Lady Gaga and

Nicky Hilton

When asked in a 2008 interview about hanging out with the Hilton sisters at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York City, Lady Gaga (Class of 2004) admitted that she barely knew them—but they remained influential for her. "They're very pretty and very clean. Very, very clean. You know, I never saw Paris; she was older than me, and it's funny that the press always write that I went to school with the Hilton sisters, but I actually only went with Nicky.... But, you know, it's impressive to be that perfect all the time, these girls. I was always a weird girl in school, who did theater and came to school with lots of red lipstick on or my hair perfectly curled, or whatever I was doing to get attention. It's funny as it's almost like they were there to make me aware, because so much of what I do now is that I try to twist my world into the commercial community. So I guess they've been quite an influence on me. Not them in particular, but the idea of the self-proclaimed artist."