DiCaprio files complaint over party attack

Leonardo DiCaprio has filed a complaint with police over an attack at a Hollywood party that left him needing stitches.

The star of Titanic and The Aviator said he was attacked with a deadly weapon while attending a party given by Paris Hilton’s ex-boyfriend, Rick Salomon, authorities said yesterday. DiCaprio said his injuries required several stitches.

Police officer Kevin Mailberger said DiCaprio contacted the Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollywood division on Monday afternoon to file the complaint.

“While leaving a small private gathering, Leo was attacked by a woman who was trespassing and had been repeatedly asked to leave the property,” Ken Sunshine, DiCaprio’s publicist, said.

“The attacker struck him with a glass object before being restrained by witnesses,” he said.

People magazine reported the 30-year-old actor was attacked by a woman with what appeared to be a beer bottle at a party at Salomon’s home last Friday, opening a wound near DiCaprio’s ear that needed about a dozen stitches to close.

Mailberger said detectives were investigating.

Salomon gained notoriety when a videotape of himself and Hilton having sex surfaced in 2003, just before the launch of her TV series. Hilton has said she was “embarrassed and humiliated” that the tape ever became public.