Paris Hilton says Harvey Weinstein followed her into bathroom at 2000 Cannes, tried to open door: 'Scared me'

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Paris Hilton opened up recently about an alleged encounter she said she had with Harvey Weinstein when he followed her into a bathroom and shouted at her more than 20 years ago.  "It scared me and freaked me out," the hotel heiress said of the incident at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival with the convicted sex offender and former Hollywood heavyweight.

The 42-year-old told Glamour UK for its February issue that she first met Weinstein, 70, at the French festival when she was having lunch with a friend.  "He came up to the table and was like, ‘Oh, 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 by him.

I was like, ‘Oh my god, Harvey Weinstein is so cool!’ and he said, ‘Well, we should have a meeting. You can come up to my room and read scripts’… and I just didn’t want to go, so I never went." She said the next evening at the Foundation for Aids Research 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, followed her into the ladies room.

He was shouting, "Ya wanna be a star?" she said.  "He tried to open the door, he was hammering on the door, banging on it," she said. "And I wouldn’t open it, because I was like, ‘I’m in a stall, why do you want to come in here?’ And I just wouldn’t open it." Eventually, she said he had to be carried away by security. "And he was like, ‘This is my party!’ going nuts.