Sylvester Stallone’s Daughter Recalls Terrifying Encounter With Stranger in NYC

Sistine Rose Stallone attends the Los Angeles special screening of "Midnight in the Switchgrass" in Los Angeles, Calif., on July 19, 2021. Kevin Winter/Getty Images

The daughter of famed Hollywood actor and filmmaker, Sylvester Stallone is warning other women to stay vigilant and aware of their surroundings after a terrifying stranger encounter in New York City.

During an episode of her “Unwaxed” podcast, which she co-hosts with her sister, Sistine Stallone recounted the series of events in which she was accosted by a screaming man on a bike while walking down the streets of Manhattan.

“There was this guy on a bike that just started screaming really inappropriate profanities at me, but I just kept moving. I didn’t even acknowledge it,” she said on the Oct. 6 episode. “But he comes up behind me on his bike and puts his hands on me and that’s when I freaked out, and then he started screaming at me.”

Fearing for her life, the 26-year-old started running to evade the man, who ended up chasing her for multiple city blocks before she quickly decided to hide in a Sephora store.

“I just start sprinting, like just take off as fast as I can go, and he is cutting through the crowd on his bike. Three blocks later, still running for my life, and I run into the Sephora there,” she said.

While inside the beauty retail store, Sistine hid behind a make-up counter where she believed she had lost him, but unbeknownst to her, the man was inside the store before he began shouting out, “You can’t hide from me [expletive], I will find you. I will get you.”

“And at this point he has like five employees trying to box him out of the store,” she explained. “In the middle of all of this I’m hiding in the back of the store for 15 minutes, I’m on the ground like in a bug formation. If he comes back, I’m screwed. I see four cops take him to the back of the store.”

In sharing her experience, Sistine hopes her story will “reach all females” in the Big Apple and other cities, and reminds them to pay attention when walking alone, advising “don’t have your headphones in” and “don’t be looking down.”

“I’m really hoping that this reaches all females, because the saddest thing is we see videos every day of New York girls—‘Oh, they got assaulted on the West Side Highway, oh, they got groped on this street,'” she added.

Stallone shares Sistine and her two sisters, 28-year-old Sophia and 22-year-old Scarlet, with his wife, Jennifer Flavin. The “Rocky” star is also father to two sons with his first wife Sasha Czack—45-year-old Seargeoh, and Sage, who died of coronary artery disease in 2012 at 36.

Sistine and Sophia, who are Los Angeles natives, moved to New York City last year, embarking on a decision that left their overprotective father compelled to take precautionary measures to ensure their safety.

At the time, the “Rambo” star even hired Navy SEALs to provide them with self-defense training that included a boot camp-like routine.