In a new biography the last days of Bourdain

(ANSA) - NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 28 - The last days of Anthony Bourdain: an unauthorized biography tries to shed light on the reasons that could have led to suicide the star-chef of "Parts Unknown".

After complaining of her jealousy, his latest partner Asia Argento reportedly wrote him to "stop busting her balls" in one of the last messages exchanged with his partner a few hours before her death.

This is one of the contents, anticipated by the New York Times, of the book by American journalist Charles Leerhsen which will be released on 11 October with Simon and Schuster.

    The biography - the publisher reiterated - will be published in respect of multiple warnings and threats of defamation causes.

Controversy, in addition to his brother Christopher, also laArgento, a great accuser of Harvey Weinstein and later accused, to whom Bourdain had been close in the hot months of the #MeToo scandal.

She told the New York Times that she hadn't read the book and added, "I clearly wrote to the man who couldn't publish anything I told him."

The actress, according to Leerhsen's reconstruction, threatened the breakup after the chef got angry via text message for a photo in which he flirted with the French journalist HugoClement in the lobby of a Roman hotel, the Hotel de Russie, which had a special place. in the love story of the couple.

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I am not jealous that you have been with another man.

I don't own you.

   You are free.

But you have been without regard for me.

With my heart.

With my life ", Anthony would have written.

    The text messages are published in" Down and Out in paradise ", a biography based on over 80 interviews and documents including messages from the chef's phone and laptop. Bourdain killed himself in June 2018 in a hotel room in the French province at the end of a day's work. Relatives and friends, as well as Argento herself, contested the contents of the book. New York Times.

    Leerhsen would have had an excellent collaborator, however: Ottavia Busia-Bourdain,

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