Paris Hilton has responded to claims that Ghislaine Maxwell attempted to recruit her for Jeffrey Epstein, following reports that Maxwell believed the heiress would be “perfect for him.”

According to these reports, Hilton was only 19 years old when Maxwell allegedly noticed her at a party and expressed interest in introducing her to Epstein.

During the 1990s, Maxwell, who was romantically involved with the infamous sex offender Epstein, reportedly attended social events in search of young women for Epstein.

Maxwell was eventually convicted and sentenced for her pivotal role in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring, acting as his primary recruiter and partner.

Despite these allegations, Hilton, now a mother of two, has stated that she does not recall ever meeting Maxwell.

In a recent interview with the Sunday Times magazine, Hilton suggested that her name might have been used in the media frenzy due to its high recognition, noting, “I’m such a good clickbait name.”

The revelation emerged as President Trump called on Republicans in the House to vote for the release of the so-called Epstein Files, marking a reversal from his previous position.

The vast trove of documents is made up of material the justice department gathered in its investigations into the convicted late sex offender, including transcripts of interviews with victims and items confiscated from raids of his properties.

More than 20,000 pages of documents have been released from the estate of the disgraced financier, revealing how he repeatedly discussed Trump in private correspondence dating from 2011 to 2019.

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)

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’.

Trump was historically photographed at social gatherings with Epstein, but has repeatedly said he cut off contact with the financier in 2004, years before his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.

The Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a series of email exchanges between Epstein and the disgraced socialite Maxwell, many of which make reference to Trump. 

Hours after that, Republicans responded by releasing what they claimed were roughly 20,000 additional pages. 

Donald Trump and his then-girlfriend Melania in a photograph with Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell in 2000. A trove of emails have revealed private emails the disgraced paedophile shared about Trump 

One of the emails described Trump as the ‘dog that hasn’t barked’ 

One of the earliest emails released was sent to Maxwell in 2011. In it, Epstein wrote: ‘I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.

‘[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned.’ He added that he was ’75 percent there.’ Maxwell replied: ‘I have been thinking about that…’

The redacted name in that exchange was later shown in the wider tranche of documents to be Virginia, referring to the prominent Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre.

In February 2019, Epstein told another contact that Trump was aware of what occurred inside his home, stating: ‘Trump knew of it. and came to my house many times during that period. He never got a massage.’

He also wrote: ‘Donald is close to no one. He talks to many people. He tells each one something.’

In another exchange from 2018, Epstein accused Trump of being ‘dirty’, and boasted that he was the ‘one able to take him down’. 

The U.S. President has publicly broken with Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene over her push to unseal documents that some believe could link him to Epstein’s crimes. 

Greene, a U.S. House of Representatives member from Georgia, was one of Trump’s most fervent supporters but has said that her life is now in danger after disparaging comments he made on Truth Social.

One of Donald Trump ‘s most fervent supporters says her life is now in danger after the U.S. President dramatically turned on her in a row over the Epstein files. Pictured: Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) speaks alongside Donald Trump in 2024

In a blistering post, the president branded her ‘a ranting lunatic’ and ‘Marjorie Traitor Greene’, accusing her of betraying the Republican Party by ‘turning Left’. 

Greene said on Saturday that Trump’s attack had triggered a wave of threats against her, insisting she was not a traitor and calling his comments ‘hurtful’.

‘Those are the types of words that can radicalise people against me and put my life in danger,’ Greene said.

But Trump doubled down on Sunday, dismissing her warning and telling reporters he did not believe anyone was targeting her.

On Sunday morning, Greene told CNN that Trump calling her a traitor was the ‘most hurtful’ part of his remarks.

Trump repeated the insult hours later. ‘Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene,’ he said, referring to the lawmaker.

She attributed her split with the president to her support for releasing the Epstein Files – documents which Trump has dismissed as a ‘hoax’ pushed by Democrats.

But in a U-turn on Sunday night, Trump encouraged his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the release of files.

‘House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics,’ the president wrote.