Thief Swipes Paris Hilton’s Mother’s Day Gifts

First Published: May 16, 2006 12:41 PM EDT Credit: AP

Caption They gesture for the cameras: Paris blowing kisses, May 2006

-- (May 16, 2006) — Paris Hilton’s mother can only imagine what her celebrity daughter got her for Mother’s Day.

That’s because thieves stole the gifts before Kathy Hilton received them.

A gift bag containing nearly $10,000 worth of Christian Dior shoes, sunglasses, handbags and perfume was taken from outside the Hilton home, spokesman Elliot Mintz said Monday.

The younger Hilton “spent three or four hours shopping to put together this wonderful collection of things for her mom,” Mintz said.

A delivery person set the package down outside the home’s gate to ring the intercom when a passenger in a passing car snatched the gifts.

“A fellow just whizzed by and grabbed the package,” Mintz said.

The Hilton family celebrated Mother’s Day by going out to dinner, he said.

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