Paris Hilton opened up lately about an alleged encounter she stated she had with Harvey Weinstein when he adopted her into a toilet and shouted at her greater than 20 years in the past.
“It scared me and freaked me out,” the resort heiress stated of the incident on the 2000 Cannes Movie Competition with the convicted intercourse offender and former Hollywood heavyweight.
The 42-year-old instructed Glamour UK for its February difficulty that she first met Weinstein, 70, on the French pageant when she was having lunch with a pal.
“He got here as much as the desk and was like, ‘Oh, you need to be an actress?’ And I stated, ‘Yeah, I actually need to be in a film.’ I used to be an adolescent, so I used to be impressed by him. I used to be like, ‘Oh my god, Harvey Weinstein is so cool!’ and he stated, ‘Effectively, we should always have a gathering. You possibly can come as much as my room and skim scripts’… and I simply didn’t need to go, so I by no means went.”
Paris Hilton stated Harvey Weinstein adopted her right into a girls room on the Cannes Movie Competition 23 years in the past and commenced shouting at her. (Mike Coppola/Getty Photos for American Coronary heart Affiliation/Etienne Laurent-Poo)
She stated the following night on the Basis for Aids Analysis gala Weinstein, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison in Los Angeles this week after being sentenced to 23 years in New York in 2020, adopted her into the women room.
He was shouting, “Ya wanna be a star?” she stated.
“He tried to open the door, he was hammering on the door, banging on it,” she stated. “And I wouldn’t open it, as a result of I used to be like, ‘I’m in a stall, why do you need to are available in right here?’ And I simply wouldn’t open it.”
Ultimately, she stated he needed to be carried away by safety.
Paris Hilton stated Harvey Weinstein needed to be carried out by safety after he harassed her within the rest room. (Getty Photos)
“And he was like, ‘That is my social gathering!’ going nuts. It scared me and freaked me out.”
The “Cooking with Paris” star stated she had heard the rumors about him.
“It was simply somebody so highly effective in Hollywood who everybody was frightened of,” she instructed Glamour. “I didn’t even need to say something about it as a result of I used to be like, ‘I don’t need individuals getting mad at me for saying something,’ as a result of it was only a identified factor. He was identical to that and other people have been like, ‘OK, simply flip a blind eye.’”
Weinstein has denied her claims.
He instructed Selection by his spokesperson, “This by no means occurred.”
Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years in jail in Los Angeles on Monday. He was sentenced to 23 years in New York in 2020. (Photograph by Spencer Platt/Getty Photos)
The spokesperson stated, “He had at all times handled Paris Hilton with the utmost respect and kindness, and at all times believed that they had a cordial relationship. There have been many individuals at AmFar, and that is in all probability false. Sadly, Paris Hilton is attempting to get in on the present information cycle utilizing his identify with one more artistic story. Too dangerous it’s all too handy and seemingly well-liked to simply say it with out something backing it up.”
Fox Information Digital has reached out to Weinstein’s reps for remark.
Hilton additionally revealed within the interview that she had as soon as been raped as an adolescent.
She stated she and her pals as soon as met some older males at a Los Angeles mall they usually invited them again to one among their homes and plied them with drinks.
“I didn’t drink or something again then, however then once I had possibly one or two sips, I simply instantly began feeling dizzy and woozy,” she stated. “I don’t know what he put in there, I’m assuming it was a roofie [Rohypnol].”
Regardless of her haze, she stated she remembered what occurred.
“I’ve visions of him on prime of me, masking my mouth, being like, ‘You’re dreaming, you’re dreaming,’ and whispering that in my ear.”
It was her first sexual expertise, she stated.
She additionally mentioned the alleged sexual abuse, together with late-night gynecological exams, she suffered on the Utah boarding college she was despatched to as an adolescent that she first opened up about final fall.
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“This was one thing that I had blocked out from my reminiscence, however after listening to the story from different survivors, I began having flashbacks,” she instructed Glamour. “Late at night time, workers members would are available in and take sure ladies and convey them into this room. And actually you’ll scream and cry, they’d maintain you down, 4 of them, women and men, and actually simply be placing fingers… and simply doing issues regularly to sure ladies” of which she stated she was one.
