The Village People singer Randy Jones has accused Paris Hilton's parents of snorting cocaine in front of him in the late seventies.

The 'Y.M.C.A.' cowboy claimed that Rick and Kathy Hilton were sitting at a table with him at the Studio 54 nightclub in New York in 1977 when a few people started taking drugs.

Jones alleged that when a rock of cocaine fell off the table, the hotel moguls proceeded to snort it off the carpet.

He told the New York Daily News: "There was one rock of cocaine left, and it rolled off the table.

"They just didn't even bother bringing it back up to a hard surface - they just crushed it into the carpet and snorted it off that. Whatever Paris Hilton is, she came by it honestly."

However, the Hiltons deny the accusations. Paris' father said: "Never happened. We didn't move to the city until 1979."