MIAMI — Paris Hilton is speaking out after finding herself in the middle of a nightclub brawl Thursday night in Miami Beach.
The socialite claims she and her new boyfriend, Doug Reinhardt, were "assaulted for no reason at all" while partying at LIV nightclub inside the posh Fontainebleau hotel.
The incident began when Hilton grew upset that DJ Steve Angello was "playing the worst music ever," tunes that also happened to be giving her a migraine, she says. That led to her and Reinhardt approaching him with the hope of hearing some Daft Punk or Bob Sinclair, but Hilton says Angello "rudely snapped" at her upon her request.
"He was so unbelievably rude and all because I asked to play one good song," she writes on her MySpace blog. "Then out of nowhere his bodyguard (don't ask me why he has a bodyguard, like he really needs one. Ha) pushed me really hard, that's when my boyfriend, like my knight in shining armor, stepped in and told the guy to keep his hands off of me. Then all hell broke loose, it was like something out of a fight movie, it was so frightening. I had never seen anything like it in my life."
Hilton says her beau was fighting about six guys when he was punched in the face, resulting in a broken lip and blood squirting all over.
"I cried I was so upset and scared," she writes. "It was ridiculous and for such a stupid reason, I cannot believe people behave this way."
"It was totally unprovoked and thank God Doug was there to rescue me," adds Hilton. "A man should NEVER put his hands on a woman in that manner."
Angello offered a much different view of the escapade, with his publicist telling E! News that it was Hilton's security team that provoked the incident.
"She kept asking the DJ and got quite agitated with Steve about playing hip-hop and it was obviously his event, his music. He wasn't going to do that," says rep Matt Learmouth. "And then she asked one of her security guards to punch Steve, and one of her security punched Steve full-on in the face. Steve responded and ended up having a brawl with the security guard."
"Steve doesn't even have a bodyguard, and they said that his bodyguard attacked her," Learmouth continues. "Steve is a quiet guy, but he had to act in self-defense and fought back. He started pounding on the guy, and it suddenly turned into a full-scale fight in the DJ booth."
Hotel security intervened to break up the fight and Reinhardt's rep tells E! there are no plans to file charges.
For his part, Angello offered the following Friday to his Twitter followers: "For someone who claims to make records...don't come into a booth and ask me to play hip hop and then have your doorman slap me."
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