Italian actress Asia Argento, accused of molesting minor actor Jimmy Bennett, said that the teenager sexually harassed her, and also demanded her money.

In response to the accusations of the young actor that she inclined him to an intimate connection when he was 17, the star declares that the initiative came from Bennett himself.

The actress noted that it was he who forced her to have sex, and after she extorted money from her for her silence.

About such a declaration of the star, her lawyer Mark Jay Heller.

According to him, the correspondence of Argento, in which she describes sex with the 17-year-old Bennet, is real. However, in her, the actress claimed that "an excited boy lashed out at her".

"I took sex with him, it was very strange," - noted also Argento.

According to Heller, then Asia Argento chose not to sue Bennett for rape.

The lawyer also commented on the words of the star that she had never had a sexual relationship with Bennett. He stressed that a single case of sexual intercourse can not be called a sexual relationship, reports TMZ.

Heller said that Bennet claimed money from Argento and her boyfriend cook and TV presenter Anthony Burden, threatening to betray the story. Burden agreed to pay Bennet 380 thousand dollars for silence and managed to pay 250 thousand, because in June, the TV host committed suicide, in which he was accused of Argento.

The defense of the actress also stressed that she was not going to go to court about the incident.

Recall, in August on the web appeared a picture of an actress, made in bed with Bennett. At that time he was 17 years old, and Argento - 37. Earlier, The New York Times reported that Argento raped Bennett in 2013 in California, where the age of consent comes at age 18.

Asia Argento is one of the first actresses who reported rape and harassment on the part of producer Harvey Weinstein. She, in particular, claimed that Weinstein raped her when she was 21 years old.