Asia Argento’s sexual assault accuser has gone AWOL. TMZ reports that actor Jimmy Bennett has yet to file a report against the #MeToo activist for allegedly sexually assaulting him when he was 17, and has been unresponsive to police’s multiple attempts to get in contact with him.
Law enforcement sources tell the outlet that officers tried to reach out to the now 22-year-old several times, but he’s gone totally silent. Without an accuser, the case against Argento has been stalled — maybe permanently.
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Bennett hasn’t been heard from since he sat down for a kind-of-humiliating interview on Italian television in September, where he detailed his claims that he and Argento had a sexual encounter in a hotel room in 2013 when he was underage.
While Argento claimed the encounter wasn’t consensual because Bennett jumped on her and she was “frozen,” she settled the matter with her former costar for $380,000 — which her late boyfriend Anthony Bourdain paid — after Bennett threatened legal action.
The Orphan actor vowed to go to the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department months ago to file a sexual assault report against the Italian actress, but police say he never did. Why do U think he went silent?
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