Paris Hilton Goes Instagram Official With Boyfriend Carter Reum in Honor of Their Anniversary

Paris Hilton is celebrating an anniversary with her new boyfriend Carter Reum.

By Samantha Schnurr Apr 30, 2020 3:33 PMTags
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It's Instagram official: Paris Hilton has a new man in her life—and they're already celebrating an anniversary. 

In early January, E! News reported on the romance brewing in the mogul's life with businessman Carter Reum. The two had stepped out together at a 2020 Golden Globes after-party, where they were spotted holding hands.

"He is known in Hollywood," a source told E! News at the time. "They have been seeing each other for a little over a month."

"They are very happy together," another source said. "They met through friends, and everyone is saying what a great couple they make." E! News had also learned that the two celebrated New Year's Eve together with his whole family, and they all "adore" Hilton.

The pair have since reached two new milestones as they not only are celebrating an anniversary, but Hilton has also made their relationship official on her Instagram account. 

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"Happy Anniversary my love," she captioned a photo of them kissing. "My favorite thing to do is make memories with you. Your kisses are magical. I love being yours and knowing you're mine."

Back in November 2018, E! News confirmed Hilton had ended her relationship with then-fiancé Chris Zylka, just under a year after he proposed. 

"Their relationship moved really quickly, and she realized he wasn't right for her," a source explained. "She wishes him well and hopes they can remain friends."

"It was the best decision I've ever made in my life," she recently told Cosmopolitan U.K. of calling off their engagement. "I just don't think [he] was the right person and I feel like I'm an incredible woman and I deserve someone so amazing. It just didn't feel right. I've worked way too hard to just give my life to someone. They have to be perfect."

Keep scrolling to revisit more of Paris Hilton's romantic history:

Edward Furlong

Young Hollywood at its wildest. The Terminator 2: Judgment Day star was dating Hilton during some of his more memorable nightlife exploits.

"No, we're not married, but he is my boyfriend. We've been going steady together for about a month," Hilton told the New York Post in September 2000.

Rick Salomon

Forever linked for posterity thanks to their 2001 sex tape, eventually marketed by Salomon and his brother in 2004 as 1 Night in Paris. Hilton knew in hindsight that it wasn't one of her better choices. While the grainy video added to her oh-so-'00s pop culture cachet, she was aware that her image would never fully recover, or at least not for years, till her generation really grew up.

"I always looked up to Princess Diana and all these women, and now I could never be like that," Paris said in a 2009 MTV documentary Paris, Not France. "I want to have a family. I want to be normal. I want to be happy."

Jason Shaw

Paris was barely 21 when she dated the model, who's eight years older, in 2002. They stayed friendly though, and sparked rekindling rumors when they were spotted together in 2010.

"Paris has always loved Jason and cared about him deeply," a source told E! News. "But when they were together she was just a kid and not ready for such a commitment."

Deryck Whibley

They shared some kisses on the party circuit while Hilton was on The Simple Life in 2003, but nothing so serious that it prevented Paris from palling around with the future (and now ex) Mrs. Whibley Avril Lavigne down the road.

"Uh, no," Whibley told Livewire in 2004 when asked if he still talked to Hilton. "If I saw her, I would, but I don't talk to her on the phone or anything."

Simon Rex

The MTV VJ and actor soon to be known as Dirt Nasty was a member of Hilton's party circle in its prime, so of course the rumor that they were more than friends followed.

They stayed close enough that Hilton was among the celebs who made a cameo on his web series Rex, and her appearance was considered darn funny. 

"People think Paris is a ditzy blond, and I don't want to blow it for her, but she plays it really well," Rex told Mediaite in 2009. "She knows exactly what she's doing. She's actually a pretty smart person. She's very cognizant of what she's doing, and she kind of plays that role, so people think she's some airhead but she's really not. She's definitely parlayed what she's been given into something bigger and better. She said something interesting to me once: she said, 'I just tell everyone what they want to hear, and I do what I want to do.'"

Fred Durst

The Limp Bizkit frontman was fighting the ladies off with a stick in 2004. But down the road, when Hilton came up during an interview years later, the notoriously loose-lipped "Nookie" singer didn't kiss and tell.

Jamie Kennedy

Hilton was rumored to be dating the Scream star, but they were friends for years.

Joe Francis

The Girls Gone Wild founder briefly dated Hilton during his own wilder days in 2003 and he later called her "indomitable" but a "handful," telling People, "You can't date Paris seriously without drama."

Nick Carter

The socialite and the Backstreet Boy were no Britney and Justin, at least as far as "aw, remember how great that was?" rosy nostalgia goes. After seven months of dating, during which the Salomon sex tape came out, they broke up in July 2004, with Carter telling People theirs was a relationship "based on distrust."

The aftermath goes like this: They split up July 22. On July 26 Hilton was out partying with Nick's brother Aaron Carter, Bijou Phillips and younger sister Nicky Hilton, when they ran into Nick in Hollywood. According to Nick's lawyer, Paris went home with him; the next morning he drove her to a meeting. The next time Paris' photo was taken, on July 28, 2004, she had bruises on her face. Carter denied having anything to do with it, telling People, "I'll tell you one thing: I didn't touch her. I'm not that kind of guy. I would never do that."

In 2006, Carter unloaded on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM show, claiming he hooked up with Ashlee Simpson to get back at Hilton for cheating on him with her House of Wax co-star Chad Michael Murray, who was married to Sophia Bush at the time. He didn't mean to hurt Simpson, he said, but "Paris and her are two different people and Ashlee is a good person from what I know...and I'm not saying that Paris is a bad person, but I'm saying she's got to work her problems out."

Chad Michael Murray

Well, if you believe Nick Carter.

Paris Latsis

Remember "Paris and Paris"?! Hilton dated the Greek shipping heir for eight months before he proposed in May 2005, reportedly presenting her with 15 rings to choose from.

"I'm so in love and grateful to have found such an honest and loyal person," Hilton gushed to Us Weekly. "I feel like we were meant to be, and I'm happy to have found someone to spend the rest of my life with."

They ended their engagement in September 2005, seemingly just days after Hilton purchased a piece of art at Kitson that actually featured her and her fiancé, surrounded by angels that held a banner reading "True Love." "I'm sad to announce that I've called off my engagement," Hilton said in a statement. "Over the last couple months [aka, the entire course of their engagement], I've realized that this is the right decision for me. We remain best of friends, and I'll always love him. I hope people will respect my privacy during this emotional time."

Latsis said in his own statement, "Right now is a very tough time for me. I love Paris very much. This was the best experience of my life."

Stavros Niarchos III

Literally hours after confirming the breakup with Latsis, Hilton was out partying with a group that included Niarchos, another Greek shipping heir and the former boyfriend of Mary-Kate Olsen, who didn't take the new pairing particularly well.

"[Paris and I] always only had nice things to say about each other," Olsen told W in December 2005. "Now I guess you can tell we're not talking."

Hilton and Niarchos would date off and on before finally calling it quits in March 2007, with a friend of Paris' telling E! News, "she's been over Stavros for a while."

Josh Henderson

When Paris broke up with Stavros for good, there were already rumblings about her and the Desperate Housewives actor, who used to date Ashlee Simpson. Henderson was spotted out and about with Hilton for a few months in early 2007, before her sojourn to jail that June.

"I haven't talked to [Paris] in a long time," Henderson told E! News when we caught up with him in 2009. "But she's always doing well."

Tyler Atkins

After jail, life really was a beach, especially while hanging with the Australian surfer (and future winner of The Amazing Race Australia in 2011) in Malibu in July 2007.

"She is a really smart, amazing girl, and we share similar interests," Atkins told Who.com of their days in the sun. "We have been hanging out at the beach, talking about fashion, and it has been lots of fun. She's a cool girl, and we're having a really great time enjoying each other's company."

Adrian Grenier

You know what else reached the height of its popularity in the mid-'00s? Entourage. But Grenier, who was spotted in Paris' friend zone in 2006 and 2007, was busy getting inspired. In Teenage Paparazzo, the 2010 documentary he directed, Grenier sits Hilton down to explain the story of Narcissus and the origins of the term "narcissism" to her.

"There is serendipity in documentary film-making," he told Popcorn Biz, laughing about that scene. "It's just about sewing all of those little gems together and that's what we did."

More recently, in response to a caller into the Watch What Happens Live After Show, Grenier clarified that his relationship with Hilton was always platonic. "In fact, I was hanging out with her because she was a main character in a documentary I made about the paparazzi...She was very kind to let me into her world and see what she goes through...'cause at the time she was the number-one target for the paparazzi."

Benji Madden

Hilton was gaga for the Good Charlotte guitarist when they dated, excited about him and the idea of marrying the twin brother of the partner of her own bestie, Nicole Richie.

"Yeah, they're twins," she told David Letterman in May 2008 about Benji and Joel Madden. "It's actually perfect. We're like sisters and they're twins, so it works out well. Nicole and I would be sisters-in-law. We talk about it. I'm so happy. I'm so in love. I know I want to spend the rest of my life with Benji, my boyfriend. I know I want to be with him forever. If you saw us together, you'd understand. He's my best friend."

Sadly, they broke up that November. "She was just so busy lately and her work and travel schedule made it difficult for them to be together," a source close to Hilton told E! News. "She's really very saddened by the split and wants some time to be alone and really focus on herself right now and her work."

Doug Reinhardt

Paris seemingly fell hard in early 2009 for the baseball player turned sports agent (and familiar face on The Hills), but she ended it six months later, confirming the split to E! News via her publicist. Eventually Doug got the memo.

But sister and BFF Nicky Hilton wasn't a fan, so it would have never worked anyway.

Cy Waits

Her 2010 relationship with the prolific Vegas club manager went off the rails when she was arrested for alleged cocaine possession after he got pulled over in August 2010, resulting in a DUI charge for him—just a week after Waits had held off a would-be intruder at gunpoint till the cops showed up to Hilton's L.A. home. "He's her knight in shining armor," a source told E! News after the incident.

After the arrest, Hilton pleaded guilty to misdemeanor drug possession and obstructing an officer and avoided a felony charge, which could've come with jail time if convicted.

That didn't spell the end for the couple, however. They chugged along until June 2011, after which Hilton told E! News, "Cy is a good guy. We've been friends for years and always will be. I just need some time alone to focus on myself. We speak all the time. I have nothing but great things to say about him."

Todd Phillips

When she was done focusing on herself, Hilton got to know the Hangover director in 2011.

Afrojack

The Dutch DJ-producer was set to produce an EDM album Paris was working on after she signed with Cash Money Records and they started showing up at events, such as the 2012 Grammys, together—so of course they were rumored to be a thing. A thing which ended that May, after Afrojack supposedly pulled the plug because he wasn't looking for anything serious.

In addition to deejaying and recording, "I also spent the last year traveling to different shows around the world with Afrojack," Hilton nonchalantly told E! News in June 2012. "This was a great experience, to watch how he engages the crowd and creates great energy at these parties."

No Afrojack-produced album emerged, however. 

"Oh I've shut that up," he told Digital Spy in March 2014. "That might have come out a bit harsh. I'm still in touch with Paris, but musically we've taken different paths. There was so much bulls--t surrounding everything, because she is who she is. I gave her a shot, but eventually, enough is enough."

River Viiperi

Hilton started dating the Spanish model in 2012 and no one knew they had broken up until she was spotted kissing someone else.

Josh Upshaw

Clubs are so 2000-and-late but it's never a bad time to kiss a Ralph Lauren model on the beach in Malibu. July 2014 works.

Thomas Gross

Not long after she told DuJour, "I really don't have time for a boyfriend" and, regardless, she'd "rather be single" than date guys in Los Angeles, her international ways led her to meet Switzerland-based Austrian businessman Thomas Gross in 2015, reportedly at the Cannes Film Festival. "I just feel like I'm in a different place in my life. I live in Switzerland now. I'm in love," she told E! News in February 2016. "I don't know, I finally feel like myself. It's exciting. [I'm] genuinely happy."

But though she considered them "soulmates" at the height of their year-long romance, their separately busy lives ultimately drove them apart and they split up in April 2016.

Chris Zylka

"I've never been surer of anything in my life," Hilton told E! News in March 2017 about the Leftovers actor. "He's so incredible in every way. We've actually been friends for a really long time, like the past six years. We just now started being serious in the past few months and it's really just changed my life in so many ways and brought so much happiness to my life. I feel so safe and he's so special. We're best friends and we're together every minute. I don't know what else I could ask for. He's perfect for me."

Zylka proposed before New Year's while they were skiing in Aspen and she said yes, ringing in 2018 as an engaged woman. "Ever since our first date I knew there was something special about him," Hilton gushed to People afterward. "I have never in my life met a man so loyal, dedicated, and loving. I knew right from the start that I wanted to be with him forever."

Alas, their reported November 2018 wedding date (she dreams of tying the knot on 11-11) came and went and the following month a source confirmed that they had ended their engagement. Zylka wasn't Hilton's forever-guy after all. 

Talking to Cosmopolitan UK toward the end of 2019, she called breaking up with the actor "the best decision I've ever made in my life. I just don't think [he] was the right person and I feel like I'm an incredible woman and I deserve someone so amazing. It just didn't feel right. I've worked way too hard to just give my life to someone. They have to be perfect."

Carter Reum

No pressure, Carter. But the entrepreneur she first went public with at a 2020 Golden Globes after-party totally fit the bill, and Paris announced their engagement on Feb. 17, 2020, her 40th birthday.

"From the moment you walked into my life you changed it in every way," Hilton wrote on Instagram in July. "Every day with you has been a blessing. You have shown me what true love really is. Thank you for all the incredible memories, the late night laughs and the early morning kisses. Thank you for making me feel safe, holding my hand through this life and proving that good men still exist. In you I've found the love of my life, my other half, my partner, and my best friend. Thank you for making me the happiest girl in the world! I'm so excited for our future together! I love you forever and ever."

Moreover, she wrote, wherever they are, "For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person. And we're finally home."