Some people suspect the messages were part of a stealthy viral campaign conducted by Universal Motown Records, which recently signed Shiny Toy Guns and is set to re-release the band's debut album in October.

According to the source, Charnow did record vocals for Hilton, but only dummy ones on demo tracks produced by various songwriters working on the album, a relatively common practice in the celebrity-cum-songstress wing of the music industry. None of Charnow's performances made it onto the finished record, says the friend.

In other news, the teenager who hacked into Paris Hilton’s mobile phone has been incarcerated for eleven months.
The 17-year-old from Massachusetts pleaded guilty to charges leveled after he illegally accessed the star’s phone, then published private photos and emails on the internet