Rose McGowan's Friend Reported Asia Argento to the Police
by EG
The model who is currently dating Rose McGowan turned over texts that seemed to implicate Asia Argento in a crime to authorities, TMZ reports. The texts contradict what Argento has said publicly about the incident in question. Read on for details.
Via People.
Rain Dove, the model dating Rose McGowan, has spoken out about giving police text messages in which Asia Argento allegedly said she had sexual relations with a minor in 2013.
In an interview with Today, the 28-year-old model denied leaking the texts to TMZ saying, “I just wanted them to be a part of the legal process going forward.”
“When it became apparent that they were not going to allow for justice to occur or for the truth to be on the table, I knew I had no choice but to go forward because otherwise I would be complicit and I would be robbing another inpidual of their ability to be heard in their story,” Dove said.
Argento, 42, was accused by musician and actor Jimmy Bennett, 22, of having sexual relations with him when he was 17 in 2003 — which she has denied.
“I’m not anti-Asia or anti-anything,” said the gender-nonconforming model, who was introduced to Argento by McGowan shortly after the death of Anthony Bourdain in June. “I just believe Jimmy Bennett deserves to have justice and I believe that due process deserves to have it.”
Dove released an official statement on Instagram Wednesday, writing it was “important to not over glorify or sensationalise [sic] the actions of any inpidual who comes forward with evidence because it is the basic thing one should do.”
The model confirmed the texts released to police, writing, “While the conflict may feel murky- the situation is cut and dry. An inpidual admitted to sexual engagement with a minor (according to the age stated by California) which is an illegal act that can qualify as statutory rape.”
In one of the texts Argento sent to Dove, TMZ reported she allegedly wrote, “The public knows nothing, only what NYT wrote. Which is one-sided. The horny kid jumped me.”
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