UNITED STATES
Elle
August 21, 2018
By Katie O’Malley
It is possible to be both alleged perpetrator and victim
Last night, the New York Times reported that actress and #MeToo campaigner Asia Argento recently settled claims that she sexually assaulted actor Jimmy Bennett in 2013, when he was a minor.
Last October, when sexual assault allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein hit international news headlines, Argento came out with her own claims of abuse by the film mogul.
In the weeks that followed, she joined a legion of male and female advocates of the #MeToo movement, which encouraged people to speak about their own experiences of assault and harassment.
Weinstein has ‘unequivocally denied’ any allegations of non-consensual sex.
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