Dylan Farrow, Woody Allen’s adopted daughter, is accusing again the 78-year old legendary screenwriter-director of sexually assaulting her when she was a child. This is the first time that Dylan (now known as Malone Farrow) talked about the issue, after she broke her silence during the Vanity Fair interview last October. That time, Allen, through his lawyer Elkan Abramowitz, denied all the allegations.
“When I was 7 years old, Woody Allen took me by the hand and led me into a dim, closet-like attic on the second floor of our house. He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set. Then he sexually assaulted me,” Dylan wrote in her open letter, posted on the New York Times website on Saturday, emphasizing that Allen “had been doing things to me that I didn’t like.”
As she continues on her lengthy letter, Dylan said that the ordeal had negative effects on her, including being afraid to be touched by men and developing eating disorders. Although she said she is now happily married, Dylan noted that she decided to write about it after Woody Allen received the Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement on January 12.
Back in 1992, Mia Farrow and Woody Allen ended their 12-year old romantic relationship. Although they never got married, the couple had one biological child, Ronan. They also jointly adopted two children, including Dylan. Allegedly, Allen (then aged 56) had an affair with Soon-Yi Farrow Previn, (Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter with Andre Previn) who was around 19 years old at the time. Around the same time, Mia accused Allen of molesting Dylan. An investigation was conducted, but the prosecutors chose not to charge him. Allen and Previn eventually got married in 1997 and had two adopted daughters.
Allen, who is now nominated for Best Original Screenplay Award in the upcoming Academy Awards for his directed-movie “Blue Jasmine,” has not yet released a statement on the latest issue. Meanwhile, the film also earned two other Oscar nominations: Best Actress (Cate Blanchett) and Best Supporting Actress (Sally Hawkins).
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