Actress and director Asia Argento, a leading voice in the #MeToo movement, quietly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to her own sex assault accuser — a former child actor who once played Argento’s son, a report said Sunday.

fritobandito214 · 2018-08-20T04:43:22+00:00

This could be big guys ! Let's hope this story isn't swept under the carpet.

ThanatopsisRex · 2018-08-20T06:21:38+00:00

This comment from the NYT, which broke the story, pretty much sums it up (and has the most recommendations I've seen in the comments):

Asia Argento is poison. She is not a hero of any movement. She is a viscous opportunist who engaged, by her own admission, in a multi-year affair with Harvey Weinstein that crumbled when Weinstein re-married. She took his money to pay for a nanny (from a child with another man), accompanied him to events, and turned on him when he was no more use to her. Argento abused Anthony Bourdain's love for her, cheated on him with a younger man when she thought he would not find out, and when those pictures appeared, and Anthony realized that all her professions of love were hollow, that was it. There is a toxic masculinity. It's really evident in so many ways, none more brutally than mass shootings. But there is a toxic femininity, and Asia Argento exemplifies it.

The only problem is that this definition applies to many, many more women than the few who get caught so red-handed.

Omnibrad · 2018-08-20T04:06:03+00:00

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kidmenot · 2018-08-20T09:16:36+00:00

As an Italian I can't tell you how happy I am that this poisonous hypocrite of a cunt finally revealed herself for what she really is.

Best part is, she fled Italy because pretty much nobody was having any of her bullshit attitude, so she went to Berlin, because thankfully we Italians are what we are, but we sure have a healthier way to deal with this stuff. Her leaving Italy was already a win in my book, but now this story comes up and makes it a thousand times better.

Cheers.

fredanderssen · 2018-08-20T06:25:43+00:00

It’s on the Daily Mail today:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6077381/Asia-Argento-paid-380k-young-actor-accused-sexually-assault.html

Fucking crocodie tears from this child rapist after her boyfriend Anthony Bourdain killed himself. Now this cunt his destroyed two lives, not to mention launching the poundmetoo movement which is continuing to destroy countless lives worldwide.

SovereignSoul76 · 2018-08-20T08:46:47+00:00

Rollo Tomassi is going to do his Vince McMahon ecstasy face when he sees this story. My man had this shrew's true nature nailed from day one. She is a human pile of excrement.

FutureAgent47 · 2018-08-20T07:56:30+00:00

As an italian, i can tell you guys that the D'Argento family has always been seen as a joke around here. They are a bunch of good for nothing thugs. Asia is no different.

Hopefully she gets a couple of years in the slammer. Fucking whore.

secant128 · 2018-08-20T06:18:26+00:00

She looks like she can't believe this is happening and that it's all crumbling around her.

Winchester85 · 2018-08-20T07:40:06+00:00

I miss Anthony Bourdain, such a Magnificent bastard. Screw this Bitch

2018-08-20T04:09:19+00:00

This is the article.

Some quotes

But in the months that followed her revelations about Mr. Weinstein last October, Ms. Argento quietly arranged to pay $380,000 to her own accuser: Jimmy Bennett, a young actor and rock musician who said she had sexually assaulted him in a California hotel room years earlier, when he was only two months past his 17th birthday. She was 37. The age of consent in California is 18.

The fallout from “a sexual battery” was so traumatic that it hindered Mr. Bennett’s work and income and threatened his mental health, according to a notice of intent to sue that his lawyer sent in November to Richard Hofstetter, Mr. Bourdain’s longtime lawyer, who was also representing Ms. Argento at the time.

Mr. Bennett’s notice of intent asked for $3.5 million in damages for the intentional infliction of emotional distress, lost wages, assault and battery. Mr. Bennett made more than $2.7 million in the five years before the 2013 meeting with Ms. Argento, but his income has since dropped to an average of $60,000 a year, which he attributes to the trauma that followed the sexual encounter with Ms. Argento, his lawyer wrote.

MenGoingTOWin · 2018-08-20T08:19:11+00:00

I don't want to support this because FUCK #PoundMeToo altogether, but it is rewarding to read about some dumb bitch actually getting taken down by those fucking THOTsuits

uniboner · 2018-08-20T08:59:35+00:00

Some big rags are reporting this. Which you must admit is rather unusual... For a girl.

BitcoinBoffin · 2018-08-20T11:39:01+00:00

Now Rose McGowan is distancing herself from this dumpster fire.

fritobandito214 · 2018-08-20T12:52:07+00:00

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MesaBoogeyMan · 2018-08-20T14:04:37+00:00

RIP Anthony bourdain . Brother gone because of a fraud thot.

TomahawkSuppository · 2018-08-20T14:09:22+00:00

So she knew this kid since he was 8. She groomed him, plied him with alcohol and fucked him. Basically what any pedophile does.

Crispypanties · 2018-08-20T11:25:13+00:00

Ugly hypocritical slut cunt.

GoDuke2018 · 2018-08-20T12:13:56+00:00

Yes this is great news gents. I woke this morning went straight to mgtow reddit and foundn this great news. This dude is great for stepping up and telling his story. No fckn feminist rag should ever get away with poundmetoo because they are a worthess hole. Screw them all i hope to watch them go down aftet more brave men step up that were groped and taken advantage of. These feminists rags deserve everyrhing they get for all the mens lives they have destroyed. This is just the beginning. Men stay away from these dangerous force is female raags and nver go back to the plantation.

talk_show_ghost · 2018-08-20T09:41:57+00:00

hypocrisy and feminism....name a better duo

zbossman91 · 2018-08-20T09:55:03+00:00

I honestly believe and always have believed that Weinstein is innocent

There are so many holes in the story and hell most of the accusers (like this woman) have probably engaged in some demonic hollywood sex parties involving underaged men or even women themselves.

Weinstein's Lawyer is pretty good and I am gonna laugh out loud when some of the accusers end up incriminating themselves at Weinsteins trial.

Don't get me wrong Weinstein ain't no saint by any means and probably has a very sexualized creative mind (after all he is a producer) but I don't see a judge & jury worth their salt punishing him on the accounts provided.

TheImpossible1 · 2018-08-20T11:08:52+00:00

No shit Bourdain killed himself. He was a cuck alright but then he was a real victim i daresay.

BitcoinBoffin · 2018-08-20T11:24:54+00:00

Good Morning America just ran this story. No hiding this time.

megacondenser · 2018-08-20T12:02:16+00:00

100% guarantee t'll be hamstered back on Weinstein and the evil males. "It wasn't her fault, she was just perpetuating the cycle of abuse forced on her! She's the real victim here!"

rgmw · 2018-08-20T12:39:05+00:00

The Weinstein story is only one layer of the onion. He may have been a first class jerk, but it takes one to know one. I have to believe many of the women jumping on the bandwagon, may haven't exactly been as pure as the wind driven snow.

BitcoinBoffin · 2018-08-20T06:20:15+00:00

It was the little guy who played young Captain Kirk in Abram's Star Trek reboot a few years back. Poor kid.

Kid_Koon · 2018-08-20T08:10:48+00:00

This is too spicy.

2018-08-20T09:21:46+00:00

A quote from the NYT article:

The script, based on a book by the pseudonymous writer JT LeRoy, depicts the grim relationship between a drug-addicted prostitute played by Ms. Argento and her son, played by Mr. Bennett and two other young actors. Ms. Argento’s character dresses her son as a girl to lure men, and the boy is ultimately raped.

Replace drug with power and there you have it. Shame what happened to this Bennett guy. Hope he pulls through.

KuonRad · 2018-08-20T12:00:40+00:00

the star system is just rotten

haymansafc · 2018-08-20T13:44:32+00:00

Quelle surprise - someone who does a lot of accusing against men turns out to be guilty herself...

Sadly, today's gynocentric society means a story which shows a man to be a victim will be swept under the carpet.

PMmeYOURrareCONTENT · 2018-08-20T09:07:51+00:00

Rather ironic and not surprising.

BUT:

who claimed that she sexually assaulted him in a California hotel room in 2013, when he was 17

When it says "sexual assault", do they mean actual sexual assault or statuatory rape, considering he was 17?

That would be an important detail to know. Because if it's the latter, I'm just gonna say, a 17 year old man is not a child anymore. And no, I'm not saying that to defend her vagina (she looks like a disgusting cunt), I would say the same thing if it was a 17 year old girl.

2018-08-20T10:20:28+00:00

It's just a mentaly retarded person doing a normal things woman do.

theorymeltfool · 2018-08-20T12:31:28+00:00

Projecting.

Vinegar_Dick · 2018-08-20T14:19:50+00:00

Its finally over. We won.

ConsumingImpulse · 2018-08-20T16:02:43+00:00

Disgusting child molester, should be stoned

MesaBoogeyMan · 2018-08-20T10:46:58+00:00

Hahahahaha , I'm sure this wont get nearly the same amount of coverage. But it's a start . TIMES UP!

boogalooshrimp1103 · 2018-08-20T12:25:38+00:00

its front page of the huffington post.

Nightcalm · 2018-08-20T13:25:57+00:00

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TomahawkSuppository · 2018-08-20T14:03:25+00:00

You want to bet when all is said and done it will be proven that Harvey Weinstein did not rape anyone but rather these women went after him and had consensual sex to get ahead?

lulz3r · 2018-08-20T14:10:03+00:00

Maybe the victim will see some justice.

Uptown_NOLA · 2018-08-20T14:59:43+00:00

Recent reports have noticed that in the last year MSNBC had done 455 on Stormy Daniels and zero on the death and destruction in Yemen. This will be swept under the carpet.

Rockmann1 · 2018-08-20T15:48:52+00:00

Those that scream the loudest...

MisPlacedNeuroBlue · 2018-08-20T11:03:18+00:00

LOLOL! Twat. Takes a quid pro quo ~2yr relationship (which is what it was) and morphs it into a horseshit crusade.

2018-08-20T12:55:00+00:00

Oopsie!

BadassGT-CS · 2018-08-20T15:06:57+00:00

This is a good start to the week. Brought a smile to my face. Karma, baby!!!

2018-08-20T15:21:26+00:00

If this is true then I want to see how this gets played out. My guess is that the #MeToo movement will be largely silent or actually come to her aid and try to justify her actions. Something like, well, she was a victim and was acting out against this minor because SHE was traumatized, blah blah.

rationalthought314 · 2018-08-20T18:13:54+00:00

this #metoo has become such a farce. It started over a suggestion of a privileged white actress to another one who was facing felony drug charges and now in its 14 and 1/2 minute mark of fame one of the lead voices of #metoo and against Harvey Weinstein is found to have paid hush money to silence her sexual experiments with a high schooler half her age who she creepily called her son.

Great job, ladies! You've driven off a lot of men in the bedroom and the office and your leaders are hypocritical perverts.

Erudite_Delirium · 2018-08-20T22:55:13+00:00

Random thought - what are the odds that that whole Time's Up legal (slush) fund-raiser was actually there to get the money to pay off all the skeletons in their own closets so the whole thing wouldn't get derailed early?

TheImpossible1 · 2018-08-20T13:33:22+00:00

https://i.redd.it/a0440kp5x8h11.png

This picture means something I know it.

Vinegar_Dick · 2018-08-20T18:19:23+00:00

Cnn posted article on it 49 minutes ago. Game over bitch.

Jonny-Wavenhoe · 2018-08-20T12:46:18+00:00

Fair enough, everyone. A victim of underage sex is nonetheless free to say it didn't bother them. It doesn't make it right. It doesn't mean I haven't complained elsewhere about the double standard.

But a number of you are saying you wouldn't've wanted someone as elderly as 37 as if that is reason to confirm it should be illegal. I would want to shag an obese woman. It's bit abusive of her if I relent and shag one, though. Likewise if she were obese and just 19. Now you're saying at 19 it would've been OK, but but for me, 'cause she's obese.

I'm not sure I'm trying to say it's ok for us guys because we're into it. My point is solely in jurisdictions where legal consent is 16+, then he could've consented at 17. I don't believe there should be hundreds of subclasses to consent. We all accept some. He or she should be significantly more retarded than we are. I think many of us would agree they shouldn't be drunker than we are. Of course, others are pushing for much more excessive double standards, such as she shouldn't be drunk at all, even if he's drunk too, and he has to be able to prove she said yes rather than her proving she said no. It can go on and on. If consent starts at 16, then 17 is fair play provided other normal grounds for consent are met (and I'm against grooming and manipulation as well).

SirYouAreIncorrect · 2018-08-20T09:21:23+00:00

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