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#MeToo advocate Asia Argento, one of the first women to accuse disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, paid off a former child actor who accused her of sexual misconduct, according to legal documents obtained by The New York Times.

Jimmy Bennett, who was 17 at the time of the encounter, alleges he was assaulted by Argento in a California hotel in 2013, when the actress was 37. (The age of consent in California is 18.)

Bennett’s lawyer notified Argento last November of his intention to sue for $3.5 million — a month after she went public with her allegations against Weinstein. The Italian actress agreed to pay him $380,000. Three people familiar with the case told the Times the documents were authentic.

Argento, 42, and Bennett, now 22, co-starred as a teenage mother and her son in the 2004 film “The Heart Is

Baldwin: ‘No. Just ... No’ to daughter’s sexy Instagram photo

Little girls grow up. But a daddy’s daughter remains his little girl.

So maybe that was the sentiment when Alec Baldwin, President Donald Trump’s frequent “Saturday Night Live” impersonator, objected to a sexy shot of daughter Ireland on Instagram. This weekend, the 22-year-old model shared a sizzling shot of herself clad in cowboy boots and a black bikini, leaning forward on a motorcycle.

Ireland Baldwin captioned the photo, “Stay extra.” The comments that followed were a lot of wows and approvals.

It didn’t take long for her 60-yearold father to notice the photo and chime in with a succinct statement of disapproval: “No. Just ... No.”

— From wire reports