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Asia Argento ‘admits she DID have s** with Jimmy Bennett in texts’

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Asia Argento ‘admits she DID have s** with Jimmy Bennett in texts’

Asia Argento, an actress and one of the leading figures behind the #MeToo movement, has withdrawn from her curatorship of Le Guess Who music festival in the Netherlands this weekend due to the ‘volatile nature’ of the accusations against her.

This news comes after text messages were published by TMZ that were allegedly sent by Asia Argento to a friend on Monday that reveal the actress did, in fact, have s** with her former co-star, Jimmy Bennett, when he was 17 and she 37.

The texts include one that reads: ‘It wasn’t raped but I was frozen.

He was on top of me.

After, he told me I had been his s**ual fantasy since [he] was 12.’

One day later, Argento denied ever having s** with Bennett while suggesting the young man extorted her and late boyfriend Anthony Bourdain, who paid out the settlement.

Argento also allegedly claims to have been unaware that Bennett was a minor when they had s** in 2013 in the texts, despite raving about how talented the boy was when they met in 2003 on the set of The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things on Twitter just months before their encounter.

In that tweet, posted in August 2012, she wrote: ‘At 7 you were already one of the most accomplished actors I’d ever met.’

When asked if it was rape, the person reported to be Argento responds: ‘I had s** with him, and it felt weird.

I didn’t know he was a minor until the shakedown letter.’

Argento further states that she did not report the incident because she always felt bad for this Hollywood failed child actor, a casualty of the system, of his parents.

She claims to have 80 pages on him by a private investigator that Bourdain hired.

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