Argento claimed that her accuser was “undergoing severe economic problems” and it was partly the decision of her boyfriend, the late Anthony Bourdain, to pay him.
“I don't know what turn my life would have taken if people didn't believe me when I said that something had happened to me,” the singer said during a performance.
Santana could be facing up to 20 years in prison after police found him with a loaded .38-caliber handgun at Newark Liberty International Airport back in March.