Harvey Weinstein accuser Asia Argento is flat out denying that she ever had a sexual relationship with her accuser, child actor Jimmy Bennett.????The New York Times Said that Argento paid Bennett $380,000 after he claimed she sexually assaulted him in 2013 when he was 17 and she was 37.????However, Argento said in a statement that her late boyfriend, Anthony Bourdain paid the young actor so that he would stop harassing them, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

????She says that Bennet was trying to extort her and it was Bourdain who agreed to pay Bennet instead of having a drawn out and publicized legal battle.

????Argento wrote in her statement given to journalist Yashar Ali, “Anthony [sic] insisted the matter be handled privately and this was also what Bennett wanted.”????Bennet and Argento co-starred in the 2004 film, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things.????Argento also says in her letter, “Anthony personally undertook to help Bennett economically, upon the condition that we would no longer suffer any further intrusions in our life.”????Argento was one of the first women to publicly accuse disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault.

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