Paris Hilton on Claim Ghislaine Maxwell Once Said She'd Be 'Perfect' for Epstein: 'Good Clickbait'

Paris was photographed with Trump and Maxwell at a New York event in 2000.

Paris Hilton with long blonde hair and sunglasses on the left, and Epstein with gray hair wearing a dark jacket on the right.
Images via Getty/Phillip Faraone/GQ & Getty/Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis

Another day, another vaguely SEO-friendly news hit on Jeffrey Epstein developments.

This time, we turn to Paris Hilton, who in recent years has found herself the subject of Epstein-related speculation thanks to a claim from writer Christopher Mason. For those unfamiliar, Mason alleged in the 2020 documentary Surviving Jeffrey Epstein that Ghislaine Maxwell had once taken notice of Hilton at a New York event, remarking that she would “be perfect” for Epstein, who was reported to have died by suicide while behind bars in 2019.

Speaking with William Turvill for The Sunday Times, Hilton expressed what sounded like frustration at the ensuing headlines chatter.

“I don’t even remember ever meeting her,” Hilton, who was photographed with Maxwell and current POTUS Donald Trump at the Anand Jon Fashion Show in New York circa September 2000, told the publication in an interview published Nov. 15. “I’m such a good clickbait name.”

The latest wave of Epstein speculation comes amid continued calls from the general public for more transparency on the extent of the late convicted sex offender’s associations with various public figures. While Trump himself recently expressed support of releasing Epstein case files, Epstein’s brother, Mark, has gone on the record as arguing that any such effort would be “sanitized” to exclude certain names.

“There’s a facility in Winchester, Virginia, where they’re scrubbing the files to take Republican names out of it,” Mark claimed in a NewsNation interview this week. “That’s what I was told by a pretty good source.”

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