Hilton plugs elephants

Paris Hilton

Socialite and drink-driving jailbird Paris Hilton has become an unlikely champion for conservationists trying to highlight the plight of binge-drinking elephants in northeastern India.

Hilton said she was saddened to hear that six wild elephants that broke into a farm were electrocuted after drinking supplies of homemade rice beer then uprooting an electricity pole. "There would have been more casualties if the villagers hadn't chased them away ... It is just so sad," Hilton said.