UNITED STATES
GMA
August 28, 2018
By George Costantino and /michael Rothman
Rose McGowan had some strong words for her #MeToo ally Asia Argento on Monday: “Do the right thing.”
In a statement sent to ABC News, McGowan described the events leading up to her discovery that Argento had allegedly paid off actor Jimmy Bennett, who has claimed the Italian actress sexually assaulted him when he was 17 and she was 37, according to a report published by The New York Times a week ago.
McGowan, 44, writes that she learned of Argento’s alleged sexual encounter with Bennett through her partner, Rain Dove, whom she’d introduced to Argento a month ago.
McGowan said that Argento, 42, revealed in a series of text messages to Dove that she had “indeed slept with” Bennett years back, and had “been receiving unsolicited nudes of Jimmy since he had been 12,” but had not taken any action to stop Bennett from sending more.
A representative for Rain Dove confirmed that everything McGowan said in the statement was “factual,” and said that Dove will soon put out a statement as well.
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