There is a wild new twist in the ongoing public fascination with the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, and it involves a name the internet absolutely loves to click on. Yes, Paris Hilton is back in the headlines, but this time it is for a rumor she wishes people would stop attaching her to.
In the 2020 documentary Surviving Jeffrey Epstein, one of Epstein’s former associates says that Ghislaine Maxwell once spotted a teenage Paris Hilton at a party and immediately wanted an introduction. The dramatic quote, which has been floating all over social media again, was allegedly, “Oh my god, who’s that? She’d be perfect for Jeffrey.”
If any of this actually happened, Paris says she has zero memory of it.
In a new interview, she brushed the whole thing off, saying, “I don’t even remember ever meeting [Maxwell]. I’m such a good clickbait name.” And honestly, she is not wrong. Few celebrities can fire up search engines and gossip pages quite like Paris, who built an empire on exactly that kind of attention, in all the ways she chose to.
Still, there’s photographic evidence that it happened. Paris Hilton and Ghislaine Maxwell were photographed together at an event in 2000, when Paris was around 18 or 19. Incidentally, Donald Trump is in the picture, too.
So yes, Paris and Maxwell crossed paths. But as for the idea that she was almost recruited into Epstein’s orbit, Paris Hilton herself is very clear: she has no recollection of anything close to that. And given how much of her life has already been picked apart in the public eye, she seems more amused than bothered that her name still gets tossed into the rumor mill with such enthusiasm.