Report: Asia Argento Paid Off Sexual Assault Accuser
Posted on Mon Aug 20th, 2018 8:20am PDT By X17 Staff
This whole story is crazy.
Asia Argento reportedly quietly paid off a sexual assault accuser just months after she herself accused Harvey Weinstein of rape during the #Me Too movement, the New York Times reports.
Her victim is a man named Jimmy Bennett, who played her son in the 2004 movie The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, and he was only 17-years-old at the time of the incident.
He claims she invited him to her hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton in Marina Del Rey, gave him alcohol, performed oral sex on him, and then they had intercourse. She was 37-years-old at the time.
Bennett and his attorneys wanted $3.5 million in damages from intentional infliction of emotional distress, lost wages, assault and battery, but her attorneys managed to settle for $380K, which she paid in a series of installments.
Anthony Bourdain's girlfriend also won the copyright to an inappropriate picture of the two from that day, which shows them lying in bed topless after sex. Yikes! Bennett claims they had a "mother-son relationship" and that he felt taken advantage of.
Argento has yet to comment on the reports.
