Published on Jun 8, 2018 / 24:41
An adventurous documenter of international food culture, Anthony Bourdain was the host of CNN's Parts Unknown, a chef, prolific food author, speaker, and one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People. Here, we sat down and talked with him about his creative process, what he looked for in his team, and keys to his success
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CNN host Anthony Bourdain was found dead in his French hotel room after reportedly hanging himself in an alleged suicide. This is the third suicide by hanging involving a high profile person this week; after designer Kate Spade allegedly hung herself with a scarf on a doorknob in her apartment, and this weeks death of Ines Zorregeiuta the sister of Queen Maxima of the Netherlands. Bourdain criticized Hillary Clinton late last year for her respone to the Harvey Weinstein scandal, and posted about Weintein's use of Isreali-intelligence linked Black Cube to follow his victims in a follow up message in May, 2018.
Anthony Bourdain and GF Asia Argento Seemed Close Until This Week
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Just a few weeks ago, they were together in Florence, Italy ... and still looked very happy and romantic.
Here's where things get murky. We know Anthony was shooting his show in France this week -- he'd been there for at least 4 days. However, Asia was back in Rome, strolling around with a French reporter named
Hugo Clément. There were photos of them holding hands and hugging, but the Italian photographer who shot the pics pulled them off the market on the heels of
Anthony's death.
It's unclear if Anthony and Asia had broken up. If they did, there was no public announcement. Their last public appearance together was at an event was back in April in NYC.
Asia Argento embraces Clement who shared her attack on Weinstein | Daily Mail Online
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Actress Asia Argento was reunited with journalist Hugo Clement over the weekend in Rome.
The joyful and jubilant pair were photographed smiling as they strolled through the Italian capital, just weeks after Clement, 28, posted Argento's powerful speech at the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival in which she attacked Harvey Weinstein and called the annual event his 'hunting ground.'
Photos show the two embracing and smiling just days before Weinstein's indictment on two counts of rape and one count of criminal sexual act.
Clement is a journalist with Konbini news, and has done a number of well respected pieces for the agency, most recently on the famine in Congo, the livestock industry in France and the threats facing gay men in Tunisia.
In addition, she directed the episode of Antony Bourdain: Parts Unknown that aired this week in the United States, which took the host to Hing Kong.
Finally, she posted a video to her Instagram account on Tuesday revealing she was recording new commentary for a re-release of the film she made in the wake of her alleged sexual assault by Weinstein, The Scarlett Diva.
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Bourdain said in a blog post last week that when the director he had hired to shoot the episode had to undergo emergency surgery he hired Argento to take over, noting it was 'fair to say' he and the actress were 'quite close.'
Bourdain has been one of Argento's most vocal supporters on social media ever since she came forward with her allegations, and after her powerful Cannes speech tweeted: 'Brava @AsiaArgento. An absolutely fearless off-script nuclear bomb of a speech to a stunned crowd at #Cannes.'
He also thanked Spike Lee for making a point of speaking to Argento after she shared her remarks, with the actress later noting most attendees avoided her in the wake of her speech.
It was Clement who posted the speech after accompanying Argento to the ceremony, writing: 'The powerful speech @AsiaArgento [delievered] during the closing ceremony of Cannes. "I was raped here in 1997 by Harvey Weinstein."
In her remarks Argento also stated: 'This festival was his hunting ground. I want to make a prediction: Harvey Weinstein will never be welcomed here ever again. He will live in disgrace, shunned by a film community that once embraced him and covered up for his crimes.'