Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton: Frenemies Reunited at a Birthday Party

Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton arrived together at party promoter Allison Melnick's birthday celebration in June 2012 — the most visible sign yet that the formerly feuding pair had fully rekindled their friendship.

Lohan, 25, was on a break from filming her Elizabeth Taylor biopic, the Lifetime movie Liz & Dick that was meant to mark her professional comeback. Hilton, 31, had been photographed days earlier heading to the Cannes Film Festival. At the party, the two were seen laughing together over cupcakes, surrounded by fellow guests.

Their reconciliation was its own story. The two had been fixtures of the mid-2000s tabloid scene before falling out in 2006 in a feud that played out across gossip columns. By 2012 they were attending Hollywood house parties together again — one of which, weeks earlier, had ended with police arriving at 7 a.m. after neighbor complaints.

The tabloids, naturally, fixated on who looked older. The more interesting fact was simpler: the friendship was back.

This article summarizes contemporaneous reporting, including the Daily Mail's June 2012 coverage.