Former 'Laguna Beach' reality star Kristin Cavallari has taken a lesson straight out Papa Joe Simpson's playbook, and is reaping the monetary benefits.

Like Paris Hilton, she's charging club owners for personal appearances that might produce publicity for their venues in celebrity-obsessed weekly magazines. She was clever enough to spark a bidding war between Tao Las Vegas and Pure Las Vegas for the rights to hold her 21st birthday event - and bids are already up to $100,000. Cavallari has also mastered a method originated by Jessica Simpson and her father, Joe. She has a friend who fronts as a "personal photographer" and gets the "big photos" of her making out with pal Nick Zano. She then sells the images to the tabs, who give her a percentage. The practice "infuriates event organizers who pay her to attend their events because they only get C-rate photos for their use," a spy said. Cavallari's rep said, "We have some nice offers from different venues to hold Kristin's birthday party, and she has not yet chosen one . . . In this time of stalkerazzi who invade her privacy, Kristin, like many other celebs, has found a way to try to counter and control these uncomfortable situations and work with photographers they know and trust."

Well whatever works for her to extend her 15 minutes of fame, because at this point I think people are starting to ask "Kristin who?" Perhaps she needs to take a page out of Brody Jenner's playbook and date famous as well.

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