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Italian actress, singer, model, activist, director and noted family member; her father is director Dario Argento and her mother is actress Daria Nicolodi. She made her film debut in "Le Amiche Del Cuore" (Friends of the Heart). Her first child, Anna Lou, with Italian rock and roll musician Marco Castoldi, was born on 20 June 2001. She named her daughter after her half-sister Anna Ceroli, who died in a motorcycle accident. She married film director Michele Civetta on 27 August 2008 in Arezzo. Her second child, Nicola Giovanni, was born on 15 September 2008 in Rome. The couple divorced in 2013. In early 2017, it was reported by several Italian news sources that Argento was in a relationship with celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain died of an apparent suicide in Kaysersberg-Vignoble, Haut-Rhin, France, on 8 June 2018. Argento alleged in an October 2017 New Yorker article by Ronan Farrow that she had been sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein in the 1990s. She also said that she had consensual sexual relations with him multiple times over the course of the next five years. On 19 August 2018, The New York Times detailed allegations that Argento sexually assaulted Jimmy Bennett, a then 17-year-old actor and musician, in a California hotel suite in 2013. According to Bennett, in their 2013 encounter, Argento gave him alcohol, performed oral sex on him and engaged him in sexual intercourse; she later paid him $380,000 as a settlement. Argento denied the allegation of sexual assault. She said that she never had a sexual encounter with Bennett, and that when he made a request for money to her, her partner Anthony Bourdain paid him to avoid negative publicity. Following Argento's denials, a photograph of her topless in bed with Bennett was published, as well as her alleged admission of sex with him in text messages to a friend. Amid the allegations, it was announced Argento has been dropped as a judge on "X-Factor Italy." Link to Wikipedia biography