The #MeToo movement was dealt a critical blow this past weekend as news emerged that one of its leading spokeswomen, actress Asia Argento, among the most prominent accusers of Harvey Weinstein, had paid $380K to young actor Jimmy Bennett in order to keep him silent about her own sexual encounter with the young actor. The story involves what could be described as quasi-incestuous overtones.  The alleged assault took place in Marina Del Rey, California, in 2013, when Ms. Argento was 37 and the young Bennett was just two months beyond his 17th birthday (the legal age of sexual consent in the state of California is 18).  In 2004, she had starred as the mother of the then seven-year-old child actor in the film The Heart Is Deceitful above All Things, where she played a prostitute who dressed her son as a girl to "lure men." Ms. Argento had kept in "intermittent" contact with the boy as he aged, with Jimmy's perception being...(Read Full Article)