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.
Posted on Mon Aug 20th, 2018 6:35am PDT By
X17 Staff
It's ON! Ben Affleck spent another evening with 22-year-old Playboy model Shauna Sexton, on Sunday -- taking her to his favorite place, the Jack In the Box drive-thru, for a romantic date!
After the new couple's Thursday debut at Nobu Malibu -- being careful not to be photographed together -- they're not all in, letting X17 photographers come right up to their car window to snap away, while Ben and Shauna smiled and laughed together inside the car.
So here's how it all went down ... Ben's ex Lindsay Shookus was so pissed off at Ben's blatant cheating, she dropped off his Bentley in a Santa Monica parking garage on Saturday and drove away with a friend. Yep, she left his $350,000 ride in a generic garage with the keys in it. So Sunday, Ben sent his assistant to go fetch it and bring baby home and now the Mulsanne is back in the driveway of his Pacific Palisades manse.
And parked right next to it yesterday was Shauna's electric blue $20,000 Acura TSX that she rolled up in around 4pm, wearing sexy Spandex workout gear. Ben had the genius idea to go to the drive-thru for an early burger dinner and Sexton went along for the ride. The couple headed out in Ben's Range Rover to the Santa Monica hot spot fast food joint. The returned home together (presumably Ben doesn't eat fries in his red-and-black interior'd Rover), dined by candlelight and Ms. Sexton decided to spend the night.
Monday, 6:30am, Lindsay's blue Acura is still in the driveway ...
So here's the dirt -- Ben's back in rehab and Jen's behest, as we know ... he's possibly cheated on possibly-pregnant girlfriend Lindsay Shookus with a Playboy model in front of ALL the paparazzi by having his "secret" rendezvous at Nobu Malibu, the most celeb-frequented, pap-infested restaurant in all of LA. So what gives? Well here's the EXCLUSIVE scoop ...
Our photographers spotted Lindsay Shookus, who's been in LA but hasn't been at Ben's house, as of late, driving Affleck's Bentley on Saturday. Okay, so why would she have Ben's car if they've broken up? Well, she had the car for only so long. Lindsay drove the super-expensive ride to a parking garage in Santa Monica and left it there! She never came back for it! She took off in a friend's car and left Ben's car in some random parking garage!!!
We don't have Sherlock Holmes on staff at X17, but we're pretty sure a move like that means there's been a breakup ... a nasty one!
The rapper wed his long-time love Kesha Ward on Saturday at the Versace mansion in Miami, with Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Lil Wayne and more in attendance. Chainz wore an off-white and gold brocade suit with ... chains, of course. Kim wore a neon yellow latex dress and Kanye, a Louis Vuitton suit -- shirtless with chains -- and Yeezy slides!
The "Talk Dirty" rapper proposed to Ward on the Met Gala red carpet earlier this year. The couple have three kids together: Heaven, 10, Harmony, 5, and Halo, 2.
But back to Kim ... check out the diva getting spray-tanned before the big event!
Posted on Sat Aug 18th, 2018 9:51am PDT By
X17 Staff
Nice birthday present, Ben!
The just-turned 46-year-old celebrated with Playboy model Shauna Sexton over dinner at Nobu Malibu, according to reports. After a sweet dinner with his kids Wednesday night, it appears Ben decided to mix it up a bit with a rendezvous in Malibu Thursday evening. The Batman actor reportedly met up with a much-younger 22-year-old hottie.
The Virginia Beach native could have been taking a dinner meeting with Ben about an upcoming project or perhaps a job interview for a nanny position in charge of taking care of Ben's three kids. Whatever the case, Affleck's girlfriend Lindsay Shookus wasn't there. It's a little fishy that the possibly-pregnant TV writer wasn't in town for Ben's big day, which certainly leads us to believe the two could have broken up.
Seems ex-wife Jennifer Garner wouldn't be happier if the two went their separate ways -- she's not a fan of Lindsay's according to recent reports. But would she really prefer Ben hook up with Playboy model? Doubt it ...
The sexy "single" (according to her Facebook page) model is "sarcastic," wants a guy "with a good sense of humor" who is able to "compromise but doesn't sell himself short." That's BEN!
And right now the actor's not selling himself short ... he's back in treatment after Jen required him to get therapy again if he wanted to maintain visitation with the couple's kids - Seraphina, Violet, and Samuel.
But seriously, is dating a girl less than half your age really the way to go, Ben? We're guessing the vote on this is going to be split down the gender line ...
Posted on Sat Aug 18th, 2018 9:20am PDT By
X17 Staff
Okay, so Kourtney Kardashian didn't change much in terms of her fitness since she dumped long-time boyfriend Younes Bendjima -- her body was already on point! But she's certainly not opposed to showing off her sexy curves post-breakup ... perhaps to remind someone what he's missing?
Kourt coffee'd up on her way to meet up with friends at a juice bar on Friday, wearing Spandex Adidas biker shorts and see-through white tank, along with Yeezy 500s in pale yellow. Always ready for a workout!
The mother-of-three reportedly distanced herself from her family during her relationship with Younes, so the split could be a good thing, according to a People magazine source. "Kourtney was always so private and closed off when it came to Younes, and that really distanced herself from her sisters. Things are fine with them now and I’m sure they’ll get even more back to normal now that it seems he’s out of the picture for good ... This could be a really positive thing for her relationship with her family,†a source told the mag.
Meanwhile, Younes was slammed for getting flirty with Instamodel Jordan Ozuna in Mexico right after his breakup with Kourtney. The French model has suffered further backlash and trolling from Kardashian fans since his single status found him driving a Ford Explorer the other day -- Kourtney supporters pointing out that Bendjima's free ride in the lap of luxury is OVER!
Nick Jonas and fiancee Priyanka Chopra headed to Mumbai, India to visit her family and, presumably, for Nick to ask permission to marry his ladylove.
Priyanka shared pictures from what appears to be an engagement party, in front of a custom "NP" (Nick, Priyanka) logo along with photos of the couple with her mother Madhu, brother Siddharth and Jonas' parents Denise and Kevin. The pair also participated in a Hindu prayer ceremony, a photo of which Priyanka captioned, "The only way to do this… with Family and God,†she wrote. “Thank you all for your wishes and blessings ðŸ™ðŸ¼â™¥ï¸ðŸŽ‰"
Nick popped the question back in July while celebrating the Quantico actress' 36th birthday in London. Jonas presented Chopra with a custom Tiffany & Co. cushion cut diamond with tapered baguettes.
The couple dated for only two months before getting engaged but they had known each other since they were each others' dates to the Met Gala in May 2017. Both were wearing Ralph Lauren so it seems perhaps their stylists put them together because that was the only common factor in the two walking the red carpet together. Hey, if fashion can create a couple, then so be it!
Posted on Fri Aug 17th, 2018 10:50am PDT By
X17 Staff
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Simply stunning!
Kylie Jenner covers the September issue of Vogue Australia, and chats with sister Kendall about everything from motherhood to some of the false rumors surrounding her relationship with Travis Scott.
"I used to live each day as it came, and now I look at the future more. I actually feel like I love myself more after I had Stormi. And I'm trying to be … I mean, I'm already a positive person, but just having fun, being positive," she said about how having her daughter changed her.
"I feel like having a daughter, and thinking about beauty in the future, has definitely changed me, and I feel like it has made me love myself more and accept everything about me. Even my ears, I always felt like they stuck out too far, and she [Stormi] has the same ears as me and so now I love my ears. It's just having a different outlook on life so I can pass that on to her. I want to be an example for her. What kind of example would I be if she said she didn't like her ears, and then I didn't like them either? I just want to teach her that. I'm trying to love myself more," she added.
There have been a lot of reports that the young billionaire and her rapper beau live separately, but she swears there's no truth to that!
"I'm actually scrolling through Instagram right now, and it says that me and Travis don't live together, and so I just want to say that we never miss a night with each other, we go back and forth from my Calabasas house and the city home that we actually got together. So just if you wanted to add that in," she clarified.
Not one to be outdone, Kenny also grabbed the spotlight with this topless photoshoot for Love magazine. The Jenner sisters are taking over the world!
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