Paris Hilton claims Harvey Weinstein pursued her into a BATHROOM at Cannes when she was 19

Paris Hilton has claimed that Harvey Weinstein made advances on her at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival when she was 19.

The blonde socialite, now 42, told Glamor UK he even chased her into a bathroom and started “hammering on the door” of her stall.

Harvey was a movie mogul for over 20 years before going down in the Me Too movement in 2017 under a cloud of sexual misconduct allegations.

The 70-year-old was convicted of rape in New York in 2020 and sentenced to 23 years, and this Thursday he was slapped with another 16 years for a rape conviction in Los Angeles, meaning he will almost certainly die behind bars .

He has denied allegations of non-consensual sex for years and has also insisted that Paris’ story about him at Cannes is not true.

Paris said she first met Harvey when she and a friend were having lunch at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000, while he was at the height of his fame and influence.

“I was having lunch with my girlfriend and he came to the table and said, ‘Oh, do you want to be an actress?’ And I said, “Yeah, I really want to be in a movie,” “I was a teenager, so I was impressed with him,” she said.

“I was like, ‘Oh my God, Harvey Weinstein is so cool!’ and he said, “Well, we should have a meeting. You can come to my room and read scripts”… and I just didn’t want to go, so I never went,” Paris claimed.

The next day, she attended the Cannes gala for amfAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research, which Harvey happened to host.

In her new interview, she accused Harvey of dragging her into the women’s bathroom at the prom and yelling, “Do you want to be a star?”

“I went to the bathroom and then he followed me. He tried to open the door, he hammered the door, banged on it,” she said.

“And I didn’t want to open it, because I thought, ‘I’m in a stall, why do you want to come in here?’ And I just didn’t want to open it,” Paris claimed.

And security came and literally carried him away and he was like (yelling), “This is my party,” crazy. It scared me and scared me.”

A spokesman for Weinstein has said that Variety that Hilton’s account was “probably counterfeit.”

“He had always treated Paris Hilton with the utmost respect and kindness, and always believed they had a cordial relationship,” they added, claiming she was “trying to participate in the current news cycle by using his name with yet another creative story. .’

Paris refrained from going public with the story at the time, as Harvey was “just someone so powerful in Hollywood that everyone was terrified of.”

Paris insisted, “I didn’t even want to say anything about it because I thought, ‘I don’t want people to get mad at me for saying something,’ because it was just known.” He was just like that and people were like, ‘Okay, just turn a blind eye.’

During the interview, she exposed the dark side of her past, revealing that she was drugged and raped when she was just 15.

When she lived with her grandmother in Palm Springs, she recalled that she and her friends used to visit the Century City shopping center “almost every weekend” for fun.

“That was our favorite thing to do and these (older) guys were always just hanging out in the shops,” Paris shared with the magazine, adding that “we would talk to them, give them our beeper numbers.”

She told the story of how “one day they invited us to their house and we drink these berry wine coolers.”

One of her hosts especially insisted that she drink up, and when she did, she began to feel that the drink was spiked.

“I wasn’t drinking or anything at the time, but when I had maybe one or two sips, I immediately started feeling dizzy and lightheaded,” she said. “I don’t know what he put in it, I assume it was a roofer.”

Although she didn’t wake up until hours later, she “remembered” what happened while she was drugged and still has “visions of him on top of me, covering my mouth, saying, ‘You’re dreaming, you’re dreaming,’ and that in whisper in my ear.’

Paris is now in a much happier phase of her life, embracing new parenthood and marital bliss with businessman Carter Reum, whom she married in 2021.

She just became a mother and announced in January that she and Carter welcomed their son Phoenix via surrogate.

She has been diligently private about her newborn, waiting until this week to reveal his name and post photos of his face online.

She recently revealed that she and Carter even hid the baby’s birth from their immediate family until right in front of her announced the news on social media.

“My whole life has been so public,” she shared Harper’s Bazaar. “I’ve never had anything for myself. We decided we wanted this whole experience to ourselves.”

While the surrogate went into labor, Paris was so determined to protect her privacy that she even went to the trouble of disguising herself with a dark brown wig and checking into the hospital under an alias.

In a new episode of her podcast This is Parisshe spilled that Phoenix was “about a week old” before telling her mother and sister about his birth.