Paris Hilton's boyfriend Cy Waits was on Wednesday, April 27, confronted by a man the heiress called a 'stalker' and 'psycho intruder' just before the couple testified at the trial of a person accused of trying to break into her home with knives last summer.
As Paris Hilton and Cy Waits walked into the courthouse, James Rainford, 36, was seen grabbing Waits around him neck from behind. Hilton's bodyguard later tackled him, and led him away to turn him over to police. Rainford was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor battery on a person and was being held on $20,000 bail. He has not yet been charged.
He had in January pleaded no contest to civil assault after he was arrested for trying to contact Hilton at her home in the Hollywood Hills. He was sentenced to three years of probation.
That other psycho intruder just punched Cy Waits in the back of the head as we were walking into the court house. So scary! Hilton Tweeted after the incident.
At the scene, she called Rainford a 'stalker' and told reporters on the scene. Oh my god, that is another intruder who came to my house on a bike. This guy just attacked my boyfriend.
As James Rainford was being led away by the heiress' bodyguard, he was asked if he had tried to attack Hilton.
No, said Rainford, who identified himself as 'Jim Rainford'. 'I've already proposed to her and her dad already said 'Yes'. I wanted to her get her to sign my picture of me proposing to her.
When asked if he was okay, Cy Waits said, yeah, I'm good.
Nathan Parada, 31, is the suspect who was the focus of Wednesday's trial. In August 2010, he was arrested and charged with felony first degree burglary with a person present after security men spotted him wielding two knives outside her house in the Hollywood Hills.
He has pleaded not guilty and has no known prior link to the actress, who was inside her home with Cy Waits at the time of the reported incident.
