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Asia Argento, Who Accused Weinstein, Made Deal With Her Own Accuser
The Italian actress and director Asia Argento was among the first women in the movie business to publicly accuse the producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault. She became a leading figure in the #MeToo movement. Her boyfriend, the culinary television star Anthony Bourdain, eagerly joined the fight.
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.
That claim and the subsequent arrangement for payments are laid out in documents between lawyers for Ms. Argento and Mr. Bennett, a former child actor who once played her son in a movie.
The documents, which were sent to The New York Times through encrypted email by an unidentified party, include a selfie dated May 9, 2013, of the two lying in bed. As part of the agreement, Mr. Bennett, who is now 22, gave the photograph and its copyright to Ms. Argento, now 42. Three people familiar with the case said the documents were authentic.
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Jimmy Bennett, playing Asia Argento’s son, in this image from the 2004 film “The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things.” Mr. Bennett has claimed that Ms. Argento assaulted him in 2013, when he was 17.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/dining/asia-argento-assault-jimmy-bennett.html?smid=tw-bna
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.
That claim and the subsequent arrangement for payments are laid out in documents between lawyers for Ms. Argento and Mr. Bennett, a former child actor who once played her son in a movie.
The documents, which were sent to The New York Times through encrypted email by an unidentified party, include a selfie dated May 9, 2013, of the two lying in bed. As part of the agreement, Mr. Bennett, who is now 22, gave the photograph and its copyright to Ms. Argento, now 42. Three people familiar with the case said the documents were authentic.
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Jimmy Bennett, playing Asia Argento’s son, in this image from the 2004 film “The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things.” Mr. Bennett has claimed that Ms. Argento assaulted him in 2013, when he was 17.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/dining/asia-argento-assault-jimmy-bennett.html?smid=tw-bna
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...glass houses and all that... 
Also, don't worry about the #MeToo movement, it will be just fine. 
