Paris and the Peacock

The New York Post reports that NBC will pay Paris Hilton $1 million for her first post-jail interview. Scratch that: News-gathering organizations don't pay for interviews, remember? They'll just probably pay her and/or her family $1 million for "help" assembling pictures or some such, and then Paris will just so happen to give them an interview. Jail will turn out to have been a rather profitable experience for the gal the Post describes as the "celebrity heirhead":

The "Today" windfall alone will mean $43,578 a day for her three-plus weeks staring at the four walls of the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, Calif., and the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown L.A.

The Post has learned that the cunning con also inked a deal to sell her first photos to Getty Images,. They will run in People magazine, along with the first print interview, next Friday.

The Getty deal is worth a staggering $300,000, sources said.

The Post's headline, as usual, says it all: "So crime does pay, Paris."