CNN Has Pulled Asia Argento’s Episodes of Parts Unknown From Reruns and Streaming

The episodes of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown featuring actress and director Asia Argento have been pulled from CNN’s streaming service CNN Go, Buzzfeed News reports. Argento, who was dating Bourdain at the time of his death by suicide earlier in the summer, rose to prominence in the #MeToo movement as one of the many women who accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault last fall. But several weeks ago, the New York Times reported that Argento herself was accused of sexual assault by actor and musician Jimmy Bennett, to whom she’d agreed to pay a $380,000 settlement. Bennett was seventeen at the time of his alleged encounter with Argento, below the age of consent in California. Argento has denied Bennett’s allegations, although TMZ has since published a photo of the two together in bed, as well as leaked text messages in which she seems to admit to having sex with Bennett.

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