A New York Times reporter wooed a pop star with a midnight tour of its famed Times Square headquarters — and then made out with her in the paper’s conference room!
Songstress Maggie Rogers revealed the alleged rendezvous of record during a performance at Madison Square Garden without naming the Don Journo. But Page Six has since learned the man in question is allegedly Times travel writer and photographer Stephen Hiltner.
Rogers joined singer Rosalia onstage at MSG as part of the latter’s LUX tour. Rosalia has a schtick where she invites famous fans on stage to give a confession as if they were in a Catholic church (“Saturday Night Live’s Marcello Hernandez has also “confessed” during the tour).
It was there that she told thousands of fans that, “A little while ago, I was single and a friend of mine said, ‘I’ve got someone for you to go on a date with.’” Rogers said she noted the fella “was handsome” and agreed to a night out.
She said that they’d taken a spin around the city in his vintage car, and she found herself “falling in love a little bit.”
“Suddenly he says, ‘Oh my God. We’re actually really close to the office. Can I take you to the New York Times?’”
“We go in and he gives me a full empty tour of the building. We make out in the conference room. It’s like a really good time. He drives me home, we make out in the car,” she said.
Fast forward to the next morning and she was calling up girlfriends — and one of her gobsmacked friends spilled, “Oh my God. That’s my friend’s boyfriend.”
Without mentioning his name, she concluded, “That’s my story. That’s my confession. I mean, what a loser. You just can’t trust a journalist.”
Breaker’s Lachlan Cartwright was the first to expose Hiltner as Rogers’ alleged mystery man. He wrote Hiltner deleted photos of his vintage wheels from his Instagram following reports from Rogers’ show.
A spokesperson for the New York Times declined to comment and a rep for Rogers did not get back to us.