Bourdain's ex gives trashy writer his laptop and phone to write sleazy tell all book

He killed himself that night

"I am okay,” Bourdain wrote to Argento, as detailed in Down and Out in Paradise. "I am not spiteful. I am not jealous that you have been with another man. I do not own you. You are free. As I said. As I promised. As I truly meant. But you were careless. You were reckless with my heart. My life."

Down and Out in Paradise publishes the final communication between Argento and Bourdain, which happened the day Bourdain hanged himself. Bourdain asked Argento, "Is there anything I can do?" She replied, "Stop busting my balls." Bourdain, responded with a simple, "OK."

I'm sure she thought "He's gone, there's nothing I can do about it, so I may as well shed some light on this crazy bitch Asia Argento". And she did.

It's funny how Anthony Bourdain loathed Guy Fieri, and often mocked and ridiculed Guy.

But when you compare the two lives, Guy is the clear winner.

Bourdain was miserable, judgmental, and unloved.

Guy Fieri has a loving wife, two well mannered and well-behaved sons, a multi-million dollar empire, and he's happy as a clam.

For all of Bourdain's superiority complex and put-downs of people he thought as "lesser" than himself, the truth is that he was just a very unhappy man who projected his unhappiness on to others.

There, I said it.

There’s money to be made. That’s all that matters.

R3 = Guy Fieri

I really enjoyed his show and Im sorry that they are picking his corpse clean. Both of those bitches should die of shame. Let the man rest in peace for fucks sake.

Oh, and R5?

Guy Fieri's wife would never sell his laptop and cellphone to make a quick buck.

The only reason Guy Fieri is mentioned here, is because he was a real target for Anthony Bourdain.

Not sure why Guy Fieri would even be on Bourdain's radar, but I think it came down to pure jealousy.

Guy is a happy person.

Anthony Bourdain was not a happy person.

And then he killed himself.

Here's the original thread:

[quote] I'm sure she thought "He's gone, there's nothing I can do about it, so I may as well shed some light on this crazy bitch Asia Argento". And she did.

The info also makes Bourdain look like a "crazy bitch" as well. Why have an open relationship with a public figure if you can't handle it? He says you're playing with my heart and my life then kills himself. That's a definite Fuck You. Also, he got on the train with the abused women, meanwhile paying off a minor that Asia had sex with (~ 20 years age difference).

The Daily Mail article said that Bourdain was hooked on steroids and alcohol.

He was using his wife (I don't think they were even divorced yet) as a confidante, talking about his current relationships. Not sure I'd want to hear it, if I were the ex.

Go harvest some more donkey sauce, Guy-stan. 💦

Guy looks overstuffed and red-faced all the time.

Cross-Cross, Anthony. Criss-cross.

[quote] But when you compare the two lives, Guy is the clear winner.

WHY must EVERYTHING be a CONTEST?!

Any man who kills themselves after a breakup is a little pathetic

I read here that he may have been in cuck-type relationship with his ex-wife, the one who apparently cooperated with the biography. She was a lot younger than him, was into some kind of jiujitsu-type wrestling, she looked kind of mannish.

Thats funny because I always thought he had a BDSM air about him R15.

It’s a little pathetic for a 60 year old man to kill himself over a failed romance. Especially since he had a young child.but he was a former heroin addict so probably just depressed his whole life.

Emotionally complex people have better taste.

Guy Fieri is more like a Pokemon character to me.

He did seem to have the emotional life of an adolescent boy R17. And he was reportedly a blackout drunk for years, which just exacerbated his depression and feelings of hopelessness. He struck me as someone who had a hard time with aging and maybe the crazy relationship with Argento kept those feelings at bay—until she dumped him.

He lost me when he announced from on high that some joint in Kansas City had the world's best BBQ without ever trying any in Memphis.

Bourdain was actually a good writer. There's a chapter from one of his books. The chapter is about Justo Thomas, who works at Le Bernadin. Thomas is in charge of cutting fish at the restaurant. I've read some other essays by Bourdain and was pleasantly surprised at how enjoyable it was read the essays.

[quote] he was reportedly a blackout drunk for years, which just exacerbated his depression and feelings of hopelessness

He was also a hard core drug user when he was younger.

He was a male cancer sign. Thats how they all are.

Bourdain was a hateful, trashy, sleazy junkie whose writing turned me off eating in restaurants for a long time. Usually I feel pity for a suicide, but this scumbag made the world a little nicer by leaving it.

R17 He was a lifelong restaurant worker. Lots of arrested development, superiority complexes that stem from places of inferiority and personality / mental disorders. Also rife with substance abuse disorders. I said what I said!

I loved AB but since he met the demented AA he just became a hypocritical asshole. She brought out the worst in him, was his un doing and sadly he did not leave the world on a high note, which is a shame because deep down he seemed to be a good, if complicated guy.

He wasn't that complicated. He was a 16 year old boy who ate weird shit for attention. Same mentality, slightly lower energy level

Most women are whores of the price is right

And all men are.

Asia Argento is happy and in a good place mentally now. She has become vegan and more conscious of her health. She has gotten sober, discovered Buddhism, and has a new man now. She was in a very dark place before and after Anthony's death, but things are better now. She is a much different person than she used to be.

Do we know auto-asphyxiation has been completely ruled out?

R29 Glad she is better now but she seems to have left a destructive, self-absorbed path.

what the fuck can roids do? He was so skinny! what kind of high does that give?

R32 They definitely can fuck with your emotions and nervous system.

Who would take steroids for pleasure? I hate them, they make me feel so awful.

R32 He was tan and kinda ripped for a guy his age. He probably was vain and hated aging. Probably didnt want to be seen as the old guy, but rather the handsomely weathered, edgy, literary punk.

I have had moments in adderall addiction where I have been hysterical and completely suicidal. Ive read roid rage brings on something similar, if not more severe.

He "vanished" from his eleven year old daughter's life because Asia couldn't handle him being around his daughter and ex-wife? Asia stalked his wife's social media and became incensed if any photos of him with his kid or around his ex with the kid were posted? Both he and Asia are assholes.

He deliberately abandoned her. She feels betrayed and angry.

Suicides cause so much lasting damage to those who outlive them.

Behind every cynic is a sensitive, crestfallen idealist. He was probably pretty sensitive under that armor. I can see chronic lifelong depression, steroids, alcohol, public humiliation and heavy heartbreak being a load to bear, along with what comes with aging. He had a daughter he needed to stick around for but I can imagine it got pretty dark there for him at that time.

Aging sucks for all of us. I have wanted to off myself because I’m not hot anymore, and that was the core of my existence for so long. I’m broken and sad. Things are only going to get worse for me. I stuck around because I didn’t want to hurt my mother and siblings. I can’t imagine leaving a child…that is selfish as hell.

I never liked that man. I always thought him arrogant, pompous, and childish. I'm sorry his life was so bad, but it seems he could have changed it if he had wanted. If he was lonely it was probably because he was so mean few wanted to be around him.

R9 Your writing skills are atrocious

R41 He was mean. He needed to be seen as a gatekeeper of higher echelon dining and culture, and he was mean and very pretentious about it.

R43 But was he mean?

R44 Don’t toy with me, Rebecca

He died as he lived: a complete asshole.

[quote] Do we know auto-asphyxiation has been completely ruled out?

Are we talking about in the case of Anthony Bourdain or of Elizabeth II?

I enjoyed his shows and some of his writing. It was fun to see others, especially chefs, put him in his place.

At the end of it though, Tony was a very weak human being.

I've never liked him. He kept on doing work that kept him in the public eye when he despised it, and he cultivated fans while he also despised them. He killed himself when he had a teenage daughter who needed him, and whom he did not treat well, because he was cunt-notized by an actress.

He was a successful writer, but a complete failure as a human being. He acted as if the only responsibilities he had in life were his dick and his pocketbook.

R40, I hope you will give therapy a chance. You can find joy in your life.

R40, I don’t have anything profound to say, but your post touched me. Aging is a bitch. And yeah, what R50 said.

This book is a disgrace. Blaming a poor, innocent woman for Anthony Bourdain's death when she has suffered as well. Erica Leerhsen is still the best one from that family. Her author father sure isn't.

R35- He certainly had nailed the

WEATHERED LOOK

R40- I bet even when you were HOT you were unhappy ☹️.

So sad. I would’ve ate his ass.

Had he only known, that would have prevented his suicide, r55.

I know r56……I know.

"Guy Fieri has a loving wife, two well mannered and well-behaved sons, a multi-million dollar empire, and he's happy as a clam."

And a huge, huge closet case.

I think he's even fucked Travolta. That is not a joke.

And years ago he got into a huge screaming fight with his hair dresser/male lover in a public place and not a single witness didn't figure out it was a lovers' quarrel.

Didn't seem like such a happy clam back then.

Bourdain hated Food Network types who were promoted as famous chefs when they were just tv hosts with cooking shows.

Bourdain was not a chef (just a cook) and I think he got a lot of grief over that. Bourdain himself did not cut any slack for "chefs" who were nothing of the kind. He had a long standing beef with either Paula Deen or some other Food Network type so the thing with Fieri was typical.

I doubt Fieri was his "special enemy" so I'm not sure why the Fieri stan made their amusing appearance on this thread.

I watched Bourdain for years. It was obvious he was a lifelong depressive. It's not like he hid it. He talked a lot about his depression and his drug problems. He talked about his obsession with Brazilian jiu jitsu so I'm not surprised about the steroids. I'm not surprised about his suicide either.

He was definitely an asshole. And some of the episodes of his shows were unwatchable because of that. But he had a sincere appreciation for fine dining and I loved when he went to Detroit or Okinawa or some place that was not a Michelin star destination and it wasn't even necessarily about the food there. It was about his appreciation of working class life, working class people, and working class food.

So I admired him in spite of the fact that he could be so fucking annoying.

[quote] Asia Argento is happy and in a good place mentally now. She has become vegan and more conscious of her health. She has gotten sober, discovered Buddhism, and has a new man now.

Asia Argento is a PEDOPHILE.

She groomed and molested a teenage boy.

Yet she was never cancelled, because... well.... she has a pussy.

And pussy people get away with everything.

But it doesn't change the fact that she is a child molester.

I hope she rots in hell for fucking with Bourdain AND with this kid.

[quote] Asia Argento Settled a Sexual Assault Case Filed Against Her by an Underage Actor — Report

Asia Argento, a leading voice in the #MeToo movement and one of many women to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, settled a sexual-assault accusation made against her by former child musician and actor Jimmy Bennett last year, according to the New York Times. Bennett was 17 years old in 2013, when he alleges the incident took place; Argento was 37. He claims the assault took place in a hotel room in California, where the age of consent is 18.

Bennett originally intended to sue Argento for $3.5 million for assault and battery, lost wages, and the intentional infliction of emotional distress. The case was settled for $380,000.

According to the Times, Carrie Goldberg, Argento’s attorney in the case, wrote to her client that “we hope nothing like this ever happens to you again. You are a powerful and inspiring creator and it is a miserable condition of life that you live among s—-y individuals who’ve preyed on both your strengths and your weaknesses.”

The two acted together in the 2004 film “The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things,” with Bennett playing Argento’s son; she also directed the movie. “His feelings about that day were brought to the forefront recently when Ms. Argento took the spotlight as one of the many victims of Harvey Weinstein,” Bennett’s attorney wrote.

Full report made on PEDOPHILE Asia Argento.

Nice post, r58.

Thank you.

He was also blind. for falling for that cunt Asia. She claimed that Harvey raped her, that he ate her pussy against her will. How the fuck does that even happen? Can't you just get up and leave? it's not like the guy was on top of you and you can't move. I think she fucked him or saw him again after he supposedly raped her. She is really something else.

She looks like she rarely bathes.

Men who commit suicide after long standings arguments with women often do so as a final revenge to the woman. As a finale fuck you. It is a huge sign about the kind of disgusting misogynistic and entitlement mindset of Anthony.

I agree with the others on this thread who think the world is a better place with him gone. When you are that rich, you have 100% control of your life. He chose not to use it. Good riddance.

R3 I get what you are saying. Guy may be cheesy, cringy and uncool, but he does seem at least to be happy.

Anthony and his fans mistake depression for being deep. It isn’t. Just makes you a depressed loser.

He repeatedly quote-unquote-"joked" about death by auto-erotic asphyxiation. I'm with those on the other thread who are betting this un-recovered, lifelong addict-in-the-round was self-medicating with that at the moment of his unfortunate passing. The French hotel hushed it up, aided and abetted by the petit-bourgeois local authorities. They'd rather have a tragic suicide than a David Carradine scenario on their hands.

[quote]“I hate my fans, too. I hate being famous. I hate my job,” Mr. Bourdain wrote to Ms. Busia-Bourdain in one of their near-daily text exchanges. “I am lonely and living in constant uncertainty.”

[quote]Mr. Leerhsen said in an interview that he wanted to write a book without the dutiful sheen of what he called “an official Bourdain product.” Indeed, he portrays a man who at the end of his life was isolated, injecting steroids, drinking to the point of blackout and visiting prostitutes, and had all but vanished from his 11-year-old daughter’s life.

Wait, wait, wait. Guy Fieri's hairdresser is a gay man who likes/loves him?

No.

I refuse to believe anyone who cares for another human being would voluntarily do that to another human's hair and scalp, when they have the skill to do something else. The hairdresser/lover has to loathe him!

AB was loved by all his colleagues. That says a lot. His shows on CNN were great, so different from what anybody else has done.

Those of you who say the world is a better place without AB are sick mother fuckers. I bet you're woman.

I'm 69 years old, and remember the days when I was an in demand beautiful boy. But them days are long over and I have learned to embrace my elderliness, and even enjoy it. I no longer have anyone to impress, no need to go out on the hunt for dick, no need to watch what I say, not to say that I hurt people's feelings. I just say what I mean, and mean what I say now. If others don't agree with me, that's perfectly fine.

Any man who would ignore his own child because a jealous lover wanted him too should have been born sterile. Bourdain had the mindset of a child, and couldn't handle the fact that not everything was going to be the way he wanted.

He thought animal suffering was funny. Wasn’t sorry to hear he was a miserable cunt in real life.

It’s sad that he died and sad that his intimate messages are being made public by his loved ones but this man, like many heterosexual male chefs, seemed to have a hang-up about masculinity. He always seemed to need to be thought of as the Butchest Guy In the Room.

Exhausting, how could you guys stand to watch his TV show?

R74 is right.

Boredain was always like, “Look at me, I’m so masc, I’m laughing at animal cruelty! I’m such an edge lord.”

Same with that creepy little dude who was always with him.

Also he was condescending bordering on racist to the subjects of his show.

Asia Argento is a weird person, she grew up priviledged( her father is a famous horror movies director) and for some reason she's able to attract the most severe fragile human cases, i don't know what's her power but a certain kind of men(and women) find her irresistible and after they broke they are nothing but ruins ( obviusly it's not Asia fault if Anthony killed himself, he probably would have done it anyway sooner or later considering how depressed he was)

R64 She looks like she smells like cigarettes, dirty hair and B.O.

To be fair, he was fugly as well.

I don't care, I know it's unpopular but I do absolutely blame AA at least partly for his death. Yes, AB's emotional/mental health issues played a major part, but an emotionally crippled man meeting the epitome of "don't stick your dick in crazy" is a recipe for disaster. So she is absolutely to blame, at least partly.

She also slept with who she believed was JT Leroy in order to get the rights to film The Heart is Deceitful. She was dead set on seducing JT and getting "him" to fall for her so she could manipulate him and use the publicity to promote her directing career. When she found out she slept with a mere girl (Savannah) she was furious. A user got used. So it goes.

He looked like a man whose insides were being eaten up with cancer.

As a former alcoholic in recovery for over fifteen years - Bourdain's problem was alcoholism. Alcoholism makes it impossible to chose good partners and it absolutely destroys your self esteem and accelerates depression. Argento is disgusting but if Bourdain had been sober and well, he never would have tolerated her disgusting behaviour.

I think at the end he realized how badly he had been taken and was utterly humiliated.

[quote]It was about his appreciation of working class life, working class people, and working class food.

There's no group of people I admire more than the self-appointed Better People who deign to show their appreciation for the lowly common folk by being seen near them and talking to them sometimes.

I expected to dislike his CNN show, but he was very open to experience all kinds of places in novel ways. I've travelled a lot and appreciate someone who travels with that attitude. He was open about what a mess he was, so the armchair psychology isn't very useful here. Suicide at any age is often related to losses of relationship or downturns within relationships--his age is irrelevant. He was correct about the Food Network shows--they're really awful and ridden with schtick. Bourdain could be sanctimonious, but on the whole he was an interesting voice and it was sad that he took his life.

R83, it really does seem he was another well-off kid who spent his life wishing he were one of the common people. He referred to restaurant work as "The Life" which as a former waiter always made me laugh. The restaurant biz is full of men who imagine themselves as Orwell in Down and Out in Paris and London. I still feel sorry for people who never found a place to fit in but I've met so many of these guys. Becoming a cook is easier than moving to Bukowski's LA Skid Row I guess.

I always liked Bourdain's show - and being the host of a travel show seems like a pretty good gig to me (and apparently to other since there are numerous people vying for his old spot) but after watching Roadrunner and seeing what an addictive personality he was as well as the inability to be happy with anything for more than 5 minutes, it's a wonder he lived as long as he did.

Based on this recent book, I'm guessing he didn't leave behind much $$ (suicide negates a life insurance policy, I assume) and the ex-wife wants to cash in with whatever is left while she still can

The ex wife is really descipable for doing this. Bourdain had horrible taste in women.

I don’t think he left the ex wife anything, the money went to his daughter. She needs to support herself somehow. I don’t blame her for selling his stuff. He left her high and dry with a child.

If Bourdain wanted to be more lovingly remembered he might have tried not being such a dick to everyone.

Seems he was a hot mess- sad.

What an asshole you are, R24. You haven't achieved half of what Bourdain did, yet here you sit like the smug cunt you are, trashing a dead man. What a gash you are.

And unloved, R3? Bullshit he was. Now cunt off.

What a bunch of losers this thread is full of. R46 is a good case in point.

Having sex with a 17 year old is hardly a PEDOPHILE r59. Not that I am into kids but I wish people would stop just throwing that word around when it doesn't apply. A PEDOPHILE is someone who has a sexual interest in pre-pubescent children. We are talking 0-10 years old children. Those are pedophiles. Not someone who sex with a 17 year old - especially when you consider the age of consent is 16 in states like Massachusettes and 17 years old in a lot of states. Asia Argento might be a lot of gross things, but a Pedophile she is not. And the age of consent in Italy is 14.

The age of consent in California is 18, R93.

So that makes her a PEDOPHILE.

Now shut the fuck up and get lost, you creepy cunt.

Yeah, the 17 year old sex doesn’t really bother me that much either. Maybe if the sexes were reversed, but most 17 year old boys would jump at the chance to fuck an older woman. It’s creepy and a little predatorial but doesn’t make her a pedo.

[quote] Bourdain's problem was alcoholism.

Yes, I agree he was an alcoholic. He talked a lot about his 6-month heroin binge, holed up in an apartment. I think he thought the heroin story made him edgy. At the same time, it allowed him to downplay (be in denial) about alcohol.

I never saw him get off on animal cruelty, but he made it a point to say that he viewed animals as just meat. You can be a carnivore / omnivore and realize that it's not always black and white like that.

I'm a vegan and I loved Bourdain. He was coming around on the animal cruelty front . At least in regards to factory farming. He was an extremely emotionally stunted alcoholic but he was deeply respectful of the people that he visited the world over.

He was great.

How does that make her a pedophile R17? I can see it legally makes her a sex offender. But that doesn't mean she is a pedophile.

His main problem was depression. Drugs and alcohol don't help, but being involved with a cunt and being as seriously depressive as he had been all his life was the bigger issue.

He was a fine writer, made very entertaining television, and clearly was loved by a lot of people.

No, his main problem was booze. You can deal with depression. Alcoholism on top of it? No. He became unravelled when he realized that he had fucked up his wife for a trashy whore.

Life not wife

I also thought that last text wasn't that horrible. She said "stop busting my balls'. She didn't emasculate him or put him down. She clearly did not love him though and he must have known that.

I feel sorry for his daughter.

His first wife, by all accounts, is a lovely woman.

[quote] "I am not spiteful. I am not jealous that you have been with another man. I do not own you. You are free. As I said. As I promised. As I truly meant. But you were careless. You were reckless with my heart. My life."

MARY!!!

R100, he had been dealing with depression for decades. You can deal with alcoholism, but if you don't treat your depression, and you drink, then you're in trouble.

Asia Argento: "Stop busting my balls."

DL's new catch phrase.

That's all I ever heard as well, R103. And they remained close even after the marriage ended.

[quote] You can deal with alcoholism, but if you don't treat your depression, and you drink, then you're in trouble.

Dealing with alcoholism isn't easy.

I'm not a medical professional, but I'm guessing that quitting drinking (for an alcoholic) would be Step One in treating and even diagnosing depression. You need to get a baseline. Doctors prefer to diagnose mental illness after the drugs / alcohol is not a factor. Even if it's just a detox (vs. sober life).

Both depression and alcoholism can be dealt with simutaeously.

Yeah, well, OP, for trashiness and general meanness I don't think Asia Argento has any competition,

Guy Fieri with normal hair and clothing

Here's Guy Fieri's fight with the hairdresser. Really short clip. Did it seem like a lovers' quarrel? You be the judge.

Big-time lovers' quarrel. FUCK YOU!

Maybe eating all those weird things affected his brain.

One source said, "It was just dudes being dudes." Um, yeah, just in case anyone thought it was a fight between gay lovers, let's emphasize the "dudes."

Guy Fieri: truly Rachel Ray-level annoying.

Heavy drinking over long periods of time causes depressing - it is literally a depressant. And it will fill your life and thoughts with constant, gnawing shame, loneliness, blue thoughts, etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was very drunk and killed himself because in that moment he was just tired and irrational - it happens.

R83 lol well said

I always thought it was weird that he drank alcohol on his show, as an ex heroin addict. Usually addicts are encouraged to quit everything. Did he just quit on his own without support? He never really seemed drunk though…I guess that was after the cameras turned off.

R93 wasnt the kid she fucked an actor in a movie she was producing/directing? Wasnt she in, you know, in a higher position of power? Where have I heard that phrase before? Hmmm let me think.....something about a movement.....I'll try to remember and get back to you.

AB was being useful and praising brave and courageous Asia while under the table trying to pay of the teenager she fucked who she was directing in a movie.

[quote] R93 wasnt the kid she fucked an actor in a movie she was producing/directing? Wasnt she in, you know, in a higher position of power? Where have I heard that phrase before? Hmmm let me think.....something about a movement......

Yes, yes, and yes.

These #metoo CUNT FACE CUNTS act as though only women should be protected from predators.

But when it happens to young boys, these fucking Women's Lib FEMINAZI #metoo CUNTFACECUNTS say, "Oh, they probably enjoy it!"

That's why I have no sympathy towards females in the same situation.

They don't deserve my sympathy. Fucking DOUBLE-STANDARD CUNTFACES!!!!

[quote] I always thought it was weird that he drank alcohol on his show, as an ex heroin addict. Usually addicts are encouraged to quit everything.

You're correct. Addicts are supposed to quit everything.

When I saw him drinking, I thought: either he overstated his heroin addiction (to appear cooler) or the drinking is an elephant in the room.

I used to know a big time heroin addict who quit but he then became an alcoholic. And died of alcoholism.

When teen boys get molested by women, WOMEN say... "He enjoyed it. All boys would love it."

When teen girls get molested by men, WOMEN say... "RAAAAAAPE!!!!! Lock up these pedophile rapists!!!!"

Fucking cunts. Just like Asia Argento.

The idea of quitting everything is AA ideology---there's no science behind it. In practice, there are numerous trajectories people take once they stop using a a highly addictive drug like heroin.

Worked well for addicts like Bourdain and Affleck R125. You're spouting nonsense and I recovered from alcoholism and loathe AA.

A predisposition to addictive behaviour is a predisposition to addictive behaviour.

The way that Bourdain drank on his show - he was an obvious alcoholic. He was either drinking, drunk or hungover. It was obvious,

[quote] The way that Bourdain drank on his show - he was an obvious alcoholic. He was either drinking, drunk or hungover. It was obvious,

Umm.... it's what you do when you're a world traveler and food journalist.

Drinking is pretty much expected at gatherings and parties, which is what most of his stories were about.

Bourdain admitted that he doesn't eat or drink nearly as much in real life, as he did for the show.

Alcohol and heroin are pretty similar in severity in terms of withdrawals. I’m not sure if he could do his job without drinking though. With food comes wine.

[quote] He was an extremely emotionally stunted alcoholic

I forgot to add that he lost a significant amount of weight towards the end of his life, because he went on a strict diet which limited both food and alcohol.

So I'm not sure where you are getting that he's an alcoholic.

It was mostly for his CNN show that he indulged in drinking. According to interviews, he wasn't like that in his day-to-day life.

[quote] Anthony Bourdain reveals what he does to stay in such great shape

In an interview with Nuvo magazine last year, Bourdain spoke at length about his fitness regimen. “I train every day, wherever I am in the world,” he told the magazine. “When I’m in New York, I train at the Renzo Gracie Academy, an hour private and then an hour and a half general population. That’s basically Fight Club.”

Since beginning his Brazilian jiu-jitsu practice in 2014, Bourdain won a competition and earned his blue belt (the second level for adult practice). However, when speaking with Men’s Journal last year, he called himself a “blue belt who doesn’t suspect he will ever make it to black belt in this lifetime.”

In addition to the physical benefits, Bourdain also enjoys the mental impact of jiu-jitsu, mainly the "incremental tiny satisfactions of being a little less awful at something every day,” he told Charlie Rose.

Of course to reach the 61-year-old’s physicality, diet is equally as important as exercise. Although he’s been known to duck out in the middle of the night for fast food macaroni and cheese, the former chef maintains a thorough understanding of what he puts in his body. He told Travel + Leisure that he doesn’t even eat on the airplane as he knows his body will not digest the food.

^ What charming people DL attracts!

The author of the new book specifically says that he was an alcoholic and steroid user (that’s how he stayed in great shape). He has his cell phone and laptop, so I’m sure he knows the truth (despite what Tony told a reporter years ago). Of course he was going to lie to a reporter.

When I was at the bottom of my alcoholism I "dated" a married man twenty years my senior. I then told his wife. I was nuts. Addiction makes you crazy.

[quote] The idea of quitting everything is AA ideology---there's no science behind it.

If you've ever known someone who was addicted to coke, meth, whatever, then managed to quit - you'd be heartbroken if they started drinking alcohol. It's the beginning of the end.

In one of his shows, well before he met her, AB said the only woman he was interested in was Asia Argento. He was married at the time. I will see if I can recall which episode, they play them constantly on Pluto TV.

I loved his relationship with Eric.

The 17 year old she had sex with played her young son in a movie, he used to call her Momma and she would refer to him as Son years later when they had sex. That Bourdain paid the kid off for her shows he was a sick fuck too.

I like Bourdain and his writing and onscreen persona but fuck, that guy was a damn mess.

And, the Bourdain Cult is creepy.

Bourdain could not compete with Jimmy Bennett's Dick Of Steel. I'll bet that really threw him into a depression.

[quote]A predisposition to addictive behaviour is a predisposition to addictive behaviour.

Yes, but it doesn't have to ruin your life. People can switch to healthy addictions too. Like exercise, work or an engrossing hobby.

Re: R135: that's pretty fucked up. Unsurprising as he was obviously a fucked up guy, but still.

This bitch really just posted "Stop busting my balls" to her Instagram story.

R139 Those things aren't healthy when an addiction either. For example I know people addicted to running whose knees are fucked at the age of 40ish. Moderation is the key.

R136, I think that’s common dirty talk between cougars and their ‘cubs’. It’s a whole porn category now. The young ones want a ‘mommy’ to fuck them and teach them about sex. They’re all over Reddit begging for older women, jerking off their late teen and early 20’s cocks for our viewing pleasure (I assume that women aren’t into watching young men masturbate).

Bourdain said that the two women he found really attractive were Argento and Rosario Dawson. He Ould have probably had a chance with Dawson if he wasn't an alcoholic. He could have saved her from being Cory Booker's beard.

Anyway he needed rehab/recovery and he didn't get it and the results were tragic. They always are.

Argento is a little odd - she's not exactly conventionally attractive. But she seems to be fucked up and maybe that was the appeal. When her father directs her like he did (in a sexualized way), it doesn't seem normal.

R120 A movement she literally started by outing Weinstein in a speech she made at Cannes. With Bourdain in the audience. Bourdain, who apparently paid the teen off with his own money.

R146 Yep...I am well aware. AB was whipped af and going on about Asia's brave strong soul to everyone that could hear while at the same time trying to payof the teen himself to hush up. It was such a bad look, he went out in such a low note and as someone who admired and respected him it made me sad.

[quote] The 17 year old she had sex with played her young son in a movie, he used to call her Momma and she would refer to him as Son years later when they had sex. That Bourdain paid the kid off for her shows he was a sick fuck too.

I'm sure plenty here have called someone or been called daddy in the midst of fornication. I'm also sure that plenty here had sex before 18 and that, at least in their own minds, didn't make them a victim but quite the winner. I'm not advocating for sex with minors, just for letting go of the pearl necklace for Chrisssakes.

R120. We are talking about two different things. No one said she didn't abuse her power. No one said she is not a sex offender. She is NOT a pedophile though. That is my point. There is nothing you can equate with what she did to being a pedophile. "He was just seventeen. And you know what I mean..."

whatever, she is a piece of shit who can't act. How the fuck she makes a living as an actor is beyond me.

The fact that she knew him when he was 7 years old, played his mother in a movie which she also directed, that had his character being abused physically, verbally, and sexually around him make it a bit creepier.

Her Twitter page is deleted now, perhaps to hide the evidence. But on it, she sent him a series of tweets over the years that sounded more like a lover than a friend or a professional. So I think she wanted him long before it actually happened.

R150 Because of who her parents are for one. And when she was young she was able to convince people she was dark, mysterious, and sexy.

[quote] The fact that she knew him when he was 7 years old, played his mother in a movie which she also directed, that had his character being abused physically, verbally, and sexually around him make it a bit creepier.

[quote] Her Twitter page is deleted now, perhaps to hide the evidence. But on it, she sent him a series of tweets over the years that sounded more like a lover than a friend or a professional. So I think she wanted him long before it actually happened.

This makes her not only a child molester, but a groomer, as well.

Argento outright lied and told news outlets that she was pregnant by Leroy. She was totally milking the publicity.

I don't see Asia as a predator. In Italy it would've been perfectly legal. We expect a foreigner to know the laws of every single state in a country she isn't from? 17-year-olds know the difference between right and wrong. If he thought the situation seemed sketchy he could've said "I'm not into you like that. I'm getting the fuck out of here." I think he was going through a rough time and was desperate for money. Then one of Weinstein's cronies found out and leaked it to the press.

She's clearly a messy bitch, but AB became absolutely obsessed by her, allowing her messiness & drama blow up long-standing & valuable relationships with co-workers. But if he hadn't hooked up with her, he just would've found some other psycho to obsess over, so the problem is really his, not hers

"And, the Bourdain Cult is creepy."

What cult, R137? He was well liked and admired. So sorry if that triggers you, hunty.

Lotta dry drunks on this thread.

And Argento was absolutely a predator. She was all over that kid, and yes, she was in a position of power and authority, and she took advantage of that. She's the one who's a creep. Whether or not it's pedophilia, it was abuse of power to fuck that kid. And it wasn't on him to "know the difference between right and wrong." I blame her in no small way for Burdain's suicide.

*Bourdain's

[quote] I don't see Asia as a predator. In Italy it would've been perfectly legal.

Not in Caifornia where it happened. It was NOT legal.

[quote] We expect a foreigner to know the laws of every single state in a country she isn't from?

Absolutely. Every country expects you to know and obey their laws, when you are visiting or living in that country.

And if you don't, then ANY COUNTRY would lock you up for breaking the law.

[quote] 17-year-olds know the difference between right and wrong

No they don't. That's why there are child protection laws.

And that's why the Age of Consent in CA is 18.

So that SEX PREDATORS and CHILD MOLESTERS like Asia Argento can't GROOM and PREY UPON male children.

"For all of Bourdain's superiority complex and put-downs of people he thought as "lesser" than himself, the truth is that he was just a very unhappy man who projected his unhappiness on to others."

Was Bourdain a DLer? Sure fits the description of the average DL poster.

What putdowns of "lesser people" did Bourdain exhibit on his shows? Do tell.

R159 So because it happened in California rather than say Indiana where the age of consent is 16, that makes Asia a monster? I don't see her that way. If you have sex with someone the night before their 18th birthday, you're a monster. But after midnight it becomes perfectly okay? 17-year-olds are mature enough to decide what they want to be for the rest of their lives by choosing a college major, so they can consent to sex as well.

She is not a predator. Jimmy Bennett knew what he wanted and he got it. Then came back to profit off it because like many child stars before him, his career did not make it into adulthood and he had no money. Kind of a scummy way but he was desperate.

"17-year-olds are mature enough to decide what they want to be for the rest of their lives"

If you knew anything about this kid, R162, you wouldn't say that. SHE was the scumbag. She's also a hypocrite who tried using #metoo for her own advancement. AND she helped drive Bourdain to suicide and then blamed him for his own death. She's a total fucking cunt.

"17-year-olds are mature enough to decide what they want to be for the rest of their lives"

How absurd. No 17-year-old knows what they want to be for the rest of their lives. Most 40-year-olds don't.

Bourdain was a deeply fucked up man. He was an intellectual living in the world’s most vibrant city with a beautiful daughter and money and friends and was enjoy his good luck and spent 3/4 of his time travelling the globe searching for “authentic experience”. Sitting at a foreign family kitchen table and fetishising the international equivalent of quick and easy comfort food as a soul experience is the height of hilarity given that he considered the local equivalent of that family in Java or Krakow as fat, suburbanite, American losers.

"he considered the local equivalent of that family in Java or Krakow as fat, suburbanite, American losers."

Care to back that up with evidence, R165? Because you can't.

Read comments Bourdain made to make about fans of Guy Fieri’s shows, r166. People who like the food at the tasty, comforting, mom and pop restaurants he featured. They disgusted him.

But if that same quality of food and class of customer at a diner in Oklahoma was a hole in the wall in Valparaíso he would have classed that food as local ambrosia and the customers as salt of the earth.

He was a hipster.

R134

I have a friend who kicked his meth addiction almost 20 years ago. He drinks alcohol, and, as far as I know, he's doing fine. His husband is a drug addiction counselor, also a former meth user, and he agrees with R125.

"He was a hipster."

God forbid, R167! He hated Fieri, so he hated his fans. That's all there is to that.

[quote] She is not a predator. Jimmy Bennett knew what he wanted and he got it. Then came back to profit off it

I'm going to use this line, every time a teen girl claims "rape" against an older man.

And I will forever cite you as a reference.

R162 from the Bourdain thread said this....

She wanted it. She profited from it.

Gotcha.

I love the entire Argento family. They are like royalty to me.

Yes, r169, he was at his core, nothing but a hipster - a self-professed arbiter of good taste who could only like ordinary things ironically.

There is nothing more fraudulent than an elite culinarian who started feuds with Food Network personalities. Who would do that? The emperor who knows he is butt naked. Someone so cool and successful who publicly hates people on general principle is a hipster poser.

He wrote a whole article bemoaning the fact that Rachael Ray hired the New York Dolls to play at one of her parties because the EVOO Supermarket Girl loving badass punk rock music that rebels like him appreciate was just wrong.

As for his cooking, the segment in which Anthony Bourdain cooked Italian-American Sunday Sauce is the one of the most joyless, soulless segments of TV I have witnessed and entirely contrary to the spirit of the dish.

R171, you have very low standards.

R172, I couldn't give a shit who he picked fights with. And to say he was nothing but a hipster is ludicrous, but you have a bee in your pussy about him, so whatever. He was, in fact, a massively entertaining tv host and an excellent writer whose New Yorker pieces that became his book were a watershed momnt in culinary lit.

I liked watching his CNN series when it first came out. But it got to where he was so monotone and rather dreary, I got my fill and never watched it again.

I think he was a very interesting man and “actually” adored his fans. He hated show business— a man like him would. I think he would’ve wanted to be more of a modern day Duncan Hines than a standout runway celebrity. He was the first to call out John Besh and Mario Batali ‘meatheads’ from how they treated women in their restaurants.

The restaurant business harbors a really nasty culture and it has since the early 20th century. My family had a successful small restaurant for 25 years and my parents clue me in from time to time on how it really is.

R173, you are weirdly triggered that many of us here didn’t buy what he dished out.

Well, R175, any asshole can have an opinion, but in the face of his actual accomplishments, it's somewhat comical.

Guy Fieri never responded to Bourdain. I think all Fieri said was: why is this guy talking about me. So, I give Fieri credit for that.

Also, Bourdain died with a $1.2 million estate. Who knows WTF he did with his money to have his estate be that low.

"Also, Bourdain died with a $1.2 million estate. Who knows WTF he did with his money to have his estate be that low."

That's supposed to be a criticism of his character somehow, R177?

r32 On steroids, I have some personal experience - many on here probably do as well. I was an elite road cyclist for a few years, very lean, very skinny, emaciated really, but I took many different kinds off anabolic steroids. I was in my 20's, he was much older, with naturally decreasing testosterone. He might have just been maintaining normal levels, but I read he also did martial arts, so it was probably in the context of that environment.

Most important thing is they are anti-catabolic, meaning they PRESERVE muscle when you are on a restricted calorie diet, or training or competing hard. You want to get rid of fat, not muscle.

It increases protein synthesis, so you can build and maintain lean muscle easier.

Muscle mass increases basal metabolic rate, so muscle actually burns fat.

Testosterone is obviously good for libido, so he could keep up with a younger woman.

Eases depression in older men. Increases aggressiveness, so he could be more "alpha" or whatever.

Watching him have to eat, I bet he was probably bulimic. So the steroids kept him from wasting away.

Now the interesting thing is if you get OFF them. That was something else, I was very depressed for a whole year. So it may have played a role, along with his addictions. He probably never felt very good his entire life after the heroin, and was just trying different substances to survive. No dopamine, declining testosterone, woman problems, ennui, malaise, and reaching his goals - becoming rich and famous and beloved and still hating life and feeling like shit all the time. Very sad.

t177 I read that he had already established some trusts for his child or something. Also he traveled around the world, and may have hidden some money for tax evasion purposes.

It would explain his cozy relationship with his ex-wife.

We've all known people that literally spend every dime they have, no matter how much they have. My brother is like this and it's insanity. He spends all his money like it's his actual job, and is the most generous guy in the world, always picking up huge tabs for everyone. Self-esteem issues I guess.

IF you are constantly thinking about killing yourself, hoarding money doesn't make much sense. He's living out of a suitcase. Maybe bipolar or clinically depressed, so manic and burning through money, or depressed and using money to try to feel better.

Lot's of rich people are broke.

People might be right to say Argento wasn't legally a pedophile, but in the eyes of California law, she was a statutory rapist. Is that any better?

If she wasn't guilty in the eyes of the law, why did she pay off that kid (sadly, with Bourdain's money)?

I hope Argento comes to the worst possible end. The woman is a psychopath. She also fucked Weinsten for $$$ for years. Fucking lying whore.

And I'm a woman!

R183, I share your opinion of her 100%.

Bourdain always struck me as a self-hating alcoholic from the word go. Would not stop drinking.

Oh, brother, R185. Another fucking dime-store analyst.

So, [R186], you recognize yourself?

Clearly, R187, I'm talking about the dry drunks on this thread.

Argento admitted that she had consensual sex with Weinstein several years after she says that he raped her. That's the part that never made sense to me.

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She's so fucking rough looking. What a ratbag she is--the very definition of one.

Any sexual contact with Weinstein would be like falling into a Port-o-Pot. You'd never wash the stank off.

Bourdain talked about getting blackout drunk over the years—he filmed a scene in one of his Sicily episodes in a blackout. He didn’t sound like a social drinker, but his narrative was that heroin was his main addiction and that he could control his drinking (but ultimately he couldn’t seem to).

His "narrative," R193. I see.

A sixty year old man in pre-ripped jeans. Yet, a judgmental asshole. Like a cunty old lady. He was a bottom for women. The Thai fighting shit makes him seem like Joe Rohan types. Steroid heads. Creepy girlfriend who appreciated he came to her as a bottom fan boy. He learned the hard way. About everything.

R195 has stated her Bourdain boundaries!

Yawn.

[quote] Guy Fieri never responded to Bourdain. I think all Fieri said was: why is this guy talking about me. So, I give Fieri credit for that.

Same here.

Guy has a much larger audience and platform.

He could have really blown Bourdain out of the water.

But he didn't.

Guy was raised right. He kept his private thoughts to himself. And he didn't expose his family to criticism.

Meanwhile, Bourdain trashed Guy Fieri relentlessly, had an affair and disrespected his wife, killed himself, and left his child an orphan.

You tell me WHO took the higher road?

"He could have really blown Bourdain out of the water. But he didn't. Guy was raised right."

My God, what a fucking Mary you are, R197. A tinhorn moralist.

[quote] My God, what a fucking Mary you are, R197. A tinhorn moralist.

And you're a fucking rotten cunt who backs up cunts and hates on good guys.

Just like your hero, Anthony Bourdain.

Well I'm not Michelle fucking Obama.

When you go low, I go lower.

You fucking rotten asshole CUNT.

R199, you're just a fucking gash.

Wow, a couple of posters in this thread really have a thing for Bourdain, don't they? He was a spoiled rich kid who pissed away the best good fortune in the world and left a young daughter behind. He was a good writer and funny raconteur, but also a selfish shit.

That's more accurate, R201. I can go along with that. But he gave people a lot of joy. He deserves more credit for that than his faults.

Bourdain took a Hollywood tour with Scott Michaels in 2011 and he asked Scott if he could show him any places where someone had died of Autoerotic asphyxiation.

Kind of weird to ask about that, make of it what you will.

It's at around 7:35.

R202 give him all the credit you want, but you’re shit outta luck demanding everyone adore him as you do.

I don't demand it, darling R204. But the judgment here sounds more, or as much as, about the poster as it does Bourdain. This harping about his posturing and his drinking. So fucking what.

The point is that we have no issue with you loving him and you are very bothered that that others notice his casuistry.

Oh, please. You think I know what his faults and issues were, R206? You're tediously condescending.

*You think I don't know what his faults and issues were, [R206]?

AB was the judgemental one, Mary.

Oh, and not YOU, Mary R209?

r210 a moron.

R211 a loser in an argument. If it talks like a cunt and acts like a cunt, it's R211. Fuck the fuck off. Cunt.

Hi Asia @ r212 👋🏻

Hi, Guy Fieri @ R213. 👋🏻

I wouldn't be surprised if he died via auto-erotic asphyxiation. It's totally taboo, on par with suicide. If good friend Eric Ripert found him dead, I can see how Ripert would want to change the narrative.

I wou;d bet it was, in fact, suicide, R215.

Welp.

This thread has gone down the shitter.

R217, some excellent swipes at that cunt Argento made it pretty good for a while.

I could see his death being the result of auto-erotic asphyxiation. He seemed to push his limits in every way. That was made clear in “Kitchen Confidential”. He got bored very easily.

R159 Thank you, Mother Superior. So what sort of magical thing happens on one's 18th birthday? You have this sudden blinding epiphany and your consciousness is filled with moral knowledge, whereas five minutes before your 18th birthday right and wrong could have slapped you upside the head and you wouldn't have known the difference?

Well, R220, what actually happens in the state of California, if you fuck someone under 18, is that you can be arrested for statutory rape. So there's that.

I’m not so sure that Bourdain was that nice of a man.

Rolling my eyes, R222.

R221 Yes, in California and in many other places. Do you have a point?

If I had to cook all day I'd be short-tempered too.

I'm saying, R224, that no amount of excusing her behavior would change the fact that she was guilty of statutory rape in CA. She's a fucking criminal who wasn't charged because she agreed to paying extortion over her crime.

R220/R224 is purposely being a troll.

Ignore it.

Hello to Susan Collins at R222!

R227 A troll? That's hilarious. Anyone who challenges a DLer's misconceived assertion is a troll by definition. You must be an anti-free inquiry troll.

"a DLer's misconceived assertion"

Says you, R229. Patronizing twat.

Girls! Girls!! GIRLS!!!!! Both of you are being fucking annoying. Give it a rest R227, R229.

[quote]He was a spoiled rich kid who pissed away the best good fortune in the world and left a young daughter behind.

Don't think you got this part right, though, I never really followed his career, I watched a week episodes of his CNN series. I read recent article in the NY Times Food section this week. Actually, the book reveals his family lived beyond their means in some New Jersey suburb. So, not exactly rich.

[quote]He "vanished" from his eleven year old daughter's life because Asia couldn't handle him being around his daughter and ex-wife? Asia stalked his wife's social media and became incensed if any photos of him with his kid or around his ex with the kid were posted? Both he and Asia are assholes.

This past Weds' NY Times FOOD section had an article about the book. It mentioned how possessive Asia Argento was, how she didn’t want AB to spend any time with his daughter and how jealous she was when his wife posted family pics at her social media accounts. Jealous about posting photos? Asia was always having meltdowns about Anthony and his family. Obviously AA is some sort of control freak. I know someone who was married to this type of woman, she controlled every aspect of this man's life and there was a lot of violence involved. The women beat him constantly, he never hit her back. he's a big guy, but he never return the beatings.

Most of Asia's behaviour makes little sense, except it's clear she has severe mental health and/or substance abuse issues. Asia isn't even good looking enough for some obsessed straight man to be drooling over, she's actually quite unattractive. Even when dressed for the red carpet, she always looks dirty and disheveled.

If Asia was so possessive, then, why did she tell Anthony to basically fuck off? To “stop busting my balls.” If she didn’t care about him, why the hell did she care if he had contact with his wife and daughter? Likely due to her mental illness combined with substance abuse. Or she simply enjoyed controlling Anthony. What a freak.

It seems AA simply wanted to control AB and also not want him around all the time? It was some sick twisted game for her. Asia was basically controlling his life, while she was fucking different men.

Straight men who chase after these types of women must be gluttons for punishment. AB also wasn't all there mentally. These were two very sick minds. I know several people in this type toxic relationship, one partner almost killed their husband. In this case, AB killed himself.

Seems Asia found her perfect victim. People like her can see their victims a mile away. AB, for all his bravura displayed on his CNN series and in his writing, appeared to be an extremely weak confused man with addition issues. A lethal combination. Apparently, Anthony was all surface. Anthony knew Asia was having an affair with some guy who worked at a hotel. There were photos of them being affectionate in public. Asai flaunted her affair.

Asia sounds quite fucked up. Don’t forget, AB paid off the much younger guy, Jimmy Bennett, she had an affair with. In fact, according to The NY Times article, AB spent “hundreds of thousands of dollars” on Asia. Guess AA is also a gold digger? Straight men will never learn. NEVER.

Asia seems to have a career due to her father, Italian horror film director, Dario Argento's connections and her connection to Weinstein, because, honestly, she's not much of an actress and is not attractive in the least. One film I saw her in, she played a much desired courtesan, talk about blurring the lines of reality and fantasy! Asia is toxic and doesn't seem desirable in the least.

Asia seems extremely mentally ill and most likely is. Anthony wasn’t exactly stable either. I guess there IS a lid for every pot. A relationship made in hell.

I don't have a problem with it. It's time Asia gets canceled. It's way over do.

[quote] over do

Oh DEAR…🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

AA wss angry with AB at the time of his death because she wanted to direct the episode he was filming in France. She directed the Hong Kong episode and CNN wasn't impressed so she didn't get more work with them. She felt AB could have insisted.

Then she had photos of her taken and published kissing that guy in the streets of Rome to make AB jealous.

And then AB killed himself.

Asia, you won, gurl.

[quote] Asia, you won, gurl.

Actually, I won.

R234 You can't cancel somebody who doesn't have much of a career to begin with.

[quote]AA wss angry with AB at the time of his death because she wanted to direct the episode he was filming in France. She directed the Hong Kong episode and CNN wasn't impressed so she didn't get more work with them. She felt AB could have insisted. Then she had photos of her taken and published kissing that guy in the streets of Rome to make AB jealous. And then AB killed himself. Asia, you won, gurl.

Nepotism only goes so far, once you get your foot in the door due to connections, you have to prove you have talent. Asia needs to realize she's isn't all that talented. Plus, she sure cannot get by on her looks.

Asia didn't win shit. This ugly dirty looking mentally ill freak has to live with the fact that she caused another human being to commit suicide. I reckon she'll end up offing herself over the next few years. Or gone on to destroy another man's life, then OD.

I can see a toxic person a mile away. I've dumped several user and controlling friends, I couldn't be happier. One person I've known since I was a teen, this person has become more mentally ill during the years and refuses help. This man self-mediates with all sorts of recreational drugs, drinks alcohol every day and lives in his own world. He's wealthy, he doesn't need to work.

This addictive behavior might be considered eccentric or cute when you are younger, but at his age he should have gotten help many years ago. It's not as if he cannot afford a good therapist, and interventions, he sure can. I'm not the only friend who has stopped communicating with this man. Last I heard, since most of his longtime friends are gone from his life, he now surrounds himself with lots of dumb young foreign men who are clearly using him for his money.

[quote]she didn’t want AB to spend any time with his daughter

Given the very plausible stories of Dario being incredibly inappropriate with Asia at a young age, this doesn't surprise me. She strikes me as someone who was abused when younger and grew up to become another abuser. She is also quite obviously mentally ill.

Meanwhile Asia broke her silence about the suicide of her two-year partner Anthony Bourdain in June.

She told DailMailTV that his death left her with a " void that nothing can manage to fill".

Her first reaction, she said, was "anger".

"Now anger keeps me alive because otherwise this desperation would have no end".

The celebrity chef and food-travel journalist was 62 when he killed himself in a French hotel.

In Bennett's interview with Massimo Giletti, he reiterated he was raped at 17 by Argento five years ago.

On September 5 Argento's lawyer said she has stopped paying Bennett to settle his sex-abuse lawsuit.

She also reiterated she had not had sex with the former child actor when he was 17.

Lawyer Mark Jay Heller said the #MeToo figurehead had halted the payments to Bennett agreed with her late partner Anthony Bourdain, the celebrity chef, to buy Bennett's silence.

"The relationship with Bennett was never sexual, and in the end it will be discovered that it was she who was attacked by Bennette," said Heller.

"Now that Bourdain is dead and can't comment on the desire to averta potential scandal, Asia won't let any more installments of the agreed $380,000 be paid to Bennett who has already received $250,000".

R241 was an article from 2018. I think here in the US we heard that it was just rumor that Bourdain paid Bennett off, but it seems in Italy, it was common knowledge.

Are there any decent people in the world anymore?

[quote] Are there any decent people in the world anymore?

The short answer? No.

Asia Argento is child molester and a rapist.

End of story.

Why is actor Michael Pitt listed as the current partner of Asia?

These idiot men are just asking for trouble.

Asia has two kids with two different men. One is 21, the other 14. Can you say, hot mess?

R246 Pitt and Argento were engaged in the 2000s but that ended over a decade ago.

What I want to know is how Argento got so screwed up. Or was she always this much of a mess? Knoop (JT Leroy) said she came on strong then dumped JT soon after getting film rights, going as far as to show off Michael Pitt in front of JT on the move set while they flirted, which seemed like an extra bitchy move. Then all this stuff about assault with the actor who played her son, then her jealous behavior toward Bourdain and their screwed up relationship where he saw prostitutes and she dated other men but Bourdain was heartbroken over her apparently.

In my opinion, they both sound screwed up, but I’m actually more curious about Argento and how she got that way.

Asia's disgusting tattoos also point to mental illness. People who destroy their bodies with a lot of 'ink' have some major issues. Her tats aren't even even attractive.

Nothing wrong with a few tats, but to cover large areas of your body with them, it's too bizarre, it definitely shows there's some self loathing involved. Asia might have also enjoyed the pain.

Can you imagine the pain involved in getting this entire area tattooed?

Bourdain had a lot of photos too.

They were both mentally ill.

At least Anthony had a good head of hair. Iggy looks awful in that pic.

R230 I'll try to dumb it down for you, you dumb fuck.

WHY does every DL thread have to devolve into some assholes fighting with each other? Simmer down you argumentative loudmouths.

Is there no sense of decorum these days?

Queen Elizabeth III has entered the thread at R252.

Everyone curtsey to her highness!

Yes, dear @ R253, you WILL also kiss the royal ring!

Now...kindly fuck off.

FYI, most actresses are fucked up, crazy, me me me type.

I've come across many of them. But Asia seem extra crazy. They do this because they love the attention. That's why she posted herself wearing that "stop busting my balls" tshirt. fame whore desperate for any attention.

Sounds like they bought out the worst in each other.

I do believe there are “doomed duos”, pairings of people who were both highly dysfunctional and toxic, and the combination is deadly. Look at the destruction in her wake (and his!!!). The older I get, the less I judge. Who the fuck really knows who exactly she is? And who exactly he is? I do suspect that we have a decent impressionist profile of each!!!!

Agreed, r257. I’ve always said that freaks (sexually) can sniff out other freaks in a second. I don’t know what they were into, but he sniffed her out before he even met her.

It is interesting, it’s almost like genetic engineering (if only we could control it) putting together two very specific types of people. I believe that she has shown who she really is. I’m sure there is more to her and there are other aspects to her personality that we will never know. But how callous can you be wear a shirt with her last text to him before he offed himself? Is it possible this crazy bitch thinks this is the punk rock thing to do here? That is the only way it makes any sense to me. So it’s that, or she’s an evil psycho sadistic bdsm-adjacent cunt.

R259 I felt it was a message to the media and the public. She told Anthony to "quit busting her balls," and now she is telling us the same thing.

That makes sense too.

This insane bitch Asia wanted Anthony to leave her alone, yet she was trying to control his friendship with his wife and his daughter, all the while flaunting fucking other men? What kind of sicko relationship were these two weirdos having?

Sorry, this psycho bitch doesn't get a free pass. She comes across as a sadist and a sociopath. You have to wonder how her two children turned out.

It is really creepy, being a mother herself, that she would encourage his alienation from his own daughter. AB made his choices, and Argento was not responsible. But she was a sick fuck, in every way.

More than anything, the ex probably wants to expose the downright cruel way she treated him; she pushed him to blow up his professional relationships, alienating long time friends & colleagues & pushed for him to choose between her & his daughter, and asshole that he was, he chose her. And then she not only dumps him, but publicly humiliates him. Granted, he has his own issues as well documented in this thread, but given her lack of any kind of remorse at the very least that he's *dead* and her "fuck you" back to the world that judges her pretty harshly, and her well established mental issues, I don't think it's unreasonable to assume a suicide attempt (maybe a successful one) is in the cards for her too.

Argento will NEVER kill herself. Narcissists drive other people to suicide. They never kill themselves.

Argento’s daughter has a ton of scars from self harm. She’s a mess.

How do you know that, R266?

I'm guessing the ex-wife is pissed that he left such a small estate, $1.2 million. He paid off Asia Argento's accuser, who knows what else he was blowing his money on.

R120, she was never convicted or even arrested. Funny, I thought the anti-MeToo brigade said that everyone should be assumed to be innocent until they're proven guilty in a court of law

He was a really screwed up guy - including the choice to date and obsess over her. No mentally healthy adult man would date a woman who says he can’t be around his kids. Like his heroin addiction, there are a lot of things about him that contradict the “nice, social, caring guy” persona he presented on camera.

R267 Asia once posted a picture of herself with her daughter on the beach. And the daughter was wearing short shorts or a bikini, I can't remember which, but you could see what appeared to be scars on her leg from cutting.

R269 Honey, are you expecting DLers to be consistent or make sense?

Iggy Pop is 10 years older than bourdain and had the sense not to get a bunch of tattoos and strain his arms, posing. Bourdain is a literal poser.

The extremely weird mainstream media beatification of this drug addicted cook is beyond me. Who cares? Move on.

R274 Im kinda with you there. When I was sidelined with an injury last summer I tried getting into one of his shows. I pulled up the one where he is in the desert with Josh Homme and his band. I was actually surprised at how much of a literal teenager Bourdain seemed to be. Its one thing to cut up with the boys but it was apparent this is how it was regularly with him. I couldn’t watch any more of it.

His poor kid.

I know. R276, can you imagine the garbage she will date?

The MARY! outrage at the emergence of the true Bourdain story and the wife's cooperation with a credentialed Rolling Stone journalist are ridiculous. It would be funny if Bourdain's endgame wasn't so pathetic. Some of the outrage is of course pure cynical commercialism from quarters with lots of $$$ riding on the continued mirage of Bourdain as this Deep Thinker Who Taught Us How to Live. The rest is infantile fan hysterics, much of that one suspects emanating from Argento stans. The wife didn't lie about Bourdain or what happened. She let the facts come out and did not collude in perpetuating mythology about who Bourdain really was.

The Bourdain fan army is incomprehensible. It's unbelievable these people actually took this guy as some Meaning of Life guru. He was a mordant, hilarious, rapier-wit writer, raconteur, and entertainer--at least until his demons began to get the better of him and his schtick became singularly flaccid and un-entertaining--and that was IT. It was more than clear from his volumes of memoir essays and many of his later interview comments that he was disordered in the extreme and an un-recovered addict par excellence, chasing one "Pink Cloud" high after another and going into tailspins at the inevitable crash from the high du jour, before latching on to the next one. It's all very sad, but he wasn't Our Wise and Profound Spiritual Mentor. He was John Belushi. Whose wife also did the world a favor by cooperating in a riveting post-mortem bio full of painful truth.

I didn’t know that John Belushi had a wife. He was before my time.

Belushi was married to his high school sweetheart.

I didn't like him but Nigella Lawson did: "When you're young, what you want of people is that they're funny and clever. And then as you get older, you realize kindness is important. But it's not often that you meet people who are funny, clever, and kind. And he was."

Not so kind to his daughter.

I loved NO RESERVATIONS at first. And his takedowns of some of the Food Network cooks was hysterically funny. Didn’t agree with his assessment of Tyler Florence or Emeril Lagasse, although he later softened his stance on the latter. But he got increasingly smug and too-hip-for-you at some point. Especially when he had his friends on his shows.

R283 Yes, which is indicative of seriously stunted behavior rooted in immaturity and insecurity. The snobby aging hipster schtick is embarrassing after a certain age, quite frankly.

Aren't all talented chefs snobs? Just like designers?

I don't think it has ever been proven that Anthony Bourdain is a talented chef.

He's a glorified line cook, as far as I can tell. And by his own admission.

So really, he had no reason to be such a nasty cunt.

I hated the shows where he’d go to a restaurant that was off limits to what he called “civilians”, meaning non-chefs. Bitch you were a cook and not a very good one by your own admission.

You weren’t in the French Fucking Foreign Legion. By the time he moved to CNN, I had totally lost interest in him.

His work was terrific and I still miss him and his shows.

There was something kind of hot about him. I love a tall thin man, and I imagine he would be a freak in the bed. His frequent trips to prostitutes over the years seemed weird. I bet he would’ve let a guy suck him off, especially during his heroin and alcoholic days (which was probably most of his adult life).

Depression is nothing a vicious slap can't cure.

Steroids probably have more to do with his suicide than we know. I thought his body was too ripped for a man his age.

The CNN shows became so pretentious and heavy handed as time wore on. His Quebec show early on was amazing. It looked like so much fun and made me want to go!

[quote] I imagine he would be a freak in the bed.

Based on his taste in women (ball busters), I'd guess he was passive / submissive in bed.

Booze and heroin aren't exactly performance enhancers, either.

Don’t bust my balls!

He was doing steroids?? Was he planning on doing bodybuilding competitions? What an utter moron.

He liked to swan around topless and no matter how haggard Asia looks, she is quite a bit younger than him. His 2nd wife was probably his connection. No woman gets that huge without chemical assistance

People make Anthony Bourdain out to be a saint when he paid a rape victim to keep his mouth shut so that his girlfriend would stay out of trouble. If he was such a moral compass, why would he be an accessory to that? I believe people really underestimate what a role this rape scandal played in his suicide. Anthony Bourdain, who was so outspoken during the Me Too movement, was about to be exposed as a giant hypocrite and phony when his part in everything went public. Then he realized he put everything on the line (his career, his reputation, his family and friends, his morals, his dignity) to save this woman from the consequences of what she did and it was all for nothing. She still went off, fucked another man, and pretty much told Anthony she never gave a shit about him anyway. It was all too much for him so he committed suicide.

Asia Argento is a rapist, a groomer, and a child molester.

The fact that Bourdain was with her, and enabled her behavior, makes me hope that he's rotting in hell.

R298 You are so right. He single-handedly saved her and subsequently her whole me too movement she and her friend Rose started by paying off that kid. And thats how she repaid him.

I don't think it's all his fault. He didn't know what she was when he first got with her. By the time he realized what he got himself into, it was too late. Also, maybe he believed the bullshit lie that Jimmy Bennett was the assaulter rather than Asia. If he loved her as much as I think he did, he probably would've accepted any lame ass excuse she came out with.

Agreed, r301. He idolized her and she was the woman of his dreams. He probably imagined that the kid was in love with her too, and believed that he would pursue her.

Asia already had scandal surrounding her when he started dating her if he had bothered to Google her and read about JT Leroy. Knoop’s autobiography was pretty damning about her behavior. She was also blacklisted in Hollywood for awhile after that mess.

I never understood how Anthony Bourdain became such a secular saint and superstar to straight people who all seem to revere him as some oracle?

I've worked with high end chefs and they tend to be very exacting and often difficult personalities. Bourdain seemed like a total douche bag to me, but what do I know?

A NY Times review stated Bourdain had affairs with other prominent NYC chefs, but didn't mention anyone by name nor did the review state if the chefs were men or women.

Was he bisexual? This man seemed game for anything. Bourdain's relationship with Asia Argento was bizarre, all he had to do was Google this unstable woman to see she was very bad news. Some people are gluttons for punishment. Seemed like he thrive on drama and emotional pain.

How could anyone fall in love which such a crazy person? A few minutes with someone like Asia should tell you all you need to know. Then you run the other way.

So many people really hate themselves, they allow others to shit all over them.

I dated a chef, and my experience of them is that they are hedonists- they cater to the very base pleasure of eating and drinking. A ton of drug use goes along with that.

People who need emotional pain or seek the highs and lows need that to feel "alive" or "human". We don't discover new lands anymore, hunt, fight off warring tribes (for the most part), etc to survive. We live life vicariously through films and faux fighting (sports). When someone like Bourdain has experienced everything (more than most humans have), where else is there to go?

r303, please tell us more about Asia and J.T. Leroy. It says the book is going to be made into a film starring Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern.

I found this: [Asia], was disturbed, she said, that the film includes Ms. Albert’s suggestions that she had been sexually intimate with JT LeRoy (in reality Ms. Knoop) in an effort to win the film rights to “The Heart Is Deceitful.” Ms. Argento said the accusation — which she called “nasty” and “painful” — had no merit.

I think the film came out a long time ago. Whoops.

This sick bitch is into animals as well?

[quote]BRUCE: Did you get a lot of flack for the film? [quote]ASIA: Well, I was protected in a way by my father and my uncle, who produced the film. They never judged me, but they were a bit scared of some of the things I wanted to do. I had hoped to do a scene with bestiality, but they wouldn’t allow me to do it.

She ended up doing it in another film anyway.

Argento is a pig. Her father makes pig movies. AB went after her because he liked her pig behavior.

Ugh Abel Ferrara R310.

I agree R311.

[Quote]Asia Argento is a rapist, a groomer, and a child molester.The fact that Bourdain was with her, and enabled her behavior, makes me hope that he's rotting in hell.

Europeans have different ideas about women having sex with teenage boys. Yes, in fact preparing teens for future adult relations (grooming if you like) is viewed as a good thing.

This is evident in classic literature, tale Cheri by Colette for instance.

I don’t think that he was bisexual.

I hope that he wasn’t. He looked like Bea Arthur - before the end.

Something about his masculinity seemed hot to me, even though he wasn’t conventionally attractive. He looked like he loved to fuck…odd how some people just give off that vibe. We seem to sniff each other out.

He made some great, and I do mean great TV shows. The episodes shot in Spain, for instance, are insightful genuine and educational. He was unique.

He liked AA because she was edgy and he wanted to live on the edge with her. He was worldy, literally. I don't feel sorry for him.

He was calling out hypocrites (Paula Deen) and then became a hypocrite himself. Calling out Harvey Weinstein, then paying off AA's boy.

"Based on this recent book, I'm guessing he didn't leave behind much $$ (suicide negates a life insurance policy, I assume) "

Not always.

"The author of the new book specifically says that he was an alcoholic and steroid user (that’s how he stayed in great shape)."

You don't inject steroids and magically get in great shape. They bolster the work that you do.

My life insurance policy pays out for suicide…there was a waiting period before it would pay for that reason though.

R307 long story, but JT was supposedly a young non-binary/mtf who had, as a young boy, been pumped out to men at truck stops by his mother and now was a bestselling author. JT got a ton of attention and everyone wanted film rights, and Asia met JT and seduced them (nevermind that JT had a fully female body because it was really Savannah Knoop—Asia didn’t seem to care), and Knoop thought they were in a relationship of sorts. When Asia got the film rights, she directed and starred as JT’s mother and invited JT to the set, and was in many high profile appearances with JT. Knoop, who legit liked Asia and had feelings for her, hoped they’d be together again, but Asia flirted with Michael Pitt right in front of “JT” (it sounded intentional by the way Knoop described it) and Pitt and Argento hooked up and got engaged later. After the film and the promotion and interviews, JT and Asia had nothing to do with each other pretty much, except Knoop sorta confessed to Asia she was hurt by Asia and it was alluded Knoop hinted that she was a woman and JT was fake. After that, they never talked again, supposedly, if I recall from the book.

Prior, Asia had claimed to be pregnant with JT’s child for attention.

The movie bombed and Asia was blacklisted after everyone found out JT wasn’t real.

Tyler Florence hated him and Andrew Zimmern. They both dragged him. And Zimmern even said that Tyler was the least talented chef on television at the time. Tyler told him to go back and eat another bowl of dick soup; referring to Andrew’s trip to a restaurant in China that served soups made from animal penises. And he dragged Anthony for eating that warthog rectum in South Africa or Zimbabwe. Anthony ate that shit and then downed a pint of whiskey. Zimmern is a smug fat, bald bastard.

How could they have had a sexual relationship if JT presented herself to Asia as a guy, but she was really a girl?

Because JT was an FTM trans woman, supposedly

Oops I meant mtf

I wasn’t surprised he was a suicide. He was so acerbic and dark on that travel show.

[quote]He liked AA because she was edgy and he wanted to live on the edge with her. He was worldy, literally. I don't feel sorry for him.

Please, you can be in a relationship with an edgy weird person without that person controlling and manipulating your life.

Asia Argento comes across as sociopath and possibly a psychopath. It wasn't enough she was controlling this man, then was getting angry when he posted pics of his daughter, seriously?

Asia had the audacity to flaunt her other relationships in Bourdain's face, this was after he spent "hundreds of thousands" on paying off the teen she raped and God knows what other mental anguish she put this man through. Seems the alcohol and drugs fucked up his already fragile mental state. People like AA see their victims a mile away. I worked with a sociopath, these people are not happy until they break down others, they take immense pleasure in their behavior.

Weren't she, Rose McGowan, and some other woman in a "coven", cursing various men during the metoo movement?

AB was always fragile even as a young boy. He mentioned this casually in a few of his shows (like the episode on the NJ shore with his brother).

He was probably always a depressive and like most depressives he sought relief in drugs, alcohol and relationships.

It's apparent in the episode shot in Italy with AA he was falling in love with AA, with Italy and with the warmth and security many Italian families offer up. Perhaps he felt he had found IT at last.

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