Paris Hilton, a well-known American media personality, recently opened up about her “threatening” meeting with director Harvey Weinstein. In an interview with Vogue UK released on February 23, the 42-year-old star revealed an awkward encounter with the 70-year-old sex mogul at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival when she was 19 years old:
“I was scared and stressed.”
Paris Hilton was at the film festival to attend the annual amfAR dinner hosted by Harvey Weinstein that year. She mentioned meeting the director the day before the event while having a late breakfast with a friend:
“He came up to the table and said, ‘Ah, you want to be an actress?’” “Yes, I really want to be in a movie,” I said. I was a teenager then, so he surprised me. ‘Oh my gosh, Harvey Weinstein is amazing!’ I blurted out, and he replied, ‘Well, we should meet. You were welcome to come to my room and read the script ‘… and I didn’t want to go, so I didn’t go.
Harvey Weinstein once accompanied Paris Hilton to the bathroom.
In the same conversation, Paris Hilton revealed that the next evening, Harvey Weinstein is said to have followed her to the toilet and asked:
“Do you want to be a celebrity?”
She continued to say:
“I went to the bathroom, and he followed. He tries to unlock the door by banging and banging on it. And I refused to open it because I was thinking, ‘I’m in a small room, why would you want to come in here?’ And I simply refused to open it. And security came and literally pulled him away, shouting, ‘This is my celebration,’ and going crazy. It terrifies and frightens me.”
Before meeting Weinstein at the Cannes Film Festival, Hilton discussed the allegations regarding his sexual conduct, saying everyone knew what kind of person he was but spoke out against it. :
“Yes, and that’s just one very powerful person in Hollywood that everyone is scared of. I don’t want to say anything about it because I don’t want people to be angry with me for saying anything because it’s already known. He’s exactly that, and people say, ‘OK, just turn a blind eye.’”
Hilton’s talk came on the same day Harvey was sentenced to 16 years in prison for three counts of rape and sexual assault in Los Angeles. The former film director received a 23-year sentence in New York after being found guilty of assaulting r*pe and s*xual during a trial in that state in 2020. He was sentenced to serve his sentence both in New York and New York. York and Los Angeles. concurrent terms, meaning he would be imprisoned for the rest of his life.
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Source: vothisaucamau.edu.vn
