Pictured above in the Movie The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things. .Asia Argento and Jimmy Bennett
I did a couple of stories related to both Asia Argento and her boyfriend, Anthony Bourdain a few months back.
After doing a couple of articles, I came across some other information recently concerning a young man who spoke out about the abuse he allegedly endured at the hands of Argento when he had just turned 17.
Here is a little background information if you're not familiar with Bourdain's story.
Anthony worked for CNN on a series called "Parts Unknown."
He had previously worked on the Travel network on a show called, "No Reservations."
Anthony and his girlfriend Asia had worked on an episode of "Parts Unknown" in Rome in 2016.
Here are the two articles I did right after Anthony died a strange death.
Anthony Bourdain, his girlfriend Asia Argento Freaky Friday interesting tweets, info, video clips
Here is another one titled,
Asia Argento's connections to symbolism
https://steemit.com/illuminati/@artistiquejewels/asia-argento-s-connections-to-symbolism
Here is an article link in which Argento was accused by an alleged victim of abusing him and paying him off.
Documents obtained by the paper indicated that Bennett met Argento in a California hotel room in May 2013 — just two months after his 17th birthday — where he said she sexually assaulted him.
Bennett’s lawyer, Gordon K. Sattro, had sent Argento an intent to sue her for $3.5 million in damages for infliction of emotional distress, lost wages, assault and battery, according to the Times.
Now this is interesting,
Although Argento initially remained silent over the allegations, on Tuesday, the actress released a statement in which she strongly denied the alleged sexual assault. Moreover, she said her late boyfriend Anthony Bourdain, “personally undertook to help Bennett economically, upon the condition that we would no longer suffer any further intrusions in our life.”
https://www.thewrap.com/asia-argentos-accuser-jimmy-bennett-speaks-out/
This same attempt to explain the money payments was also reported in The Guardian where Argento claimed,
“We decided to deal compassionately with Bennett’s demand for help and give it to him,” Argento added. “Anthony personally undertook to help Bennett economically, upon the condition that we would no longer suffer any further intrusions in our life.”
Interesting way to word it.
Do you suppose Anthony also saw the photos and texts of Jimmy Bennett and Asia Argento?
The Guardian reports,
On Wednesday, TMZ released photos and text messages between Argento and a friend that appear to contradict her claims that their relationship was not of a sexual nature. In one image, the pair can be seen lying in a bed together topless.
In the text messages, Argento writes: “I had sex with him it felt weird. I didn’t know he was a minor until the shakedown letter,” an apparent reference to the notice of intent to sue sent by Bennett’s lawyers to Argento in November. In another text obtained by the site, Argento wrote, “The public knows nothing, only what NYT wrote. Which is one sided. The shakedown letter. The horny kid jumped me.”
The Guardian gave Bennett's statements,
“I was underage when the event took place and I tried to seek justice in a way that made sense to me at the time because I was not ready to deal with the ramifications of my story becoming public. At the time I believed there was still a stigma to being in the situation as a male in our society. I didn’t think that people would understand the event that took place from the eyes of a teenage boy.
“I have had to overcome many adversities in my life, and this is another that I will deal with, in time,” continued Bennett, who in the notice of intent to sue attributed a steep drop in both income and mental health to the trauma he experienced after the alleged incident. “I would like to move past this event in my life, and today I choose to move forward, no longer in silence.”
Bourdain's girlfriend was one of the signalers and focusers of the me too movement, which appeared to be a distraction on sexual harassment concerning adults so people didn't poke around in the greater problem of the sexual child abuse which was prevalent and known by the 80's and 90's.
Concerning Asia Argento,
Her father is Dario Argento, an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter, well known for his work in the Italian giallo genre and for his influence on modern horror and slasher movies.Her mother is actress Daria Nicolodi
Argento has said that as a child she was lonely and depressed, owing in part to her parents' work. Her father used to read her his horror scripts as bedtime stories. At age eight, Argento published a book of poems. At the age of 14, she ran away from home.
Argento has mentioned in interviews that she does not have a close relationship with her father. She has mentioned that he was absent when she was a child, and has also mentioned that, because of this, she did not have a happy childhood. Regarding her relationship with her father and her reason for acting, she has stated that:
I never acted out of ambition; I acted to gain my father's attention. It took a long time for him to notice me – I started when I was nine, and he only cast me when I was 16. And he only became my father when he was my director. I always thought it was sick to choose looking at yourself on a big screen as your job. There has to be something crooked in your mind to want to be loved by everybody. It's like being a prostitute, to share that intimacy with all those people.
Asia Argento began to act at the age of nine, when she was cast in a small role in a film by Sergio Citti. When she was 18, she starred in her father's film Trauma (1993). She received the David di Donatello (Italy's version of the Academy Award) for Best Actress in 1994 for her performance in Perdiamoci di vista, and again in 1996 for Compagna di viaggio, which also earned her a Grolla d'oro award. Argento subsequently began to appear in English-language movies, such as B. Monkey and New Rose Hotel (both 1998). Argento also performed in French-language roles, beginning with Charlotte de Sauve La Reine Margot (1994).
She's been in a variety of films, involved in music and other "entertainment" ventures.
See a follow up article,
that describes a host attempting to shame Jimmy Bennett and implies the rape is okay because as a victim he appears in an after photo Asia requested he take, he enjoyed the rape.
And a twist where Asia makes herself the victim of a child she as an adult invited to a hotel room!
Titled,
Host said it's difficult to believe a woman can rape a man. If it were a 37 year old man and barely 17 year old girl people would be Outraged!
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