OT Asia Argento accused of paying hush money to silence sexual assault allegations

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  1. riverman

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    we just don't know....Bourdain was never called evil by me...I watched his show many times with the wife....both of us noticed he is a heavy drinker ..when he offed himself my first thought was booze...depression....you though think this girlfriend made him end his life....I don't know that to be true at all but even so should have no bearing on feminism and what those concerns are..I don't think Bourdain is a victim of anything but his own bad choices. Maybe he was mentally ill.....suffering a health condition..or just bored ..shooting pool with a rope...we'll never know but he has his own child...who I think is the victim in his case
     
  2. EL PRESIDENTE

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    He did more drugs than booze, especially in the past. Like I said, Argento's cheating with that reporter who covered her for the Cannes film festival drove him to suicide. That prompted several arguments prior to his death. Bourdain, as bold and opinionated as he is, doesn't hold a strong frame, especially when he attached himself to the personification of strong feminism.

    He was probably prone to suicide, but the Argento cheating, being printed in the local newspaper for all to see was probably the thing that pushed him over the edge.
     
  3. Chris Craig

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    Her cheating doesn't seem like it would be enough to make him kill himself, but that with the fact that he covered up her rape of a 17 year old (if that is what happened), along with his predilection for booze and drugs, having driven him into a deep depression, seems like it would have done the trick. It makes sense.

    But, these are assumptions. We can't truly know. If she did have sexual relations with Jimmy B while he was 17, and in the state of California, then she commited statuary rape. Regardless of if Jimmy's career died and he needed money, and used a card he had been keeping in his pocket. She is guility and paid him off because of it.

    It is possible it never happened and Jimmy's career died and he became desperate and made a false claim against Argento to blackmail her. He did sue his parents for money as well. That Bourdain saw that such a claim even being false, would destroy Argento, her career, and maybe his reputation. Though it makes more sense that it happened, again these are assumptions. We probably will never know for sure.
     
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    Frankly I don't care about all of the details.

    If she slept with the kid when he was 17, she broke the law and she should be punished.

    If she didn't sleep with the kid and he has been blackmailing, he broke the law and he should be punished.

    Very cut and dry for me.
     
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    People under the age of 25 do not have fully formed brains. They make mistakes because they are young and confused.

    That being said, it's vey hard for me to imagine myself at 17 having sex with a reasonably attractive older woman and not getting a lifetime of good memories out of it. When I was in my teens, a lady popped my cherry right before I went to war. She didn't want me to die without having done that. I was really too young to know what I was doing. Did I wind up with bad or good memories of that? What do you think? Yep, good memories.

    All this means that it's hard for me to put myself in the youngster's position but if it were me, I'd have enjoyed it immensely.
     
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    What law would she be punished under? There's no law that would punish her after this amount of time. All he can do is expose her to the public.
     
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    http://www.tmz.com/2018/08/22/asia-argento-17-year-old-boy-in-bed-photo-sex-texts/


     
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    Statute of limitations for rape is 10 years. This happened in 2013
     
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    expose her? Heck, Cows already out of the barn on that deal
     
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    Clear why AB offed himself, if he wasn't murdered by the gold digger.
     
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    She could become a Catholic Priest.

    The kid now owes her $340,000 for talking, not sure how he'll get that back.
     
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    ...she didn't pay him.
     
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    https://abc7.com/entertainment/jimm...use-allegations-against-asia-argento/4034343/

     
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    Nope, that limit is for Child Molestation, a different crime.
     
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    Its 10 years, look it up. After 2016 there is no statute of limitations
     
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