Hilton Receives a Check By Keeping Her Clothes On

We here at Society/Sex will sashay down the meth lane from one crackhead to another!

Paris Hilton will be getting a little something in the mail from Hallmark this year.

And no, it's not penicillin.

The socialite has settled a lawsuit against the company over a greeting card that featured a scene seemingly ripped from her old reality show "The Simple Life." The caption read "Paris's First Day as a Waitress" and made a pun on her trademarked catch phrase, "That's Hot." In 2007, Hilton sued, claiming her publicity rights had been violated.

Last week, attorneys for Hilton and Hallmark advised a California judge that they had reached a settlement. A confidentiality provision limits the release of exact terms, but it's believed Hilton walked away with a favorable package.

When the heiress filed suit in 2007, Hallmark struck back with a free-speech defense.

The case made its way up to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which handed Hilton a huge legal victory last year, as well as wasting taxpayers precious money. The appeals court rejected Hallmark's protected-speech argument and raised doubts that the greeting card was "transformative" expression. The case was remanded back to a lower court.

Since then, the two sides have been preparing for a December trial. Evidence was being collected to ascertain the commercial value of Hilton's endorsement.

Now, pending a judge's blessing, the case is over.

Hilton's name will be stamped in law review articles discussing the tricky balance between publicity rights and the First Amendment — but we may never know exactly what Hilton's publicity is really worth.

But true heauxz know that when Hilton screams "That's hot", she could be speaking on many things: her crotch, the crackpipe in her hand, or the knock-off Fendi bag she'll be claiming is NOT HERS when the police pull her over and empty the contents!