Paris Hilton Responds to Claims Ghislaine Maxwell Tried to Recruit Her at 19

Paris Hilton has addressed reports Ghislaine Maxwell tried to recruit her for Jeffrey Epstein after it was claimed she thought the heiress would be ‘perfect for him’.

Hilton, now 44, was apparently just 19 when she was spotted by Maxwell at a party, who reportedly told friends she had set her sights on the teen for Epstein. 

Maxwell, who dated notorious sex offender Epstein for several years in the nineties, was said to be scouring parties looking for girls who would date Epstein. 

Maxwell was later convicted and sentenced for her role as Epstein’s ‘chief recruiter’ and a partner in his sex trafficking operation.

However despite Maxwell’s alleged intentions for Hilton, the mother of two has insisted that she ‘doesn’t remember ever meeting her’.

During a new interview in the Sunday Times magazine, Paris claimed: ‘I don’t even remember ever meeting her’.

Paris Hilton has addressed reports Ghislaine Maxwell tried to recruit her for Jeffrey Epstein after it was claimed she thought the heiress would be ‘perfect for him’ (pictured 2001)

Hilton, now 44, was apparently just 19 when she was spotted by Maxwell at a party, who reportedly told friends she had set her sights on the teen for Epstein (pictured 2000)

Hilton then reflected that she may have been dragged into the media storm at the time because of the weight her name carries, adding: ‘I’m such a good clickbait name.’

The claims about Maxwell’s plans for Hilton were made by a former friend of the British socialite in 2020.

Christopher Mason said Maxwell stopped in her tracks and said ‘oh my god’ when she saw a young Hilton at a party.

Maxwell said she would be ‘perfect for Jeffrey’ and told a friend: ‘Can you introduce us?’

Mason, a British journalist based in New York who has known Maxwell since the 1980s, did not give a date for the encounter.

But it appears to have been around the year 2000 when Hilton signed up to Donald Trump’s modeling agency, T management, and began her ascent to celebrity.

At that point she would have been 19 years old and on the cusp of becoming a star. Mason recounted the episode for a docuseries called Surviving Jeffrey Epstein.

In the documentary, a photograph is flashed on the screen from the Anand Jon Fashion Show in New York on September 18, 2000.

However despite Maxwell’s alleged intentions for Hilton, the mother of two has insisted that she ‘doesn’t remember ever meeting her

On the left is Trump, Hilton is in the middle and on her left is Maxwell wearing sunglasses and smiling broadly.

She met Epstein in the early 1990s when she moved to New York after the death of her father, the disgraced newspaper baron Robert Maxwell.

Mason tells the documentary that people were ‘puzzled’ by the relationship between Maxwell and Epstein, who dated for a time in the 1990s.

Mason said: ‘The rumours were Ghislaine was scouring New York finding younger girls to go on dates with Jeffrey. At the time it seemed a bit naughty’.