| Rich Girls | |
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| Genre | Reality |
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| Opening theme | "This Town" byLillix |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Original release | |
| Network | MTV |
| Release | October 28 (2003-10-28) – December 30, 2003 (2003-12-30) |
Rich Girls is anMTVreality television series that aired for one season in 2003. The series followed the lives of the daughters of two very successful businessmen: Ally Hilfiger (daughter ofTommy Hilfiger) and her then-best friend Jaime Gleicher (daughter of Leo Gleicher) as they completed their final semester ofhigh school, graduated and spent the ensuing summer together. They are shown shopping and gossiping in a series of luxurious locales such as:London, theHamptons, Hilfiger's family estates inNantucket and tropicalBritish West Indies, as well asLos Angeles. However, their home base and the setting for much of the action wasNew York City.
Ally and Jaime were the show's eponymous "rich girls" because Hilfiger's father isTommy Hilfiger, the multi-millionaire owner of the same named fashion label and Gleicher's late father, Leo, was the founder ofInnovation Luggage, a company with a net worth of $10 million.[1]
Notable cameos that occurred during the program includedAmerican Idol judgeRandy Jackson who ran into the girls at a Los Angeles eatery, formerPresident of the United StatesBill Clinton who attended a special screening of theWorld War II filmProud (a project Hilfiger produced) held aboard theIntrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, and Ally's famous dad, who invited his daughter to his workplace to critique his junior's line.
A total of ten episodes were produced during the season, and included one that featured theNortheast blackout of 2003, which had a direct impact on the series, as the production was taping in New York at the time of the event.
As the show filmed, Hilfiger and Gleicher began to argue with each other, and living on camera apparently had a negative effect on both girls. After the season ended, Ally continued using marijuana for her illness many months before being placed inrehab by her parents where she was eventually properly diagnosed with Lyme disease.[2] Gleicher was seen attendingBarnard College as a freshman in the series' final episode, however during the airing of the series she began treatment atSilver Hill Hospital fordepression and aneating disorder.[3]
The two friends' off-screen animosity (they each served as co-producers of the series) caused them to split and they went their separate ways.
The program's theme song was "This Town", an edited cover version of a track fromThe Go-Go's 1981 debut albumBeauty and the Beat and performed by the all-female Canadian pop/rock groupLillix.
| No. | Title | Original release date |
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| 1 | "Senior Prom" | October 28, 2003 (2003-10-28) |
| 2 | "Graduation Day" | November 4, 2003 (2003-11-04) |
| 3 | "Independence Day In Nantucket" | November 11, 2003 (2003-11-11) |
| 4 | "Tommy's New Junior Line" | November 18, 2003 (2003-11-18) |
| 5 | "Poor Mudge" | November 25, 2003 (2003-11-25) |
| 6 | "Trip to Seattle" | December 2, 2003 (2003-12-02) |
| 7 | "Los Angeles" | December 9, 2003 (2003-12-09) |
| 8 | "The Troubles with Greece" | December 16, 2003 (2003-12-16) |
| 9 | "Blackout in New York" | December 23, 2003 (2003-12-23) |
| 10 | "Season Finale" | December 30, 2003 (2003-12-30) |