Bourdain’s phone and laptop, the journalist Charles Leerhsen traces Mr. Argento and Ottavia Busia-Bourdain, his wife of 11 years who, by the time they separated in 2016, had become his confidante.ĭrawing on more than 80 interviews, and files, texts and emails from Mr. Bourdain’s death, such as his final exchanges with Ms. “ Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain” is filled with fresh, intimate details, including raw, anguished texts from the days before Mr. 11, Simon & Schuster will publish what it calls the first unauthorized biography of the writer and travel documentarian. But neither directly addressed how very messy his life had become in the months that led up to the night he hanged himself at age 61. Bourdain, who had become increasingly conflicted about his success and had in his last two years made his relationship with the Italian actor Asia Argento his primary focus. That silence continued until 2021, when many in his inner circle were interviewed for the documentary “ Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain” and for “ Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography.” The two works showed a more complex side of Mr. After Anthony Bourdain took his own life in a French hotel room in 2018, his close friends, family and the people who for decades had helped him become an international TV star closed ranks against the swarm of media inquiries and stayed largely silent, especially about his final days.
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