The American socialite spoke with glamor UK about an experience that was terrifying to her when she was very young and making her way into the world of modeling, but coming across Weinstein scared her for what she experienced.
Hilton prior to the episode where the then producer had spoken with him and put the possibility of turning her into an actress on the table, for which he summoned her with the promise of reading some scripts, however, the businesswoman chose not to appear.
“I was a teenager so I was impressed. I was like, ‘OMG, Harvey Weinstein is great! And I just didn’t want to go, so I never went,” says Paris Hilton in the British magazine.
After the first meeting with Harvey Weinstein, Hilton recalled that it was during a party that he had a bad experience with him, which did not go beyond a scare.
“I went to the bathroom and then he followed me. He tried to open the door, so he kept banging on it and banging on it.. Seeing that she didn’t open it, I asked her ‘why do you want to come in here?’ And I warned that I just wouldn’t open it. Security came and literally took him away and he was yelling, ‘This is my party’, going crazy. He scared me and I was terrified“Hilton narrated that in 2023 she became a mother.
Paris Hilton in that interview pointed out that she had never spoken about her experience with Weinstein, since she was afraid of the possible criticism and reprisals that could come from the power of the prominent former Hollywood producer.
Weinstein is in prison on charges of sexual assault and rape, the first of these sentences being 23 years in New York state. Now that he has concluded his second trial held in California, specifically in Los Angeles where charges of sexual abuse were added, the man will add 16 more years to his sentence after being found guilty.
Regardless of the number of complainants, the way in which he committed these crimes have a series of coincidences, which give the authority elements to punish his behavior towards the women with whom he was related.