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Asia Argento owns up to paying off accuser

lol no - blames a dead man https://www.msn.com/en-us/mov...
Slate station hairy legs
  08/21/18
Rose McGowan was right! Due process!
talented tripping school
  08/21/18
If Bennett follows the #MeToo playbook, now he sues the slut...
Comical Fluffy Hominid
  08/21/18


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Date: August 21st, 2018 1:17 PM
Author: Slate station hairy legs

lol no - blames a dead man

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/asia-argento-denies-alleged-sexual-assault-says-anthony-bourdain-paid-off-accuser/ar-BBMe65H?ocid=spartanntp

Asia Argento on Tuesday morning denied that she ever had a sexual relationship with an underage male in response to a Monday New York Times report.

The Italian actress, who was one of the first to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, was accused of secretly paying off a young male actor who accused her of sexual misconduct in the months after her revelations about the disgraced movie mogul.

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Argento said the assault never happened. However, she did say a payment was made to child actor Jimmy Bennett by her then-boyfriend, the late Anthony Bourdain, so Bennett would stop harassing them.

"I am deeply shocked and hurt having read the news that is absolutely false," she said in a statement obtained by journalist Yashar Ali. "I have never had any sexual relationship with Bennett."

Argento says Bennett tried to extort her. And rather than having a long, drawn-out battle in the press amid the Weinstein scandal, it was Bourdain who said a payment would be made in order to make the situation disappear, she said.

"This is, therefore, the umpteenth development of a sequence of events that brings me great sadness and that constitutes a long-standing persecution," Argento continued in the statement. "I have therefore no other choice but to oppose such false allegations and will assume in the short term all necessary initiatives for my protection before all competent venues."

Now 22, Bennett was a prolific child actor and notably starred as a young James T. Kirk in the 2009 Star Trek reboot. He also had roles in Poseidon, Evan Almighty and Firewall.

Argento and Bennett worked together on the 2004 film The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, which Argento also wrote and directed. Bennett, a 7-year-old at the time, played Argento's son.

Read Argento's full statement below.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4057073&forum_id=2#36655438)



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Date: August 21st, 2018 1:19 PM
Author: talented tripping school

Rose McGowan was right! Due process!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4057073&forum_id=2#36655447)



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Date: August 21st, 2018 1:23 PM
Author: Comical Fluffy Hominid

If Bennett follows the #MeToo playbook, now he sues the slut for defamation, no?

He should hire Gloria Allred.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4057073&forum_id=2#36655481)