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Well ain’t this a tad hypocritical
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/us/asia-argento-assault-jimmy-bennett.html
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.
The world’s an interesting place. Sounds like Mr. Bennett made out well from the ordeal, and lord knows I’d let her sexually assault me. But this just shows no one is pristine. I’m glad the movement happened and I’m glad it’s seemed to have died down also. It made men everywhere take a much needed look at themselves and adjust their behaviors, but the guilty by public accusation approach is horrible and something that a country that has any desire for justice should advocate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/us/asia-argento-assault-jimmy-bennett.html
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.
The world’s an interesting place. Sounds like Mr. Bennett made out well from the ordeal, and lord knows I’d let her sexually assault me. But this just shows no one is pristine. I’m glad the movement happened and I’m glad it’s seemed to have died down also. It made men everywhere take a much needed look at themselves and adjust their behaviors, but the guilty by public accusation approach is horrible and something that a country that has any desire for justice should advocate.
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