Italian actress Asia Argento accuses ‘The Fast and the Furious’ director Rob Cohen of sexual assault
2 min read By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Italian actor-director Asia Argento has accused “The Fast and the Furious” director Rob Cohen of sexual abuse.
Argento, who is likely one of the most outspoken voices in opposition to sexual harassment within the leisure trade and an early accuser of disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein, made the allegations in opposition to Cohen in an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.
She claimed that Cohen abused her and made her drink GHB, an anaesthetic related to date rape.
“At the time, I really didn’t know what it was. I woke up in the morning naked in his bed,” Argento advised the publication.
She alleged that the assault occurred whereas she was filming the 2002 Cohen-directed actioner “xXx, alongside Vin Diesel and Samuel L.Jackson.
Addressing the allegations, Cohen’s spokesperson mentioned the claims made by Argento have been “absolutely false”.
“Mr Cohen categorically denies Asia Argento’s accusation of assault against him as absolutely false. When they worked together, they had an excellent working relationship and Mr. Cohen considered her a friend, so this claim dating back to 2002 is bewildering, especially given what has been reported about her in recent years,” the spokesperson mentioned in a press release issued to Deadline.
Argento has talked about in regards to the accusations in opposition to Cohen in her upcoming autobiography “Anatomy of a Wild Heart,” which is able to launch in Italy on Tuesday.
Prior to the Italian actor, Cohen was accused in a 2019 Huffington Post report of allegedly sexually assaulting an unnamed sufferer whereas she was unconscious.
The reported assault occurred in 2015 after Cohen invited the girl for a enterprise assembly in Manhattan to debate a TV pilot.
The filmmaker confronted related prices from his daughter Valkyrie Weather who accused him of molesting her when she was a baby.
Weather additionally accused Cohen for taking her to go to intercourse staff in abroad taking pictures areas when she was a teen.
Cohen has denied the allegations in each instances.
