So what exactly has Nicky's role been in her hotel project?

Idrisi (her arhitect) paints Nicky as just a 23-yr-old kid manipulated by her handlers. Although he says the more serious of the Hilton sisters ("she's more goth" and "she has a bit of a rock n'roll edge"). "Sometimes she would send me something she ripped out of a magazine,and say 'I like this'.  We had a meeting in Miami by the pool of the Royal Palm with fashion designers who were going to design somesuites. It was a very important meeting. We were all going over stuff and Nicky was just out there swimming in the pool with one of her friends that came down from New York. Every so often she would look over at us and wave."source
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