The new year is off to a rocky start for Paris Hilton. A digital camera filled with hundreds of personal photographs from the socialite’s controversial visit to Australia over the 2008 holiday season is missing, The Herald Sun has learned.

Paris reportedly misplaced the camera at the Bongo Virus party at Trademark nightclub in Sydney, where she hosted a New Year’s Eve party.

“She lost it in the chaos. It must have fallen out of her bag,” Bongo Virus publicist Karen Griffin confirmed to The Herald Sun on Thursday. “She is disappointed as it has her personal photos of her visit on it. They are happy snaps and there are also some pictures from her trip to the snow before she came to Australia,” Kathy added.