Days after U.S. college student Shira Barlow got her new cell phone number, the party inquiries, birthday wishes and late-night calls started arriving.
Barlow had unwittingly inherited the old phone number of celebrity hotel heiress Paris Hilton -- and messages from well-wishers and foes alike are still flooding in five months later.
Barlow told the Los Angeles Times in a story published on Friday that the calls and text messages -- usually coming between about 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. on weekends -- at first were mostly from people asking about cool Los Angeles nightclubs.







