Paris Hilton says Harvey Weinstein followed her into the bathroom and tried to open the door, when she was 19

Paris Hilton

revealed in an interview with

that she had an awkward incident with

at the

2000

Hilton was at the festival to attend amfAR's annual gala for AIDS research, which Weinstein was hosting that year.

Hilton said that he met Weinstein the day before the gala.

"I was having lunch with my partner and he came up 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,'" Hilton said.

“I was a teenager, so he impressed me.

I was like, 'OMG, Harvey Weinstein is great!'

and he said, 'Well, we should have a meeting.

You can go up to my room and read scripts… and I just didn't want to go, so I never went."

As reported in

, Hilton said that Weinstein got aggressive with her at the gala the following night.

She alleged that Weinstein followed her into the ladies' room and yelled, "Do you want to be a star?"

Paris Hilton, at the launch of her new fragrance Ruby Rush, in Mumbai, in October 2022. Photo AFP

“I went to the bathroom and then he followed me,” Hilton said.

“She tried to open the door, she was banging on the door.

And she wouldn't open it, because she was like, 'why do you want to come in here?'

And she just wouldn't open it.

And security came and literally took him away and he was like yelling, 'This is my party,' going crazy.

He scared me”.

Asked by

if she had heard rumors about Weinstein's behavior before meeting him in Cannes, Hilton replied: "Yeah, and he was someone so powerful in Hollywood that everyone was terrified of. I didn't even want to say anything about it because I was like, 'I don't want people to be mad at me for saying something,' because it was a known thing. He was like that and people were like, 'Okay, just turn a blind eye.'"

Denies the accusations

's request for comment

before the magazine published his interview with Hilton, but when

contacted by

.

Paris Hilton recounted her suffering in Glamor magazine.

Speaking through his Los Angeles County Jail spokesman, Weinstein said "this never happened" and that he "never yelled at her or followed her."

"He had always treated Paris Hilton with the utmost respect and kindness, and always believed they had a cordial relationship," his spokesperson told

.

“There were a lot of people in AmFar, and this is probably false.

Unfortunately, Paris Hilton is trying to break into the current news cycle by using his name with another creative story.

Too bad it's too convenient and seemingly popular to say it without anything to back it up."

A Hilton publicity representative declined to comment in response to Weinstein when contacted by

.

The once powerful Hollywood producer, Harvey Weinstein, in court in Los Angeles, on October 4, 2022. Photo Reuters

Hilton's interview with

was published on the same day that Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years in prison after being convicted in Los Angeles on three counts of rape and sexual assault.

The former film producer was already serving a 23-year sentence in New York after being found guilty of rape and sexual assault in that jurisdiction in a 2020 criminal trial.

The Los Angeles judge ordered Weinstein to serve his sentence in Los Angeles consecutively after New York, effectively ensuring that he will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Before being sentenced in Los Angeles, Weinstein addressed the court, saying: “I maintain that I am innocent.

It's about money and coming after me.

Please don't sentence me to life in prison.

I don't deserve it… There are so many things wrong with this case… I beg mercy from him.”

Hilton is currently making the press rounds in support of his new book,

, which is set to be released on March 2.

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