Jimmy Bent bgraphy wh personal life (affair, girliend , Gay), married . A llectn of facts wh age, height.
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- EX-FOX AND CBS ANCHOR JIM WALKER HAS NEW JOB AS A GAY PORN STAR
- LOOKG BACK ON ANTHONY BOURDA AND ASIA ARGENTO’S ROLLER-COASTER ROMANCEA EP DIVE TO THE RELATNSHIP SO PLITED THAT ROADNNER FILMMAKER MAN NEVILLE EMED “NARRATIVE QUICKSAND.”BY JULIE MILLERJULY 16, 2021PHOTO ILLTRATN BY QUTON MCMILLAN. IMAGE BY GETTY.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHEN MAN NEVILLE WAS MAKG ROADNNER, HIS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDA, THE OSR-WNG FILMMAKER SPOKE TO MANY BOURDA’S NER CIRCLE ABOUT THE TV PERSONALY’S FAL MONTHS—SPECIFILLY ABOUT BOURDA’S ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP WH THE ITALIAN ACTOR ASIA ARGENTO.MICHAEL STEED, A PARTS UNKNOWN DIRECTOR, RELLED HOW BOURDA MET ARGENTO 2016 WHILE FILMG A SEASON-EIGHT EPISO SET HER HOME TOWN OF ROME. AT THE TIME, BOURDA WAS REBOUNDG OM HIS SEND DIVORCE, AND SEEMED TO IMMEDIATELY FALL FOR ARGENTO, WHO WAS ABOUT 20 YEARS HIS JUNR.“WHEN TONY MET ASIA, HE WAS LIKE, ‘SHE’S THE BT. MY GOD, SHE’S SO GREAT.’ YOU KNOW, LIKE HIGH SCHOOL WHEN YOU GET LAID FOR THE FIRST TIME,” STEED SAYS THE DOCUMENTARY. THE RELATNSHIP QUICKLY LATED, WH THE CHEF TURNED TV PERSONALY GHG ABOUT ARGENTO TERVIEWS AND ON INSTAGRAM, PUBLICLY CHAMPNG HER AS SHE EMERGED AS A #METOO LEAR, PRIVATELY PAYG OFF ARGENTO’S OWN ACCER, AND EVEN PHG FOR HIS GIRLIEND TO DIRECT AN EPISO OF PARTS UNKNOWN WHEN ANOTHER DIRECTOR FELL ILL. ANOTHER PARTS UNKNOWN WORKER THEORIZ THAT BOURDA, A REVERG HERO ADDICT, “TURN[ED] A LIFELONG ADDICTIVE PERSONALY TO ANOTHER PERSON, AND THAT WAS EXTREMELY DANGERO.”THOUGH THE FAL ACT OF ROADNNER FEATUR VAR IENDS AND FAY MEMBERS SPEAKG ABOUT ARGENTO’S HOLD OVER BOURDA, AND THE TABLOID PHOTOS THAT SOME SUGGT MAY HAVE TALYZED HIS SUICI, NEVILLE SAID THAT HE ACTUALLY PARED DOWN VERAGE OF THE ROMANCE.“THE ASIA STORY IS SANELY PLITED,” SAID NEVILLE, WHO DID NOT TERVIEW ARGENTO FOR HIS DOCUMENTARY. “AND IF YOU GO AND READ ALL THE NEWS STORI, AND KD OF GO TO , EVERY QUTN YOU BRG UP…BRGS UP 10 MORE QUTNS.… WHAT I CLUD WAS A ACTN OF WHAT WAS THERE. SO IF PEOPLE THK THERE’S A LOT, LET ME TELL YOU, THERE IS VERY LTLE PARED TO WHAT’S THERE.… AND I THK I WAS VERY FAIR WH HAVG SEEN ALL THE FACTS. I’M VERY FORTABLE WH WHAT I DID.”AHEAD, AN EFFORT TO UNRSTAND THE PLITED NATURE OF THE RELATNSHIP THAT ROADNNER OUTL, WE LOOK BACK AT BOURDA AND ARGENTO’S ILL-FATED ROMANCE.“LIKE A TEENAGE BOY”IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG FOR BOURDA TO VELOP FEELGS FOR ARGENTO. AFTER FILMG THE ROME EPISO OF PARTS UNKNOWN, BOURDA GHED TO CNN:THE EPISO WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE—OR BE ANYTHG LIKE IS WHOUT THE TLY MAGNIFICENT ASIA ARGENTO.… SHE TOLD ABOUT “STORNARO,” THE BAWDY, PROFANE ROMAN FOLK SONGS WE FEATURE AT VAR TIM DURG THE EPISO. SHE TRODUCED TO THE BATSH CRAZY BOXG CLUB WHERE WE ATE PASTA RGSI AS GLADIATORS POUND ONE ANOTHER AND THE CROWD HOOTED AND ROARED. SHE ALLOWED TO SHOOT AT HER FAVORE LTLE RTRANTS, WHERE SHE TAK HER KIDS ON THE WEEKENDS FOR HOMEMA FETTUCCE AND POLPETTI.… SHE ARRANGED FOR HER SISTER FRE TO OK FOR ME AT HER HOME—WH HER LIGHTFUL CHILDREN, DGHTER ANA AND SON NILA (WHO PRETTY MUCH STEALS THE SHOW AS HE STGGL WH HIS TRIPE).… BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, SHE WAS HERSELF. ALWAYS HONT, PLETELY UNSPARG. IF YOU ASK ASIA A QUTN, YOU ARE GOG TO GET AN ANSWER—AND SHE DON’T RE IF REFLECTS BADLY ON YOU—OR ON HERSELF.… ASIA HAS NEVER GIVEN A FUCK. HER ADMISSN THAT SHE NEVER VOT IS BOTH TERRIBLE AND TE—AND ABOUT AS CLOSE TO HOME AS GETS. THE LAST WORD, APPROPRIATELY, IS HERS.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONIN FEBARY 2017, PAGE SIX REPORTED THAT THE TWO HAD “FALLEN LOVE.” BOURDA POSTED PHOTOS OF HER ON INSTAGRAM ALONGSI PTNS LIKE, “JT A PERFECT DAY…YOU MA ME FET MYSELF.”INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.BOURDA TOLD PEOPLE HE WAS “HAPPIER FOR SURE” WH ARGENTO HIS LIFE. “IT’S NICE TO BE WH SOMEBODY WHO I SEE AS A PEER.” DURG A FAL TERVIEW WH THE MAGAZE, HE SAID HE WAS “HAPPY WAYS THAT I HAVE NOT BEEN MEMORY” AND “HAPPY WAYS I DIDN’T THK I EVER WOULD BE, FOR SURE.” HE ATTRIBUTED THOSE FEELGS TO “SOMEBODY REALLY STRONG”—SEEMGLY A REFERENCE TO ARGENTO.THOUGH BOURDA DID NOT WANT TO MARRY AGA, HE SAID THAT HE’D BE OPEN TO MOVG WH HER.“LOOK, I LIKE BEG AROUND HER AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE,” BOURDA TOLD PEOPLE. “SHE’S LIKE ME, A LOT OF WAYS. WE’VE BOTH BEEN MARRIED…. SO THAT’S NOT SOMETHG THAT’S EVER, EVER GOG TO HAPPEN. THAT’S THE ATH OF EVERYTHG. I THK WE BOTH RPECT EACH OTHER’S WORK. NOBODY’S EVER GOG TO SAY, ‘OH, BUT YOU PROMISED WE WERE GOG TO GO TO THE BEACH.’ NO, YOU KNOW, YOU GET A GIG, THAT’S . THAT’S . NOTHG ELSE MATTERS. WORK FIRST.”SHORTLY AFTER BOURDA’S SUICI, A IEND TOLD THE MAGAZE, “LIKE A TEENAGE BOY, [HE WAS] JT ABSOLUTELY LOVTCK. HE WOULD HAVE DONE ANYTHG FOR HER, AND THAT WAS A LTLE RED FLAG FOR SOME OF HIS IENDS.”ARGENTO SHARED HER FEELGS ABOUT BOURDA AS WELL, BUT NOT AS PROLIFILLY. IN FEBARY 2020, SHE POSTED AN INSTAGRAM OF BOURDA HOLDG WHAT LOOKS TO BE A FAKE HEART ALONGSI THE PTN, “MY BLOODY VALENTE.”INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONAN EXTRAORDARY WOMANBOURDA’S RELATNSHIP WH ARGENTO ATTRACTED MORE MEDIA ATTENTN OCTOBER 2017, AFTER RONAN FARROW PUBLISHED A BOMBSHELL NEW YORKER EXPOSé ABOUT HARVEY WESTE. IN THE FEATURE, ARGENTO SPOKE ON THE RERD ABOUT HER OWN WESTE RAPE ALLEGATN, ADDG, “I KNOW HE HAS CSHED A LOT OF PEOPLE BEFORE. THAT’S WHY THIS STORY— MY SE, ’S TWENTY YEARS OLD, SOME OF THEM ARE OLR—HAS NEVER E OUT.” (WESTE HAS NIED ALL ALLEGATNS OF NONNSENSUAL SEX.)BOURDA RPOND BY POSTG A PHOTO OF ARGENTO GIVG A MERA THE MIDDLE FGER. “PROUD AS HELL,” HE WROTE.INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE TV PERSONALY SPOKE ABOUT ARGENTO AND HER STRENGTH DURG MULTIPLE TV TERVIEWS, CLUDG APPEARANC ON LATE NIGHT WH SETH MEYERS AND THE DAILY SHOW WH TREVOR NOAH. ON THE LATTER, BOURDA EXPLAED HOW ARGENTO SPIRED HIM TO BEE A #METOO SPOKPERSON.“I STARTED SPEAKG ABOUT OUT OF A SENSE OF REAL RAGE,” HE EXPLAED. “I’D LIKE TO SAY THAT I WAS ONLY ENLIGHTENED SOME WAY OR I’M AN ACTIVIST OR VIRTUO, BUT FACT, I HAVE TO BE HONT WH MYSELF. I MET ONE EXTRAORDARY WOMAN WH AN EXTRAORDARY AND PAFUL STORY, WHO TRODUCED ME TO A LOT OF OTHER WOMEN WH EXTRAORDARY STORI. AND SUDNLY WAS PERSONAL.”IN DECEMBER 2017, HE EVEN WROTE AN SAY FOR MEDIUM, TAKG RPONSIBILY FOR HIS OWN ACTNS OR ACTN OVER THE YEARS.“TO THE EXTENT WHICH MY WORK KCHEN CONFINTIAL CELEBRATED OR PROLONGED A CULTURE THAT ALLOWED THE KD OF GROTQUE BEHAVRS WE’RE HEARG ABOUT ALL TOO EQUENTLY IS SOMETHG I THK ABOUT DAILY, WH REAL REMORSE.”THE FOLLOWG YEAR, ARGENTO LIVERED A POWERFUL SPEECH AT THE CANN FILM FTIVAL ABOUT THE ALLEGED TOXIC BEHAVR PERMTED AT THE EVENT OVER THE YEARS.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSON“IN 1997, I WAS RAPED BY HARVEY WESTE HERE AT CANN. I WAS 21 YEARS OLD,” ARGENTO SAID ONSTAGE DURG THE CLOSG CEREMONY. “THIS FTIVAL WAS HIS HUNTG GROUND.”AFTERWARD, BOURDA TOLD INDIEWIRE, “FROM THE SEND SHE SAID SHE’D BEEN VED TO PRENT AN AWARD, I KNEW WOULD BE A NUCLEAR BOMB. I WAS SO PROUD OF HER. IT WAS ABSOLUTELY FEARLS TO WALK RIGHT TO THE LN’S N AND SAY WHAT SHE SAID, THE WAY SHE SAID . IT WAS AN CREDIBLY POWERFUL MOMENT, I THOUGHT. I AM HONORED TO KNOW SOMEONE WHO HAS THE STRENGTH AND FEARLSNS TO DO SOMETHG LIKE THAT.”IN ROADNNER, A LLEAGUE OF BOURDA’S SAYS, “HIS LOVE FOR HER WAS PLETELY PURE AND SAFE AND HELPFUL AND SUPPORTIVE. WHICH IS SENTIALLY WHAT HE WAS LOOKG FOR OM HER. AND I THK THAT TONY THOUGHT THAT THE WAY TO EARN HER TST WAS TO GO WH HIS WHOLE HEART.”BOURDA NTUED TO SPEAK PUBLICLY—TAKG RPONSIBILY FOR TOXIC MASCULY AND SPEAKG ANKLY ABOUT ALLEGATNS AGAST HIS IENDS. HE ALSO TOOK CELEBRI TO TASK ON TWTER FOR REMAG SILENT ABOUT WESTE, CLUDG DONNA KARAN AND MATT DAMON, AND, AN TERVIEW, SCRIBED HIS ATH FANTASY FOR WESTE.TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONIN ROADNNER, BOURDA’S SEND WIFE, OTTAVIA BIA, REVEALS THAT SHE IALLY THOUGHT BOURDA’S PUBLIC CSA “WAS VERY NOBLE, BUT TURNED TO THE POT THAT HE BEME OBSSED WH .”MERGG WORK WH PERSONAL LIFEIN ROADNNER, SEVERAL PARTS UNKNOWN CREW MEMBERS POT TO THE FILMG OF THE SHOW’S 2018 HONG KONG EPISO AS A BREAKG POT. UNEXPECTEDLY, THE SHOW’S LONGTIME DIRECTOR FELL ILL—AND BOURDA PHED FOR ARGENTO TO TAKE OVER DIRECTG DUTI. IN THE DOCUMENTARY, BEHD-THE-SCEN FOOTAGE OM THE EPISO SHOWS BOURDA SEEMGLY THRILLED AS ARGENTO TAK FILMG TO A NEW DIRECTN—TREATG THE EPISO AS IF IS A SCRIPTED PROJECT AND LLG CUT ON AN EMOTNAL NVERSATN BOURDA IS HAVG WH ASYLUM SEEKERS. THE PARTS UNKNOWN CREW, MEANWHILE, WAS STUNNED THAT BOURDA WOULD SO QUICKLY TURN ON THE METHOD AND RHYTHM THE TEAM HAD PERFECTED.BOURDA ALSO FIRED HIS LONGTIME CEMATOGRAPHER ZACH ZAMBONI AFTER THE EMMY-WNG PARTS UNKNOWN TEAM MEMBER DISAGREED WH ARGENTO. AS PARTS UNKNOWN PRODUCER HELEN CHO TOLD NEVILLE, “WHEN TONY FIRED ZACH, WAS A HUGE RED FLAG. BEE IF HE’S GOG TO DO THAT TO SOMEONE LIKE HIM, ANYONE THE NER CIRCLE IS SENTIALLY DISPOSABLE.”DEEPENG THE WOUNDS WH HIS PARTS UNKNOWN TEAM, BOURDA POSTED A PHOTO OF HIMSELF WH ARGENTO AND ZAMBONI’S REPLACEMENT, CEMATOGRAPHER CHRISTOPHER DOYLE, ON INSTAGRAM. IN THE PTN, HE REFERRED TO THE GROUP AS “THE DREAM TEAM.”INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.BY THAT POT, BOURDA HAD MA 11 SEASONS OF PARTS UNKNOWN WH A TIGHT-KN CREW. BUT HE RHAPSODIZED THE MAKG OF THE HONG KONG EPISO AS “THE MOST TENSELY SATISFYG EXPERIENCE OF MY PROFSNAL LIFE AND A SHOW THAT I AM GIDDILY, ECSTATILLY PROUD OF” AN SAY FOR THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER THAT WAS PUBLISHED DAYS BEFORE HIS SUICI. “I PLAN TO GET A DU KEFENG TATTOO, THE ORIGAL MANDAR, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,” BOURDA SAID, REFERRG TO THE MANDAR NAME FOR DOYLE. “AS YOU MIGHT HAVE GUSED, I ALREADY HAVE AN ASIA ARGENTO TATTOO.”MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONTHE FAL ACTIN JUNE 2018, BOURDA WAS FILMG AN EPISO OF PARTS UNKNOWN STRASBOURG, FRANCE WHEN A TABLOID PRTED PHOTOS SUGGTG THAT ARGENTO WAS CHEATG ON HIM WH A FRENCH REPORTER. TWO SETS OF PHOTOS CIRCULATED—ONE SHOWG ARGENTO DANCG A ROMAN RTRANT WH THE JOURNALIST. (AFTER BOURDA’S SUICI, THE PAPARAZZO WHO TOOK THE PHOTOS, RO BARILLARI, SAID HE REGRETTED TAKG THE PICTUR AND SELLG THEM TO THE ITALIAN MAGAZE CHI. “A PICTURE IS NOT WORTH A LIFE,” BARILLARI SAID 2018. “IF THAT SHOT TRIGGERED SUICI…THIS WOULD MAKE ME SUFFER.”)ANOTHER SET OF PHOTOS, TAKEN BY AGOSTO FAB, SHOW ARGENTO AND THE REPORTER HOLDG HANDS AND HUGGG ON THE STREETS OF ROME. PER PAGE SIX, FAB TOOK THE PHOTOS OFF THE MARKET SHORTLY AFTER BOURDA’S SUICI.IN ROADNNER, ONE PARTS UNKNOWN WORKER RELLS BOURDA BEG FUR ABOUT THE PICTUR. HIS LAST MUNITN WH THE OUTSI WORLD WAS SEEMGLY AN INSTAGRAM STORY BOURDA PUBLISHED SHOWG THE TLE SEQUENCE OM THE 1970 FILM VLENT CY, A REVENGE FILM THAT BEGS WH PAPARAZZI PHOTOS OF A WOMAN CHEATG ON HER HBAND.IN ROADNNER, PARTS UNKNOWN PRODUCER CHO THEORIZ THAT THE STORY WAS HIS FAL MSAGE: “I MEAN, ’S ALL THERE.”BOURDA’S BROTHER CHRIS BOURDA TELLS NEVILLE, “MY BROTHER MTED SUICI. I THK IF SOMEONE ELSE HAD BEEN HIS ROOM, MIGHT HAVE BEEN A MURR AND NOT A SUICI. I THK HE WAS JT HAVG EXPLOSIVE ANGER AND THIS WAS THE ONLY WAY OUT.”IN AN TERVIEW WH ROLLG STONE, NEVILLE SAID BOURDA’S CISN TO TAKE HIS OWN LIFE WAS “A VERY UNPREMEDATED ACT. HE WAS GIVG NOT ON EDS THAT AFTERNOON. HE WAS MAKG LUNCH RERVATNS WH A IEND FOR THE NEXT WEEK. PEOPLE SAY THAT WHEN PEOPLE GO TO A SUICIDAL EPISO, THEY LAST ABOUT 90 MUT. I JT THK HE WAS A REMOTE PART OF THE WORLD, BY HIMSELF, AND HE HAD A PRSIVE MOMENT AND JT DID SOMETHG THAT…I KNOW HE HAD THOSE THOUGHTS BEFORE. HE WROTE ABOUT . HE HAD BEEN TALKG ABOUT [KILLG HIMSELF] FOREVER. I JT DON’T THK ANYBODY EVER THOUGHT HE WOULD ACTUALLY DO .”THE AFTERMATHTWO MONTHS AFTER BOURDA’S SUICI, THE NEW YORK TIM REPORTED THAT ARGENTO ORDATED A PAYMENT OF $380,000 TO AN ACTOR, JIMMY BENT, ACCG HER OF SEXUAL ASSLT. ARGENTO RPOND BY NYG ANY SEXUAL NTACT WH HER ACCER, BUT SAID THAT HER LATE BOYIEND BOURDA HAD PAID OFF HER ACCER.“BENT KNEW MY BOYIEND, ANTHONY BOURDA, WAS A MAN OF GREAT PERCEIVED WEALTH AND HAD HIS OWN REPUTATN AS A BELOVED PUBLIC FIGURE TO PROTECT,” ARGENTO SAID HER STATEMENT. “ANTONY [SIC] SISTED THE MATTER BE HANDLED PRIVATELY AND THIS WAS ALSO WHAT BENT WANTED. ANTHONY WAS AAID OF THE POSSIBLE NEGATIVE PUBLICY THAT SUCH PERSON, WHOM HE NSIRED DANGERO, ULD HAVE BROUGHT UPON . WE CID TO AL PASSNATELY WH BENT’S MAND FOR HELP AND GIVE TO HIM.”MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONSHORTLY AFTER THE NEW YORK TIM REPORT, ARGENTO WAS FIRED OM HER JOB AS A JUDGE ON X FACTOR ITALY.ARGENTO’S RPONSEARGENTO FIRST MENTED ON BOURDA’S SUICI VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. “ANTHONY GAVE ALL OF HIMSELF EVERYTHG THAT HE DID,” SHE WROTE. “HIS BRILLIANT, FEARLS SPIR TOUCHED AND SPIRED SO MANY, AND HIS GENEROSY KNEW NO BOUNDS. HE WAS MY LOVE, MY ROCK, MY PROTECTOR. I AM BEYOND VASTATED. MY THOUGHTS ARE WH HIS FAY. I WOULD ASK THAT YOU RPECT THEIR PRIVACY AND ME.”MONTHS AFTER THE SUICI, ARGENTO GAVE A TEARFUL TERVIEW ON-MERA TO THE DAILY MAIL: “PEOPLE SAY I MURRED HIM. THEY SAY I KILLED HIM,” ARGENTO SAID. “I UNRSTAND THAT THE WORLD NEEDS TO FD A REASON. I WOULD LIKE TO FD A REASON TOO. I DON’T HAVE . MAYBE I WOULD FEEL SOME SOLACE THKG THERE WAS SOMETHG THAT HAPPENED.… I UNRSTAND THAT PEOPLE WANTED TO BLAME ME BEE HE WAS SO EPLY LOVED AND HE ENTERED THE HEARTS OF SO MANY PEOPLE, TO THEIR LIV, TO THEIR HEARTS.“SO A WAY I UNRSTAND THAT THEY [WANT TO] SEE ME AS THE NEGATIVE PERSON, THE STROYER.”ARGENTO ADMTED THAT SHE CHEATED ON BOURDA, BUT ADD, “HE CHEATED ON ME TOO. IT WASN’T A PROBLEM FOR .… HE WAS A MAN WHO TRAVELED 265 DAYS A YEAR, WHEN WE SAW EACH OTHER, WE TOOK REALLY GREAT PLEASURE EACH OTHER’S PANY. BUT WE ARE NOT CHILDREN. WE ARE GROWN UPS.… ANTHONY WAS 62 [HIS SUICI WAS SHORTLY BEFORE HIS 62ND BIRTHDAY]. I WAS 42.… WE HAD LIV, WE HAD WIV AND HBANDS, WE HAD CHILDREN. I NNOT THK OF ANTHONY AS SOMEBODY WHO WOULD DO AN EXTREME GTURE LIKE THIS FOR SOMETHG LIKE THAT.”ABOUT THREE YEARS LATER, ARGENTO IS STILL THKG OF BOURDA. LAST MONTH, THE ACTOR POSTED AN INSTAGRAM HOMAGE TO HER LATE BOYIEND.INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSON“CELEBRATG THE MOST EXTRAORDARY MAN I HAVE EVER MET,” ARGENTO WROTE. “MISSG YOU EVERY DAY. CHERISHG EACH MOMENT WE SHARED OUR LIFE TOGETHER. I FEEL YOUR PRENCE AND YOUR STRENGTH. YOU SHE SO BRIGHT WH ME. I LOVE YOU MY A. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ❤️”ACRDG TO A REPRENTATIVE FOR ARGENTO, THE ACTOR HAS NOT YET SEEN ROADNNER.“A PRICE TO PAY”SPEAKG TO ROLLG STONE, NEVILLE FURTHER EXPLAED, “I DO THK I ACCURATELY PORTRAY WHAT HAPPENED. I WANT TO BE CLEAR: I DON’T THK ASIA MA TONY KILL HIMSELF—SOMEBODY EVEN SAYS THAT THE FILM. SHE WAS A FIERY CHARACTER, AND TONY WAS LOOKG FOR THAT. HE SAYS [TO SOMEONE] THE FILM, ‘I’M DATG A CRAZY ITALIAN ACTRS, AND ’S NOT GOG TO END WELL.’ THAT WAS SOMETHG HE TOLD A LOT OF PEOPLE.”NEVILLE SAID HE NSIRED CLUDG MORE ARGENTO. “I LOOKED AT EVERYTHG THAT SHE HAD SAID PUBLICLY THE WAKE OF HIS ATH, CLUDG AN TOBGRAPHY SHE PUBLISHED ITALY, AND TERVIEWS SHE GAVE ENGLAND,” NEVILLE EXPLAED. “IT’S ALL A VERSN OF THE SAME THG, WHICH IS KD OF, ‘PEOPLE DON’T UNRSTAND ME AND OUR RELATNSHIP. I LOVED HIM.’ I JT FELT LIKE I WAS GOG TO END UP THIS SHE-SAID/HE-SAID LIGATG WHAT HAPPENED AND WHO WAS RIGHT. IT WAS NARRATIVE QUICKSAND.”NEVILLE ALSO SAID THAT SPEAKG TO ARGENTO FOR THE FILM MIGHT HAVE RISKED THE TST HE HAD BUILT WH THE PEOPLE BOURDA’S NER CIRCLE WHO HAD ALREADY SPOKEN SO NDIDLY ABOUT THE LATE TV PERSONALY.“I PRETTY MUCH KNOW WHAT SHE’D SAY, WHICH IS THAT SHE LOVED HIM, AND FELT MISREPRENTED BY PEOPLE,” NEVILLE TOLD INDIEWIRE. “I ALSO KNEW, HONTLY, THAT TO TERVIEW HER, YOU WOULD CUR A LOT OF BAD BLOOD OM LOTS OF PEOPLE TONY’S LIFE. SO THERE WAS A PRICE TO PAY TOO.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— AN EXCLIVE DEEP DIVE INTO PETER JACKSON’S THE BEATL: GET BACK— JOSEPH FIENN ON HIS HANDMAID’S TALE FATE— THE 10 BT MOVI OF 2021 (SO FAR)— JANE LEVY ON THE ZOEY’S EXTRAORDARY PLAYLIST CANCELLATN— IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE?— HOW PHYSIL GOT UNR ROSE BYRNE’S SK— WHAT IS BO BURNHAM’S INSI REALLY TRYG TO SAY?— SIMU LIU IS READY TO TAKE ON MARVEL— FROM THE ARCHIVE: JACKIE AND JOAN COLLS, QUEENS OF THE ROAD— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”JULIE MILLER
EX-FOX AND CBS ANCHOR JIM WALKER HAS NEW JOB AS A GAY PORN STAR
Is Jimmy Bent Gay?
Former Fox and CBS anchor has a new job as a gay porn star and says there's much ls prsure his current le of work Jim Walker left his job as a news anchor 2013, after 23 yearsHe opted for a change of reer, reventg himself as Dallas SteeleThe 44-year-old h back at trolls and said he don't plan to 'go quietly to the night'He has had implants his backsi, which he said were paid for by a client Published: 08:59 BST, 21 October 2016 | Updated: 17:01 BST, 21 October 2016. For more than two s Jim Walker was a clean-cut anchor who read the news on Fox, NBC and was nomated for two regnal Emmys and beme known for his lm and thorative livery of the after 23 years he left that all behd him to embark on a pletely different reer - reventg himself as Dallas Steele, a gay porn actor wh dozens of blue movi to his and now: For 23 years Walker was a news reporter and anchor, but when he left the dtry 2013 he revented himself as a gay porn actor The 44-year-old h back at trolls, sayg he 'feels bad for them', and vowed never to 'go quietly to the night'The 44-year-old said he turned his back on the news works bee of the immense prsure to get has had implants his backsi, which he said were paid for by an rt client, and says he has no regrets. The actor said an terview: 'I’m much more succsful every measure than I ever was before'He was a well-known news anchor and reporter for more than 20 years before makg the move to gay porn movi'It was a good thg gettg released om my ntract, ' he move has, however, ma him a target for ter told reporters he 'feels bad' for those who cricize him - and those who brand the change reer a 'midlife crisis' - statg: 'They’ve obvly cid at some pot that there are limatns about who you n be and what you n do once you h 40.
LOOKG BACK ON ANTHONY BOURDA AND ASIA ARGENTO’S ROLLER-COASTER ROMANCEA EP DIVE TO THE RELATNSHIP SO PLITED THAT ROADNNER FILMMAKER MAN NEVILLE EMED “NARRATIVE QUICKSAND.”BY JULIE MILLERJULY 16, 2021PHOTO ILLTRATN BY QUTON MCMILLAN. IMAGE BY GETTY.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHEN MAN NEVILLE WAS MAKG ROADNNER, HIS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDA, THE OSR-WNG FILMMAKER SPOKE TO MANY BOURDA’S NER CIRCLE ABOUT THE TV PERSONALY’S FAL MONTHS—SPECIFILLY ABOUT BOURDA’S ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP WH THE ITALIAN ACTOR ASIA ARGENTO.MICHAEL STEED, A PARTS UNKNOWN DIRECTOR, RELLED HOW BOURDA MET ARGENTO 2016 WHILE FILMG A SEASON-EIGHT EPISO SET HER HOME TOWN OF ROME. AT THE TIME, BOURDA WAS REBOUNDG OM HIS SEND DIVORCE, AND SEEMED TO IMMEDIATELY FALL FOR ARGENTO, WHO WAS ABOUT 20 YEARS HIS JUNR.“WHEN TONY MET ASIA, HE WAS LIKE, ‘SHE’S THE BT. MY GOD, SHE’S SO GREAT.’ YOU KNOW, LIKE HIGH SCHOOL WHEN YOU GET LAID FOR THE FIRST TIME,” STEED SAYS THE DOCUMENTARY. THE RELATNSHIP QUICKLY LATED, WH THE CHEF TURNED TV PERSONALY GHG ABOUT ARGENTO TERVIEWS AND ON INSTAGRAM, PUBLICLY CHAMPNG HER AS SHE EMERGED AS A #METOO LEAR, PRIVATELY PAYG OFF ARGENTO’S OWN ACCER, AND EVEN PHG FOR HIS GIRLIEND TO DIRECT AN EPISO OF PARTS UNKNOWN WHEN ANOTHER DIRECTOR FELL ILL. ANOTHER PARTS UNKNOWN WORKER THEORIZ THAT BOURDA, A REVERG HERO ADDICT, “TURN[ED] A LIFELONG ADDICTIVE PERSONALY TO ANOTHER PERSON, AND THAT WAS EXTREMELY DANGERO.”THOUGH THE FAL ACT OF ROADNNER FEATUR VAR IENDS AND FAY MEMBERS SPEAKG ABOUT ARGENTO’S HOLD OVER BOURDA, AND THE TABLOID PHOTOS THAT SOME SUGGT MAY HAVE TALYZED HIS SUICI, NEVILLE SAID THAT HE ACTUALLY PARED DOWN VERAGE OF THE ROMANCE.“THE ASIA STORY IS SANELY PLITED,” SAID NEVILLE, WHO DID NOT TERVIEW ARGENTO FOR HIS DOCUMENTARY. “AND IF YOU GO AND READ ALL THE NEWS STORI, AND KD OF GO TO , EVERY QUTN YOU BRG UP…BRGS UP 10 MORE QUTNS.… WHAT I CLUD WAS A ACTN OF WHAT WAS THERE. SO IF PEOPLE THK THERE’S A LOT, LET ME TELL YOU, THERE IS VERY LTLE PARED TO WHAT’S THERE.… AND I THK I WAS VERY FAIR WH HAVG SEEN ALL THE FACTS. I’M VERY FORTABLE WH WHAT I DID.”AHEAD, AN EFFORT TO UNRSTAND THE PLITED NATURE OF THE RELATNSHIP THAT ROADNNER OUTL, WE LOOK BACK AT BOURDA AND ARGENTO’S ILL-FATED ROMANCE.“LIKE A TEENAGE BOY”IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG FOR BOURDA TO VELOP FEELGS FOR ARGENTO. AFTER FILMG THE ROME EPISO OF PARTS UNKNOWN, BOURDA GHED TO CNN:THE EPISO WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE—OR BE ANYTHG LIKE IS WHOUT THE TLY MAGNIFICENT ASIA ARGENTO.… SHE TOLD ABOUT “STORNARO,” THE BAWDY, PROFANE ROMAN FOLK SONGS WE FEATURE AT VAR TIM DURG THE EPISO. SHE TRODUCED TO THE BATSH CRAZY BOXG CLUB WHERE WE ATE PASTA RGSI AS GLADIATORS POUND ONE ANOTHER AND THE CROWD HOOTED AND ROARED. SHE ALLOWED TO SHOOT AT HER FAVORE LTLE RTRANTS, WHERE SHE TAK HER KIDS ON THE WEEKENDS FOR HOMEMA FETTUCCE AND POLPETTI.… SHE ARRANGED FOR HER SISTER FRE TO OK FOR ME AT HER HOME—WH HER LIGHTFUL CHILDREN, DGHTER ANA AND SON NILA (WHO PRETTY MUCH STEALS THE SHOW AS HE STGGL WH HIS TRIPE).… BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, SHE WAS HERSELF. ALWAYS HONT, PLETELY UNSPARG. IF YOU ASK ASIA A QUTN, YOU ARE GOG TO GET AN ANSWER—AND SHE DON’T RE IF REFLECTS BADLY ON YOU—OR ON HERSELF.… ASIA HAS NEVER GIVEN A FUCK. HER ADMISSN THAT SHE NEVER VOT IS BOTH TERRIBLE AND TE—AND ABOUT AS CLOSE TO HOME AS GETS. THE LAST WORD, APPROPRIATELY, IS HERS.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONIN FEBARY 2017, PAGE SIX REPORTED THAT THE TWO HAD “FALLEN LOVE.” BOURDA POSTED PHOTOS OF HER ON INSTAGRAM ALONGSI PTNS LIKE, “JT A PERFECT DAY…YOU MA ME FET MYSELF.”INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.BOURDA TOLD PEOPLE HE WAS “HAPPIER FOR SURE” WH ARGENTO HIS LIFE. “IT’S NICE TO BE WH SOMEBODY WHO I SEE AS A PEER.” DURG A FAL TERVIEW WH THE MAGAZE, HE SAID HE WAS “HAPPY WAYS THAT I HAVE NOT BEEN MEMORY” AND “HAPPY WAYS I DIDN’T THK I EVER WOULD BE, FOR SURE.” HE ATTRIBUTED THOSE FEELGS TO “SOMEBODY REALLY STRONG”—SEEMGLY A REFERENCE TO ARGENTO.THOUGH BOURDA DID NOT WANT TO MARRY AGA, HE SAID THAT HE’D BE OPEN TO MOVG WH HER.“LOOK, I LIKE BEG AROUND HER AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE,” BOURDA TOLD PEOPLE. “SHE’S LIKE ME, A LOT OF WAYS. WE’VE BOTH BEEN MARRIED…. SO THAT’S NOT SOMETHG THAT’S EVER, EVER GOG TO HAPPEN. THAT’S THE ATH OF EVERYTHG. I THK WE BOTH RPECT EACH OTHER’S WORK. NOBODY’S EVER GOG TO SAY, ‘OH, BUT YOU PROMISED WE WERE GOG TO GO TO THE BEACH.’ NO, YOU KNOW, YOU GET A GIG, THAT’S . THAT’S . NOTHG ELSE MATTERS. WORK FIRST.”SHORTLY AFTER BOURDA’S SUICI, A IEND TOLD THE MAGAZE, “LIKE A TEENAGE BOY, [HE WAS] JT ABSOLUTELY LOVTCK. HE WOULD HAVE DONE ANYTHG FOR HER, AND THAT WAS A LTLE RED FLAG FOR SOME OF HIS IENDS.”ARGENTO SHARED HER FEELGS ABOUT BOURDA AS WELL, BUT NOT AS PROLIFILLY. IN FEBARY 2020, SHE POSTED AN INSTAGRAM OF BOURDA HOLDG WHAT LOOKS TO BE A FAKE HEART ALONGSI THE PTN, “MY BLOODY VALENTE.”INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONAN EXTRAORDARY WOMANBOURDA’S RELATNSHIP WH ARGENTO ATTRACTED MORE MEDIA ATTENTN OCTOBER 2017, AFTER RONAN FARROW PUBLISHED A BOMBSHELL NEW YORKER EXPOSé ABOUT HARVEY WESTE. IN THE FEATURE, ARGENTO SPOKE ON THE RERD ABOUT HER OWN WESTE RAPE ALLEGATN, ADDG, “I KNOW HE HAS CSHED A LOT OF PEOPLE BEFORE. THAT’S WHY THIS STORY— MY SE, ’S TWENTY YEARS OLD, SOME OF THEM ARE OLR—HAS NEVER E OUT.” (WESTE HAS NIED ALL ALLEGATNS OF NONNSENSUAL SEX.)BOURDA RPOND BY POSTG A PHOTO OF ARGENTO GIVG A MERA THE MIDDLE FGER. “PROUD AS HELL,” HE WROTE.INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE TV PERSONALY SPOKE ABOUT ARGENTO AND HER STRENGTH DURG MULTIPLE TV TERVIEWS, CLUDG APPEARANC ON LATE NIGHT WH SETH MEYERS AND THE DAILY SHOW WH TREVOR NOAH. ON THE LATTER, BOURDA EXPLAED HOW ARGENTO SPIRED HIM TO BEE A #METOO SPOKPERSON.“I STARTED SPEAKG ABOUT OUT OF A SENSE OF REAL RAGE,” HE EXPLAED. “I’D LIKE TO SAY THAT I WAS ONLY ENLIGHTENED SOME WAY OR I’M AN ACTIVIST OR VIRTUO, BUT FACT, I HAVE TO BE HONT WH MYSELF. I MET ONE EXTRAORDARY WOMAN WH AN EXTRAORDARY AND PAFUL STORY, WHO TRODUCED ME TO A LOT OF OTHER WOMEN WH EXTRAORDARY STORI. AND SUDNLY WAS PERSONAL.”IN DECEMBER 2017, HE EVEN WROTE AN SAY FOR MEDIUM, TAKG RPONSIBILY FOR HIS OWN ACTNS OR ACTN OVER THE YEARS.“TO THE EXTENT WHICH MY WORK KCHEN CONFINTIAL CELEBRATED OR PROLONGED A CULTURE THAT ALLOWED THE KD OF GROTQUE BEHAVRS WE’RE HEARG ABOUT ALL TOO EQUENTLY IS SOMETHG I THK ABOUT DAILY, WH REAL REMORSE.”THE FOLLOWG YEAR, ARGENTO LIVERED A POWERFUL SPEECH AT THE CANN FILM FTIVAL ABOUT THE ALLEGED TOXIC BEHAVR PERMTED AT THE EVENT OVER THE YEARS.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSON“IN 1997, I WAS RAPED BY HARVEY WESTE HERE AT CANN. I WAS 21 YEARS OLD,” ARGENTO SAID ONSTAGE DURG THE CLOSG CEREMONY. “THIS FTIVAL WAS HIS HUNTG GROUND.”AFTERWARD, BOURDA TOLD INDIEWIRE, “FROM THE SEND SHE SAID SHE’D BEEN VED TO PRENT AN AWARD, I KNEW WOULD BE A NUCLEAR BOMB. I WAS SO PROUD OF HER. IT WAS ABSOLUTELY FEARLS TO WALK RIGHT TO THE LN’S N AND SAY WHAT SHE SAID, THE WAY SHE SAID . IT WAS AN CREDIBLY POWERFUL MOMENT, I THOUGHT. I AM HONORED TO KNOW SOMEONE WHO HAS THE STRENGTH AND FEARLSNS TO DO SOMETHG LIKE THAT.”IN ROADNNER, A LLEAGUE OF BOURDA’S SAYS, “HIS LOVE FOR HER WAS PLETELY PURE AND SAFE AND HELPFUL AND SUPPORTIVE. WHICH IS SENTIALLY WHAT HE WAS LOOKG FOR OM HER. AND I THK THAT TONY THOUGHT THAT THE WAY TO EARN HER TST WAS TO GO WH HIS WHOLE HEART.”BOURDA NTUED TO SPEAK PUBLICLY—TAKG RPONSIBILY FOR TOXIC MASCULY AND SPEAKG ANKLY ABOUT ALLEGATNS AGAST HIS IENDS. HE ALSO TOOK CELEBRI TO TASK ON TWTER FOR REMAG SILENT ABOUT WESTE, CLUDG DONNA KARAN AND MATT DAMON, AND, AN TERVIEW, SCRIBED HIS ATH FANTASY FOR WESTE.TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONIN ROADNNER, BOURDA’S SEND WIFE, OTTAVIA BIA, REVEALS THAT SHE IALLY THOUGHT BOURDA’S PUBLIC CSA “WAS VERY NOBLE, BUT TURNED TO THE POT THAT HE BEME OBSSED WH .”MERGG WORK WH PERSONAL LIFEIN ROADNNER, SEVERAL PARTS UNKNOWN CREW MEMBERS POT TO THE FILMG OF THE SHOW’S 2018 HONG KONG EPISO AS A BREAKG POT. UNEXPECTEDLY, THE SHOW’S LONGTIME DIRECTOR FELL ILL—AND BOURDA PHED FOR ARGENTO TO TAKE OVER DIRECTG DUTI. IN THE DOCUMENTARY, BEHD-THE-SCEN FOOTAGE OM THE EPISO SHOWS BOURDA SEEMGLY THRILLED AS ARGENTO TAK FILMG TO A NEW DIRECTN—TREATG THE EPISO AS IF IS A SCRIPTED PROJECT AND LLG CUT ON AN EMOTNAL NVERSATN BOURDA IS HAVG WH ASYLUM SEEKERS. THE PARTS UNKNOWN CREW, MEANWHILE, WAS STUNNED THAT BOURDA WOULD SO QUICKLY TURN ON THE METHOD AND RHYTHM THE TEAM HAD PERFECTED.BOURDA ALSO FIRED HIS LONGTIME CEMATOGRAPHER ZACH ZAMBONI AFTER THE EMMY-WNG PARTS UNKNOWN TEAM MEMBER DISAGREED WH ARGENTO. AS PARTS UNKNOWN PRODUCER HELEN CHO TOLD NEVILLE, “WHEN TONY FIRED ZACH, WAS A HUGE RED FLAG. BEE IF HE’S GOG TO DO THAT TO SOMEONE LIKE HIM, ANYONE THE NER CIRCLE IS SENTIALLY DISPOSABLE.”DEEPENG THE WOUNDS WH HIS PARTS UNKNOWN TEAM, BOURDA POSTED A PHOTO OF HIMSELF WH ARGENTO AND ZAMBONI’S REPLACEMENT, CEMATOGRAPHER CHRISTOPHER DOYLE, ON INSTAGRAM. IN THE PTN, HE REFERRED TO THE GROUP AS “THE DREAM TEAM.”INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.BY THAT POT, BOURDA HAD MA 11 SEASONS OF PARTS UNKNOWN WH A TIGHT-KN CREW. BUT HE RHAPSODIZED THE MAKG OF THE HONG KONG EPISO AS “THE MOST TENSELY SATISFYG EXPERIENCE OF MY PROFSNAL LIFE AND A SHOW THAT I AM GIDDILY, ECSTATILLY PROUD OF” AN SAY FOR THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER THAT WAS PUBLISHED DAYS BEFORE HIS SUICI. “I PLAN TO GET A DU KEFENG TATTOO, THE ORIGAL MANDAR, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,” BOURDA SAID, REFERRG TO THE MANDAR NAME FOR DOYLE. “AS YOU MIGHT HAVE GUSED, I ALREADY HAVE AN ASIA ARGENTO TATTOO.”MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONTHE FAL ACTIN JUNE 2018, BOURDA WAS FILMG AN EPISO OF PARTS UNKNOWN STRASBOURG, FRANCE WHEN A TABLOID PRTED PHOTOS SUGGTG THAT ARGENTO WAS CHEATG ON HIM WH A FRENCH REPORTER. TWO SETS OF PHOTOS CIRCULATED—ONE SHOWG ARGENTO DANCG A ROMAN RTRANT WH THE JOURNALIST. (AFTER BOURDA’S SUICI, THE PAPARAZZO WHO TOOK THE PHOTOS, RO BARILLARI, SAID HE REGRETTED TAKG THE PICTUR AND SELLG THEM TO THE ITALIAN MAGAZE CHI. “A PICTURE IS NOT WORTH A LIFE,” BARILLARI SAID 2018. “IF THAT SHOT TRIGGERED SUICI…THIS WOULD MAKE ME SUFFER.”)ANOTHER SET OF PHOTOS, TAKEN BY AGOSTO FAB, SHOW ARGENTO AND THE REPORTER HOLDG HANDS AND HUGGG ON THE STREETS OF ROME. PER PAGE SIX, FAB TOOK THE PHOTOS OFF THE MARKET SHORTLY AFTER BOURDA’S SUICI.IN ROADNNER, ONE PARTS UNKNOWN WORKER RELLS BOURDA BEG FUR ABOUT THE PICTUR. HIS LAST MUNITN WH THE OUTSI WORLD WAS SEEMGLY AN INSTAGRAM STORY BOURDA PUBLISHED SHOWG THE TLE SEQUENCE OM THE 1970 FILM VLENT CY, A REVENGE FILM THAT BEGS WH PAPARAZZI PHOTOS OF A WOMAN CHEATG ON HER HBAND.IN ROADNNER, PARTS UNKNOWN PRODUCER CHO THEORIZ THAT THE STORY WAS HIS FAL MSAGE: “I MEAN, ’S ALL THERE.”BOURDA’S BROTHER CHRIS BOURDA TELLS NEVILLE, “MY BROTHER MTED SUICI. I THK IF SOMEONE ELSE HAD BEEN HIS ROOM, MIGHT HAVE BEEN A MURR AND NOT A SUICI. I THK HE WAS JT HAVG EXPLOSIVE ANGER AND THIS WAS THE ONLY WAY OUT.”IN AN TERVIEW WH ROLLG STONE, NEVILLE SAID BOURDA’S CISN TO TAKE HIS OWN LIFE WAS “A VERY UNPREMEDATED ACT. HE WAS GIVG NOT ON EDS THAT AFTERNOON. HE WAS MAKG LUNCH RERVATNS WH A IEND FOR THE NEXT WEEK. PEOPLE SAY THAT WHEN PEOPLE GO TO A SUICIDAL EPISO, THEY LAST ABOUT 90 MUT. I JT THK HE WAS A REMOTE PART OF THE WORLD, BY HIMSELF, AND HE HAD A PRSIVE MOMENT AND JT DID SOMETHG THAT…I KNOW HE HAD THOSE THOUGHTS BEFORE. HE WROTE ABOUT . HE HAD BEEN TALKG ABOUT [KILLG HIMSELF] FOREVER. I JT DON’T THK ANYBODY EVER THOUGHT HE WOULD ACTUALLY DO .”THE AFTERMATHTWO MONTHS AFTER BOURDA’S SUICI, THE NEW YORK TIM REPORTED THAT ARGENTO ORDATED A PAYMENT OF $380,000 TO AN ACTOR, JIMMY BENT, ACCG HER OF SEXUAL ASSLT. ARGENTO RPOND BY NYG ANY SEXUAL NTACT WH HER ACCER, BUT SAID THAT HER LATE BOYIEND BOURDA HAD PAID OFF HER ACCER.“BENT KNEW MY BOYIEND, ANTHONY BOURDA, WAS A MAN OF GREAT PERCEIVED WEALTH AND HAD HIS OWN REPUTATN AS A BELOVED PUBLIC FIGURE TO PROTECT,” ARGENTO SAID HER STATEMENT. “ANTONY [SIC] SISTED THE MATTER BE HANDLED PRIVATELY AND THIS WAS ALSO WHAT BENT WANTED. ANTHONY WAS AAID OF THE POSSIBLE NEGATIVE PUBLICY THAT SUCH PERSON, WHOM HE NSIRED DANGERO, ULD HAVE BROUGHT UPON . WE CID TO AL PASSNATELY WH BENT’S MAND FOR HELP AND GIVE TO HIM.”MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONSHORTLY AFTER THE NEW YORK TIM REPORT, ARGENTO WAS FIRED OM HER JOB AS A JUDGE ON X FACTOR ITALY.ARGENTO’S RPONSEARGENTO FIRST MENTED ON BOURDA’S SUICI VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. “ANTHONY GAVE ALL OF HIMSELF EVERYTHG THAT HE DID,” SHE WROTE. “HIS BRILLIANT, FEARLS SPIR TOUCHED AND SPIRED SO MANY, AND HIS GENEROSY KNEW NO BOUNDS. HE WAS MY LOVE, MY ROCK, MY PROTECTOR. I AM BEYOND VASTATED. MY THOUGHTS ARE WH HIS FAY. I WOULD ASK THAT YOU RPECT THEIR PRIVACY AND ME.”MONTHS AFTER THE SUICI, ARGENTO GAVE A TEARFUL TERVIEW ON-MERA TO THE DAILY MAIL: “PEOPLE SAY I MURRED HIM. THEY SAY I KILLED HIM,” ARGENTO SAID. “I UNRSTAND THAT THE WORLD NEEDS TO FD A REASON. I WOULD LIKE TO FD A REASON TOO. I DON’T HAVE . MAYBE I WOULD FEEL SOME SOLACE THKG THERE WAS SOMETHG THAT HAPPENED.… I UNRSTAND THAT PEOPLE WANTED TO BLAME ME BEE HE WAS SO EPLY LOVED AND HE ENTERED THE HEARTS OF SO MANY PEOPLE, TO THEIR LIV, TO THEIR HEARTS.“SO A WAY I UNRSTAND THAT THEY [WANT TO] SEE ME AS THE NEGATIVE PERSON, THE STROYER.”ARGENTO ADMTED THAT SHE CHEATED ON BOURDA, BUT ADD, “HE CHEATED ON ME TOO. IT WASN’T A PROBLEM FOR .… HE WAS A MAN WHO TRAVELED 265 DAYS A YEAR, WHEN WE SAW EACH OTHER, WE TOOK REALLY GREAT PLEASURE EACH OTHER’S PANY. BUT WE ARE NOT CHILDREN. WE ARE GROWN UPS.… ANTHONY WAS 62 [HIS SUICI WAS SHORTLY BEFORE HIS 62ND BIRTHDAY]. I WAS 42.… WE HAD LIV, WE HAD WIV AND HBANDS, WE HAD CHILDREN. I NNOT THK OF ANTHONY AS SOMEBODY WHO WOULD DO AN EXTREME GTURE LIKE THIS FOR SOMETHG LIKE THAT.”ABOUT THREE YEARS LATER, ARGENTO IS STILL THKG OF BOURDA. LAST MONTH, THE ACTOR POSTED AN INSTAGRAM HOMAGE TO HER LATE BOYIEND.INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSON“CELEBRATG THE MOST EXTRAORDARY MAN I HAVE EVER MET,” ARGENTO WROTE. “MISSG YOU EVERY DAY. CHERISHG EACH MOMENT WE SHARED OUR LIFE TOGETHER. I FEEL YOUR PRENCE AND YOUR STRENGTH. YOU SHE SO BRIGHT WH ME. I LOVE YOU MY A. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ❤️”ACRDG TO A REPRENTATIVE FOR ARGENTO, THE ACTOR HAS NOT YET SEEN ROADNNER.“A PRICE TO PAY”SPEAKG TO ROLLG STONE, NEVILLE FURTHER EXPLAED, “I DO THK I ACCURATELY PORTRAY WHAT HAPPENED. I WANT TO BE CLEAR: I DON’T THK ASIA MA TONY KILL HIMSELF—SOMEBODY EVEN SAYS THAT THE FILM. SHE WAS A FIERY CHARACTER, AND TONY WAS LOOKG FOR THAT. HE SAYS [TO SOMEONE] THE FILM, ‘I’M DATG A CRAZY ITALIAN ACTRS, AND ’S NOT GOG TO END WELL.’ THAT WAS SOMETHG HE TOLD A LOT OF PEOPLE.”NEVILLE SAID HE NSIRED CLUDG MORE ARGENTO. “I LOOKED AT EVERYTHG THAT SHE HAD SAID PUBLICLY THE WAKE OF HIS ATH, CLUDG AN TOBGRAPHY SHE PUBLISHED ITALY, AND TERVIEWS SHE GAVE ENGLAND,” NEVILLE EXPLAED. “IT’S ALL A VERSN OF THE SAME THG, WHICH IS KD OF, ‘PEOPLE DON’T UNRSTAND ME AND OUR RELATNSHIP. I LOVED HIM.’ I JT FELT LIKE I WAS GOG TO END UP THIS SHE-SAID/HE-SAID LIGATG WHAT HAPPENED AND WHO WAS RIGHT. IT WAS NARRATIVE QUICKSAND.”NEVILLE ALSO SAID THAT SPEAKG TO ARGENTO FOR THE FILM MIGHT HAVE RISKED THE TST HE HAD BUILT WH THE PEOPLE BOURDA’S NER CIRCLE WHO HAD ALREADY SPOKEN SO NDIDLY ABOUT THE LATE TV PERSONALY.“I PRETTY MUCH KNOW WHAT SHE’D SAY, WHICH IS THAT SHE LOVED HIM, AND FELT MISREPRENTED BY PEOPLE,” NEVILLE TOLD INDIEWIRE. “I ALSO KNEW, HONTLY, THAT TO TERVIEW HER, YOU WOULD CUR A LOT OF BAD BLOOD OM LOTS OF PEOPLE TONY’S LIFE. SO THERE WAS A PRICE TO PAY TOO.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— AN EXCLIVE DEEP DIVE INTO PETER JACKSON’S THE BEATL: GET BACK— JOSEPH FIENN ON HIS HANDMAID’S TALE FATE— THE 10 BT MOVI OF 2021 (SO FAR)— JANE LEVY ON THE ZOEY’S EXTRAORDARY PLAYLIST CANCELLATN— IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE?— HOW PHYSIL GOT UNR ROSE BYRNE’S SK— WHAT IS BO BURNHAM’S INSI REALLY TRYG TO SAY?— SIMU LIU IS READY TO TAKE ON MARVEL— FROM THE ARCHIVE: JACKIE AND JOAN COLLS, QUEENS OF THE ROAD— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”JULIE MILLER
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