Anthony Bourdain

Author and journalist Charles Leerhsen based the book on more than 80 interviews and documents, texts, and email exchanges sourced from Bourdain's laptop. The ...

“I didn’t like the direction of this book.” Some readers appreciated the rawness. It “added some background to my understanding” of Bourdain, wrote one reader. “Ok,” he responded. “If it’s this hard for us, then it has to be majorly messed up for the family.” Another couldn’t finish the biography. He told reporter Kim Severson that parts of the book were “fabricated” or “totally wrong,” and demanded Simon & Schuster not publish the work without correcting certain details he deemed erroneous. “Stop busting my balls,” Argento replied. Leerhsen told the Times that “the estate has not objected, and I don’t anticipate any objections” regarding his surfacing the material from Bourdain’s laptop. [photograph of Argento](https://pagesix.com/2018/06/12/paparazzo-who-snapped-asia-argento-with-french-reporter-regrets-shots/) dancing with French reporter Hugo Clément in the lobby of Rome’s [Hotel de Russie](https://www.lartisien.com/hotel/hotel-de-russie?gclid=Cj0KCQjwj7CZBhDHARIsAPPWv3fqY6LdpiJWozfYGw44g66-UmlkM6VWI3zZC3MsXuUMslmTT3wOlL4aApDvEALw_wcB) supposedly angered her boyfriend. “Is there anything I can do?” Bourdain wrote. [according to the New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/dining/anthony-bourdain-biography.html). The publisher disagreed with the accusation: “We stand by our forthcoming publication,” Felice Javit, vice president and senior counsel for the publisher said. Author and journalist Charles Leerhsen based the book on more than 80 interviews and documents, texts, and email exchanges sourced from Bourdain’s laptop.

Anthony Bourdain struggled with fame and his romantic relationship in the days leading up to his death by suicide, a new book reveals.

“People say I murdered him. They say I killed him. As I promised. As I said. “I am okay. I am not spiteful. It wasn’t a problem for us.” As I truly meant,” the “Parts Unknown” star reportedly texted Argento a day before his death. “But you were careless. I hate being famous. “I hate my fans, too. I do not own you.

I hate my fans, too. I hate being famous. I hate my job,” Bourdain wrote to his ex-wife, Ottavia Busia-Bourdain.

As I promised. As I truly meant. As I said. "I hate my fans, too. "I am not spiteful. I hate being famous.

A Polarizing New Biography Chronicles Anthony Bourdain's Final Days · The unauthorized book offers a theory as to why the celebrated chef took his own life—and ...

Yet it also paints a picture of Bourdain that those closest to him are loathe to have displayed publicly, and that they don’t believe tells the whole story. “I think at the very end, in the last days and hours, he realized what he had become,” Leerhsen told the Times. (Argento told the Times that she wrote to Leerhsen, saying he couldn’t publish anything she said to him.) And since then—from [books](https://robbreport.com/tag/books/) to a [feature-length documentary](https://robbreport.com/food-drink/dining/roadrunner-anthony-bourdain-morgan-neville-documentary-1234624085/)—people have been trying to pull back the layers on the chef-turned-TV host to perhaps better understand why he ended his own life. It’s an unauthorized attempt to make sense of Bourdain, and it’s already drawn criticism from some of the people who were closest to him. At the time of his death, the two were fighting and Argento had recently told Bourdain that she couldn’t stay in their relationship.

Anthony Bourdain's death created a wound in the public consciousness, especially in the minds of fans who couldn't believe that the chef had taken his own ...

As I promised. As I truly meant. As I said. I hate my job. I am not spiteful. I hate being famous.

One should never take someone's apparent joy or status as an indication of their wellbeing. As a young man, Anthony Bourdain possessed the life of my dreams ...

You can also text via [crisistextline.org](http://www.crisistextline.org/) or by texting START to 741741 from anywhere in the United States. The discussion will never end, and that's a good thing. [Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain], written by journalist Charles Leerhsen, were published in today's [The New York Times].

A new unauthorized biography "Down and Out in Paradise" of famed traveler Anthony Bourdain reveals raw details of his final days before he died by suicide.

I hate my job.” As I promised. I hate being famous. As I said. As I truly meant. “I am not spiteful.

A new unauthorized biography titled Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain includes a final text message before his death revealing Bourdain ...

I would like to find a reason, too.” I understand that the world needs to find a reason. It wasn’t a problem for us.” “He cheated on me, too. “But you were careless,” he wrote. As I truly meant.” “I hate being famous. As I promised. I hate my job. As I said. “You were reckless with my heart. “I am not spiteful.

Before his death in 2018, Anthony Bourdain visited Texas many times in his career and made stops at pretty much every region of the state.

This West Texas bar was opened by cowboy Ty Mitchell and it's a lively stop for beer and live music if you're out exploring in the desert area. [came here in 2018](https://explorepartsunknown.com/houston/eat-like-bourdain-houston/) it was all about the food served by the Asian-owned business. [stopped for a bite to eat back in 2012](https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/anthony-bourdain/episodes/austin) he said the barbecue food, like the brisket, was so moist.

Read an exclusive excerpt from the unauthorized Anthony Bourdain biography 'Down and Out in Paradise' by Charles Leerhsen.

By experiencing what he had been, he may have seen more clearly what he'd turned into—a character out of a sordid, slightly deranged James Ellroy novel, a doomed and desperate lover who hired a private detective to soil an obscure kid actor for the sake of a woman who respected him less for each effort he made on her behalf. It was an especially horrible thing for Tony to learn about himself, that he had lost his integrity in pursuit of a woman who seemed to spend her life performing for the paparazzi and clowning on Instagram, but perhaps there was some consolation and peace in finally seeing things for what they were. After the next day's shoot, Tony turned down Ripert's suggestion of dinner and went out by himself. It was this world-class mess of what had once been a love affair that Tony was desperately trying to keep going when—with him just settling in to begin the Kaysersberg shoot with Eric Ripert—Argento showed up on the paparazzi websites cavorting in the streets of Rome (and in the lobby of the Hotel de Russie, where she and Tony had enjoyed romantic interludes) with a handsome young French journalist named Hugo Clément. Toward the end of the meal, Schillinger, a handsome blond Frenchman of fifty-five, proposed that he, Tony, Ripert, and the crew make a beer run to Freiburg, Germany, thirty miles to the southeast, for a nightcap—and off they all went like a bunch of spring breakers. One possible reason for his elevated mood was that he'd had a good time the night before when, with the cameras rolling, he and Ripert had visited a two Michelin star restaurant called JY's in the nearby town of Colmar. The proprietor and chef, Jean-Yves Schillinger, had met Tony fifteen years earlier when he'd had a place in New York City; and as Tony and Ripert experienced his high-toned take on Alsatian cooking, memories came rolling back on waves of crisp local whites. Parts Unknown was not regularly broadcast in Kaysersberg, which accounted for Tony's anonymity there, but it did air in Freiburg, and as soon as Tony entered the crowded beer garden he became Anthony Bourdain again, the recipient of allos, prosts, and hearty handshakes, all of which he returned with a wide smile. How Down and Out in Paradise stands apart from the handful of [other works](https://people.com/food/what-to-know-about-anthony-bourdains-a-i-voice-controversy-in-new-doc-roadrunner/) which set out to tell Bourdain's story, is with intimate details from his final days in France, taken largely from texts and emails on his phone and laptop. By Thursday he seemed to be better and kind of wanted everyone to back off." One of his main worries, though, was that he would someday come fourth or fifth, behind her man or men of the moment. [died by suicide](https://people.com/food/anthony-bourdain-death-no-evidence-foul-play-violence-report/) in June 2018 at age 61 while in Kaysersberg, France to film an episode of his series Parts Unknown with close friend and French chef, Eric Ripert.