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Rose McGowan further distanced herself from Asia Argento in the wake of sexual assault allegations waged against the actress-director. McGowan released a lengthy statement on Monday, detailing how she discovered that Argento had reportedly paid off actor Jimmy Bennett, who claims Argento assaulted him when he was 17 (she was 37). McGowan says her partner, Rain Dove, told her that Argento admitted to sleeping with Bennet. Argento also allegedly told Dove that she had been receiving “unsolicited” nude photos of Jimmy since he was 12 years old, but had not taken action to stop Bennett from sending more. The text...

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...