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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="215496" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Asia-Argento">Asia Argento</keyword> has accused director <keyword id="1089613" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Rob-Cohen">Rob Cohen</keyword> of sexually assaulting her in 2002.</li><li>Cohen denied her allegations, calling them "bewildering" in a statement sent from his spokesperson to <a href="https://deadline.com/2021/01/rob-cohen-asia-argento-assault-accusations-statement-1234679478/">Deadline</a>.</li><li>Cohen has been accused of sexual assault before by two women including his own daughter, which he also denies.</li></ul>Asia Argento has accused "The Fast and The Furious" director Rob Cohen of drugging and sexually assaulting her, saying the incident took place while filming the 2002 movie "xXx."Speaking first to <a href="https://www.corriere.it/cronache/21_gennaio_22/asia-argento-il-regista-rob-cohen-mi-ha-drogata-violentata-parlo-ancora-anthony-bourdain-10fb731c-5c25-11eb-9e63-4c8bcf5518af.shtml">Il Corriere della Sera</a> and other Italian outlets, Argento said that Cohen, who directed "xXx," made her drink a bottle of GHB - a substance <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51006504">known for being a "date rape" drug</a>.A spokesperson for Cohen strongly denied the accusation. Insider has reached out to both Argento and Cohen for comment.<a href="https://variety.com/2021/film/news/asia-argento-rob-cohen-sexual-assault-accusations-1234890955/">Variety reports</a> that Argento told Il Corriere della Sera: "He abused me, making me drink GHB, he had a bottle of it."She later followed up in a text message to <a href="https://variety.com/2021/film/news/asia-argento-rob-cohen-sexual-assault-accusations-1234890955/">Variety:</a> "At the time, I really didn't know what it was. I woke up in the morning naked in his bed." The actress also told Variety that she talks about the allegations in her upcoming autobiography, "Anatomy of a Wild Heart," which is due out in Italy on January 26.In a statement to <a href="https://deadline.com/2021/01/rob-cohen-asia-argento-assault-accusations-statement-1234679478/">Deadline</a>, a representative for Cohen said: "Mr. Cohen categorically denies Asia Argento's accusation of assault against him as absolutely false. When they worked together, they had an excellent working relationship and Mr. Cohen considered her a friend, so this claim dating back to 2002 is bewildering, especially given what has been reported about her in recent years."Cohen has been accused of sexual assault before. In 2019, Cohen's transgender daughter <a href="https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/2187262/fast-and-furious-rob-cohen-accused-sexually-assaulting-his">Valkyrie Weather accused the director of sexually assaulting them</a> when they were a child.Weather's mother and Cohen's first wife, Diana Mitzer, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/director-rob-cohens-daughter-accuses-him-sexual-assault-1188892">told the Hollywood Reporter</a> in 2019 that she saw the alleged assault. Cohen denied all of these accusations, calling them "categorically untrue."Weather also said that Cohen took them to see sex workers in Thailand when she was a teen, and accused Cohen of bragging to her about sexually assaulting another woman, who remains unidentified. Again, Cohen denied these accusations.Also in 2019, the <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/rob-cohen-fast-furious-director-sexual-assault_n_5d408c0de4b01d8c978286ee?ri18n=true">Huffington Post</a> reported that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rob-cohen-accused-fast-and-the-furious-director-sexual-assault-2019-9">another woman accused Cohen of sexual assault</a>. The woman, named only as "Jane" in the report, alleged that she met Cohen for a business meeting, but ended up in his hotel room. The woman said she regained consciousness naked while Cohen was sexually assaulting her. Cohen's lawyer, Martin Singer, sent a lengthy letter denying the 2019 claims on Cohen's behalf: "The proposed story is an outrageous defamatory hit piece, making extraordinarily offensive assertions that my client engaged in heinous sexual misconduct, criminal wrongdoing, and other inappropriate behavior, which are vehemently disputed and denied by my client."Argento was a prominent figure during the #MeToo movement, and <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-their-stories">accused Harvey Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s.</a> Argento followed this up with a <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/asia-argento-delivers-searing-speech-calling-cannes-festival-weinstein-s-n875846">speech at Cannes in 2018</a> during which she accused Weinstein of raping her when she was 21. Weinstein was eventually convicted in February 2020 of sexually assaulting his former production assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006 and raping ex-actress Jessica Mann in 2013.<div type="image" title="asia argento anthony bourdain" height="900" width="1200" msid="80451848" hostid="261"></div>A sexual-assault accusation has also been made against Argento.Later in 2018, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/us/asia-argento-assault-jimmy-bennett.html">the New York Times</a> reported that Argento "quietly arranged to pay $380,000 to her own accuser."The accuser was actor Jimmy Bennett, who <a href="https://www.insider.com/asia-argento-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-jimmy-bennett-2018-8">claimed that Argento sexually assaulted him</a> in California in 2013 when he was 17 and she was 37. The age of consent in California is 18. The two had previously worked together on the 2004 movie "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things," in which Bennett played Argento's son.Argento denied the allegations and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/21/asia-argento-denies-sexual-assault-claims-anthony-bourdain">said that she never had a sexual encounter with Bennett.</a> She also said that her late boyfriend, celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, paid Bennet off privately to avoid negative press attention.<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/photo-text-messages-appear-contradict-asia-argento-s-denial-relationship-n902876">Text messages</a> and a <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/22/entertainment/asia-argento-jimmy-bennett-photo/index.html">photo of the two of them in bed together</a> surfaced soon after her denial. In a <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/05/entertainment/asia-argento-jimmy-bennett-sexually-assaulted-her/index.html">letter published online in 2018 by Argento's attorney</a>, the actress did admit that there was a sexual encounter between her and Bennett, but accused Bennett of "sexually attacking" her.

Asia Argento accuses 'The Fast and The Furious' director Rob Cohen of drugging and sexual assaulting her

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Los Angeles residents are demonstrating against the latest installment of the movie's franchise.</li><li>Angelino Heights community members claim the franchise promotes illegal street racing.</li></ul>Residents of a Los Angeles neighborhood are protesting filming on the latest installment of the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/every-fast-and-furious-movie-ranked-by-worldwide-box-office-2022-5">"Fast and Furious" franchise</a>, citing safety concerns.Angelino Heights community members, a neighborhood located just two miles north of downtown near Dodger Stadium, took to the streets on Friday, as production was set to begin filming Saturday.On Friday, cast and crew members were met by protesters who claim the film promotes <a href="https://www.insider.com/fast-and-furious-movies-racer-x-2017-4">illegal street racing</a>, according to <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/08/residents-protest-fast-x-filming-in-l-a-s-angeleno-heights-saying-it-encourages-illegal-street-racing-there-1235101245/">Deadline</a>.<div type="image" title="&quot;Fast X&quot; protest" height="3840" width="5119" msid="93826411" hostid="261" sizebytes="720304"></div>According to photos taken by Getty Images, community members and activists wielded signs with photographs of people who were killed in street racing accidents. Some residents also chanted, "street racing" kills during the protest, Deadline reports.Residents have been vocal about the "Fast and Furious" franchise's harmful impact on their neighborhood, the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-27/angelino-heights-residents-protest-fast-furious-filming">Los Angeles Times </a>reports. "You don't want to say it encourages the street racing, but you know, it doesn't help," Angelino Heights resident Rene Favela told the outlet. <div type="image" title="&quot;Fast X&quot; protests in Los Angeles" height="2830" width="3773" msid="93826412" hostid="261" sizebytes="401252"></div>Rob Cohen, who directed the franchise's first film in 2001, told <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-inside-story-of-the-real-fast-furious-115054951952.html">Yahoo News</a> that the neighborhood's geography provided the opportunity "to do fun jumps in the beginning chase with the motorcycles."According to the outlet, in 2015 most of the illegal activity cited near a home that has been routinely featured in the franchise consisted of car crimes, including grand theft auto and theft from a vehicle. <div type="image" title="&quot;Fast X&quot; protests in Los Angeles" height="3287" width="4383" msid="93826413" hostid="261" sizebytes="1900408"></div>Friday's protests were organized by road safety organizations <a href="https://www.streetsareforeveryone.org/">Streets are for Everyone </a>(SAFE) and <a href="https://streetracingkills.org/">Street Racing Kills</a>, according to Deadline. "The protest went better than expected. The voices of a residential community that has been tormented by the problem of street racing and screeching tires night after night for years, since the first "Fast and Furious" movie, has been heard," executive director of SAFE Damian Kevitt said in a statement to Insider.In a list of demands shared with Insider, the organization is calling on the city to "re-engineer the roads of Angelino Heights" with speed bumps and meridians to stop street racers in their tracks.After Friday's protest, organizers plan to meet with city officials to discuss preventative street racing laws in the region, according to Kevitt's statement. These community members will be "meeting with them as a next step to hopefully bring some peace back to Angelino Heights," Kevitt told Insider. Kevitt told Insider that community organizers have called on NBC Universal to include safety disclaimers discouraging street racing. "NBC Universal has still yet to comment or reply, which continues to point up the hypocrisy of their own social impact statement. We are disappointed that they have not yet shown any interest or intention to use even $1 of the estimated 6.6 billion dollars that the "Fast and Furious" franchise has earned by glorifying illegal street racing sideshows and street takeovers, to help mitigate this increasing problem," Kevitt's statement continued. Representatives for NBC Universal did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

LA residents protest 'Fast and Furious' movie shoot, claim film glorifies illegal street racing

<ul class="summary-list"><li>"Fast 9," the ninth film in the main "<keyword id="1033712" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Fast-and-furious">Fast and Furious</keyword>" saga, is in theaters.</li><li>The original 2001 movie was inspired by a 1998 Vibe article called "Racer X."</li><li>The story is about Dominican street racer, Rafael Estevez, who could give Dom a run for his money.</li></ul>The ninth film in the "<a href="http://www.insider.com/category/fast-and-the-furious">Fast and Furious</a>" franchise is in theaters.<keyword id="6369689" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vin-diesel">Vin Diesel</keyword>, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese, and are among the cast returning for "F9" in which its revealed Dom (Diesel) and Mia (Jordana Brewster) have a little brother, Jakob (John Cena), we never knew about.Additionally, the film <a href="https://www.insider.com/how-is-han-alive-in-fast-9">brings back fan-favorite Han</a> (Sung Kang) after he was seemingly killed off from the franchise at the end of 2006's "Tokyo Drift" (and again in 2013's "Fast 6").What you may not realize about the globe-spanning, physics-defying films is that at the heart of the franchise, which started in 2001 with "<keyword id="205952" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="The-Fast-and-The-Furious">The Fast and the Furious</keyword>," lies a real-life story about street racing in New York City.The movies, which have earned <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2021/05/21/box-office-f9-china-fast-saga-vin-diesel-6b-star-wars-avengers/?sh=6b9013ff79e4">over $6 billion globally</a>, were <a href="http://www.vibe.com/2015/03/racer-x-rafael-estevez-kenneth-li-fast-and-furious-inspiration-may-1998/">inspired by an article from Ken Li in the May 1998 issue of Vibe</a>."<a href="http://www.vibe.com/2015/03/racer-x-rafael-estevez-kenneth-li-fast-and-furious-inspiration-may-1998/">Racer X</a>" tells the story of Dominican street racer Rafael Estevez from Washington Heights and how he transitioned into the sport of drag racing. The article also divulges on the popularity of Japanese import car customization and the operations in place to crack down on New York City street racing.<div type="image" title="ken li rafael estevez" height="1080" width="1920" msid="83860710" hostid="261"></div>"Racer X" was a featurette available on a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Fast-Furious-Vin-Diesel/dp/B00005R87Q/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1369324791&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=the+fast+and+the+furious+the+furious">"Fast and the Furious" disc release that came out in 2002</a>. In the feature, director Rob Cohen reveals he was <a href="http://www.darkhorizons.com/features/220/rob-cohen-for-the-fast-and-the-furious">inspired to make the film</a> after hearing about the article and subsequently watching a race in Los Angeles.As a result, Cohen <a href="http://www.darkhorizons.com/features/220/rob-cohen-for-the-fast-and-the-furious">convinced Universal</a> to make the film and the studio <a href="http://www.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment/top-10-movies-based-on-articles_7.html">bought the rights to the film</a> from Li. The 2001 film "The Fast and the Furious" followed an LAPD officer (Paul Walker) who went undercover into the world of illegal street racing to join the ranks with a well-established racer (Vin Diesel) and find the culprit at the center of an elaborate ongoing heist. The film, produced on an estimated <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fastandfurious.htm">$38 million budget</a>, went on to make $207.3 million worldwide.<div type="image" title="paul walker the fast and the furious" height="806" width="1895" msid="83860711" hostid="261"></div>Watching the film now, it's easy to see the article's influence in the movie. Here's an excerpt from <a href="http://www.vibe.com/2015/03/racer-x-rafael-estevez-kenneth-li-fast-and-furious-inspiration-may-1998/">Vibe</a>'s "Racer X": "A black Nissan 300ZX and a white <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/mitsubishi" class="hidden_link">Mitsubishi</a> Starion pull out of the pack and creep up to the starting line. As the sun dances on the nearby river, the sound of honking horns and screaming drivers is drowned out by the sonic blast of the two engines revving for takeoff. A stocky Latino dude in a blinding yellow shirt stands in the middle of the highway and raises his hands. Both <keyword id="20632" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Cars">cars</keyword> lurch and halt like chained pit bulls, their wheels spitting out black smoke. The hands drop...Young men have been fascinated with tweaking and tuning big block Chevys and Mustangs since the days of Rebel Without a Cause. But the new guys wouldn't be caught dead driving the gaudy muscular beasts of yesteryear. Instead, they're tricking out low-buck Japanese imports like Honda Civics and Acura Integras and tattooing them like skateboards with Neuspeed and Greddy car parts stickers. By stroking the engine, adding a supercharger, and hitting the "juice" (nitrous oxide: a gaseous liquid once used to boost bomber planes in WWII), they can smoke the herb in the Iroc at the stoplight."It sounds like a scene straight out of the start of any of the "Fast" films, which usually kick off with a race.

The true street-racing story that inspired the 'Fast and Furious' movies

UniversalWhen you think about the "Fast and Furious" series, what are the first things that come to mind? Cars? Explosions? Family? How about Corona?Throughout the "Fast" saga - starting with the original 2001 film, when Vin Diesel's Dom tells Paul Walker's Brian, "You can have any brew you want... as long as it's a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvo8Fep5ifk" target="_blank">Corona</a>" - the Mexican pale lager has had a starring role. In an <a href="https://theringer.com/fast-furious-movies-corona-beer-character-development-product-placement-f6bbdfc765a0" target="_blank">eye-opening feature</a>, The Ringer explored the relationship between the film franchise (whose latest, "The Fate of the Furious," is out Friday) and the beer. The site uncovered that the brew's involvement in the films hasn't been a long-running promotional deal, as you'd likely expect, but instead it's a natural relationship that just made sense. "I was trying to make an L.A. saga, and Corona, to me, just seemed like this iconic, Southern California beer," Rob Cohen, who directed the first installment, told The Ringer. UniversalDom (Vin Diesel) enjoys a Corona.For the first film, there was no formal product-placement agreement. Corona simply sent the production a few cases of beer and granted the filmmakers permission to use the name in the movie.Little did Corona's part owner, the global beer company AB InBev - or anyone else - know that the "Fast" franchise would grow into a $4 billion juggernaut (so far) that now includes the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/highest-grossing-movies-2016-1/#15-transformers-age-of-extinction-2014-1104-billion-1" target="_blank">6th-highest-grossing</a> movie of all time worldwide in "Furious 7."Eric Smallwood, managing partner at Apex Marketing Group, estimates that the beer's placement in the "Fast" films has brought the company over $15 million worth of free advertising. But despite the success of the films, the relationship with Corona has remained unchanged. Dom and his crew drink Corona because they like it - it's who they are. <a href="https://theringer.com/fast-furious-movies-corona-beer-character-development-product-placement-f6bbdfc765a0" target="_blank">Read the original story, "How Corona Became the 'Fast and Furious' Beer of Choice," on The Ringer.</a> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/bassem-youssef-jon-stewart-egypt-trump-satire-unstable-2017-3">The 'Jon Stewart of Egypt' explains why satirizing Donald Trump isn't productive</a></h3> Please enable Javascript to watch this video

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Universal" title_caption="Vin Diesel in the sixth " fast="" and="" furious="" film.="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/551c457a6bb3f7e225214464-960/fast-and-furious-6-vin-diesel-7.jpg"></div></div></div>Watching the film now, it's easy to see the article's influence in the movie.&#xa0;Here are excerpts from "Racer X":&#xa0;A black Nissan 300ZX and a white Mitsubishi Starion pull out of the pack and creep up to the starting line. As the sun dances on the nearby river, the sound of honking horns and screaming drivers is drowned out by the sonic blast of the two engines revving for takeoff. A stocky Latino dude in a blinding yellow shirt stands in the middle of the highway and raises his hands. Both cars lurch and halt like chained pit bulls, their wheels spitting out black smoke. The hands drop.Young men have been fascinated with tweaking and tuning big block Chevys and Mustangs since the days of Rebel Without a Cause. But the new guys wouldn't be caught dead driving the gaudy muscular beasts of yesteryear. Instead, they're tricking out low-buck Japanese imports like Honda Civics and Acura Integras and tattooing them like skateboards with Neuspeed and Greddy car parts stickers. By stroking the engine, adding a supercharger, and hitting the "juice" (nitrous oxide: a gaseous liquid once used to boost bomber planes in WWII), they can smoke the herb in the Iroc at the stoplight.Read the full piece <a href="http://www.decibelcar.com/menugeneric/106.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>."Furious 7" is in theaters April 3.&#xa0;Relive the trailer for the original film below which has a drastically different feel from the heart of the more recent additions to the franchise.<div><div></div></div>&#xa0;

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