POMERANC: Let’s just say the group had creative differences. I have since spoken to Amanda many times. She’s super creative; she’s really interesting. But there was a little drama there.
LOPEZ: I want to say it was the opening night [of Teddy’s]—I remember going with Lindsay [Lohan], and I think Donatella Versace was there. It was a very hot night, very exclusive, and you would look around, and it was all the girls. It was like, Mischa Barton, Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton.
POMERANC: Leo, Lindsay, Paris, that group kind of exploded. They were going out all the time, and Teddy’s was their hub. Kim [Kardashian] was just, like, a footnote.
MINTZ: I recall the first night that we invited Kim Kardashian to join us at Hyde. Kim Kardashian’s first real job in Hollywood was building closets for celebrities. Paris hired her, and Kim worked diligently for weeks.
MEISELS: I had hired Kim, who didn’t have a job at the time, to clean out Paris’s closets. Because she didn’t want to work at Dash.
MINTZ: One night when Kim was doing some finishing touches, Paris said to me, “You know that girl who did my closet? She’s really, really nice. I get really good vibes from her. Why don’t you invite her to join us tonight at Hyde?”
Kim’s first reaction was to look a little horrified. She said, “That’s so kind of her, but I just want you to know I don’t smoke. I don’t drink. I don’t dance. And besides, look at me—I have nothing to wear.” Paris said, “Oh, don’t be silly—she doesn’t have to smoke, she doesn’t have to drink, pick something of mine and change into it.” As the visits increased—because Paris liked her and invited her to many of them—Kim usually waited for the other women to enter first, and then she would walk in. Of course, no flashbulbs were flashing on this woman with the long brown hair.
