How Anthony Bourdain ‘vanished’ from his 11-year-old daughter’s life before he died… as girlfriend Asia Argento ‘stalked his ex-wife’s Instagram page’ and ‘freaked out’ whenever she posted family photos

• Bourdain’s daughter Ariane was 11 when he died in France in June, 2018 
• He had all but ‘vanished’ from her life in the years before he killed himself, according to the new biography Down And Out In Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain 
• The chef’s girlfriend, Asia Argento, was ‘so controlling’ that she monitored his ex-wife Ottavia’s Instagram account, according to the author 
• Texts between Bourdain and his ex-wife show her complaining about ‘pretending we are never in the same place’ for Argento’s benefit 
• She said Bourdain worried that Argento ‘would freak out’ if she saw them together online 
• Bourdain left the majority of his $1.2million estate to his daughter, now 15 
• Friends told at the time that she had no idea how famous he was  

By the time he died, Anthony Bourdain had ‘vanished’ from his then 11-year-old daughter’s life and was trying to appease his girlfriend Asia Argento, who ‘freaked out’ whenever she saw photos of him with his ex-wife, according to an explosive new book about the TV chef. 

Bourdain died in June 2018, taking his own life in a hotel room in a small town in France while filming his CNN show Parts Unknown. 

Author and journalist Charles Leerhsen writes in his new biography, Down And Out In Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain, that the star had been drinking heavily, using steroids and sleeping with prostitutes in the months beforehand. 

Bourdain’s brother Christopher is said to have written twice to publisher Simon and Schuster asking for the book not to be published, accusing the author of repeated inaccuracies. 

The publisher is standing by Leerhsen’s work and the biography will be published on October 11. Bourdain’s ex-wife, Ottavia Busia-Bourdain, is supportive of its release. 

Bourdain with his ex-wife, Ottavia Busia-Bourdain, and their daughter, Ariane. She was 11 when he died in 2018. A new book describes how he’d ‘vanished’ from her life 

Bourdain left the majority of his $1.2million estate to his daughter when he died. She was kept out of the limelight and had no idea how famous he was, according to friends at the time 

Leerhsen claims Argento had become ‘so controlling’ that she ‘stalked Ottavia’s Instagram page’.

She allowed the author access to Bourdain’s phone records and his laptop, which revealed intimate details of his final weeks and months. 

In an article in The New York Times on Tuesday ahead of the book’s release, it is described how Bourdain had all but vanished from his daughter Ariane’s life. 

The extract does not explicitly lay the blame for that with anyone but Bourdain, who the writer says was using prostitutes before he died. 

But Leerhsen claims Argento had become ‘so controlling’ that she ‘stalked Ottavia’s Instagram page’. 

He includes messages between Ottavia and Bourdain, where she said she was ‘tired of pretending that we are never in the same place’ for Argento’s benefit. 

‘You didn’t want me to put a pic that you had in it because Asia would freak out and I have a feeling that will not change anytime soon. 

‘I’m tired of pretending I don’t know you. Or that we are never in the same place,’ Busia-Bourdain told him. 

He replied: ‘I feel you. But I was being honest. The pap [arazzi] situation is horrendous. 

‘Since I left you guys, though, she’s freaking out.’ 

Bourdain died after a row with Argento. She had been photographed with French journalist Hugo Clement in Rome and the photos enraged Bourdain, who searched her name online ‘hundreds of times’ in the days before he died, according to the book. 

Bourdain’s daughter fondly recalled in the past how he cooked for her, played with her and let her watch adult TV shows like Dexter. She is now 15 and is largely kept out of the limelight. Above, when she was a toddler 

In some of their final messages to each other, he told her she had been ‘careless’ with his heart. 

She replied: ‘I can’t take this’. 

He would later ask: ‘Is there anything I can do?’ 

She replied: ‘Stop busting my balls,’ and he said: ‘OK’. 

He killed himself hours later. 

Bourdain, just days before he killed himself in France in June 2018. He was filming for Parts Unknown, his popular CNN show

Argento has spoken publicly of her grief. She is shown in September 2018 in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com and DailyMailTV where she said the pair had an open relationship 

In an exclusive interview with DailyMailTV weeks later, Argento broke her silence, telling the world that while she ‘cheated on him’, he ‘cheated on her too.’ 

‘It wasn’t a problem for us,’ she said, lamenting how his fans wanted to blame her for his death when they had an open relationship. 

She did not comment for the book. 

In a previous biography that the Bourdain family did cooperate with, Ottavia said: ”As a dad, he was always the good cop. I think it was fair, because he was around so little, so when he was home, there was no enforcing homework, there was no discipline. 

‘He was 100 percent fun dad, and he called himself “Silly Dada,” cause that’s what he was doing.’ 

Ariane said at the time: ‘I always cooked with him. We’d always cook ratatouille, from the movie Ratatouille, and we made it exactly like they made it. 

‘We’d cook schnitzel; he’d make little stations: one of them has the breading, one has the flour, one has the eggs, and my dad put it in the pan.

‘He’d cook omelets for me all the time, and I’d help him flip it. He would let me sprinkle chocolate chips or blueberries into pancakes, and then he’d let me flip the pancake a little. When we were in the Hamptons, he’d cook dinner, cook breakfast, so that’s when he really cooked for me. 

‘He taught me how to cut things and not chop off my fingers, to curl my fingers under. He gave me my own little knife, and I still have it, and still use it.’

JOURNALIST BEHIND AUNAUTHORIZED BOURDAIN BIOGRAPHY SAYS TV CHEF HAD BECOME ‘WHAT HE’D BECOME’ 

Charles Leerhsen, the author behind the book, has previously written for Rolling Stone. He is also the former executive editor of Sports Illustrated. 

He told The New York Times that he wanted to offer a side of Bourdain that didn’t have the varnish of ‘an official Bourdain product.’ 

By the end of his life, he said he believes the chef ‘knew what he had become’. 

Charles Leerhsen’s book, Down And Out In Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain is due to be published on October 11 

‘I think at the very end, in the last days and hours, he realized what he had become.

‘I don’t respect him killing himself, but he did realize and he did ultimately know he didn’t want to be that person he had become,’ he said. 

He added that he had no trouble finding enough people to speak to him, despite the protestations of Bourdain’s brother. Leerhsen also claims Bourdain’s agent, Kim Witherspoon, told others not to speak to him. 

‘A lot of people were willing to talk to me because they were left behind by Tony and by the Tony train,’  he said. 

Leershen’s past biographies include works about Butch Cassidy, Ty Cobb and TV executive Brandon Tartikoff.

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