Nearly a year into the national reckoning over sexual harassment, The New York Times threw a monkey wrench into the dialogue with a bombshell report: Asia Argento, one of Harvey Weinstein's earliest accusers, was herself accused of sexual misconduct.

The Italian actress paid US$380,000 to a young actor named Jimmy Bennett, who said she assaulted him in a California hotel room when he was 17, a year younger than the state's age of consent.