Asia Argento, the Italian actress and figure of the movement #MeToo, accuses Rob Cohen, the film’s American director, of sexual abuse The Fast and the furious (Fast and furious, in English), in an interview recently published by the newspaper Corriere della Sera.
The 45-year-old actress and director was one of the first to report sexual abuse in the world of cinema, which has helped launch the campaign #MeToo.
In 2017 she stated that the American producer Harvey Weinstein raped her in 1997, when she was 21 years old.
In relation to this episode, she told the newspaper that Weinstein tried to apologize to her when she tried to find him a babysitter for his daughter Anna Lou and that she was still marked by that act against him.
In the interview with the Italian newspaper, he denounces a sexual assault by Rob Cohen in 2002. “This is the first time that I speak of Cohen. He abused me by making me drink GHB, he had a bottle, “he said, referring to a drug used by rapists.
“Back then, I didn’t really know what it was. I woke up in the morning naked in her bed, “she added, specifying that this aggression occurred at the time she was acting in the film xXx Directed by Rob Cohen, along with Vin Diesel and Samuel L. Jackson.
Asia Argento confirmed the content of this interview with the AFP news agency. A spokesman for Rob Cohen denied the allegations.
“Mr. Cohen categorically denies the completely false accusation of sexual assault made against him by Asia Argento,” he said in a statement.
“When they worked together they had an excellent working relationship and Cohen considered her a friend, so this allegation dating from 2002 is puzzling, especially when you consider what has been said about her in recent years,” he added.
Asia Argento was accused in 2018 of sexual assault by the American actor Jimmy Bennett for events that occurred in a California hotel when he was 17 years old.
She initially denied having a sexual relationship with him, but later retracted, although she denied Jimmy Bennett’s version of events.
In response to press reports stating that she paid the young American actor $ 380,000, Asia Argento explained that her partner at the time, chef Anthony Bourdain, had given her money to “respond compassionately to the request for financial aid” that Jimmy Bennett had done.
The new accusations are contained in a book to be published on January 26 in Italy, Anatomy of a wild heart (Anatomy of a wild heart, in Italian).
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