A photo and a series of text messages published by TMZ appear to undercut Italian actress Asia Argento’s flat-out denial of actor Jimmy Bennett’s sexual assault accusation against her. The photo purportedly shows Argento and Bennett lying in bed shirtless with their foreheads pressed together. “The horny kid jumped me,” reads one message that TMZ described as being written by Argento. According to legal documents obtained by the Times, Bennett contacted Argento after she came forward last October to publicly accuse now-former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault. The pair describe a photo similar to the one TMZ published, but in which Bennett is standing, and suggest other photos once existed.

Source: Huffington Post August 22, 2018 15:56 UTC