Asia Argento Cover-Up Exposed In Secret Texts With Late Lover Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain and Asia Argento orchestrated a cover-up at the same time she was publicly roasting other alleged sex offenders as a self-proclaimed headliner of the #MeToo movement, RadarOnline.com Online can confirm.

The hypocrisy is laid bare in a series of previously reported texts exchanged between the late Parts Unknown host and his actress girlfriend.

RadarOnline.com has confirmed the texts are legitimate through independent sources — as well as how Bourdain and Argento referred to her underage accuser as "donkey."

In discussing a payout to head off Bennett's lawsuit, Bourdain reassured Argento a payment is, "no admission of anything, no attempt to buy a cover up, simply an offer to help an obviously tortured soul whose desperate and trying to jack you for money."

“Or,” Bourdain then added, “you just tell him to f**k himself. Either way, I am with you."

In the messages, Bourdain — who committed suicide in June — also seemingly responded to Argento's concerns over how shady she felt for shelling out de facto hush money to an accuser while excoriating disgraced Hollywood mega producer Harvey Weinstein for doing the same.

In October, she said Weinstein raped her at France's Cannes Film Festival in 1997 when she was 21 — and in the months that followed, she took a vocal position at the forefront of the #MeToo movement.

However, Bennett claimed in legal papers Argento abused her own position of authority with her assault.

He claimed in legal papers that his relationship with the Italian director, now 42, was "that a mother-son relationship had blossomed from their experience on set together.”

Bennett was only seven years old when he appeared in The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, a 2004 film Argento directed, starred in and co-wrote.

Their relationship, by their own accounts and social media posts viewed by RadarOnline.com, continued during the ensuing years, culminating in the 2013 alleged assault.

But Bennett’s lawyer, Gordon K. Sattro, has said the former child actor only decided to file a notice of his intent to sue Argento after getting fed up with her holier-than-thou attitude toward Weinstein.

“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,” his lawyer, Gordon K. Sattro wrote.

Bennett, who earned the acclaim of Harrison Ford and Bruce Willis for his on-set chops, said Argento’s May 9, 2013 assault began with her giving him booze and showing him love notes she’d written on hotel stationary.

It quickly spiraled, he claimed, into her kissing him, pushing him on the bed, stripping off his pants, performing oral sex and then climbing on top of him for intercourse, according to reports.

While Argento has confessed to shelling out $380,000 to Bennett, she denies she had “any sexual relationship” with him.

"I am deeply shocked and hurt by having read news that is absolutely false," she wrote. "I have never had any sexual relationship with Bennett."