wasted no time in getting herself back on the party circuit (well she is a professional party girl, after all) – and the 29-year-old heiress opened up her private photo diary exclusively to The Daily Mail, London to reveal what goes on behind the scenes of her lifestyle.
In one of the exclusive photos, Paris is shown cosying up to 24-year-old Jesus Luz, the on-off Brazilian boyfriend of Madonna, (though Paris told us she hadn't a clue who he was when she met him).Hilton reaches for a chocolate as she cools off in the swimming pool of her yacht in Cannes
The heiress shows her affection for Moet & Chandon champagne. The photo was taken at the Cannes Film Festival – the event which Paris considers her favourite social engagement of the year.As Paris tells Mail Online exclusively, ‘This was my best Cannes yet – I think it had something to do with the fact that I'm single!
And the photos certainly show what we already knew – Paris has no shortage of self confidence.Paris poses on a table strewn with petals spelling out her initials
Paris was snapped with Madonna's boyfriend - but insists she didn't know who he was.
The famously hedonistic heiress showed off her unrivalled ability to pose for the camera in a series of tongue in cheek photos.
In some she shows off a very revealing bikini as she cavorts in the swimming pool of her yacht, while others show her pulling a variety of contorted poses on the deck.
But it's the party shots that show what Paris is really good at. A jerobaum of Moet & Chandon champagne here, a table strewn with roses spelling out her initials there – not to mention a whole host of action shots from the dance floor.Paris's party buddies included her sister Nicky and, rather unconventionally, her mother and father – Kathy and Richard.
‘Me and my family stayed on the most incredible yacht – it was so nice having them there with me,' she said.
In past years Paris Hilton has made headlines at the festival by accidentally flashing photographers, losing her BlackBerry which contained all of her private phone numbers of fellow A-listers, and it was this time last year that Paris announced to photographers that she would marry Doug.
However, their relationship ended last month, and Paris has insisted that she's enjoying her new single life.
She recently declared: 'I'm single - and very happy,' she said. 'I've never been single before my whole life. I've always had a boyfriend.
‘I feel free and independent and I'm getting to know myself better - not spending so much time with a guy but spending that time on myself and I love that.'
But she added: 'I've learned a lot about men. You can't trust them, some of them.
'Being in this industry you never know what the guy's intentions are.'
