An unauthorized biography tries to shed light on the reasons that prompted Anthony Bourdain, journalist and star chef of the show “Parts unknown”, to commit suicide, writes La Repubblica, cited by Rador.

After lamenting her jealousy, Bourdain’s last partner, Asia Argento, would have asked him “not to bother her anymore” in one of the last messages she exchanged with her lover just hours before his death, according to information released in a new book. This is one of the discoveries that the New York Times expects from the book “Down and in Paradise” by the American journalist Charles Learsen, which will be released on October 11.

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The biography, the publisher reiterated, will be published despite numerous warnings and threats of defamation lawsuits. Most unhappy are the chef’s brother Christopher and Asia Argento, a major accuser of Harvey Weinstein, whom Bourdain strongly supported during the heated months of the #MeToo scandal.

The actress told the New York Times that she had not read the book, adding, “I wrote this person very clearly that he cannot publish anything I told him.”

According to Leerhsen’s reconstructions, Asia Argento would have threatened to break up with him after Bourdain sent her a text saying he was angry because he saw her in a photo flirting with French journalist Hugo Clement in a Romanian hotel lobby. de Russie, a place with special symbolism in the couple’s love story.

“I’m not jealous of the fact that you were with another man. You are not my property. you are free But you disrespected me. To my heart. Until my life,” wrote Anthony.

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The final text messages are published in “Down and out in paradise,” a biography based on more than 80 interviews and documents, including emails and messages from the chef’s phone and laptop. Bourdain committed suicide in June 2018 in a hotel room in a French province at the end of a working day.

Relatives and friends, as well as Asia Argento, contested the content of the book. “Every time he talks about our family, it’s either made up or completely wrong,” Christopher Burden told The New York Times.

But Lirhsen had a great collaborator: Ottavia Bussia-Bourdain, Bourdain’s second wife and the one who remained his confidant until his death, despite a split in 2016:

“I hate my fans. I hate being famous. I hate my job. I feel alone and live in a state of eternal uncertainty,” Anthony wrote to her in one of the last painful messages before taking his own life.

Like all other biographers before him, Liersen also tried to find the reason for the extreme gesture of Bourdain, who in recent days injected himself with steroids, drank a lot and visited a prostitute, depressed by loneliness, a life crisis. workplace and, on a personal level, relationships with Asia.

Bourdain, Leerhsen writes, hanged himself after an evening spent alone, eating and drinking excessively. The photo from the Hotel de Russie that made him so angry was published five days ago. In the days that followed, “he Googled his girlfriend’s name hundreds of times,” writes The Times.

“I’m hopelessly in love with this woman,” Anthony admitted to Ottavia, who after the suicide controls her husband’s assets, including computers and cell phones with messages.

This isn’t the first time Asia Argento’s role in Bourdain’s suicide has been called into question: “They’re saying I killed him,” she told the Daily Mail in September 2018. “But he lied to me, too. It was not a problem for us.”