Paris has been photographed solo an awful lot lately, most recently getting cozy with her ex-boyfriend, Stavros Niarchos, and now Star magazine is reporting that they’ve broken up.

Shortly after their breakup, which took place on Nov. 17, Paris let her hair down at Villa nightclub, where she partied with her sister, Nicky, and Nicky’s boyfriend David Katzenberg. The following night she was also without Benji when she hit the hot spot Apple Paris.

“Paris was fed up with Benji always telling her what to do and bossing her around,” says the insider. “She couldn’t take his overbearing ways anymore. It was stressing her out. He can be very aggressive and he was just too much trouble.”

Benji didn’t take the breakup well, says the source. “He fought for a second chance and asked if they could talk it out but Paris said she was done talking,” reveals the insider.

The demise of Paris and Benji’s relationship, after nine months of dating, didn’t happen overnight. “They’ve had “a lot of fights in the past,” says the source. The nail in the coffin was a showdown over Paris’ flirty night out with her ex-boyfriend Stavros on Saturday.

“Benji didn’t like it that she spent the evening with Stavros,” says the source. “He blew up and Paris felt victimized. He gave her a lot of grief about that.”

They bottom line is that they were just different people. “She felt she couldn’t cut loose and party,” says the source. “He doesn’t drink and doesn’t think she should either. She felt too fenced in.”

Oooh, yay! Does this mean we get our old Paris back??? The one who gets wasted and does dumb shit and goes to jail??? Please say it does!

At the premiere of Repo! The Genetic Opera in Las Vegas.

God, she is starting to look so much like her mother.

And he? Is starting to look so much like her son.

Paris Hilton’s in NYC with Benji, who’s guest DJing at a bunch of clubs for reasons that baffle me, other than the fact that these clubs shell out the money to get Benji to come and Paris shows up for free.

I like the first picture of Paris, because anyone who’s actually occupied the same club as Paris Hilton will attest that this is the majority of what she does. Honestly, party time is like 80% about lip gloss application for her. I love that the photogs caught her in the act.

Oh, and she’s totes not eating.

Paris Hilton and Benji Madden hit up the Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday for the premiere of Paris, Not France, a documentary film about — what else? — the life of Paris Hilton.

The film is the first feature effort for director Adria Petty.

With close access to Hilton, Petty shot extensive footage of Hilton talking about her image, her notorious sex tape, the tabloid photographers who follow her and just the business of being herself.

“I’m basically being judged, and they’re creating this false person, and I can’t do anything about it,” Hilton says in the film.

Featuring interviews with Hilton’s parents, sister Nicky, publicist Elliott Mintz and such personalities as Donald Trump, “Paris, Not France” follows her on business meetings, a promotional trip to Japan and everyday tasks such as getting a burger at a drive-thru while dozens of photographers take shots of her ordering.

“It’s amazing that this woman is a human being and that people actually can be ruthless enough to forget that,” Petty said. “That’s the one thing about this movie and about that experience with her is I could have just been shooting fluff, but she gave me a lot more.”

Um, is it wrong that I can’t wait to see this film?

Also: WTF is Paris wearing here? Ick.

Because if you look closely, you’ll see that the position of the light and the angle of her face align in just such a way that she appears to have a witch’s nose.

Heh.

At The Bank Nightclub in the Bellagio in Vegas.

Oh, wait.

My boss is telling me that’s her boyfriend.

Weird.

Also make sure to check out their necklaces.