PARIS HILTON - HILTON BANNED FROM VANITY FAIR PARTY

Socialite PARIS HILTON was banned from Vanity Fair's annual post-Oscar party on Sunday night (05MAR06), after being blacklisted by the magazine's editor GRAYDON CARTER. Carter reduced the party's guest list to 500 this year (06), meaning only a-list stars such as MADONNA, TERI HATCHER, NICOLE KIDMAN, HEATH LEDGER, JOAQUIN PHOENIX, JENNIFER ANISTON and JENNIFER LOPEZ were in attendance at Morton's Restaurant in Beverly Hills, California. Carter says, "Paris who? "She will never attend one of the parties I host." Hilton's former friend NICOLE RICHIE was allowed in and partied with another of the heiress' rivals MISCHA BARTON.