Something a little creepier is that she and he were in another film together, as mother and son, in 2004. She was then aged 27 and he was 7 years old.McPhisto wrote:One of Harvey Weinstein's most vocal accusers of sexual harassment and a leader of the #metoo movement, actress Asia Argento is reported to have paid off a young man who accused her of sexual assault when he was age 17 to get him to drop his criminal charges and stay out of prison. She was 37. Pretty much exactly what Harvey Weinstein is repeatedly accused of doing.
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Additionally she called him son all the time on social media / publicly and he called her mom back... Creepy much?kinard wrote:Something a little creepier is that she and he were in another film together, as mother and son, in 2004. She was then aged 27 and he was 7 years old.McPhisto wrote:One of Harvey Weinstein's most vocal accusers of sexual harassment and a leader of the #metoo movement, actress Asia Argento is reported to have paid off a young man who accused her of sexual assault when he was age 17 to get him to drop his criminal charges and stay out of prison. She was 37. Pretty much exactly what Harvey Weinstein is repeatedly accused of doing.
Before Anthony Bourdain killed himself he was on a rampage against these sexual predators and a huge supporter of #metoo and his girlfriends cause. He couldn't have been happy to hear that the person he was defending so publicly did basically the exact same thing... it was probably devastating.
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Asia Argento should still be prosecuted in US criminal court as a paedophile, sexual predator and (if the mentioned photographs exist) a child pornographer. She should be required to register as a child sex offender for the rest of her life, publicly shamed and run out of whatever career she had AFTER a very long prison sentence. #genderequality
Harvey Weinstein deserves everything he is getting, but Asia Argento being allowed to simply buy her way out of her criminal sexual crimes against a child is they height of hypocrisy.
Rosie Mcgowan, the most vocal of Weinstein's accusers, is now telling people on Twitter "None of us know the truth of the situation [about Argento and her underage victim] and I’m sure more will be revealed. Be gentle."
"Be gentle." Fucking hell.
Harvey Weinstein deserves everything he is getting, but Asia Argento being allowed to simply buy her way out of her criminal sexual crimes against a child is they height of hypocrisy.
Rosie Mcgowan, the most vocal of Weinstein's accusers, is now telling people on Twitter "None of us know the truth of the situation [about Argento and her underage victim] and I’m sure more will be revealed. Be gentle."
"Be gentle." Fucking hell.
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^So, the Pope covered up pedos in Chile and USA. Still is. I hope they arrest him when he arrives in the USA and put a fuckin ankle bracelet on him, the pedo covering lyin Pope of a Prick! Fuck the Pope! Put out a god damn red warrant and I'll get him myself! Fuckin dick suckin Pope.
I love bitches n gonna fuck Texas and the USA+ right up their god damn ass! Hallelujah!
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I don’t know all the facts, of course, but I’m guessing it was pretty consensual at the time. I understand the law in the US state of California, and don’t want to get dragged into a whole debate about the specifics of this, but a 17 year old guy can probably have the capacity to consent. They took a selfie together in bed after all. Creepy, maybe, but not egregious I think and that doesn’t categorize her as a paedo. I agree that she committed a crime however, and is a huge hypocrite. Too bad Harvey Weinstein will be the biggest beneficiary out of this.McPhisto wrote:Asia Argento should still be prosecuted in US criminal court as a paedophile, sexual predator and (if the mentioned photographs exist) a child pornographer. She should be required to register as a child sex offender for the rest of her life, publicly shamed and run out of whatever career she had AFTER a very long prison sentence. #genderequality
Harvey Weinstein deserves everything he is getting, but Asia Argento being allowed to simply buy her way out of her criminal sexual crimes against a child is they height of hypocrisy.
Rosie Mcgowan, the most vocal of Weinstein's accusers, is now telling people on Twitter "None of us know the truth of the situation [about Argento and her underage victim] and I’m sure more will be revealed. Be gentle."
"Be gentle." Fucking hell.
"Pretty consensual at the time" is pretty irrelevant, isn't it? Would you argue that as any kind of mitigating factor if it was a 37 year old man and a 17 year old girl and he had taken selfies in bed with her? Just sayin'.Miguelito wrote:I don’t know all the facts, of course, but I’m guessing it was pretty consensual at the time. I understand the law in the US state of California, and don’t want to get dragged into a whole debate about the specifics of this, but a 17 year old guy can probably have the capacity to consent. They took a selfie together in bed after all. Creepy, maybe, but not egregious I think and that doesn’t categorize her as a paedo. I agree that she committed a crime however, and is a huge hypocrite. Too bad Harvey Weinstein will be the biggest beneficiary out of this.McPhisto wrote:Asia Argento should still be prosecuted in US criminal court as a paedophile, sexual predator and (if the mentioned photographs exist) a child pornographer. She should be required to register as a child sex offender for the rest of her life, publicly shamed and run out of whatever career she had AFTER a very long prison sentence. #genderequality
Harvey Weinstein deserves everything he is getting, but Asia Argento being allowed to simply buy her way out of her criminal sexual crimes against a child is they height of hypocrisy.
Rosie Mcgowan, the most vocal of Weinstein's accusers, is now telling people on Twitter "None of us know the truth of the situation [about Argento and her underage victim] and I’m sure more will be revealed. Be gentle."
"Be gentle." Fucking hell.
*** For what it's worth I totally agree with you. But if the popular social narrative is #ibelieveHer and the accused man is always presumed guilty, demonized and publicly destroyed then let's see how that plays out when gender roles are reversed. It's not pretty.
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A little comic relief from Norm couldn't hurt the conversation could it?
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It appears that Asia is now blaming Anthony Bourdain for paying off the kid and she denies having any sexual contact with him...
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/j5n ... -to-settle
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/j5n ... -to-settle
Asia Argento, the Italian actress behind the #MeToo movement who's now accused of sexually assaulting a teen actor, spoke out Tuesday to say she never had a sexual relationship with her accuser and that her then-boyfriend Anthony Bourdain paid him off to protect them from the fallout.
“I am deeply shocked and hurt by having read news that is absolutely false. I have never had any sexual relationship with Bennett,” she said of Jimmy Bennett.
The $380,000 settlement was exposed Monday in a New York Times story detailing the allegations against Argento, which were anonymously leaked to the paper by email.
Argento said Tuesday that Bourdain was behind the decision to settle.
“Anthony was afraid of the possible negative publicity that such person, whom he considered dangerous, could have brought upon us. We decided to deal compassionately with Bennett’s demand for help and give it to him,” the actress said in a statement obtained by the journalist Yashar Ali. “Anthony personally undertook to help Bennett economically, upon the condition that we would no longer suffer any further intrusions in our life.”
According to the Times, the alleged victim, a child star at the time, filed a notice of intent to sue soon after Argento first came forward with accusations of sexual assault against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein last October.
The pair first met a decade before the alleged assault, when Bennett played Argento’s son in the film “The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things.”
According to documents obtained by the Times, Bennett accused Argento of sexually assaulting him in a hotel room in California in 2013, when he was 17 and she was 37. (The age of consent in California is 18.) According to Bennett, Argento plied him with alcohol, kissed him, performed oral sex on him, initiated intercourse, and later requested he “take a number of photos” with her. A series of provocative social media posts contemporaneously uploaded by Argento confirm the pair spent time in a Marina del Rey hotel on the date in question.
On Tuesday, Argento explicitly denied assaulting Bennett and said her then-boyfriend, Anthony Bourdain, made the payment to protect both of their reputations and to help Bennett, who was struggling financially.
“Bennett — who was then undergoing severe economic problems and who had previously undertaken legal actions against his own family requesting millions in damages — unexpectedly made an exorbitant request of money from me,” Argento said. “Bennett knew my boyfriend, Anthony Bourdain, was a man of great perceived wealth and had his own reputation as a beloved public figure to protect.”
Argento made an initial settlement payment of $200,000 in April, according to the Times, and continued to interact with Bennett on social media after the payment was made. Bourdain committed suicide in June.
It's the dead guy's fault!
According to the New York Times, "court documents" counter-dict her claim of innocence. This matter wasn't settled privately. It's not like this is mere rumour.
According to the New York Times, "court documents" counter-dict her claim of innocence. This matter wasn't settled privately. It's not like this is mere rumour.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/20 ... crisy.htmlThe New York Times reported, citing court documents, that the actress and former girlfriend of the late Anthony Bourdain paid roughly $380,000 to Bennett after he confronted her. In the documents, Bennett sought to sue Argento for an alleged encounter at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Marina del Rey, Calif., on May 9, 2013.
Fox News normally does not name alleged victims of sexual assault, but in this case a basic description of the facts makes Bennett easily identifiable.
Bennett arrived with a family member but Argento reportedly sent the family member away so she could be alone with him. At that time, Bennett claimed she showed him notes she had previously written to him and gave him alcohol. She then kissed him, pushed him back on the bed, performed oral sex on him and then the two had intercourse, the newspaper reported.
Grim alright, but he's prolly still got more going for him than you have.batshitcrazyweirdo wrote:^So, the Pope covered up pedos in Chile and USA. Still is. I hope they arrest him when he arrives in the USA and put a fuckin ankle bracelet on him, the pedo covering lyin Pope of a Prick! Fuck the Pope! Put out a god damn red warrant and I'll get him myself! Fuckin dick suckin Pope.
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