{"id":162,"date":"2007-07-09T08:15:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T13:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cecsearch.com\/WordPress\/2007\/07\/09\/hilton-sells-amid-money-pressure\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T03:59:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T07:59:46","slug":"hilton-sells-amid-money-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/09\/hilton-sells-amid-money-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilton Sells Amid Money Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cecsearch.com\/images\/ph-070907.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"326\" align=\"left\">In an apparent attempt to raise cash needed for Paris Hilton&#8217;s future bail, court fines, and criminal penalties &#8211; <a title=\"Read the full story here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nrn.com\/topStoryRedirect.aspx?id=342740\">Hilton Hotels has agreed to be purchased by the Blackstone Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">From <b>Nation&#8217;s Restaurant News<\/b><\/font><font face=\"Courier New\" color=\"#000080\"> &#8211; BEVERLY HILLS ,&nbsp;Calif. (Jul. 5)<b> <\/b>Hilton Hotels Corp. said it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by The Blackstone Group in an all-cash transaction valued at $26 billion.&nbsp; The Hilton brand generated systemwide food and beverage sales of $1.1 billion in 2006, placing it at number 43 on Nation&#8217;s Restaurants News&#8217; Top 100 Chains ranking. Hilton Hotels Corp., based here, placed 35<sup>th<\/sup> on the Top 100 Companies ranking<\/font>.<\/p>\n<p>Our gossip reporter was not able to reach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parishiltononline.net\/paris-bombarded-with-calls\/\">Paris<\/a> for comment before press time, but we checked with the <a href=\"http:\/\/recruitinganimal.typepad.com\/\">Recruiting Animal<\/a> [known to be a big fan] who had this to say: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Have you seen that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifilm.com\/video\/2671832\">girl wash a car<\/a>?&nbsp; It would be criminal to have her in jail again and unable to do any more commercials like that.&nbsp; I&#8217;m gonna to set up a radio-thon on my talk show to help augment the $26 billion &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s enough, I wanna to make sure that she stays out of jail.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Check back for more news as the story develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an apparent attempt to raise cash needed for Paris Hilton&#8217;s future bail, court fines, and criminal penalties &#8211; Hilton Hotels has agreed to be purchased by the Blackstone Group. From Nation&#8217;s Restaurant News &#8211; BEVERLY HILLS ,&nbsp;Calif. (Jul. 5) Hilton Hotels Corp. said it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[18,3,15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-other-blogs","category-restaurant-jobs","category-restaurant-news","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}