Asia Argento alleged in an October 2017 New Yorker article by Ronan Farrow that she had been sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein in the 1990s. She would later have consensual albeit one-sided sexual relations with him.
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Asia confirmed that a scene in Scarlet Diva where her character is accosted by a movie executive was indeed a reference to Weinstein.
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Aisa delivered a speech on May 20, 2018, following the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, calling the Festival Weinstein’s hunting ground alleging that she was raped by Weinstein in Canes when she was 21.
On January 24, 2021, Argento alleged that director, Rob Cohen drugged her with gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid and raped her during the filming of xXx. A representative of Cohen denied Argento’s assault accusation as absolutely false.


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