- Was born with a recurring cystic hygroma on her right side that grows back and needs to be removed again every few years. As of 2010, she has had seven surgeries for it since birth.
- She said in an interview with Vanity Fair that Harvey Weinstein raped her on two separate occasions in 2010, once after demanding to enter her apartment and have a drink, and once showing up after she had been subjected to repeated phone calls and had been drinking. De la Huerta came forward to police in 2017, within the New York state statute of limitations for rape in the first degree, and the New York District Attorney's Office is considering bringing charges against Weinstein.
- Was raised in Soho in the 1980s in an apartment beneath that of hard-partying art dealer Larry Gagosian, whose hot tub often leaked into her family's place.
- Her name (Paz de la Huerta) literally means "Peace of the Orchard" in Spanish.
- Has a sister, Rafaela (Rafa) born in 1982. Father lives on a ranch in Spain, mother works for the US, helping with birth control in third-world countries.
- Was considered one of the 55 faces of the future by Nylon Magazine's Young Hollywood Issue.
- Lives in New York City with her parents.
- Appeared on the cover of the New York Times Sunday Magazine in October of 2003.
- Claims her father served in the French Foreign Legion.
- Likes punk rock.
- As a child, her first name was pronounced in the traditional Spanish way, which is "Paz," which means the z is pronounced it means . pax, peace; tranquility, rest.
- Attended Buck's Rock Camp in New Milford, Connecticut.
- Born on the same date as Garrett Hedlund.
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