In The Spotlight: The Duchess of York

First Christopher Hitchens, now the Duchess of York: Paris Hilton is finding friends these days in unlikely quarters.

A week after the prominent journalist Christopher Hitchens penned an article defending Paris Hilton and damning her critics, the Duchess of York has sent a personal note to jailbird Paris, telling her that, while she cannot condone her probation violation, she knows that ‘‘you hit obstacles in life and you can pull out of them’’.