Eliza Dushku, in an emotional Facebook post, reports that she was molested by stunt coordinator Joel Kramer while filming True Lies when she was 12 years old.

The actress says she told several people about the alleged assault at the time, but no one, including herself, “seemed ready to confront [the] taboo subject.” She also says that soon after the incident she suffered broken ribs in a stunt under Kramer’s supervision.

The actress, who is now 37, writes, “Hollywood has been very good to me in many ways. Nevertheless, Hollywood also failed to protect me, a child actress.”

Kramer, who most recently worked on last year’s Blade Runner 2049, denies the claim.

True Lies director James Cameron says he was unaware of the allegations, but if he had known “there would have been no mercy.”

Jamie Lee Curtis, who played Eliza’s mother in the 1994 action flick, published an essay Sunday in the HuffPost about the revelation saying, “Eliza’s story has now awakened us from our denial slumber to a new, horrific reality. The abuse of children.”

Joel Kramer had continued to work on big Hollywood films up until last year. He’s been dropped as a client by his agency, Worldwide Production Agency. </s> Eliza Dushku says she was sexually molested at age 12 by a stunt coordinator during production of the 1994 film True Lies.

In a post on her Facebook account on 13 January, the actor also alleged that Joel Kramer, then 36, caused her to be injured on the set as payback for disclosing the alleged misconduct to a friend. Kramer denied the accusations in trade publication interviews.

“These are outlandish, manipulated lies,” Kramer told the website Deadline. “I never sexually molested her … I think she’s making this up in her imagination.”

True Lies film-maker James Cameron said he was unaware of what he called Dushku’s “heartbreaking” experience and said she was brave for speaking up. “Had I known about it, there would have been no mercy,” said Cameron, who was taking part in a Q&A event with critics last weekend to promote a new TV show. “Now, especially when I have daughters, there really is no mercy.”

Dushku, who appeared in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the film Bring It On, joins the growing ranks of those alleging sexual misconduct by men in the entertainment industry. The accusations against the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, which he has denied, and other Hollywood and media figures gave rise to the #MeToo protest movement.

Dushku said at the time she told her parents, two adult friends and an older brother about what had happened, adding that no one “seemed ready to confront this taboo subject then, nor was I”.

She said the “ever-growing list of sexual abuse and harassment victims who have spoken out with their truths have finally given me the ability to speak out. It has been indescribably exhausting, bottling this up inside me for all of these years.”

Dushku alleges that Kramer lured her to his hotel room, put her on a bed and approached her naked except for a “flimsy” towel and rubbed his body over hers.

She confided to an adult female friend, who then allegedly confronted Kramer on the set. Dushku said that she then broke ribs in a stunt that went awry, calling it “no small coincidence”. She said Kramer “was responsible for my safety” on the film.

“This whole talk of luring her to my room, on top of her, getting off, holding her in the car and calling her jailbait is just outright hyperbole and lies,” Kramer told Variety in response to the allegations.

He said that Dushku’s accusations were “absurd” and added: “Who in their right mind would do something like that, when you’re a high-profile coordinator on a shoot like that with months left of shooting?”

Minors must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian during production, but Sue Booth-Forbes, who was Dushku’s guardian on the set, says that she had failed to protect the child actor.

Booth-Forbes told Variety and Deadline that Dushku is “telling the truth,” and said she reported what she called Kramer’s “inappropriate sexual behaviour” at the time to “a person of authority” and that no action was taken. She did not identify the person to whom she reported the alleged incident.

Following Dushku’s allegations against Kramer, Worldwide Production Agency, who represent the stunt coordinator, said they are cutting ties with him. “WPA has elected to part ways with Joel Kramer based on the allegations of misconduct now being reported. Such behaviour is unacceptable and entirely at odds with the standards of conduct we demand of ourselves, and expect from our clients,” the agency’s president and general counsel Richard Caleel said in a statement to Deadline.

True Lies, starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis. In an article on the Huffington Post, Lee Curtis wrote that the alleged abuse of Dushku shocked and saddened her.

“[Dushku] shared that story with me privately a few years ago. I was shocked and saddened then and still am today,” she wrote. “We have all started to awaken to the fact that the terrible abuses now commonplace in daily news reports have been going on for a very long time.

“Unconscionably, those reports frequently come along with claims by the perpetrators that, as adults, those perpetrated against had some part in it.” </s> attends the alice + olivia by Stacey Bendet and Neiman Marcus present See-Now-Buy-Now Runway Show at NeueHouse Los Angeles on April 13, 2016 in Hollywood, California.

The 1994 megamovie from Jim Cameron had all the elements of a great action movie: the star of the era, Arnold Schwarzenegger; good chemistry with his costars Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Arnold; and amazing stunts.

Turns out the man responsible for making all those stunts happen wasn’t such a great guy, according to widespread reports.

Then a child star who played Schwarzenegger’s daughter, Eliza Dushku accused Kramer over the weekend of sexually molesting her during the off hours. The actress alleges Kramer, who has gone on to work on many films, lured her to his Miami hotel room and assaulted her. She was 12, he was 36.



That’s not all. Dushku also claims that after the incident to an adult (her legal guardian Sue Booth-Forbes told Deadline she “reported” the behavior to an authority).

Remember in one of the final scenes when she is hanging off the Harrier jet that Schwarzenegger is piloting over downtown Miami? Well, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer star says Kramer intentionally rigged the stunt so that she would get hurt, breaking her ribs. “Whereas he was supposed to be my protector, he was my abuser,” Dushku continued in the post.

Though he initially tried to deny any wrongdoing, now reports surface that more allegations against Kramer are coming to light.

Two more women allege he behaved badly with them when they were underaged as well.

That movie will never be the same to us. Ew. </s> Ms. Dushku soon shared what had happened with a friend, according to her post. That friend, a woman Ms. Dushku did not name, then visited the set and confronted Mr. Kramer. Later that day, Ms. Dushku broke her ribs in a failed stunt.

“Whereas he was supposed to be my protector, he was my abuser,” she wrote.

In an email to The New York Times on Tuesday, Mr. Kramer affirmed a denial he had previously given to Deadline Hollywood, an industry publication.

“These are outlandish, manipulated lies,” he told the publication. “I never sexually molested her. I’m sick to my stomach. It’s not true. I think she’s making this up in her imagination. This is all lies. Lies, lies, lies. This is just crazy. I treated her like a daughter. We all looked out for her.”

Mr. Kramer also disputed two other accusations of sexual misconduct, both published by Deadline and involving women who were not named.

In a statement provided to Deadline, Sue Booth-Forbes, who said she was Ms. Dushku’s legal guardian on the set, said she had reported Mr. Kramer’s behavior to an authority figure.

“I was met with blank stares and had the sense that I wasn’t telling that person anything they didn’t already know,” she said.

Ms. Dushku, she added, “was treated like one of the boys, not a 12-year-old girl.”

Ms. Dushku’s Facebook post sparked an outpouring of support from several of her “True Lies” co-stars.

Jamie Lee Curtis, who played her mother, said in a HuffPost piece that Ms. Dushku had told her of the assault a few years ago, and she praised her for coming forward.

“Eliza’s story has now awakened us from our denial slumber to a new, horrific reality. The abuse of children,” she wrote.

James Cameron, who directed the movie, reportedly said Ms. Dushku was “brave” for speaking up.

And the actors Tom Arnold and Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Twitter that they would have helped had they known.

“All of us would have done something,” said Mr. Schwarzenegger, who played her father in the movie. “I’m shocked and saddened for Eliza but I am also proud of her — beyond being a great talent and an amazing woman, she is so courageous.”

In her piece, Ms. Curtis noted the difficulties faced by child actors, who are often thrust into a world they may not be fully equipped to understand.

“I have wrestled with my role as a mentor, colleague, surrogate, and friend, and each relationship is individual and unique,” she said of working with child actors. “Are we really friends? Are we work mates? Children are not mature enough to recognize that subtle difference.” </s> Action film star Steven Seagal is denying he sexually assaulted actress and Bond girl Rachel Grant on the set of one of his films in 2002.

Allegations of harassment and assault from multiple actresses including Jenny McCarthy and Eva LaRue have hit Seagal or have been resurfaced against him since October.

Grant, speaking to the BBC, said Seagal, 65, assaulted her during the filming of Out For A Kill, which debuted straight-to-video in 2003.

At the time Grant, 40, was 26 and Seagal would have been in his early 50s.

She says she was at a line reading with Seagal and the film's director at a hotel in Sofia, Bulgaria.

At some point, she says, the film director left and she was alone with the actor.

She claims he asked her to take off her strapless top multiple times, and she said 'no,' each time.

The actress says she later stood up, at which point Seagal forcibly pulled her top down and exposed her breasts.

'I was forced to cover myself,' she told the BBC. 'He pushed me on to the bed with force.'

She says Seagal then said, 'I suppose you want to see my [euphemism for penis],' and proceeded to unzip his pants.

She claims she then began to cry and that Seagal stopped what he was doing and apologized.

Later, she says she lost her job on the film.

Grant said: 'What actress should be brought to someone's bedroom on the first meeting and then be told to take their top off?'

Seagal, speaking through his legal team, told the BBC in a statement: 'Our client denies having such contact with Ms Grant and further vehemently denies any alleged assault at all, in particular, the alleged assault occurring in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2002.'

Grant, who appeared as Peaceful in the Pierce Brosnan-starring James Bond film Die Another Day in 2002, said she came forward after being encouraged by the #MeToo movement.

The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating at least one claim of sexual assault against Seagal, Variety reported last week.

The alleged incident occurred in 2005; further details have not been forthcoming.

The action star has been accused of misconduct by four of his own assistants and actresses including Katherine Heigl, Jenny McCarthy, Portia de Rossi and Julianna Margulies.

One actress, Regina Simons, told The Wrap that Seagal raped her at his California home in 1983.

Seagal has starred in dozens of action films since the 1980s, perhaps most notably 'Under Siege' which debuted in 1992 and made $80million in North America.

He is quite outspoken politically and befriended Russian leader Vladimir Putin, who gave him Russian citizenship in 2016. 



For this action and for remarks he has made about Russian militancy, the action star has been banned in Ukraine. </s> LOS ANGELES — A civil lawsuit charging Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis with raping a publicist has prompted three additional women to come forward with their own sexual misconduct accusations, including another publicist who says he forced her to perform oral sex, then raped her.

One of the other women speaking out told The Associated Press that Haggis tried to sexually assault her. “I need to be inside you,” she recalled him saying, before she managed to run away.

Another of the new accusers said Haggis held down her arms, forcibly kissed her on a street corner, then followed her into a taxi. She said she later escaped his clutches.

When asked about the new accusations, Christine Lepera, attorney for the 64-year-old screenwriter of “Million Dollar Baby” and “Crash,” said, “He didn’t rape anybody.”

Haggis has denied the original rape allegation in a counter-complaint to the lawsuit, and said the accuser and her lawyer had demanded a $9 million payment to avoid legal action, which he characterized as extortion.

The plaintiff in the lawsuit, filed Dec. 15 in Manhattan, is identified in court papers as Haleigh Breest. The other three women subsequently came forward to Breest’s New York attorneys. They spoke to the AP on the condition that they not be identified for fear of retribution. The AP generally does not identify people who say they were the victims of sexual assault.

In separate interviews with the AP, the three new accusers provided detailed accounts of encounters they say occurred between 1996 and 2015. The women were early in their careers in the entertainment business when, they say, the Hollywood heavyweight lured them to private or semi-private places under the guise of discussing productions or a subject of a professional nature.

They all said Haggis first tried to kiss them. In two of the cases, they said, when they fought back, Haggis escalated his aggression.

The new rape accuser said she was a 28-year-old publicist working on a television show being produced by Haggis in 1996 when he called to ask to review photos from the show that night in her office. She said he insisted they speak in a back office and Haggis began kissing her as soon as they walked into the room. He then made her perform oral sex, pushed her to the ground and raped her, she said.

The woman said she felt inspired to come forward after seeing Haggis’ photo and a news story about Breest’s lawsuit, amid the growing #MeToo movement of women speaking out about sexual misconduct by powerful men in Hollywood, politics, the media and other industries.

Breest accuses Haggis of raping her after he lured her back to his apartment in Manhattan following a film premiere in 2013. She said he had accepted a ride home but instead he brought her to his apartment in SoHo and invited her inside for a drink.

Quickly, Haggis became “sexually aggressive,” she said in her lawsuit, and began kissing her.

She said Haggis asked her, “You’re scared of me, aren’t you?”

Haggis then forced her into a bedroom and onto a bed and tried to tear off her tights, she said. She called out “no,” but he wouldn’t stop, she said.

He forced her to perform oral sex on him, fondled her, asked if she liked anal sex, then raped her, according to the lawsuit.

The third accuser was in her 30s when she went to a 9 p.m. meeting at Haggis’ Los Angeles office in the late 2000s to pitch him a potential television show. She said other employees quickly left, and that when she down on a couch in his office, there was a bottle of wine open on his desk. She said Haggis told her he had an arrangement with his wife to have extramarital relationships.

Panicked, she said, she looked for her car keys and an escape route, as Haggis came around a table and tried to kiss her.

She ran to her car. Haggis followed, but she managed to get in and drive off before calling her sister and several friends, she said. A friend told the AP she remembered being informed about the incident.

The new accuser who said Haggis forcibly kissed her, then followed her into her taxi, said the encounter occurred in 2015 in Canada. She said she was in her late 20s at the time and knew Haggis from film events.

She said that when the taxi arrived at her apartment, Haggis threw money at the driver, chased her and kissed her again before she was able to get into her residence and shut the door. She said Haggis sent her harassing text messages, until she blocked him.

After years of working in television, Haggis broke out in the mid-2000s when he became the first screenwriter to write back-to-back best picture winners, “Million Dollar Baby” and “Crash,” which he also directed. He also gained attention for his defection from Scientology in 2009, and public criticism of the religion.

The women interviewed denied any connection to Scientology. </s> A civil lawsuit was previously filed against the Oscar-winning filmmaker, prompting three more women to come forward.

A civil lawsuit charging Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis with raping a publicist has prompted three additional women to come forward with their own sexual misconduct accusations, including another publicist who says he forced her to perform oral sex, then raped her.

One of the other women speaking out told The Associated Press that Haggis tried to sexually assault her. "I need to be inside you," she recalled him saying, before she managed to run away.

Another of the new accusers said Haggis held down her arms, forcibly kissed her on a street corner, then followed her into a taxi. She said she later escaped his clutches.

When asked about the new accusations, Christine Lepera, attorney for the 64-year-old screenwriter of Million Dollar Baby and Crash, said, "He didn't rape anybody."

Haggis has denied the original rape allegation in an extortion lawsuit filed against that woman, and said she and her lawyer had demanded a $9 million payment to avoid legal action.

The plaintiff in the lawsuit, filed Dec. 15 in Manhattan, is identified in court papers as Haleigh Breest. The other three women subsequently came forward to Breest's New York attorneys. They spoke to the AP on the condition that they not be identified for fear of retribution. The AP generally does not identify people who say they were the victims of sexual assault.

On Friday, Breest amended her complaint against Haggis to include the claims of the three Jane Does.

In separate interviews with the AP, the three new accusers provided detailed accounts of encounters they say occurred between 1996 and 2015. The women were early in their careers in the entertainment business when, they say, the Hollywood heavyweight lured them to private or semi-private places under the guise of discussing productions or a subject of a professional nature.

They all said Haggis first tried to kiss them. In two of the cases, they said, when they fought back, Haggis escalated his aggression.

The new rape accuser said she was a 28-year-old publicist working on a television show being produced by Haggis in 1996 when he called to ask to review photos from the show that night in her office.

"I thought it was odd, but I agreed. He was the ultimate boss. I didn't feel inclined to say no," she said.

When Haggis arrived, she said, everyone else had left the office for the night and he insisted they speak in a back office. She said Haggis began kissing her as soon as they walked into the room.

"I just pulled away. He was just glaring at me and came at me again. I was really resisting. He said to me, 'Do you really want to continue working?'" the woman said. "And then he really forced himself on me. I was just numb. I didn't know what to do."

She said he made her perform oral sex, then pushed her to the floor and raped her.

When she returned to work the next day, she was so scared of Haggis that she asked a friend to come to work with her, she said.

Her account was corroborated by another friend, who said that in the weeks after the attack the woman lost weight and appeared to be depressed. When she asked what happened, the woman said Haggis had raped her a few weeks earlier, the friend said.

The friend spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because she still works in the entertainment industry and feared possible retaliation.

The accuser said she considered calling the police but feared that no one would believe her and worried that Haggis could end her career.

"The power, the anger, the financial resources, you feel like you are not really a match for that," she said.

The woman said she felt inspired to come forward after seeing Haggis' photo and a news story about Breest's lawsuit, amid the growing #MeToo movement of women speaking out about sexual misconduct by powerful men in Hollywood, politics, the media and other industries.

Breest accuses Haggis of raping her after he lured her back to his apartment in Manhattan following a film premiere in 2013.

She had accepted his offer of a ride home. Instead, she said, he brought her to his apartment in SoHo and invited her inside for a drink. Fearing she would insult him if she declined the offer, Breest went into his apartment and had a glass of wine.

Quickly, Haggis became "sexually aggressive," she said in her lawsuit, and began kissing her.

She was "petrified and felt paralyzed," the suit said, when Haggis asked her, "You're scared of me, aren't you?"

Haggis then forced her into a bedroom and onto a bed and tried to tear off her tights, she said. She called out "no," but he wouldn't stop, she said.

He forced her to perform oral sex on him, he fondled her, asked if she liked anal sex, then raped her, according to the lawsuit.

When she woke up hours later, feeling sore, scared and humiliated, she saw Haggis sleeping in another bedroom, and left.

Breest said she went to a clinic to be checked for sexually transmitted diseases, then told several friends and a psychologist.

The third accuser was in her 30s when she met with Haggis at his Los Angeles office in the late 2000s to pitch him a potential television show. When she arrived for the meeting, set for 9 p.m., there were other employees around, but all quickly left. She said he had a bottle of wine open on his desk, too, and that when she sat down on a couch in his office, Haggis told her he had an arrangement with his wife to have extramarital relationships.

Panicked, she said, she looked for her car keys and an escape route, as Haggis came around a table and tried to kiss her.

She said the thought to herself, "How am I going to escape alive?"

"I felt like my life could have been over," she said.

She ran to her car. Haggis followed her outside, but she managed to get in and drive off before calling her sister and several friends to tell them what happened, she said. A friend told the AP she remembered being told about the incident.

The new accuser who said Haggis forcibly kissed her, then followed her into her taxi, said the encounter occurred in 2015 in Canada. She said she was in her late 20s at the time and knew Haggis from film events.

She said that when the taxi arrived at her apartment, Haggis threw money at the driver, chased her and kissed her again before she was able to get into her residence and shut the door. She said Haggis waved his hands at her once she was inside and sent her harassing text messages for the next 24 hours, until she blocked him.

After years of working in television, Haggis broke out in the mid-2000s when he became the first screenwriter to write back-to-back best picture winners, Million Dollar Baby and Crash, which he also directed. He also gained attention for his defection from Scientology in 2009, and public criticism of the religion in a 2011 New Yorker article, a book and an HBO documentary. All the women interviewed denied any connection to Scientology.

Haggis has presented himself as an advocate of the underdog in his films, addressing racism, euthanasia and war. He also is known for his involvement with charities, including the Haiti-focused Artists for Peace and Justice, and his condemnation of Harvey Weinstein.

In an interview with The Guardian in October, Haggis said that while he didn't think sexual harassment and abuse were endemic in Hollywood, it was a "fairly sexist" town. He also spoke further about Weinstein.

"A lot of people are compromised by Harvey's alleged actions," said Haggis. "Although everyone thinks it is vile behavior, you have got to focus on those who may have colluded and protected him. For me, they are as guilty as he is and in some cases more so, if I can say that. I mean, he was a predator and a predator is a predator. But what about those who would rather look the other way?"

In a statement Thursday, Breest's lawyers responded to Haggis' complaint.

"We view Mr. Haggis's claims against Haleigh Breest as ludicrous, and a further act of aggression. In our system of justice, those who have been wronged have the clear right to seek redress and hold those responsible accountable for their misconduct," said Jonathan Abady of Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP. "In an act of remarkable hubris, Mr. Haggis has the temerity to claim that he, not her, was the victim. It is a preposterous and transparent PR stunt that will not succeed. Ms. Breest will not be intimidated or deterred from seeking justice."

Read the statement from Haggis' lawyer in full below.

Mr. Haggis denies these anonymous claims in whole.



In a society where one of a person’s fundamental rights is the ability to confront an accuser, that right has now been eviscerated when it comes to anyone being charged in the press with any sort of sexual misconduct.



Notably, no one has reached out to anyone on Mr. Haggis’ team other than the press to report this.



He views the fact that these reports appear to be spearheaded from the law-firm representing Ms. Breest, as a further tactic to try to harm him and continue their effort to obtain money.



Mr. Haggis also questions whether Scientology has any role here, which he notes has been attacking him for years with false accusations.



We reiterate our claim against Ms. Breest, and note again that we initiated the legal proceedings, not Ms. Breest. </s> Pink-haired and puffing on a cigarette, this is the young man who has accused actress Asia Argento of sexually assaulting him when she was 37 and he just 17 – under the age of consent.

Seen in photos obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, 22-year-old Jimmy Bennett appeared tired and strained as he got a nicotine fix and spoke on the phone on the balcony of the Los Angeles apartment he shares with his Canadian girlfriend Allie Jadeski.

Bennett, who played 42-year-old Argento's son in 2003 movie The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, claims the actress assaulted him at a hotel in Marina Del Rey, California, in 2013.

On Tuesday, the LA County Sheriff's Office announced it would be opening an investigation into the sexual assault claims, having initially said it would not.

Statutory rape, depending on the seriousness of the incident, can be prosecuted as a felony under California law – with a maximum penalty of three years in jail and a $10,000 fine.

Argento released a statement this morning responding to the allegations and denied ever having a sexual relationship with the young actor.

'I strongly deny and oppose the contents of the New York Times article,' states Argento.

'I am deeply shocked and hurt by having read news that is absolutely false. I have never had any sexual relationship with Bennett.'

She goes on to state that Bennett went after her because of her relationship with Anthony Bourdain, a 'man of great perceived wealth' who 'had his own reputation as a beloved public figure to protect.'

Argento also claims that it was Bourdain, who took his own life back in June, who urged her to settle in exchange for Bennett's silence.

'Anthony personally undertook to help Bennett economically, upon the condition that we would no longer suffer any further intrusions in our life.

'This is, therefore, the umpteenth development of a sequence of events that brings me great sadness and that constitutes a long-standing persecution,' claims Argento .

'I have therefore no other choice but to oppose such false allegations and will assume in the short term all necessary initiatives for my protection before all competent venues.'

Bennett, who is now pursuing a musical career and has been signed to Bella Thorne's record label Filthy Fangs, initially asked the actress for $3.5m in damages – citing emotional distress, lost wages, assault and battery.

She later agreed to pay him $380,000 to settle copyright over three images he had from the day – including one showing both naked – to be paid in two installments.

He received the first batch – a $200,000 payment – in April.

Bennett's assault claims came to light after a notice to sue sent to Argento's attorneys in November 2017 and a subsequent tie-up deal including a payment schedule was passed to the New York Times last week.

In them, he claimed he had been plied with alcohol in Argento's room at the $429-a-night Ritz Carlton Hotel in Marina Del Rey before she pushed him onto the bed, pulled down his pants and performed oral sex on him.

The legal notice continued: 'She climbed on top of him and the two had intercourse,' according to the notice. She then asked him to take a number of photos.'

Some of the photos, including a picture of herself and Bennett laying naked in bed, she later posted to Instagram, along with a number of notes.

The first read: 'Waiting for my long lost son my love @jimmymbennett in trepidation #marinadelrey smoking cigarettes like there was no next week.'

In her second post, she shared a selfie of herself with Bennett and wrote: 'Happiest day of my life reunion with @jimmymbennett xox.'

According to Bennett's lawyer, Gordon K. Sattro, his client decided to sue after seeing Argento make her own sexual assault claims about Harvey Weinstein.

The actress has publicly claimed that the disgraced movie mogul sexually assaulted her at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997, although he is not facing charges pertaining to any of her claims.

In the notice, Sattro said: 'His feelings about that day were brought to the forefront recently when Ms. Argento took the spotlight as one of the many victims of Harvey Weinstein.'

Since working with Argento in The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, the jobbing actor has gone on to rack up more than 50 credits – most recently as Dustin in 2017 low-budget romantic thriller Heartthrob.

But according to Sattro, the 22-year-old is now focusing on his musical career – some of which, including a recording session with LA-based producer David Davis, is documented on his now-scrubbed Instagram account.

He has also struck up a close friendship with Thorne, 20, who has also claimed to have been sexually assaulted – alleging via social media that a 'close family member' attacked her as a child in January.

Videos posted to his Instagram show Bennett partying with the former Disney star and her 31-year-old rapper boyfriend Mod Sun.

Thorne has returned the compliment, posting a photo of Bennett smoking a cigarette and wearing a black sweatshirt from her Filthy Fangs label on June 20.

The accompanying caption reads: 'When your artist looks dope af wearing the sweatshirt you made by hand yeee [sic]'.

Bennett has also found love with pretty Canadian Jadeski, with whom he lives in a balconied apartment complex in Los Angeles.

Jadeski, a vegan who has since made her account private, regularly posts pictures of Bennett at home in their loft and documents their life together, including his passion for ramen noodles.

Bennett also appears to have a good relationship with his mother Martha, 41, whose Facebook page is dotted with pictures of her son and daughter and their younger brother Ozzy.

The family currently live in a modest gray-painted trailer home in Huntington Beach, directly across from the city's famous golden sandy beach.

According to Jadeski's Instagram page, she and Bennett recently visited – making the 30-mile drive south to spend time with his family.

But Bennett hasn't always been so close to his mother and step-father Frank Cono Pestarino, 46.

In 2014, he sued them over money he claimed to have earned during his time as a child star – accusing them of cheating him out of $1.5m.

Bennett also claimed that the former family home, sold earlier this year, had been paid with his money and said in his complaint that his mother had kicked him out.

The lawsuit was dropped a few months later but the terms of the deal were not disclosed in documents lodged with Orange County Superior Court.

Bennett has so far refused to comment on the allegations against Argento, who lives in Rome, but in a statement passed to DailyMail.com, lawyer Sattro said he was composing a response – expected within 24 hours.

He said: 'At this time, our client, Jimmy Bennett, does not wish to comment on the documents or the events discussed in the New York Times article yesterday evening.

'While we realize that the news cycle demands an immediate response, many times, people need more than a few minutes or hours to respond.

'We are asking that you give our client some time and space. Jimmy is going to take the next 24 hours, or longer, to prepare his response.

'We ask that you respect our client's privacy during this time.' </s> After a woman filed a civil lawsuit last month accusing Paul Haggis of rape, three more women have come forward with their own allegations of sexual misconduct against the director of Crash.

The director is denying all the women's allegations, suggesting they may be motivated by financial reasons or that they are seeking retribution against him for speaking out against Scientology.

In her December civil suit, entertainment publicist Haleigh Breest claimed that Haggis lured her to his New York apartment after a film premiere in 2013 and became "sexually aggressive." She alleges he said, "You're scared of me, aren't you?" before forcing her to perform oral sex on him and then raping her.

Haggis denied Breest's claims, and countersued over what he said was "extortion."

On Friday, three other women told the Associated Press that Haggis was sexually aggressive toward them, with one of the women saying he raped her.

The three women chose to remain anonymous, but have claims that go from 2015 all the way back to 1996. Be it at a meeting about a television show or after a film event, the women said Haggis found a way to be alone with them, then tried to forcibly kiss them, and either raped them, as another publicist alleges, or intensely harassed them once they'd escaped.

The second publicist to accuse Haggis of rape says he set up a late-night meeting with her to go over photos for a 1996 TV show he was producing. As she resisted his advances, she alleges he said, "Do you really want to continue working?" She describes going numb after that, alleging that Haggis forced her to perform oral sex and then raped her on the floor of the office they were in.

The other two women allege Haggis forcibly kissed them before they were able to escape as he chased them out the building. In one 2015 alleged incident, the director then repeatedly called and texted one of the women for 24 hours before she blocked him.
American actress Eliza Dushku says she was sexually assaulted by a stuntman when she was 12 years old.