The young actor who alleges he was sexually assaulted by Asia Argento when he was 17 is now planning to file a police report against her.
Jimmy Bennett, 22, made the decision to file a sexual assault claim against the Italian actress after her lawyer issued a statement on Tuesday claiming he was the one who attacked her, TMZ reports.
Bennett, who has claimed Argento assaulted him in her California hotel room, was given $380,000 in hush money after his lawyer filed a notice of intent to sue last year.
He only spoke out publicly about his claims for the first time two weeks ago, saying he had previously been too 'ashamed' and 'afraid' to come out as a sexual assault victim.
Jimmy Bennett reportedly made the decision to file a sexual assault claim against Asia Argento after her lawyer issued a statement on Tuesday claiming he was the one who attacked her
His attorney Gordon Sattro told DailyMail.com at the time that the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department had been in contact with the young actor to discuss the incident.
Argento's lawyer Mark Jay Heller told TMZ on Tuesday that Bennett had 'sexually attacked' her at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Marina del Rey, California in 2013 and he was lucky she decided not to prosecute him.
The allegations of sexual assault first surfaced last month when it was revealed that Argento had secretly paid off Bennett after he accused her of sexually assaulting him when he was 17.
Argento's boyfriend - the late Anthony Bourdain - arranged to pay Bennett a $380,000 in an out-of-court settlement in order to protect her, according to her attorney.
Heller revealed on Tuesday that Argento will not pay Bennett the balance of the settlement - $130,000 - because the arrangement was made by Bourdain before he took his own life in June.
Bennett, who has claimed Argento assaulted him in her California hotel room, was given $380,000 in hush money after his lawyer filed a notice of intent to sue last year. He is pictured left this year and right in 2013
Days after the news broke about the assault allegations, text messages that were allegedly sent by Argento to a friend revealed she did in fact have sex with Bennett when she was 37 and the boy just 17.
'The horny kid jumped me... I had sex with him it felt weird,' one text message read.
Her attorney pointed to those messages on Tuesday when he argued that Bennett was the one who sexually assaulted her and that he tried to extort her when he realized she was dating Bourdain.
'Asia does not intend to prosecute Bennett for his conduct and recognizes that his unfortunate past, his stalled acting career, and a lawsuit against his own parents for allegedly misappropriating more than a million and a half dollars from his account might explain his desperation to seek money from Asia and Bourdain for this falsely alleged incident that took place more than 5 years ago,' her attorney said.
Asia Argento (right) is stopping payment of the remainder of the $380,000 to Jimmy Bennett, an actor who has accused her of sexually assaulting him when he was 17 years old. Attorney Mark Jay Heller says the arrangement was made by her ex-boyfriend, Anthony Bourdain (left)
Her attorney's statement triggered a response by Bennett's legal team who said Wednesday: 'the attack on my client's character has no bearing on the events that took place on May 9, 2013. These are statements that are meant to intimidate, shame and insult my client.'
When speaking out for the first time last month, Bennett said: 'Many brave women and men have spoken out about their own experiences during the #metoo movement, and I appreciate the bravery that it took for each and every one of them to take such a stand.
'I did not initially speak out about my story because I chose to handle it in private with the person who wronged me. My trauma resurfaced as she came out as a victim herself.'
'I have not made a public statement in the past days and hours because I was ashamed and afraid to be part of the public narrative.'
It has since been revealed that the text messages in question were exchanged between Argento and Rose McGowan's model partner Rain Dove Dubilewski.
It was Dove's texts with Argento that confirmed the actress had sexual relations with Bennett, more than a decade after the actress first worked with the boy at the age of 6 in her film adaptation of JT Leroy's The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things.
Argento, who was one of the first women to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, initially lied about her encounter with Bennett following a New York Times report that revealed the $380,000 hush money payment.
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Main photo article The young actor who alleges he was sexually assaulted by Asia Argento when he was 17 is now planning to file a police report against her.
Jimmy Bennett, 22, made the decision to file a sexual assault claim against the Italian actress after her lawyer issued a statement on Tuesday claiming he w...
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