Okay, we're confused.

A photo dated January 2001 has turned up with a surly looking Paris Hilton posing with a smugly smiling Tom Sizemore. Wait a minute. Didn't the hotel heiress recently say that she wasn't even acquainted with him in response to his claims of getting it on with her?

In the DVD "Tom Sizemore's Sex Scandal," the "Saving Private Ryan" actor said that after a 2001 party at his home, he heard the clicking of a lighter and found Hilton waiting for him. He suggested they have sex, and the rest is history.

"She knew what she could do to people," says Sizemore. Apparently, the next day the celebutante didn't even wait for scrambled eggs, and left in a limo, saying, 'Goin' to Sundance. See you next week."

When the DVD, with the incriminating interview, began selling online, Hilton released the following statement. "It's disappointing that Mr. Sizemore has to use my name to sell his DVDs. He is not an acquaintance of mine, nor have I ever had intimate relations with him."

Now that the photo, which was part of a package received with the sex tapes by Vivid, has emerged, Hilton's publicist had the following things to say: "We never said she never met him. She never slept with him and he's not an acquaintance of hers. She doesn't even know who that other girl in the photo is. To me, 'acquaintance' means that you're not friends; you've met in the past but that's pretty much it. She doesn't remember the party at all."

Huh? So he's not an acquaintance, but an acquaintance is a non-friend you've only met and ... oh, stop trying to confuse us with your semantic-muddling doublespeak. Let's just say even if all the allegations are true, it's very possible that Hilton can't remember the incident at all -- whether it's a result of the heavy partying or the being willfully blocked in her mind.

Sizemore, who isn't enjoying the profits of the DVD sales ($24.95, perfect for a holiday stocking stuffer), is still in rehab for his violating his parole by skipping out and trying to cheat on required drug tests.

Hilton is enjoying not being engaged to the other Paris and still insists that the FOX-jettisoned "The Simple Life" will be picked up by another network. The heiress is currently scurries around in red lingerie in another DVD, the recent video release of "House of Wax." She's also wrapped shooting two comedies, "National Lampoon's Pledge This!" and "Bottoms Up," neither of which has a release date yet.