O.J. Gal Pal Paula Barbieri’s Racist Rant!

In a shocking echo of the Detective Mark Fuhrman scandal, O.J. Simpson's fiancée Paula Barbieri was caught on a home video from 1987 using the N-word and other vicious racial slurs. The appalling videotape — obtained exclusively by The National ENQUIRER in 1995 — reveals the lovely model talking in horrifying racist language about hanging black people up by their private parts over alligator-infested swamps.

The tape was shot in 1987 as she worked on a modeling assignment for a catalog in a North Miami Beach park. She began dating O.J. in 1992. And the video has resurfaced just as Paula, now 49, joined the star in his newfound life of freedom. “Her words made such an impression on me that I remembered them when O. J.'s lawyers were denouncing Mark Fuhrman for his racism," said a crew member who worked on Paula’s shoot. "I thought, 'How ironic that O.J.'s own fiancée should be guilty of the same kind of racial prejudice."

The home movie was taped as Paula took a break in a motor home being used as a dressing room, along with another model. "I'd gotten a new movie camera and I asked the girls if I could shoot them," disclosed the crew member. "To get things started, I said, 'Tell me a good story.'" The tape shows one of the models launching into a story about a 16-year-old delivery man in New York City who'd raped an 80-year-old woman. What follows is the exact dialogue from the videotape. It will sicken all decent people.

Model: "He was black, of course." Paula: "Negro, jungle bunny, n*gger. Here in the South we deal with that in the right way. We take black people and hang them up by the trees over the alligators ... we hang them up by their d*cks and give them a hatchet. What do you do to black people?" Model: "I don't know. My father was mixed with black." Paula (embarrassed): "Oops! I'm joking!"

The recording continues: Paula (talking about her own father): "He's very prejudiced. I was brought up that way. Then I go to New York and I'm roommates with a black runway model. I think, 'My dad'll kill me.'" Model: "Were you still a racist when you roomed with her?" Paula: "No, she was so sweet. She was like the best person." Model: "See, I think the best thing to cure racism is—" Paula (cutting in): "Oh, yeah — live with them." Model: "And you realize they're the same as you. There's no difference."

Said the crew member: "When I heard the racist words coming out of Paula’s mouth, I looked hard to see if she was joking. Then I realized this gorgeous Southern belle was totally serious. I know the other model was very offended by Paula’s remarks. She's very light-skinned and I'm sure Paula thought she was totally white. Paula realized she'd offended her and tried to rescue the situation by talking about her black roommate. But it was too late. She'd revealed a piece of herself that was hidden deep in her heart."

This is especially shocking coming from the woman O.J. chose to be with instead of attending his daughter's recent birthday party. On the exclusive tape Paula also talked a great deal about sex ... in graphic detail. She said she was wearing see-through underwear and disclosed intimate secrets about her sex life with her then boyfriend, [actor] Dolph Lundgren.

But her racist comments were the most offensive. The ENQUIRER read the comments to two civil rights experts without disclosing who said them. "This is disgusting and repugnant to me," declared Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, president of Martin Luther King's organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. "It is racism of the most terrible kind. It reflects the racist environment in which many white people grow up. This is as bad as, or worse than, anything Mark Fuhrman said. "People who use this language should be exposed for the racists they are."

Milton Grimes, the attorney who represented Rodney King in his lawsuit against Los Angeles police, told The ENQUIRER: "These words are just another example of hatred in this country. Racism is alive and doing well in America. Black people in this country have always been looked upon as less than human. And people who are taught hatred as children grow up and act out their hatred"

The crew member who shot the home video added: "I would never have come forward with the movie if the words of Mark Fuhrman hadn't been so instrumental in swaying the jury. "I was stunned when I played the video after all these years — and realized Paula was just as bad as Fuhrman when she made those remarks."