Asia Argento Halts ‘Hush’ Payments To Jimmy Bennett, Claims He Assaulted HER

The Asia Argento saga continues.

If you recall, she was accused of sleeping with Jimmy Bennett, who was a minor at the time. Text messages reveal that this did, in fact, happen. You can catch up on that here. In those messages, she suggests that Bennett came on to her and made her feel uncomfortable. She claims he was extorting her, which is entirely possible. However, as I stated before, the fact remains that he was a minor, AND SHE SHOULD’VE KNOWN BETTER.

She played his MOTHER back in the day. Good grief. This is sick.

At this point, she’s straight up claiming the he sexually assaulted HER and has decided to refuse to pay him the remainder of the hush money set up by her boyfriend, Anthony Bourdain.

“Now that Mr. Bourdain has passed away and is not able to comment on his desire to avoid potential scandal … Asia will not permit any portion of the balance of the $380,000 payment to be paid to Bennett who has already received $250,000 from Anthony Bourdain,” her lawyer stated.

They’re even denying that their relationship was sexual in nature.

“Her relationship with Bennett was never sexual, but rather the relationship was a long distance friendship over many years,” the statement continued.

“Asia’s courage to originally make the accusations against Harvey Weinstein has not waned … Phase Two of the #metoo movement dictates that the voice of a victim, even one with a history that may be in question, should be heard and she is hopeful that in the Court of Public Opinion it will ultimately be determined that Asia never initiated an inappropriate sexual contact with a minor, but rather she was attacked by Bennett and might even be suffering the fallback of a smear campaign by those already accused who may have a vested interest in their accusers being denied credibility,” it added.

Mhm. Sure.

I’d also like to mention that Asia has been accused of sending people unsolicited topless photos, so there’s that too.

h/t Daily Mail