Editing Woody Allen sexual abuse allegation

{{short description|Dylan Farrow's accusations of Woody Allen sexually abusing her}}
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[[Image:Woody Allen Cannes 2016.jpg|right|thumb|Allen in 2016]]
In August 1992, American filmmaker and actor [[Woody Allen]] was alleged by actress [[Mia Farrow]] to have [[Child molestation|sexually molested]] their adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow, then aged seven, in Mia Farrow's home in [[Bridgewater, Connecticut]].<ref name=OrthNov1992/> Allen has repeatedly denied the allegation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/woody-allen-defends-himself-on-60-minutes-in-92/|title=Woody Allen defends himself on '60 Minutes' in '92|publisher=[[CBS News]]|access-date= February 8, 2018|archive-date=November 22, 2014| archive-url=https://archive.today/20141122171313/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/woody-allen-defends-himself-on-60-minutes-in-92/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=AllenFeb72014/>

When the allegation was made, Allen and Mia Farrow had been in a 12-year relationship and had three children together: two adopted, Dylan and Moses, and one biological, Satchel (now known as [[Ronan Farrow]]).<ref name=OrthNov1992/> The sexual abuse is alleged to have taken place eight months after Farrow learned that Allen had a sexual relationship with another of her adoptive daughters, [[Soon-Yi Previn]], who went on to marry him in 1997; Previn was a first-year undergraduate and 21 years old when Farrow eventually found out about the relationship.<ref name=Wypijewski26Feb2014/> Allen alleged that the relationship prompted Farrow to concoct the molestation allegation as an act of vengeance.<ref name=AllenFeb72014/> The Connecticut [[State's Attorney]] investigated the allegation but did not press charges.<ref name=Henneberger25Sept1993/> During the investigation the Connecticut State Police referred Dylan to the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic of Yale–New Haven Hospital, which concluded that Allen had not sexually abused Dylan and the allegation was probably coached or influenced by Mia Farrow.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":6" /> The New York Department of Social Services found "no credible evidence" to support the allegation.<ref name=PerezPena26Oct1993/>

In response to the allegation, Allen sued Farrow for sole custody of Dylan, Satchel, and Moses.<ref name=Weber14Aug1992/> He lost the case in June 1993, though the judge agreed that the allegation of sexual abuse had not been proven and the preponderance of the evidence indicated no abuse.<ref name=":0">{{cite case |first=Elliott|last= Wilk|publisher=Supreme Court: New York County |title=Custody Court Ruling}}</ref> Visitations with Dylan were to be resumed within six months, as soon as Dylan had recovered from what she had suffered during the initial custody case,<ref name=":0"/> while Allen was given limited, supervised visitation with Satchel; Moses, a teenager, was allowed to decide for himself.<ref name=Marks8June1993/><ref name=Shea7Feb2014/> The decision was upheld on appeal in 1994<ref name=appeal1994/> and 1995.<ref name=appeal1995/>

Dylan has repeated the allegation several times as an adult, although with modifications of Mia's 1992 narrative.<ref>{{Cite book|title=What Falls Away: A Memoir|first=Mia|last=Farrow |authorlink=Mia Farrow|isbn=9781984800114 |pages=299 |oclc=1035846541 |date=2018|publisher=Random House Publishing }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dylan-farrow-interview-today-gayle-king-full-transcript-woody-allen-me-too/|title=Dylan Farrow details her sexual molestation allegations against Woody Allen |last=January 18, 2018|work=CBS This Morning|date=January 18, 2018 |access-date=2019-03-22}}</ref> Her first public comment was in an interview with [[Maureen Orth]] for ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' in 2013,<ref name=OrthOct2013/> followed by an open letter in the ''New York Times'' in 2014<ref name=Farrow1Feb2014/> and a ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' [[op-ed]] in December 2017.<ref name=Farrow7Dec2017/> Allen has also spoken publicly about the allegation, in a ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' op-ed<ref name=AllenFeb72014/> and in 2018 in a statement to [[CBS News]], each time denying it, and referring to the unanimous conclusions of multiple judicial investigations that exonerated him.<ref name=CBS2018re>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/woody-allen-responds-dylan-farrow-sexual-abuse-allegations/ |title=Woody responds to Dylan Farrow sexual abuse allegations |date=January 18, 2018|publisher=CBS News |access-date=8 February 2018}}</ref> Mia is accused of child abuse by two of her children, Moses<ref name=mosesfarrow>{{cite web |url=http://mosesfarrow.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-son-speaks-out-by-moses-farrow.html |title=A SON SPEAKS OUT |author=Moses Farrow |date=May 23, 2018}}</ref> and Soon-Yi,<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/arts/soon-yi-previn-woody-allen-mia-farrow.html Soon-Yi Previn Defends Woody Allen and Accuses Mia Farrow of Abuse]</ref> who also accuse her of false allegations and of "brainwashing" Dylan. In a 2018 letter posted online, Moses—who was 14 at the time of the allegations—wrote that he felt a responsibility "as the man of the house" to carefully watch Dylan and others the afternoon she was allegedly molested, and explained in detail why he believes the allegation is false. He calls his coerced support of Mia the biggest mistake of his life.<ref name=mosesfarrow/> He tweeted, "So many times I saw my mother try to convince her that she was abused—and it has worked."<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|title=@MosesFarrow|url= https://twitter.com/mosesfarrow/status/954028350581956608|access-date=2020-12-13 |website=Twitter}}</ref>

==Background==
===Allen and Farrow===
Woody Allen and Mia Farrow began a 12-year relationship in 1980, during which Farrow starred in 13 of his films.<ref name=OrthOct2013>{{cite news|url= https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2013/11/mia-farrow-frank-sinatra-ronan-farrow| title=Momma Mia!| first=Maureen|last=Orth|author-link=Maureen Orth|work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]| date= October 23, 2013}}</ref> They maintained separate apartments in [[Manhattan]] throughout the relationship—Farrow on [[Central Park West]]<ref name=Smith8May1994/> and Allen on [[Fifth Avenue]]—and did not marry; both had been married twice before.<ref name=Lax24Feb1991/>

[[File:Mia Farrow 2012 Shankbone.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Mia Farrow]], 2012]]

When the relationship began, Farrow had seven children: three biological sons from her marriage to composer [[André Previn]]; three adopted girls (two [[Vietnamese people|Vietnamese]] and one [[Korean people|Korean]], [[Soon-Yi Previn]]); and one adopted Korean boy, Moses.<ref name=Lax24Feb1991>{{cite news | title=Woody and Mia: A New York Story |first=Eric|last=Lax|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 24, 1991|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/24/magazine/woody-and-mia-a-new-york-story.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Woody Allen, Mia Farrow family tree|url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/03/showbiz/gallery/allen-farrow-family-tree/index.html|website=[[CNN]]|date=May 11, 2016}}</ref> In July 1985 she adopted [[Dylan Farrow]] from [[Texas]]. Allen was not involved in the adoption, but when Dylan arrived he assumed a parental role with her and began spending more time in Farrow's home. He and Farrow went to Europe several times with the Farrow–Previn children between 1987 and 1989, although the judicial investigation concluded that "he remained aloof from Ms. Farrow's other children except for Moses, to whom he was cordial."<ref name=Stern10Feb2014>{{cite news|last1=Stern|first1=Marlow|title=Inside the Shocking Custody Case Court Documents that Shed Light on the Dylan Farrow-Woody Allen Saga|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-shocking-custody-case-court-documents-that-shed-light-on-the-dylan-farrow-woody-allen-saga|work=[[The Daily Beast]]|date=February 10, 2014}}</ref>

In December 1987 Farrow gave birth to Allen's biological son, Satchel (later known as [[Ronan Farrow]]).<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/22/arts/son-born-to-mia-farrow-and-woody-allen.html | title = Son Born to Mia Farrow And Woody Allen | agency = [[Associated Press]] |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date= December 22, 1987}}</ref> Farrow wanted to adopt another child in 1991; Allen said he would not take "a lousy attitude toward it" so long as she agreed to his adoption of Dylan and Moses,<ref name=Stern10Feb2014/> and in October that year she adopted another Vietnamese child.{{efn|Farrow found that the child was too disabled and needed more care than she could provide; she helped to find him another family.<ref name=Smith8May1994>{{cite news|last1=Dinitia|first1=Smith|title=Picking Up The Legos And The Pieces|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/02/23/reviews/farrow-feature.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 8, 1994}}</ref>}} Allen's adoption of Dylan and Moses was finalized on December 17, 1991.<ref name=Stern10Feb2014/>

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According to her testimony during the custody trial, Farrow became concerned about Allen's behavior toward Dylan in 1987–88. She reportedly told Allen that he was giving Dylan too much attention and failing to give her "breathing room". Allen had allegedly read to Dylan while in his underwear, allowed her to suck his thumb, and would sit on her bed in the morning waiting for her to wake up.<ref name=Stern10Feb2014/><ref name=Marks27March1993/><ref name=OrthNov1992/> On one occasion, Dylan allegedly locked herself in the bathroom for four hours when Allen arrived; he had an employee pick the lock with a coat hanger.<ref name=Marks27March1993/> Farrow later testified that she found Allen's relationship with Dylan at this time "relentless and overpowering", with "a wooing quality";<ref name="wmr">{{cite news |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/03/25/Mia-I-worried-about-Woody-being-a-homosexual/8544733035600/ |title=Mia: I worried about Woody being a homosexual |first=William M. |last=Reilly|date=March 25, 1993|work=[[United Press International]]|access-date=October 14, 2018}}</ref> but in 1990 she changed her [[will and testament|will]] so that in the event of her death Allen would have custody of her minor children (Dylan, Satchel and Moses).<ref>{{Cite book|title=What Falls Away: A Memoir|last=Farrow|first=Mia|authorlink=Mia Farrow|publisher=[[Knopf Doubleday]] |year=1997|isbn=0-385-47187-4|location=New York City|pages=249}}</ref> Furthermore, in 1991, she made an [[affidavit]] to the judge promoting Allen's adoption of Dylan and Moses, praising especially Allen's qualities as Dylan's father: "Mr. Allen is a loving, caring, attentive parent to Dylan and she can only benefit from having him as an adoptive father".<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/01/12/More-bombshells-dropped-at-Woody-Allen-hearing/8879726814800/ |title=More bombshells dropped at Woody Allen hearing|last=Reilly|first=M. William|date=January 12, 1993 |work=[[United Press International]]}}</ref>

Farrow told her therapist that she feared Allen "would abuse [[Ronan Farrow|Satchel]]" and that she worried that Allen had a sexual relationship "with another man".<ref name="wmr" /> The family psychologist, Dr. Susan Coates, witnessed some of Allen's behavior and testified during the custody trial in 1993 that she saw it not as sexual but as "inappropriately intense because it excluded everybody else".<ref name=Wypijewski26Feb2014/><ref name=Marks30March1993/> Allen said later that he had paid Dylan extra attention to compensate for the time Farrow was spending with the newborn Satchel.<ref name=appeal1994/> Journalist [[Maureen Orth]] wrote in ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' that Allen agreed in 1990 to discuss the issue in "counseling",<ref name=OrthNov1992/> but at the trial Coates testified that Allen was not in therapy with her and that her contact with both parents was part of their children's therapy. Coates praised Allen's commitment to fathering and desire to improve as a father, but he was not in therapy for inappropriate behavior with Dylan or for any other problems.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Miller |first1=Tracy L. |title=Psychiatrist: Woody was committed to being a good father |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/03/30/Psychiatrist-Woody-was-committed-to-being-a-good-father/1405733467600/ |work=[[United Press International]]|date=March 30, 1993}}</ref>

===Relationship with Previn===
In 1991 Allen began a romantic relationship with Soon-Yi Previn. According to Allen, it began in late December 1991.<ref name=PerezPena23March1993/> In August 1992 Farrow told her lawyer, [[Alan Dershowitz]], that Soon-Yi had told her that the relationship between Allen and Soon-Yi had begun on December 1, 1991.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=New York Daily News Easter Season Poll, 1986|last=Hackett|first=Larry|date=1988-06-01 |place=Ann Arbor, MI |journal=Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research |page=5 |doi = 10.3886/icpsr08584}}</ref> Later Farrow alleged it began while Previn was in her final year of high school, which ended in June 1991. She also alleged that Dylan saw Allen and Previn on a bed together in the summer or autumn of 1991.<ref name=Marks27March1993>{{cite news |last1=Marks |first1=Peter |title=Farrow Says Daughter Became Distraught Over Allen's Relentless Attention |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/02/23/reviews/farrow-trial.html|work=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 27, 1993}}</ref> The appeal court found that the sexual relationship between Allen and Soon-Yi began in December 1991.<ref>{{cite news |work=Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department |title=Woody Allen, Appellant, v. Maria V. Farrow, Also Known as Mia Farrow, Respondent |date=May 12, 1994 |at=197 A.D.2d 327 (1994)}}</ref>

One point of contention has been how old Previn was at the time. When Farrow and André Previn adopted Soon-Yi from [[Seoul]] in 1977, the Seoul family court gave her a legal birth document with a presumptive birth date of October 8, 1970; she had been abandoned and was living in that city's St. Paul's Orphanage.{{efn|"Information concerning this case was obtained from Mr. and Mrs. André G. Previn&nbsp;... The beneficiary, Soon Hee Oh, aka Soon Yi Oh, is a native and citizen of Korea with a presumptive birth date of October 8, 1970."<ref>United States Congressional Serial Set, Issue 13173, 1977, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=1TYoAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Soon+Hee+Oh,+aka+Soon+Yi+Oh%22 170].</ref> "Memorandum of information concerning H.R. 1352 for the relief of Oh Soon Hee submitted by the American Embassy at Seoul, Korea. The beneficiary is an abandoned child, who was found in Seoul, Korea on February 12, 1976. She was placed temporarily in the care of Maria's House, a local institution for abandoned children while an effort was made to identify and locate her parents and relatives. When this search failed, the beneficiary was transferred to the care of St. Paul's Orphanage&nbsp;... in Seoul, where she currently lives. The Seoul Family Court established a Family Census Register (legal birth document) in her behalf on December 28, 1976, with a presumptive birth date of October 8, 1970. The beneficiary attends kindergarten classes held in the orphanage. Through the auspices of the Social Welfare Society, Inc.,&nbsp;... and the Friends of Children adoption agency in the United States, the child has been selected for adoption by Mr. and Mrs. André George Previn, of Martha's Vineyard, Mass.&nbsp;...<ref>United States Congressional Serial Set, 1978, p.&nbsp;[https://books.google.com/books?id=UPBIAQAAMAAJ&q=%22October+8%22 cxlii–cxliv].</ref>}} Consequently, upon Soon-Yi's 1977 entry into the U.S., Farrow and her then husband André Previn registered Soon-Yi's birth date as October 8, 1970. In a 1978 letter to her friend [[Nancy Sinatra]], Farrow wrote that she considered Soon-Yi seven years old, in accordance with that birth date.<ref name=Corliss31Aug1992>{{cite news|last1=Corliss|first1=Richard|title=Woody Allen and Mia Farrow: Scenes of a Breakup|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,976378-6,00.html|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=August 31, 1992}}</ref> Farrow's nanny Kristi Groteke recalled that when Farrow told her that Allen was in a relationship with Soon-Yi in May 1992, Groteke believed Soon-Yi was 21.<ref>{{cite book|title=Mia & Woody. Love and Betrayal|last1=Groteke|first1=Kristi |last2=Rosen|first2=Marjorie|publisher=[[Carroll & Graf Publishers]] |location=New York City|year=1994|isbn=0-7867-0066-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/miawoodylovebetr00grot/page/79 79] |oclc=1036704501|url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/miawoodylovebetr00grot}}</ref> The timing of the relationship became an issue in part because Farrow unsuccessfully attempted to have Allen's adoption of Dylan and Moses voided after the molestation allegation, on the grounds that his relationship with Soon-Yi had begun before the adoptions were finalized on December 17, 1991.<ref name=Perez19June1993/>

[[File:Soon Yi Previn and Woody Allen at the Tribeca Film Festival.jpg|thumb|left|[[Soon-Yi Previn]] and [[Woody Allen]], 2009]]

During her final year of high school, Soon-Yi told Allen that she wanted to be a model; he advised her how to dress and arranged for professional photographs to be taken.<ref name=OrthNov1992/> She and Farrow reportedly asked if she could accompany him to a basketball game, and after attending several together during 1990 and 1991, they became closer.<ref name=Isaacson31Aug1992>{{cite news|last1=Isaacson|first1=Walter|title=The Heart Wants What It Wants|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,160439,00.html|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=June 24, 2001}}</ref><ref name=Stern10Feb2014/> Their relationship came to light on January 13, 1992, when Farrow found nude [[Instant camera|Polaroid]] photographs of Soon-Yi on the [[Fireplace mantel|mantel]] in Allen's home.<ref name=Wypijewski26Feb2014/> Soon-Yi was then 21 and in her first year at [[Drew University]] in [[New Jersey]].<ref name=OrthNov1992/> Allen, then 56, told Farrow that he had taken the photographs the day before, and that he and Soon-Yi had first had sex in the last week of December 1991.<ref name=PerezPena23March1993>{{cite news|last1=Perez-Pena|first1=Richard|title=Nude Photographs Are Focus Of Woody Allen's Testimony|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/23/nyregion/nude-photographs-are-focus-of-woody-allen-s-testimony.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 23, 1993}}</ref> Allen told the custody trial in 1993 that he regarded the images as [[erotica|erotic]], but not [[pornography|pornographic]]; the appellate court said that it did not "share Mr. Allen's characterization" of the photographs.<ref name=appeal1994/>

Although the discovery shocked the family, Farrow did not stop Allen from visiting her home,<ref name=OrthOct2013/> and she completed her work on ''[[Husbands and Wives]]'' (1992), the last film of his in which she appeared.<ref name=Grimes31Aug1992>{{cite news|last1=Grimes|first1=William|title=A Chronology of a Film's Making And a Relationship's Unmaking|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/31/movies/a-chronology-of-a-film-s-making-and-a-relationship-s-unmaking.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 31, 1992}}</ref><ref name=Barron21Aug1992>{{cite news|last1=Barron|first1=James|title=Plot of New Woody Allen Film Seems to Mimic His Life |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/21/nyregion/plot-of-new-woody-allen-film-seems-to-mimic-his-life.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 21, 1992}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=James|first1=Caryn|title=Film View; And Here We Thought We Knew Him|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/06/movies/film-view-and-here-we-thought-we-knew-him.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 6, 1992}}</ref> According to Farrow, Allen said his relationship with Soon-Yi was over;<ref name=OrthOct2013/> she alleged that Allen asked her to issue a joint press release, in response to rumors about the relationship, in which she would confirm there was none between Allen and Soon-Yi, but she refused to do so.{{sfnp|Farrow|1997|p=269}} Farrow was hurt and angry,<ref name=Marks30March1993/> but nevertheless adopted two more children that month: Tam, a blind Vietnamese girl, and Isaiah Justus, an [[African-American]] baby boy.<ref name=OrthNov1992/>

Allen and Soon-Yi remained in contact; in July 1992 she lost her job as a summer camp counselor in [[Maine]] after spending too much time on the telephone with a "Mr. Simon", who turned out to be Allen.<ref name=Stern10Feb2014/> Allen says that when he visited Connecticut to celebrate Dylan's birthday, Farrow left a note on a door in which she called him a "child molester [...] now focused on youngest daughter", meaning Dylan.<ref>{{cite news|title=Allen Said Farrow Made Good On Her Promise|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19921123&id=orwzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PPADAAAAIBAJ&pg=1660,2745737&hl=en|newspaper=[[The Spokesman-Review]]|date=November 23, 1992|accessdate=October 14, 2018}}</ref> On August 1, 1992, according to Coates' testimony, Farrow telephoned Coates to say she had learned that Soon-Yi and Allen were still in a relationship; Farrow was distressed and told Coates that, just a week earlier, she and Allen had talked about getting married. "Ms. Farrow described Mr. Allen as 'satanic and evil'", Coates said, adding that Farrow pleaded with her to "find a way to stop him."<ref name=Marks30March1993/> Allen publicly announced his relationship with Soon-Yi on August 17, 1992. Later that month Soon-Yi said that Allen had never been a father figure to her, and that they had become friendly long after his romance with Farrow had ended.<ref name="Soon-Yi Speaks">{{Cite web |url=https://www.newsweek.com/soon-yi-speaks-lets-not-get-hysterical-197958|title=Soon-Yi Speaks: 'Let's Not Get Hysterical'|date=August 30, 1992|work=[[Newsweek]]|access-date=September 4, 2019}}</ref> As Allen and Farrow had never married, and as Allen had never adopted Soon-Yi, their relationship was not illegal.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/137176042?searchTerm=jack%20waterford%20%22soon-yi%22%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&searchLimits=|title=Modern Reasons For Old Taboos on Incest|first=Jack|last=Waterford|newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]]|date=27 August 1992|access-date=14 October 2018}}</ref> It continued, and they married in Venice on December 23, 1997.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Collins|first1=Glenn|title=Mixed Reviews Greet Woody Allen Marriage| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/25/nyregion/mixed-reviews-greet-woody-allen-marriage.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 25, 1997}}</ref>

==Allegation==
On August 4, 1992, Allen visited his children at Farrow's country home in Connecticut while Farrow and a friend went shopping with the two most recently adopted children, Tam and Isaiah.<ref name=OrthNov1992 /> Farrow and Allen were to sign an agreement on August 6 that Allen would pay $6,000 a month for the support of Dylan, Satchel and Moses;<ref name=OrthNov1992/> Martin Weltz, Farrow's lawyer, said that on August 4 Farrow called him to suspend the processing of the agreement.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3uQCAAAAMBAJ|title=Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Woody and Mia (But Were Afraid to Ask)|last=Hoban|first=Phoebe|date=September 21, 1992|magazine=[[New York Magazine|New York]]|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>

Present in the house once Farrow had left were Dylan; Satchel; Farrow's babysitter, Kristie Groteke; the children's French tutor, Sophie Berge; Farrow's friend's three children; and Farrow's friend's babysitter, Alison Stickland. When Farrow left the house Moses was, according to her, "off by himself taking a walk". Moses claims he was in the house when Allen arrived.{{sfnp|Farrow|1997|p=270}}<ref name="MosesFarrowMay2018" /> The day after the visit, Stickland told her employer that she had seen Allen kneel on the floor in front of Dylan, then aged seven, with his head in her lap facing her body; she testified to that effect during the custody trial.<ref name=":6" /><ref name="Shea7Feb2014" /><ref name=MarksApril101993>{{cite news|last1=Marks|first1=Peter|title=Sitter Questions Allen Actions With Daughter|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/10/nyregion/sitter-questions-allen-actions-with-daughter.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 10, 1993}}</ref> Dylan allegedly told Farrow what had happened and that she had not liked it; Farrow telephoned her attorney for guidance and was advised to take Dylan to her local pediatrician. Farrow took Dylan to Vadakkekara Kavirajan, Farrow's regular pediatrician, to whom the girl did not make any report of abuse.

According to the expert Farrow hired, Farrow had videotaped Dylan answering her questions before the second visit to the pediatrician, and Dylan had made the allegation of abuse "in fits and starts", and in a way that "set a tone for a child about how to answer",{{sfnp|Groteke|Rosen|1994|p=169}} and Dylan told Farrow&nbsp;that she&nbsp;had been with Allen&nbsp;in&nbsp;the attic {{harvnb|Farrow|1997|p=272}}<ref>{{cite news|title=Woody Allen claims videotape proves Mia's 'unfitness' as mother|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/12/21/Woody-Allen-claims-videotape-proves-Mias-unfitness-as-mother/4450724914000/|work=[[United Press International]]|date=December 21, 1992}}</ref> and&nbsp;that he had touched&nbsp;her private parts.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=http://www.thunderpeel2001.com/files/Allen-v-Farrow.pdf|title=Allen v. Farrow (1993)|last=Wilk|first=Elliott, J.}}</ref><ref name=Stern10Feb2014/><ref name=OrthNov1992>{{cite news |last=Orth|first=Maureen|author-link=Maureen Orth|title=Mia's Story|magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|date=August 5, 2008|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1992/11/farrow199211|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221205817/http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1992/11/farrow199211|archive-date=2009-02-21|url-status=live}}</ref> The following day, they returned to see Kavirajan, and Dylan repeated the allegation. Kavirajan then informed authorities, although he said he found no physical evidence of sexual molestation.{{sfnp|Farrow|1997|p=272}}<ref name="Orth7Feb2014">{{cite web|last1=Orth|first1=Maureen|author-link=Maureen Orth|title=10 Undeniable Facts About the Woody Allen Sexual-Abuse Allegation|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/02/woody-allen-sex-abuse-10-facts|website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|date=7 February 2014}}</ref><ref name="fmw">{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/08/19/Woody-Abuse-charge-video-tape-forced-him-to-seek-childrens-custody/5213714196800/|title=Woody: Abuse charge, video tape forced him to seek children's custody|first=Frederick M.|last=Winship|date=August 19, 1992|work=[[United Press International]]|accessdate=14 October 2018}}</ref> Kavirajan later told an interviewer that he was "required by state law" to report any allegations of [[child abuse]].<ref name="fmw" /> [[Susan Coates]] informed Allen of the allegation during one of the sessions in which he was participating in Satchel's therapy; he responded, "I'm completely flabbergasted," repeating it several times.<ref name="Marks30March1993" />

==Legal action==
===Custody proceedings and statements===
Farrow hired attorney [[Alan Dershowitz]] to propose to Allen that they resolve the matter without any public disclosure.<ref>{{Cite book|first=Alan|last=Dershowitz|author-link=Alan Dershowitz|title=Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law|year=2013|isbn=978-0-307-71927-0|edition=First|publisher=[[Crown Publishing]]|location=New York City|pages=739|oclc=849740874}}</ref> Allen rejected the proposal.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Span|first=Paula|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/04/17/the-brawling-barristers/30d7c9d6-9eba-4663-9706-1fe25db5d88e/|title=The Brawling Barristers|date=1993-04-17|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2020-04-20|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

On August 13, 1992, a week after being told about the allegation, Allen began proceedings in [[New York Supreme Court]] for sole custody of Dylan, Moses, and Satchel.<ref name="Weber14Aug1992">{{cite news|last1=Weber|first1=Bruce|title=Woody Allen Files Child-Custody Lawsuit|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/14/nyregion/woody-allen-files-child-custody-lawsuit.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 14, 1992}}</ref> Farrow's mother, the actress [[Maureen O'Sullivan]], issued a statement on August 15 that was critical of Allen and said Farrow had retained Dershowitz.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Rabinovitz|first1=Jonathan|title=War! Mia Fights Back With (Gasp!) Publicity|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/16/nyregion/war-mia-fights-back-with-gasp-publicity.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 16, 1992}}</ref> Two days later, Allen released his first public comment about his relationship with Previn: "Regarding my love for Soon-Yi: It's real and happily all true. She's a lovely, intelligent, sensitive woman who has and continues to turn around my life in a wonderfully positive way."<ref name="Weber18Aug1992">{{cite news|last1=Weber|first1=Bruce|title=Public Disclosures From the Private Life of Woody Allen|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/18/nyregion/public-disclosures-from-the-private-life-of-woody-allen.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 18, 1992}}</ref><ref name="Wilkinson11Jan2018">{{cite news|last1=Wilkinson|first1=Alissa|title=Why Woody Allen hasn't been toppled by the #MeToo reckoning — yet|url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/1/11/16635446/woody-allen-dylan-farrow-mia-ronan-sexual-molestation-allegation-metoo|work=[[Vox.com|Vox]]|date=January 11, 2018}}</ref>

On August 18 Allen held a news conference at the [[Plaza Hotel]]. Calling the molestation allegation "an unconscionable and gruesomely damaging manipulation of innocent children for vindictive and self-serving motives," he alleged that, during a meeting on August 13, Farrow's lawyers had demanded between $5 million and $8 million in "[[hush money]]".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Marks|first1=Peter|title=Dershowitz Says Farrow Involved Him |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/16/nyregion/dershowitz-says-farrow-involved-him.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 16, 1992}}</ref><ref name=Barron19Aug1992>{{cite news|last1=Barron|first1=James|title=Striking Back, Woody Allen Denies Child Sex-Abuse Allegation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/19/nyregion/striking-back-woody-allen-denies-child-sex-abuse-allegation.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 19, 1992}}</ref> Dershowitz responded that the lawyers had suggested Allen pay a [[lump sum]] in [[child support]], rather than a monthly one, to reduce Allen's interaction with Farrow. It would be $17,000 a month until each child reach the age of 21, $900,000 for college tuition and $2,500,000 for Farrow herself as compensation for her loss of income for the next 10 years. Allen's lawyers declared that Farrow's proposal was that in exchange for the money she would drop the charges of sexual abuse. Dershowitz flatly denied this, saying he was trying to reach an agreement that would allow the matter not to be made public and convince police in Connecticut that it was best not to intervene and "decriminalize" the case, and that the proposal was completely separate and independent of the economic proposal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/04/15/Dershowitz-Woody-is-on-the-road-to-ruin/2543734846400/|title=Dershowitz: Woody is on the Road to Ruin|work=[[United Press International]]|date=April 15, 1993|access-date=November 15, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Barron|first1=James|title=Allen 'Spoiled and Mutilated' His Better Self, Farrow Says|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/20/nyregion/allen-spoiled-and-mutilated-his-better-self-farrow-says.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 20, 1992}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Goldman|first1=John J.|title=Final Arguments in Allen Custody Trial as Bitter as First |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-05-mn-31539-story.html|work=[[The Los Angeles Times]]|date=May 5, 1993}}</ref> On August 20 Allen's publicist announced that Allen had passed a [[lie detector test]].<ref name=Barron21Aug1992/> The following day, in an interview with [[Walter Isaacson]] of [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]], Allen called the nude photographs of Previn a "lark of a moment". Of the relationship, he said: "I didn't feel that just because she was Mia's daughter, there was any great moral dilemma. It was a fact, but not one with any great import."<ref name=Isaacson31Aug1992/><ref name=":1">{{cite news|last1=Hevesi|first1=Dennis|title=Woody Allen Tells His Side to a Magazine|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/23/nyregion/woody-allen-tells-his-side-to-a-magazine.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 23, 1992}}</ref>

During the fall of 1992, the [[Connecticut State Police]] interviewed Dylan using anatomical dolls. The last of the interviews took place on December 30, 1992, during which Dylan inserted the penis of the male doll into the vagina of the female doll. When the police asked her why she knew that the dolls fit like that, she told them that during the summer Satchel and she had witnessed how Allen introduced his penis into Soon-Yi's vagina. "Daddies do not do this", she told them, according to the statement, and "daddies are not supposed to act like boyfriends."{{sfnp|Groteke|Rosen|1994|p=172}}<ref>{{Cite news|title=Saw dad, Soon Yi in bed:Woody Kid|last=Hackett|first=Larry|date=1993-01-13|work=[[The New York Daily News]]}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite news|title=Dylan Saw It All 7-year-old says she watched Woody, Soon-Yi having sex|last=Kocieniewski|first=David|date=January 13, 1993|work=[[Newsday]]}}</ref> Eleanor Alter disclosed this in the course of a court hearing about Allen's visitation rights during the processing of the procedure. The session was suspended due to the seriousness of the allegation.

Between September and November 1992, Dylan was interviewed by specialists from [[Yale New Haven Hospital]].<ref name=":2" /> One of the aspects these sessions explored was the relationship between boyfriends and girlfriends. In November 1992 that relationship consisted for Dylan in "kisses and hugs."<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|title=Woody Says He's Cleared Report: No sign of sex abuse: Excerpts From the Yale Report |last=Polner|first=Rob|date=March 19, 1993 |work=[[Newsday]]}}</ref> The judicial investigation concluded that the sexual relationship between Soon Yi and Allen began in December 1991.<ref name="appeal1994" /> Allen denied Dylan's allegations that she had witnessed him and Previn having sex in the summer of 1991, insisting that their sexual relationship didn't begin until December. Allen also attacked Farrow, stating, "I think that when Mia needs something, she takes our daughter and makes her say it."<ref>{{Cite news |title=Lawyer: Kids Saw Woody, Soon Yi Have Sex|agency=[[Associated Press]]|date=January 13, 1993|work=[[Star-Gazette]] |page=2}}</ref>

Allen and Farrow reached an agreement according to which Allen would not begin visits with Dylan immediately and Farrow would provide a therapist for her.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Woody & Mia OK Shrink for Dylan|last=Hackett|first=Larry|date=January 20, 1993|work=[[The New York Daily News]]}}</ref>

===Yale–New Haven Hospital team===
On August 17, 1992, the Connecticut State Police announced that they were investigating the molestation allegation.<ref name=Weber18Aug1992/><ref name=Wilkinson11Jan2018/> In September the police referred Dylan to the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic of Yale New Haven Hospital. The main questions were whether Dylan was telling the truth and whether she was sexually abused.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://radaronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/yale-new-haven-hospital-allen.pdf|title=Child Sexual Abuse Clinic Evaluation of Dylan Farrow|date=1993-03-17|website=Radaronline.|access-date=March 27, 2019|archive-date=November 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112020435/https://radaronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/yale-new-haven-hospital-allen.pdf}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Frank Maco, [[State's Attorney]] for the [[Litchfield, Connecticut|Litchfield]] district, declared in 1997 that he asked the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic to evaluate whether Dylan would make a viable witness.<ref name=ThibaultNov1997/><ref name=OrthOct2013/> The clinic's professionals met with the police and Maco for preliminary information. Between September 18 and November 13 they conducted nine separate interviews with Dylan and her mother. On October 14 they interviewed Groteke, and between November 17 and January 7 they had three interviews with Allen. Finally, they met with Farrow to review the recording she had made of Dylan between August 5 and 6. Berge, the other nanny present on August 4, was also interviewed, as were the two psychotherapists treating the children, Coates and Nancy Schultz.<ref name="Ewing2006p159">{{cite book|title=Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology|last1=Ewing|first1=Charles Patrick|last2=McCann|first2=Joseph T.|date=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|at=(pp.&nbsp;153–164), p.&nbsp;159|chapter=Woody Allen and Mia Farrow: A Swing of King Solomon's Sword|author1-link=Charles Patrick Ewing}}</ref><ref name=Winter7Feb2014>{{cite news|last1=Winter|first1=Jessica|title=Woody Allen and Dylan Farrow: Just the Facts|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2014/02/woody_allen_and_dylan_farrow_digging_deeper_into_misleading_coverage.html|work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|date=February 7, 2014}}</ref> The Child Sexual Abuse Clinic medical director, Dr. John M. Leventhal, signed the team's report while Dylan was interviewed by the social workers.<ref name=Winter7Feb2014/><ref name=OrthOct2013/> Completed in March 1993, the report concluded: "It is our expert opinion that Dylan was not sexually abused by Mr. Allen."{{efn|[[Yale–New Haven Hospital]] Child Sexual Abuse Clinic (1993): "It is our expert opinion that Dylan was not sexually abused by Mr. Allen. Further, we believe that Dylan's statements on videotape and her statements to us during our evaluation do not refer to actual events that occurred to her on August 4th, 1992&nbsp;... In developing our opinion we considered three hypotheses to explain Dylan's statements. First, that Dylan's statements were true and that Mr. Allen had sexually abused her; second, that Dylan's statements were not true but were made up by an emotionally vulnerable child who was caught up in a disturbed family and who was responding to the stresses in the family; and third, that Dylan was coached or influenced by her mother, Ms. Farrow. While we can conclude that Dylan was not sexually abused, we can not be definite about whether the second formulation by itself or the third formulation by itself is true. We believe that it is more likely that a combination of these two formulations best explains Dylan's allegations of sexual abuse."<ref name=AllenFeb72014/><ref name=Ewing2006p159/><ref name=Winter7Feb2014/>}}

The team had proposed the study as an attempt to corroborate or refute some of these basic hypotheses:
# That Dylan's allegations were true and Allen had sexually abused her.
# That Dylan's statements were not true, but had been made by an emotionally vulnerable minor trapped in a disturbed family situation as a response to stress.
# That Dylan had been instructed or influenced by her mother on what to say.

The team concluded Dylan had not been sexually abused, but did not state which of the remaining hypotheses was true. It deemed the best explanation for the allegation a combination of the two.

The team members were Leventhal;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://slidex.tips/download/curriculum-vitae-john-m-leventhal-md|title=[PDF] CURRICULUM VITAE. John M. Leventhal, M.D. - Free Download PDF|website=slidex.tips|access-date=2019-03-20}}</ref> Dr. Julia Hamilton, who was also a social worker and co-director of the Yale Medical Center Child Abuse Program;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nhregister/obituary.aspx?n=julia-pearl-hamilton&pid=153301737|title=Julia Pearl Hamilton, Obituary.|website=[[Legacy.com]]}}</ref> and social worker Sawyer, who had a master's degree in social work and ten years of experience. The social workers met Dylan in Yale New Haven every Friday for an hour or so. Groteke was interviewed for three hours.{{sfnp|Groteke|Rosen|1994|p=168}} According to the report, the inconsistencies in Dylan's statements, the lack of spontaneity, and the impression of repeating something learned were the main reason for the conclusions.<ref name=":2" /> The report also stressed that Dylan felt that she had to solve her mother's problems,{{sfnp|Groteke|Rosen|1994|p=168}} and indicated that the relationship between Farrow, Dylan and Satchel was very disturbed and required immediate intensive psychotherapy.<ref name=":3" /> The team destroyed the original notes when incorporating their content into the report.<ref name="Orth7Feb2014" /><ref name="Ewing2006p159" /> The report was immediately sent to the state police, who informed Farrow that day and two days before Allen was informed.{{sfnp|Groteke|Rosen|1994|p=222}} Maco told a reporter in 1997 that Yale "took the case and ran away with it."<ref name="ThibaultNov1997" />

===Custody trial===
====Testimony====
The custody hearings began on March 19, 1993, in State Supreme Court in Manhattan,<ref name=Perez20March1993>{{cite news|last1=Perez-Pena|first1=Richard|title=Woody Allen Tells of Affair as Custody Battle Begins|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/20/nyregion/woody-allen-tells-of-affair-as-custody-battle-begins.html|work=The New York Times|date=March 20, 1993}}</ref> and ended on May 4.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Marks|first1=Peter|title=Allen-Farrow Trial Ends in New Round of Old Charges|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/05/nyregion/allen-farrow-trial-ends-in-new-round-of-old-charges.html|work=The New York Times|date=May 5, 1993}}</ref> Journalists were allowed in court but television cameras and microphones were not.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Penez-Pena|first1=Richard|title=Judge Bars Broadcasters From Farrow-Allen Case|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/12/nyregion/judge-bars-broadcasters-from-farrow-allen-case.html|work=The New York Times|date=December 12, 1992}}</ref> Taking the stand on the first day, Allen said the allegation was Farrow's vengeance for his romantic relationship with Soon-Yi, which he had not intended to be "anything but a private thing"; he had hoped Farrow would not find out about it. He described her anger when she did.<ref name=Perez20March1993/>

[[File:NYC - New York County Supreme Courthouse.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|New York State Supreme Courthouse]]

Groteke, Farrow's babysitter, testified in April that for about 15–20 minutes on the afternoon in question, she had not been able to find Dylan or Allen in the house; she had assumed they were outside with the other children.<ref name=Stern10Feb2014/> Allen said he had gone to the bathroom during the disputed period.<ref name=MarksApril101993/> Berge testified that she had noticed Dylan was wearing no underwear under her dress that day.<ref name=Stern10Feb2014/><ref name=Winter7Feb2014/><ref name=Wypijewski26Feb2014>{{cite news|last1=Wypijewski|first1=Joann|title=Woody and Mia: A Modern Family Timeline|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/woody-and-mia-modern-family-timeline/|work=The Nation|date=February 26, 2014|access-date=January 20, 2018|archive-date=May 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517063950/https://www.thenation.com/article/woody-and-mia-modern-family-timeline/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Another Farrow nanny, Monica Thompson, who was not present in the house on that day, told Allen's lawyers in two affidavits in February 1993 that she had felt pressured by Farrow to support the allegation.<ref name=latimes020293/><ref>{{cite news|last1=Span|first1=Paula|title=Clash of the Nannies|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/04/07/clash-of-the-nannies/97418ba8-5206-4a36-888f-ce1d54b3f84f|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=April 7, 1993}}</ref> Thompson said that Groteke had also had reservations; according to Thompson, Groteke told her, days after the allegation was made, that she "did not have Dylan out of her sight for longer than five minutes. She did not remember Dylan being without her underwear."<ref name=latimes020293>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-02-mn-952-story.html|title=Nanny Casts Doubt on Farrow Charges|date=February 2, 1993|first=John J.|last=Goldman|work=Los Angeles Times|archive-date=January 19, 2018| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180119042801/http://articles.latimes.com/1993-02-02/news/mn-952_1_woody-allen|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Wypijewski26Feb2014/> Groteke acknowledged that she had had that conversation, but admitted only to telling Thompson that she did not remember having lost sight of Dylan.{{sfnp|Groteke|Rosen|1994|p=126}} Thompson, who had been Dylan's nanny since the girl was two months old, also said that the charges Farrow brought against Allen were "not true".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/01/26/Mias-nanny-says-Woody-was-the-better-parent/6587728024400/|title=Mia's nanny says Woody was the better parent|website=UPI|access-date=2019-03-19}}</ref> Mavis Smith, Farrow's housekeeper of 13 years, said she thought Allen was a good father and that she had never seen Allen doing anything sexual with Dylan or Satchel.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/04/06/Expert-witness-doubts-Woody-abused-adopted-daughter/2831734068800/|title=Expert witness doubts Woody abused adopted daughter|website=UPI|access-date=2019-03-23}}</ref>

Coates testified that Farrow had been so angry with Allen when she discovered his relationship with Previn that Coates had feared for Allen's safety.<ref name=Marks30March1993>{{cite news|last1=Marks|first1=Peter|title=Doctor Recounts Threats By Farrow Against Allen|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/02/23/reviews/farrow-doctor.html|work=The New York Times|date=March 30, 1993}}</ref> Farrow and Allen hired Schultz in April 1991 because the child "lived in her own fantasy world".<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/02/nyregion/psychologist-testifies-about-visitation-rights-for-allen.html|title=Psychologist Testifies About Visitation Rights for Allen|last=Marks|first=Peter|date=1993-04-02|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-31|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Schultz testified that Dylan had become "absorbed in what the fantasy is [and] that it became real".<ref>{{Cite news|title=Woody´s lawyer says Conn. cops siding with Mia |last=Hackett|first=Larry|date=1993-04-09|work=Daily News}}</ref> Neither Coates nor Schultz believed sexual abuse had occurred.<ref name=":0" /> One of Allen's lawyers alleged that Farrow's lawyers had suggested "the charges could be made to go away" if Allen agreed to pay around $7 million. Dershowitz, representing Farrow, said there had been an "exploratory" session to attempt [[mediation]]. "To have this described as an extortionate meeting is ridiculous," he said. He added that Allen's lawyers were "trying to set a trap, the trap failed and now they testify as if the trap succeeded". One of Allen's lawyers acknowledged when [[cross-examination|cross-examined]] that the discussion about money related mostly to the children's education and medical care, as well as money owed for Farrow's film work for Allen.<ref name=MarksApril101993/> Levett, Farrow's lawyer, acknowledged that he suggested various amounts to reach an agreement "for child support, including household help: $17,000 a month until the youngest of the children turned 21, roughly $2.5 million factoring in inflation and interest. For tuition, assuming all three went to college: $800,000 to $900,000. Plus unspecified medical and, yes, psychiatric expenses. There might be a [[damages|damage claim]] for Dylan, who had accused her father of molesting her. And some compensation for Mia Farrow, who'd earned $300,000 a year for her roles in Allen's annual films and was entitled to that sum for five to ten years now that she was out of a job."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/04/16/dershowitz-woody-would-not-budge/0a95205b-6ca1-415f-8394-f212f705c954/|title=Dershowitz: Woody Would Not Budge|last=Span|first=Paula|date=April 16, 1993 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> Dershowitz echoed Levett's testimony, but said that a proposal was made to intercede in the child-abuse investigation in favor of a private [[legal settlement|settlement]]. He added that the offer "was not premised on any payments."<ref name=":1" /> On October 14, 1992, Dershowitz told interviewer [[Charlie Rose]]: "I don't think it ever had to come out. If he [Woody Allen] had not filed that suit, I don't think anybody would know the story today and I think it would be resolved quietly behind the scenes."<ref>{{Citation|title=Alan Dershowitz - Charlie Rose|url=https://charlierose.com/videos/18189|access-date=2019-03-19}}</ref>

Leventhal testified by [[Deposition (law)|deposition]] on April 20, 1993. Citing inconsistencies in Dylan's account, he said that once the hypothesis that Dylan's narrative corresponded to events that actually happened was discarded, the Yale New Haven team "had two hypotheses: one, that these were statements that were made by an emotionally disturbed child and then became fixed in her mind, and the other hypothesis was that she was coached or influenced by her mother. We did not come to a firm conclusion. We think that it was probably a combination."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Perez-Pena|first1=Richard|title=Doctor Cites Inconsistencies In Dylan Farrow's Statements|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/04/nyregion/doctor-cites-inconsistencies-in-dylan-farrow-s-statements.html|work=The New York Times|date=May 4, 1993}}</ref> Farrow and Allen both hired [[expert witness]]es to discuss the report.<ref name=Ewing2006p159/> Anne Meltzer, a forensic psychologist, testified for Allen that the report had "reached conclusions that were supported well by the data they collected." She said the tape of Dylan making the allegation was "flawed" because it had been filmed by one side and not by a professional.<ref name=Ewing2006p159/><ref name=Marks28April1993/><ref>{{cite news|last1=Miller|first1=Tracey L.|title=Judge in Woody-Mia child custody case airs anti-Allen views|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/04/26/Judge-in-Woody-Mia-child-custody-case-airs-anti-Allen-views/5124735796800/|publisher=UPI|date=April 26, 1993}}</ref> Stephen Herman, a child psychiatrist, testified for Farrow that the report was "seriously flawed", and that he could find no evidence of a thought disorder in Dylan's statements,<ref name=Ewing2006p159/><ref name=Marks28April1993>{{cite news |last1=Marks |first1=Peter |date=April 28, 1993 |work=The New York Times|title=Yale Study About Allen Flawed, Expert Testifies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/28/nyregion/yale-study-about-allen-flawed-expert-testifies.html}}</ref> but that the report was not biased<ref name=double-edge>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/04/28/evidence-with-a-double-edge/82fc8e5e-19c5-472a-981e-4adfdfa33b6d/|title=EVIDENCE WITH A DOUBLE EDGE|last=Span |first=Paula |date=1993-04-28 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Woody vs. Mia case drawing to a close|agency=Associated Press|date=1993-04-28|work=Asbury Park Press (Asbury Park, New Jersey)}}</ref> and that, in light of the evidence, he could not reach any conclusion about the allegation of abuse.<ref name=double-edge/> To [[Charles Patrick Ewing]] and Joseph McCann, the most damaging criticism of the report was that the team had destroyed its notes from the interviews it conducted, which meant the court could not test the validity of the report's conclusions; they write that forensic experts have an obligation to retain their notes for review. Another criticism was that the team was unwilling to testify in court, except via Leventhal's deposition.{{sfnp|Ewing|McCann|2006|p=160}} Herman also recognized the tape of Dylan making the allegation was flawed because it was made in a way that "set a tone for a child about how to answer".{{sfnp|Groteke|Rosen|1994|p=169}} He also concluded that there was no point to evaluating Dylan again about the allegation.<ref name="Shea7Feb2014" />

All the psychiatric experts who testified in the trial agreed that Allen was able to play a beneficial role in Dylan's therapy.<ref name="appeal1994" /><ref name="Shea7Feb2014" />

====Decision====
In his 33-page decision in June 1993,<ref name=Shea7Feb2014/> Justice Elliott Wilk rejected Allen's bid for custody of the three children and rejected the allegation of sexual abuse, denied Allen immediate visitation rights with Dylan, saying of Allen's behavior toward Dylan that it was "grossly inappropriate and that measures must be taken to protect her" while pointing out that Allen's inappropriate behavior was not sexual in nature.<ref name=Shea7Feb2014/><ref name=Marks8June1993/>
Rejecting Allen's portrayal of Farrow as a "woman scorned", Wilk said there was no credible evidence that she had coached Dylan, although the videotape she made of Dylan compromised the investigation of sexual abuse, and criticized Allen for his "trial strategy" of turning family members and employees against one another. The Yale New Haven team's unwillingness to testify in court, except through Leventhal's deposition, together with the destruction of its notes, had rendered its report, he wrote, "sanitized and, therefore, less credible".{{sfnp|Ewing|McCann|2006|p=160}}<ref name=Stern10Feb2014/><ref name=Shea7Feb2014>{{cite news|last1=Shea|first1=Danny|title=Here's The 1993 Woody Allen Custody Ruling In Its Damning, Detailed Entirety|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-shea/heres-the-1993-woody-alle_b_4746866.html|work=HuffPost|date=February 7, 2014}}; {{cite court | litigants = Allen v. Farrow (1993) | court = N.Y. Sup. |date=June 7, 1993}}</ref><ref name=Marks8June1993>{{cite news|last1=Marks|first1=Peter|title=Allen Loses to Farrow in Bitter Custody Battle|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/02/23/reviews/farrow-verdict.html|work=The New York Times|date=June 8, 1993}}</ref> Wilk called the case "frivolous" and ordered Allen to pay Farrow's costs.<ref name=Marks8June1993/>{{sfnp|Ewing|McCann|2006|p=161}} Regarding the allegation of abuse, Wilk concluded that the evidence did not support that it had occurred, although he was not sure that the evidence demonstrated conclusively that it had not. Wilk did not order a new battery of forensic testing with Dylan because all the experts had agreed with the limited report's conclusions and because it would not after the period of time elapsed be beneficial or provide useful information.<ref name=":0" />

===Criminal inquiry, social services===
The Connecticut State Police interviewed Allen in Litchfield in January 1993 for over three hours. He said he had never been in the attic [[crawl space]]; when the police said they had taken fingerprints in there, he said it was possible that his prints were there. The forensic specialist chief of Connecticut's state crime laboratory, Dr. Henry Lee, said that what police has found in the crawl space was hair fibers and that the evidence could not place Allen in the attic. On September 20 that year, Frank Maco, accompanied by a female police detective, talked to Dylan; Maco told a reporter in 1997, "I saw complete [[emotional withdrawal|withdrawal]] any time I tried to discuss the incident."<ref name=ThibaultNov1997/><ref name=OrthOct2013/>

On September 24, 1993, Maco held a news conference to say that he would not pursue the molestation allegation, despite having [[probable cause]], citing a desire not to traumatize Dylan.<ref name=ThibaultNov1997>{{cite news|last1=Thibault|first1=Andy|title=People: Frank Maco|url=http://www.connecticutmag.com/the-connecticut-story/mia-farrow-s-vanity-fair-interview-references-connecticut-magazine-article/article_4327cac7-ffef-5eb5-9c19-fdaf70e84855.html|work=Connecticut Magazine|date=November 1997}}</ref><ref name=Henneberger25Sept1993>{{cite news |first=Melinda|last=Henneberger|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/25/nyregion/connecticut-prosecutor-won-t-file-charges-against-woody-allen.html | title = Connecticut Prosecutor Won't File Charges Against Woody Allen | work = The New York Times | date = September 25, 1993}}</ref><ref name=CBS18Jan2018>{{cite news|title=Dylan Farrow details her sexual molestation allegations against Woody Allen|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dylan-farrow-interview-today-gayle-king-full-transcript-woody-allen-me-too/|publisher=CBS News|date=January 18, 2018}}</ref> In the official statement of decision of the [[prosecution]], Maco acknowledged that even in the case of custody and with a more favorable standard of proof for the accusation than "beyond a reasonable doubt" it had been impossible to reach the conclusion that the abuse had occurred. He also said that the nature of the evidence was fertile ground for the defense and "would not have the same probative as it did in the New York Supreme Court custody case" and that he considered his duty "to avoid the unjustifiable risk of exposing a child to the rigors and uncertainties of a questionable prosecution".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/document/204662575/Statement-of-Decision-9-24-1993|title=Statement of Decision 9-24-1993|website=Scribd|access-date=2019-05-04}}</ref>

In a letter to the New York Department of Social Services, Allen's psychotherapist Kathryn Prescott said that his psychological profile "was definitely not that of a [[sex offender|sexual offender]]" and also said, "There has never been any suggestion that Mr. Allen was suffering from a sexual perversion / deviant sexual behavior."<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1241&dat=19930421&id=Y35TAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FIYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6340,6035301&hl=en "Therapist says Woody Allen No Sex Offender"]. Jeanne King, ''[[Daily News (Kingsport)|Daily News]]'', (p.12) April 21st, 1993. Retrieved 14 October 2018.</ref> The New York Department of Social Services closed its own 14-month investigation in October 1993; its letter to Allen stated: "No credible evidence was found that the child named in this report has been abused or maltreated. This report has, therefore, been considered unfounded."<ref name="PerezPena26Oct1993">{{cite news|last1=Pérez-Peña|first1=Richard|title=Agency Drops Abuse Inquiry in Allen Case|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/26/nyregion/agency-drops-abuse-inquiry-in-allen-case.html|work=The New York Times|date=October 26, 1993}}</ref>

Allen filed complaints with the Connecticut Criminal Justice Commission and the statewide bar counsel over Maco's statement about probable cause.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Perez-Pena|first1=Richard|title=Woody Allen Asks Connecticut to Discipline Prosecutor|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/14/nyregion/woody-allen-asks-connecticut-to-discipline-prosecutor.html|work=The New York Times|date=October 14, 1993}}</ref> The former dismissed the complaint in November 1993.<ref name=Kennedy4Nov1993>{{cite news|last1=Kennedy|first1=Randy|title=Woody Allen Fails to Beat A Prosecutor|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/04/nyregion/woody-allen-fails-to-beat-a-prosecutor.html|work=The New York Times|date=November 4, 1993}}</ref> In February 1994 the statewide Grievance Committee ruled that, while Maco had not violated the state's code of conduct for lawyers, his statement was cause for "grave concern". In addition, Maco had sent a copy of his statement to the judge who was deciding whether to overturn Allen's adoption of Dylan and Moses. That act was "inappropriate, unsolicited and potentially prejudicial", the panel ruled.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Perez-Pena|first1=Richard|title=Panel Criticizes Prosecutor In Inquiry on Woody Allen|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/24/nyregion/panel-criticizes-prosecutor-in-inquiry-on-woody-allen.html|work=The New York Times|date=February 24, 1994}}</ref>

===Allen's appeals, other legal action===
In December 1992 Farrow began an unsuccessful legal action to have Allen's adoption of Dylan and Moses voided. Her position was based in part on her view that Allen's romantic relationship with Previn had begun before the adoption was finalized on December 17, 1991.<ref name=Perez19June1993>{{cite news|last1=Perez-Pena|first1=Richard|title=Farrow Spurns Allen's Plea For a Truce|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/10/nyregion/farrow-spurns-allen-s-plea-for-a-truce.html|work=The New York Times|date=June 19, 1993}}</ref><ref name=Stern10Feb2014/> Allen said that the sexual relationship had started in the last week of 1991.<ref name=Perez19June1993/> He offered not to appeal the custody ruling if Farrow dropped her attempt to have his adoption of Dylan and Moses voided, but she refused.<ref name=Perez19June1993/>

In January 1994 Allen [[appeal]]ed Wilk's decision.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Perez Pena|first1=Richard |title=Woody Allen Appeals Judgment in Custody Case |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/14/nyregion/woody-allen-appeals-judgment-in-custody-case.html |work=The New York Times|date=January 14, 1994}}</ref> Of the molestation allegation, the appellate court concluded, "the evidence in support of the allegations remains inconclusive," stated that its "review of the record militates against a finding that Ms. Farrow fabricated the allegations without any basis" and explicitly corrected Wilk by stating that the Yale–New Haven team's view that Dylan had a tendency to "withdraw into a fantasy," and that she had given inconsistent accounts, had to be taken into account. As elements suggesting that the abuse could have occurred but insufficient for this conclusion to be more likely than the contrary the court listed "the testimony given at trial by the individuals caring for the children that day, the videotape of Dylan made by Ms. Farrow the following day and the accounts of Dylan's behavior toward Mr. Allen both before and after the alleged instance of abuse." The court was critical of Allen's parenting skills and relationship with Previn. The appeal failed, although two of the five judges said the visitation rights regarding Satchel were too restrictive.<ref name=appeal1994>[https://www.leagle.com/decision/1994524197ad2d3271461 Allen v. Farrow (1994)] (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department, May 12, 1994).</ref> Allen appealed again, and in July 1995 the [[New York Court of Appeals]] upheld the original decision.<ref name=appeal1995>[https://www.leagle.com/decision/1995352215ad2d1371310 Allen v. Farrow (1995)] (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department, May 4, 1995).<br/>{{cite news|last1=Brozan|first1=Nadine|title=Chronicle|work=The New York Times|date=July 6, 1995 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/06/style/chronicle-460695.html}}</ref>

==History of statements==

===1992: Soon-Yi mentioning Mia's violence===
Soon-Yi wrote in 1992 that Allen was never a father figure to her, but just "man who happens to be the ex-boyfriend of Mia ... Mia was always very hot-tempered and given to rages which terrified all the kids. They can't speak freely because they're still dependent on her. But they could really tell stories and I'm sure one day will. It's true Mia was violent with me and I have conclusive proof, but I hope she and Woody can somehow head off a custody trial."<ref name="Soon-Yi Speaks"/>

===1997: ''What Falls Away''===
In Mia Farrow's 1997 memoir, ''What Falls Away'', Farrow repeated the accusation that Allen had sexually abused Dylan.{{sfnp|Farrow|1997|p=271}} The allegation was mentioned in several of the book's reviews.<ref>{{cite web |quote=Ms. Farrow claimed that Mr. Allen had long been focusing inappropriate sexual attention on their 7-year-old adoptive daughter Dylan. |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/01/bsp/25818.html |title=Intimate Strangers |author=[[Kathryn Harrison]] |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=23 February 1997 |access-date=14 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |quote=In Farrow's life, apparently, no gruesome situation goes untopped: She further claims that Allen was guilty of sexually abusing her 7-year-old adopted daughter. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-02-bk-33844-story.html |title=Rosemary's Mother |author=Celia McGee |newspaper=[[LA Times]] |date=March 2, 1997 |access-date=October 14, 2018}}</ref>

===2013: Dylan goes public===
Dylan's first public comment was in an interview with [[Maureen Orth]] for ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' in 2013.<ref name=OrthOct2013/>

===2014: Ronan's tweets and Dylan's open letter===
[[File:Ronan Farrow, Ukraine, 23 March 2012 (cropped) .jpg|thumb|left|[[Ronan Farrow]], 2012]]
When Allen won the [[Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award]] in January 2014, Farrow and Satchel (now going by the name [[Ronan Farrow]] and working as a journalist) tweeted objections.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Pulver|first1=Andrew|title=Woody Allen Golden Globe greeted with derision by Mia and Ronan Farrow|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/13/golden-globes-woody-allen-mia-farrow-tweet|work=The Guardian|date=January 13, 2014}}</ref> Dylan, then 28, repeated the molestation allegation the next month in an [[open letter]] on the ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' blog of [[Nicholas Kristof]], a family friend. Writing that Allen had made her feel uncomfortable "for as long as [she] could remember", she alleged, for example, that he would get into bed with her in his underwear and that she would hide to avoid him.<ref name=Farrow1Feb2014>{{cite news|first=Dylan|last=Farrow|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/opinion/sunday/kristof-dylan-farrows-story.html |title=Dylan Farrow's Story |work=The New York Times |date=February 1, 2014}}</ref> She wrote that when she was seven years old, Allen told her "to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set. Then he sexually assaulted me."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Farrow|first=Dylan|date=2014-02-01|title=An Open Letter From Dylan Farrow|url=https://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/an-open-letter-from-dylan-farrow/|access-date=2021-05-19|website=On the Ground|language=en-US}}</ref> Allen called the allegations "untrue and disgraceful"<ref>{{cite news|title=Woody Allen Calls Sexual Abuse Claims 'Untrue and Disgraceful'|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/woody-allen-calls-sexual-abuse-claims-untrue-and-disgraceful-1201083173/|work=Variety|date=February 2, 2014}}</ref> and responded with an op-ed in the ''Times''.<ref name="AllenFeb72014">{{cite news |last1=Allen |first1=Woody |date=February 7, 2014 |title=Woody Allen Speaks Out |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/opinion/sunday/kristof-dylan-farrows-story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240508051218/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/opinion/sunday/kristof-dylan-farrows-story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2024-05-08 |work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Thibault|first1=Andy|title=Cool Justice: New York Times bent rules for Woody Allen, but not for Frank Maco|url=http://www.nhregister.com/columns/article/Cool-Justice-New-York-Times-bent-rules-for-Woody-11384930.php|work=New Haven Register|date=February 14, 2014}}</ref> Ronan noted that the ''Times'' allowed Dylan's open letter 936 words on Kristof's blog while Allen's op-ed was twice as long and published in the print edition.<ref name=Farrow11May2016/>

Ronan, aged four in 1992, has been critical of Allen for several years; in 2011 he tweeted, "He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ullman|first1=Joan|title=Ronan Farrow: Man on a Mission|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/uncharted-customs/201801/ronan-farrow-man-mission|work=Psychology Today|date=January 3, 2018}}</ref> In ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' in May 2016, he wrote that, after Dylan's open letter was published, his colleagues had forwarded him the daily emails "blasted out by Allen's powerful publicist", with an open [[Carbon copy|cc list]], offering [[talking points]] for reporters and the names of friends, therapists and lawyers willing to be interviewed. He wrote: "Reporters on the receiving end of this kind of PR blitz have to wonder if deviating from the talking points might jeopardize their access to all the other A-list clients."<ref name=Farrow11May2016>{{Cite news|first=Ronan|last=Farrow|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/my-father-woody-allen-danger-892572|title=My Father, Woody Allen, and the Danger of Questions Unasked (Guest Column)|newspaper=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date= May 11, 2016}}</ref>

===Moses Farrow's response to Dylan and accusations against Mia===
Dylan's brother Moses, who was 14 in 1992, has reconciled with Allen and is [[family estrangement|estranged]] from the Farrow family. When Dylan published her open letter, he said in an interview that several people had been in the house on the disputed day and that "no one, not my father or sister, was off in any private spaces". He asserted that Farrow had cultivated a climate in which he and his siblings had felt compelled to support her views, and that she had abused him [[physical abuse|physically]] and [[emotional abuse|emotionally]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Michael|last=Rothman|date=February 5, 2014|url= https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/dylan-farrows-brother-moses-mia-farrow-woody-allen/story?id=22377303 |title=Dylan Farrow's Brother Moses Says Mia Farrow, Not Woody Allen Was Abusive|publisher=ABC News}}<br/>
{{cite news|first=Andrew|last=Pulver|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/05/woody-allen-dylan-farrow-moses|title=Moses Farrow defends Woody Allen over child abuse allegations |date=5 February 2013|work= The Guardian}}</ref> Moses repeated the allegations in 2017 to [[Eric Lax]], one of Allen's biographers.<ref>{{cite book|first=Eric|last=Lax|author-link=Eric Lax|title=Start To Finish: Woody Allen and the Art of MovieMaking |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York|date=2017|pages=123–129}}</ref>

===2017/2018: Dylan's op-ed and interview===
{{see also|Weinstein effect|Me Too (hashtag)|Time's Up (organization)}}
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In December 2017, following the [[Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases|Harvey Weinstein scandal]], Dylan wrote an op-ed in the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' asking, "Why has the #MeToo revolution spared Woody Allen?"<ref name=Farrow7Dec2017>{{cite news|first=Dylan|last=Farrow |url=http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-farrow-woody-allen-me-too-20171207-story.html |title=Dylan Farrow: Why has the #MeToo revolution spared Woody Allen? |work=The Los Angeles Times|date=December 7, 2017}}</ref> She repeated the molestation allegation in January 2018 in a television interview with [[Gayle King]] for ''[[CBS This Morning]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dylan-farrow-interview-today-gayle-king-full-transcript-woody-allen-me-too/|title= Dylan Farrow details her sexual assault allegations against Woody Allen|website= [[CBS News]]|date= January 18, 2018|access-date= June 13, 2020}}</ref>

===Allen response to Dylan's interview===
Allen issued a statement in response:
{{blockquote|[E]ven though the Farrow family is cynically using the opportunity afforded by the Time's Up movement to repeat this discredited allegation, that doesn't make it any more true today than it was in the past. I never molested my daughter – as all investigations concluded a quarter of a century ago.<ref name=CBS2018re/>}}

=== May 2018: Moses's letter defending Allen and accusing Farrow of child abuse ===

In January Moses had already reacted on his Twitter account to Dylan's new statements, explaining that he had seen Mia Farrow on many occasions trying to convince Dylan that she had been abused.<ref name=":7" /> On May 23, 2018, Moses posted online a long open letter<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mosesfarrow.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-son-speaks-out-by-moses-farrow.html|title= A Son Speaks Out|website= mosesfarrow.blogspot|access-date= June 13, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.mamamia.com.au/moses-mia-farrow-children-woody-allen/|title='There was a darkness within our family.' The complex and tragic story of Mia Farrow's 14 children|first=Clare|last=Stephens|publisher=[[Mamamia (website)|Mamamia]]|location=Australia|date=May 28, 2018|access-date=June 9, 2018|archive-date=May 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180528141514/https://www.mamamia.com.au/moses-mia-farrow-children-woody-allen/ |url-status=live}}</ref> with new elements, in which he alleged in detail that Farrow physically and emotionally abused him and Soon-Yi: "She hit me uncontrollably all over my body. She slapped me, pushed me backwards and hit me on my chest, shouting, 'How dare you say I'm a liar in front of my friend? You're the pathological liar.' I was defeated, deflated, beaten and beaten down. ... When Soon-Yi was young, Mia once threw a large porcelain centerpiece at her head. Luckily it missed, but the shattered pieces hit her legs. Years later, Mia beat her with a telephone receiver."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/moses-farrow-defends-woody-allen-claims-mia-farrow-was-abusive-1114452|title=Woody Allen's Son Moses Farrow Defends Father, Claims Mother Mia Farrow Was Abusive|work= The Hollywood Reporter | first=Evan|last= Real|date=May 23, 2018|access-date=June 9, 2018|archive-date=June 1, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180601193441/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/moses-farrow-defends-woody-allen-claims-mia-farrow-was-abusive-1114452|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="MosesFarrowMay2018" /> Moses also says Farrow treated her biological children better than her adopted ones, and that Mia "brainwashed" her kids to accept her own version of insignificant things.

Moses claims that on the afternoon of the alleged abuse, he was at home: "As the 'man of the house' that day, I had promised to keep an eye out for any trouble, and I was doing just that. I remember where Woody sat in the TV room, and I can picture where Dylan and Satchel were. Not that everybody stayed glued to the same spot, but I deliberately made sure to note everyone's coming and going. I do remember that Woody would leave the room on occasion, but never with Dylan. He would wander into another room to make a phone call, read the paper, use the bathroom, or step outside to get some air and walk around the large pond on the property."<ref name="MosesFarrowMay2018" /> Moses also claimed that the memory his sister has of having been abused while focusing her attention on an electric train set is not possible: "It's a precise and compelling narrative, but there's a major problem: there ''was'' no electric train set in that attic. There was, in fact, no way for kids to play up there, even if we had wanted to. It was an unfinished crawl space, under a steeply-angled gabled roof, with exposed nails and floorboards, billows of fiberglass insulation, filled with mousetraps and droppings and stinking of mothballs, and crammed with trunks full of hand-me-down clothes and my mother's old wardrobes. The idea that the space could possibly have accommodated a functioning electric train set, circling around the attic, is ridiculous."<ref name="MosesFarrowMay2018" />

Moses wrote that Thompson saw Farrow filming Dylan in what looked like an effort to coach her. He further alleged that Farrow drove some of her children to [[suicide]]: "Most media sources claim my sister Tam died of 'heart failure' at the age of 21. In fact, Tam struggled with [[clinical depression|depression]] for much of her life, a situation exacerbated by my mother refusing to get her help, insisting that Tam was just 'moody'. One afternoon in 2000, after one final fight with Mia, which ended with my mother leaving the house, Tam committed suicide by overdosing on pills."

Of the shy support he had given to Mia when he was a teenager, Moses stated: "During the custody hearing, my mother kept stressing how we needed to stick together as a family. Frightened and beaten down, I, too, played my part. I even wrote a letter condemning Woody, saying that he had done something horrible and unforgivable, and had broken my dreams. I even read the letter for the news media that were now regularly gathered at the end of our driveway, knowing that doing so would earn my mother's approval. That public denouncement of my father remains the biggest regret of my life."

===2018: Soon-Yi defends Allen and accuses Farrow of abuse===
In an article in ''[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2018/09/soon-yi-previn-speaks.html|title = After Decades of Silence, Soon-Yi Previn Speaks|date = September 16, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/arts/soon-yi-previn-woody-allen-mia-farrow.html|title = Soon-Yi Previn Defends Woody Allen and Accuses Mia Farrow of Abuse|newspaper = The New York Times|date = September 17, 2018|last1 = Stevens|first1 = Matt}}</ref> Previn alleged that Farrow invented stories about her origins: "When Soon-Yi was a girl, she says, Farrow asked her to make a tape about her origins, detailing how she'd been the daughter of a prostitute who beat her. The request puzzled her, Soon-Yi says, since she had no memory of anything like that, so she refused...'Mia used to write words on my arm, which was humiliating, so I'd always wear long-sleeved shirts. She would also tip me upside down, holding me by my feet, to get the blood to drain to my head. Because she thought—or she read it, God knows where she came up with the notion—that blood going to my head would make me smarter or something'." According to Previn, Farrow also resorted to "arbitrarily showing her power" by slapping her across the face and spanking her with a hairbrush or calling her "stupid" and "moronic". Previn also claimed she and her adopted sisters were used as "[[domestic servant|domestics]]".

== Responses from venues ==
In January 2018, the [[Goodspeed Opera House]] in Connecticut canceled its adaptation of Allen's film ''[[Bullets over Broadway]]'' (1994).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/theater/woody-allen-bullets-over-broadway.html|title=Goodspeed Cancels Woody Allen Musical|last1=Paulson|first1=Michael|date=June 25, 2018|work=The New York Times}}</ref> The next month, Circle Theater in [[Grand Rapids, Michigan|Grand Rapids]], [[Michigan]], also canceled its adaptation of ''Bullets over Broadway''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2018/02/grand_rapids_theater_latest_to.html|title=Grand Rapids theater cancels Woody Allen's musical in support of #MeToo|last=Martinez|first=Shandra|date=February 1, 2018|publisher=MLive.com|access-date= February 1, 2018|archive-date=June 9, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180609154510/http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2018/02/grand_rapids_theater_latest_to.html| url-status=live}}</ref>

In February 2018, Savanah Lyon, a theater major at the [[University of California, San Diego]] (UCSD), began organizing an online petition to have a course teaching Allen's films removed from the UCSD [[syllabus]], saying that because of the abuse allegations against him, the university should not have a class devoted to his work. On February 16, the UCSD Academic Senate announced that it would retain the course, stating that the removal of courses featuring "controversial material, or even material widely regarded as morally problematic" would undermine the values of free inquiry and [[academic freedom]].<ref>Flaherty, Collen.(February 26th, 2018.[https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/02/26/uc-san-diego-academic-senate-rejects-student-led-push-cut-course-woody-allen "Woody Allen and Academic Freedom"]. Retrieved 3 April 2018.</ref>

== Celebrity reactions ==
After Dylan's 2014 open letter, several actors issued statements critical of Allen, including [[Rosie O'Donnell]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Rosie O'Donnell says she believes Dylan Farrow's allegations |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/TV/2014/02/07/Rosie-ODonnell-says-she-believes-Dylan-Farrows-allegations/UPI-73171391796252/ |publisher=UPI |date=February 2, 2014}}</ref> [[Lena Dunham]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nianias |first1=Helen|title=Lena Dunham rips into Woody Allen and calls him a 'perv' at Sundance |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/lena-dunham-rips-into-woody-allen-and-calls-him-a-perv-at-sundance-10002087.html |work=The Independent |date=January 26, 2015}}</ref> [[Sarah Silverman]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Miller |first1=Julie |date=July 7, 2016 |title=Is It Wrong to Work with Woody Allen? |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/07/woody-allen-kate-winslet-justin-timberlake-movie |magazine=Vanity Fair}}</ref> and [[Susan Sarandon]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lang |first1=Brent |date=May 15, 2016 |title=Susan Sarandon on Woody Allen: 'He Sexually Assaulted a Child' |work=Variety |url=https://variety.com/2016/film/markets-festivals/susan-sarandon-woody-allen-rape-1201775122/}}</ref>

[[File:Woody Allen statue, Oviedo, Spain, November 2014.jpg|thumb|right|Statue in [[Oviedo]], Spain]]
The mood changed further as a result of the #MeToo and Time's Up movements and Dylan's op-ed. During a November 2017 [[International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women|women's rally]], a banner referring to the allegation was hung around the neck of Allen's statue in [[Oviedo]], Spain. A women's group later asked that the statue be removed.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/22/an-abuser-and-pervert-women-in-spain-want-a-statue-of-woody-allen-removed/|title='An abuser and pervert': Women in Spain want a statue of Woody Allen removed|newspaper=The Washington Post|first=Amanda|last=Erickson|date=January 22, 2018}}<br/>{{cite news|url=https://www.thelocal.es/20180122/women-demand-woody-allen-statue-removed-in-oviedo-after-sex-molestation-allegations|title=Women demand Woody Allen statue removed in Oviedo after sex molestation allegations|work=The Local Spain|first=Fiona|last=Govan|date=January 22, 2018}}<br/>
{{cite news|title=A man looks at a banner on sculpture of Woody Allen during the rally on the World Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in Oviedo|url=http://news.trust.org/item/20171125172209-q3evk |agency=Reuters|date=November 25, 2017}}</ref> From October 2017 statements supportive of Dylan, or expressing regret at having worked with Allen, were issued by [[Griffin Newman]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/tick-actor-griffin-newman-regrets-working-with-woody-allen.html |title=The Tick Actor Griffin Newman Regrets Working With Woody Allen, Promises to Donate His Salary From the Film |website=Vulture.com |first=Jackson |last=McHenry |date=October 16, 2017}}</ref> [[Evan Rachel Wood]],<ref>{{cite tweet|user= evanrachelwood|number=805397149282422784|title=That was years before I read Dylan's letter|first=Evan |last=Rachel Wood |date=December 4, 2016 |author-link=Evan Rachel Wood| archive-url=https://archive.today/20180609162252/https://twitter.com/evanrachelwood/status/805397149282422784 |url-status=live|archive-date=June 9, 2018 |access-date=January 18, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.brit.co/evan-rachel-wood-just-took-a-stance-against-this-hollywood-heavyweight-following-maria-schneiders-sexual-assault-revelation/|title= Evan Rachel Wood Just Took a Stand Against This Hollywood Heavyweight|publisher=[[Brit + Co]]|first=Nicole |last= Briese|date =December 5, 2016 |access-date=June 9, 2018|archive-date=June 9, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180609162723/https://www.brit.co/evan-rachel-wood-just-took-a-stance-against-this-hollywood-heavyweight-following-maria-schneiders-sexual-assault-revelation/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[David Krumholtz]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Verhoeven |first=Beatrice |title='Wonder Wheel' Actor Calls Working With Woody Allen 'One of My Most Heartbreaking Mistakes' |work=TheWrap |date=January 6, 2018 |url=https://www.thewrap.com/wonder-wheel-david-krumholtz-regrets-working-with-woody-allen/}}</ref> [[Mira Sorvino]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Sorvino |first=Mira |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mira-sorvino-letter-dylan-farrow_us_5a56b660e4b08a1f624b47e0 |title=Exclusive: Mira Sorvino's Open Letter To Dylan Farrow |work=HuffPost |date=January 11, 2018}}</ref> [[Rebecca Hall]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Levin|first1=Sam|title=Rebecca Hall says she won't work with Woody Allen again |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/12/rebecca-hall-woody-allen-dylan-farrow|work=The Guardian|date=12 January 2018}}</ref> [[Timothée Chalamet]],<ref name=Harmon16Jan2018>{{cite news |last1=Harmon|first1=Steph|title=Timothée Chalamet: 'I don't want to profit from my work on Woody Allen's film'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/16/timothee-chalamet-i-dont-want-to-profit-from-my-work-on-woody-allens-film |work=The Guardian|date=16 January 2018}}</ref> [[Rachel Brosnahan]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/rachel-brosnahan-says-she-regrets-working-woody-allen-1075123 |title=Rachel Brosnahan Says She Regrets Working With Woody Allen|work=The Hollywood Reporter |first=Scott |last=Feinberg|date=January 17, 2018}}</ref> [[Natalie Portman]],<ref>{{cite news|first=Samantha|last=Cooney |date=January 18, 2018 |url=https://time.com/5106106/woody-allen-dylan-farrow-actors/|title=These Actors All Worked With Woody Allen. Now They Regret It and Support Dylan Farrow|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref> [[Colin Firth]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/18/colin-firth-woody-allen-accusations-film|title=Colin Firth says he will not work with Woody Allen again|website=The Guardian |first=Sam |last=Levin |date=January 18, 2018}}<br/>
{{cite news|last1=Leszkiewicz|first1=Anna|title=Sadly, Colin Firth's words on Woody Allen have a power that women's don't|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/film/2018/01/sadly-colin-firth-s-words-woody-allen-have-power-women-s-don-t|work=New Statesman|date=January 20, 2018}}</ref> [[Hayley Atwell]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/28/hayley-atwell-interview-dry-powder|title=Hayley Atwell: 'It's very liberating to play someone who's unapologetically ruthless'|website=The Guardian|first=Michael|last=Hogan|date=January 28, 2018}}</ref> and [[Freida Pinto]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/27/freida-pinto-i-wouldnt-work-with-woody-allen-again|title=Freida Pinto: 'I wouldn't work with Woody Allen again'|website=[[The Guardian]]|first=Simon|last=Hattenstone|date=January 27, 2019|access-date=January 27, 2019}}</ref> Newman, Hall, Chalamet, [[Elle Fanning]] and [[Selena Gomez]] said they would donate their earnings from Allen's film ''[[A Rainy Day in New York]]'' (2018) to charities.<ref name="Harmon16Jan2018" /><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Aniftos |first=Rania |date=2018-01-17 |title=Selena Gomez Donated Money to Time's Up Fund That 'Far Exceeded' Her Woody Allen Film Salary |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/selena-gomez-donated-money-to-times-up-fund-that-far-exceeded-her-woody-allen-8094488/ |access-date=2023-03-19 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US}}</ref>

Others expressed mixed feelings. [[John Turturro]], who cast Allen in his romantic comedy ''[[Fading Gigolo]]'', said, "He was a respectful person to me professionally. Now is a different time. I wouldn't cast him now. ... I don't regret having worked with him".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/john-turturro-interview-gloria-bell-woody-allen-going-place-the-big-lebowski-a8946846.html|title=John Turturro interview: 'I wouldn't cast Woody Allen now'|website=[[The Independent]]|date=June 7, 2019|access-date=June 8, 2019}}</ref> [[Greta Gerwig]] initially declined to answer questions about her work with Allen in ''[[To Rome with Love (film)|To Rome with Love]]'' (2012). In 2018, while promoting ''[[Lady Bird (film)|Lady Bird]]'', Gerwig came under scrutiny for her work with Allen. On [[NPR]]'s ''[[Fresh Air]]'', when she was asked about working with Allen, Gerwig said, "I think I'm living in that space of fear of being worried about how I talk about it and what I say."<ref name="EW">{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/movies/2018/01/10/greta-gerwig-regrets-working-with-woody-allen/ |title=Greta Gerwig regrets working with Woody Allen |last1=Rosen |first1=Christopher |last2=Romano |first2=Nick |date=January 10, 2018 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |access-date=March 2, 2018}}</ref> She responded to a similar question after ''Lady Bird'' won the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]] by saying, "[my] job right now I think is to occupy the position of writer and director."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoULVBDUYMg |title=Greta Gerwig side steps Woody Allen question at Golden Globes |date=January 8, 2018 |publisher=96 news HD |access-date=January 8, 2018}}</ref> After being publicly criticized by Dylan Farrow for ignoring her allegations, Gerwig apologized for working with Allen.<ref name="EW" /> She elaborated in an interview with ''The New York Times'': "Dylan Farrow's two different pieces made me realize that I increased another woman's pain, and I was heartbroken by that realization. I grew up on his movies, and they have informed me as an artist, and I cannot change that fact now, but I can make different decisions moving forward."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/opinion/greta-gerwig-woody-allen-aaron-sorkin.html |title=Greta Gerwig, Aaron Sorkin: Hollywood Must Change |last1=Bruni |first1=Frank |last2=Gerwig |first2=Greta |last3=Sorkin |first3=Aaron |date=January 9, 2018 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=March 2, 2018 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Fanning said that she regretted her decision "if it hurt anyone" but did not apologize for working with Allen.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/2018/03/11/elle-fanning-regrets-working-woody-allen-upset-7378123/|title=Elle Fanning only regrets working with Woody Allen if you've been upset by it|date=2018-03-11|website=Metro|access-date=2019-07-24}}</ref> [[Joaquin Phoenix]] said, "When I worked with Woody, I knew about the stuff that had come up years ago. I know his daughter ended up writing an open letter. I was not aware of that when we worked together."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2018/01/22/joaquin-phoenix-working-woody-allen-knew-stuff-had-come-up-years-ago/1052501001/|title=Joaquin Phoenix 'not aware' of Dylan Farrow's open letter when he worked with Woody Allen|website=USA TODAY|access-date=2019-07-24}}</ref> In an interview on [[NBC]]'s ''[[Meet the Press]]'', [[Jeff Daniels]] said, "Would I do another one with Woody? The difficult decision would be to turn him down, because of ''[[The Purple Rose of Cairo]]''."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/jeff-daniels-woody-allen-difficult-decision-1201933381/|title=Jeff Daniels Believes Dylan Farrow But Says Turning Down Woody Allen Would be a 'Difficult Decision'|website=[[Indiewire.com]]|first=Zack|last=Sharf|date=February 27, 2018|access-date=March 1, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://people.com/movies/jeff-daniels-woody-allens-legacy-big-asterisk-would-consider-working-with-him/|title=Jeff Daniels Says Woody Allen's Legacy Now Has a 'Big Asterisk'|website=[[People (magazine)|People]]|first=Mike|last=Miller|date=March 9, 2018|access-date=March 10, 2018}}</ref> [[Peter Sarsgaard]], when asked whether he would work with Allen, said, "It's such a complicated question. I've already done a Woody Allen movie".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://people.com/movies/peter-sarsgaard-wont-work-woody-allen-again-jeff-daniels-remains-undecided/|title=Peter Sarsgaard Says He Won't Work with Woody Allen Again, But Jeff Daniels Remains Undecided|website=PEOPLE.com|access-date=2019-07-24}}</ref> [[Chloe Sevigny]] said, "I have my own turmoil that I'm grappling with over that decision. Would I work with him again? Probably not."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/chloe-sevigny-woody-allen-melinda-and-melinda-1202670722/|title=Chloe Sevigny Says She Would 'Probably Not' Work With Woody Allen Again (EXCLUSIVE)|last=Setoodeh|first=Ramin|date=2018-01-20|website=Variety|access-date=2019-07-24}}</ref> [[Marion Cotillard]] said, "I have to say today, yeah, if he were to ask me again ... I don't think it would ever happen because the experience we had together was very odd. I admire some of his work but we had no connection on set."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/19/marion-cotillard-woody-allen-experience-midnight-in-paris|title=Marion Cotillard on Woody Allen: 'The experience we had together was very odd'|author=Guardian Staff|date=2018-01-19 |work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-07-24|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Those expressing support for Allen included [[Barbara Walters]] and [[Diane Keaton]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rayman|first1=Noah|title=Barbara Walters Defends Woody Allen |url=https://time.com/3883/barbara-walters-defends-woody-allen-amid-abuse-claims/ |work=Variety |date=February 4, 2014}}<br/>{{cite news |last1=Brockes|first1=Emma|title=Diane Keaton: 'I love Woody. And I believe my friend' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/03/diane-keaton-i-love-woody-allen-i-believe-my-friend |work=The Guardian |date=May 3, 2014}}</ref> as well as [[Javier Bardem]], [[Jude Law]], [[Alec Baldwin]], and [[Bill Maher]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/04/javier-bardem-woody-allen|title=Javier Bardem Is on Woody Allen's Side: "I Am Very Shocked by This Sudden Treatment" |magazine=Vanity Fair|date=April 19, 2018 |access-date=2019-07-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/20/jude-law-shelving-woody-allen-amazon-studios-shame-rainy-day-new-york|title='A terrible shame': Jude Law defends Woody Allen film after Amazon shelves it |last=Pulver|first=Andrew |date=2018-11-20|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-07-24|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Chuba|first1=Kirsten|title=Alec Baldwin Criticizes Stars Denouncing Woody Allen: 'It's Unfair and Sad' |url=https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/alec-baldwin-stars-denouncing-woody-allen-unfair-and-sad-1202665291/|work=Variety|date=January 16, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/diane-keaton-defends-woody-allen-sexual-abuse-1202680654/ |title=Diane Keaton Defends Woody Allen: 'I Continue to Believe Him'|last=Fernandez|first=Matt |date=2018-01-29|work=Variety|access-date=2018-05-03}}</ref> [[Cherry Jones]] said, "There are those who are comfortable in their certainty. I am not. I don't know the truth ... When we condemn by instinct our democracy is on a slippery slope."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ryzik|first1=Melena|last2=Barnes|first2=Brooks|title=Can Woody Allen Work in Hollywood Again?|url= https://nyti.ms/2Fovqcm |work=The New York Times|date=January 28, 2018}}</ref> [[Scarlett Johansson]] said, "I love Woody, I believe him, and I would work with him anytime." She added, "I see Woody whenever I can, and I have had a lot of conversations with him about it. I have been very direct with him, and he's very direct with me. He maintains his innocence, and I believe him."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/scarlett-johansson-talks-woody-allen-elizabeth-warren-black-widow-1235618|title= The Season of Scarlett Johansson: Two Hot Films, Her Marvel Future, Woody Allen and a Pick for President|website= [[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date= September 4, 2019|access-date= June 13, 2020}}</ref> [[Emily Mortimer]] said, "I believe in [[due process]]...I think these things really need to go through all the legal processes before anyone can judge. I don't really have an answer to those questions."<ref>Macnab, Geoffrey. (February 19, 2018) [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/emily-mortimer-interview-the-bookshop-woody-allen-mary-poppins-returns-jane-banks-disney-john-a8217661.html "Emily Mortimer Interview"]. ''[[The Independent]]''. Retrieved March 16, 2018.</ref> When [[Christiane Amanpour]] asked [[Cate Blanchett]] about the allegations against Allen, she replied, "At the time, I said it's a very painful and complicated situation for the family, which I hope they have the ability to resolve", and added, "If these allegations need to be reexamined, which, in my understanding, they've been through court, then I'm a big believer in the justice system and setting legal precedents...If the case needs to be reopened, I am absolutely, wholeheartedly in support of that."<ref>Telegraph Reporters, (22 March 2018).[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2018/03/23/cate-blanchett-denies-staying-silent-metoo-working-woody-allen/ "Cate Blanchett denies 'staying silent' on #MeToo while working with Woody Allen".] ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''. Retrieved 3 April 2018.</ref> [[Kate Winslet]] declined to comment on the matter, saying, "As the actor in the film, you just have to step away and say, I don't know anything, really, and whether any of it is true or false. Having thought it all through, you put it to one side and just work with the person." She did however describe the experience of working with Allen as "extraordinary."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elle.com.au/celebrity/actresses-who-work-with-woody-allen-15223|title= 6 Actresses Who Have Talked Around Woody Allen's Alleged Sexual Misconduct|website= [[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]|access-date= June 13, 2020}}</ref> Later she changed her stance, "It's like, what the fuck was I doing working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski? It's unbelievable to me now how those men were held in such high regard, so widely in the film industry and for as long as they were. It's fucking disgraceful. And I have to take responsibility for the fact that I worked with them both. I can't turn back the clock. I'm grappling with those regrets but what do we have if we aren't able to just be fucking truthful about all of it?"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2020/09/kate-winslet-woody-allen-regret-wonder-wheel-1234586298/|title= Kate Winslet Doubles Down on Woody Allen Regrets: 'I Shouldn't Have Done This'|website= [[IndieWire]]|date= September 14, 2020|access-date= March 15, 2021}}</ref> [[Javier Bardem]] said, "I am very shocked by this sudden treatment. Judgments in the states of New York and Connecticut found him innocent...I don't agree with the public lynching that he's been receiving, and if Woody Allen called me to work with him again, I'd be there tomorrow morning. He's a genius."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/10/javier-bardem-woody-allen-opinion |title=Javier Bardem Calls Woody Allen Backlash a "Public Lynching"|website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|first=Yohanna|last=Desta|date=October 19, 2018|access-date=November 9, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/apr/19/javier-bardem-defends-woody-allen-i-am-very-shocked-by-this-treatment|title=Javier Bardem defends Woody Allen: 'I am very shocked by this treatment'|website=[[The Guardian]]|author=Guardian Staff|date=April 19, 2018|access-date=November 9, 2018}}</ref> [[Alan Alda]] said, "I'd work with him again if he wanted me. I'm not qualified to judge him. I don't know all the facts. I don't know if he's guilty or innocent. But you can be uncertain—that's what I go on. I just don't have enough information to convince me I shouldn't work with him. And he's an enormously talented guy."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alan-alda-mash-legacy-why-hed-work-woody-allen-again-1178289|title=Alan Alda on 'M*A*S*H' Legacy and Why He'd Work With Woody Allen Again|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |first=Benjamin|last=Svetkey|date=January 25, 2019|access-date=February 4, 2019}}</ref> [[Michael Caine]], who initially expressed regret about working with Allen and said he would never work with him again,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/global/michael-caine-woody-allen-1202723613/|title=Michael Caine: I Won't Work With Woody Allen Again|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|first=Leo|last=Barraclough|date=March 11, 2018|access-date=March 11, 2018}}</ref> later said, "If he had a trial and someone proved he had done something, I wouldn't do it, no. But I didn't read of him being on trial and being found guilty or fined or sent to prison or anything. This is all things that people say. You can't go on hearsay the whole time."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2018/film/global/michael-caine-woody-allen-1202723613/|title=Michael Caine: I Won't Work With Woody Allen Again|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |first=Leo |last=Barraclough |date=March 11, 2018|access-date=March 11, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/michael-caine-interview-winston-churchill-jack-nicholson-beatles-778058/ |title=The Last Word: Michael Caine on the First Time He Got High and the Role He Regrets Most|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|first=David|last=Browne|date=January 22, 2019|access-date=March 2, 2019}}</ref> [[Jeff Goldblum]] said, "I think there is a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. I also admire his body of work. So I would consider working with him again until I learned something more."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/08/jeff-goldblum-says-would-consider-working-with-woody-allen-again/|title=Jeff Goldblum said he would consider working with Woody Allen again, and the Internet is not okay |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|first=Allyson|last=Chiu |date=November 8, 2019|access-date=November 8, 2019}}</ref> [[Larry David]], who read Allen's autobiography, ''[[Apropos of Nothing]]'', called it "a fantastic book, so funny. You feel like you're in the room with him... it's just a great book and it's hard to walk away after reading that book thinking that this guy did anything wrong."<ref>{{cite news|first=Maureen|last=Dowd|author-link=Maureen Dowd|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/style/larry-david-curb-your-enthusiasm-coronavirus-psa.html|title= Larry David, Master of his Quarantine|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 4, 2020|access-date= April 4, 2020}}</ref> When asked about Allen while promoting ''[[Da 5 Bloods]]'', [[Spike Lee]] said, "I'd just like to say Woody Allen's a great, great filmmaker, and this cancel thing is not just Woody. And I think that when we look back on it, [we're] gonna see that, short of killing somebody, I don't know if you can just erase somebody like they never existed. Woody's a friend of mine ... I know he's going through it right now."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/movies/spike-lee-defends-woody-allen-cancel-culture/|title= Spike Lee defends Woody Allen against 'this cancel thing': 'Woody's a friend of mine'|magazine= [[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date= June 13, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/06/13/spike-lee-doesnt-support-cancel-culture-stands-woody-allen/3183503001/|title= 'Woody's a friend of mine': Spike Lee not a fan of cancel culture, supports Allen |website=[[USA Today]]|access-date= June 13, 2020}}</ref>

== Woody Allen memoir ''Apropos of Nothing'' ==
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In his memoir, Allen addresses Dylan's allegation, writing that, unlike other cases of sexual abuse that could have been ignored without being taken seriously or adequately investigated, the accusation against him was immediately and thoroughly investigated by two groups of experts which concluded that the evidence proved that there was no sexual abuse, that Dylan's statements had "a rehearsed quality" and she was likely "coached or influenced by her mother". Regarding the criticism against Yale New Haven for having destroyed the original case notes, Allen maintains that that was Yale New Haven's and the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]'s usual procedure to preserve privacy. Moreover, the New York State Child Welfare scrupulously investigated the case for 14 months and concluded that there was no credible evidence of abuse and that the allegation was unfounded.

Allen recounts a Yale New Haven interview session in which Farrow explained to experts how Dylan was so disturbed by the sexual abuse that she turned to her sister Lark for physical comfort. Allen noted that Lark was in New York on the day of the alleged abuse and couldn't have physically interacted with Dylan, following which Farrow changed her account and said that, "Dylan hugged [Lark] spiritually." Allen also contends that Maco's investigation should have been closed the moment his experts ruled out the possibility of abuse, and states Maco's statement that there was "probable cause" was unfounded. Allen also writes that a nanny and a housekeeper who worked at Farrow's house said that on multiple occasions the prosecutor came to the residence and he and Farrow went out to lunch. Allen regrets that this does not seem the most impartial way to conduct an investigation.

Allen also claims that during the custody trial, a court clerk habitually drove Farrow home from the courthouse and that that was an "unfair conduit to the judge"; referred to Moses's testimony that he witnessed how Farrow coached Dylan; and reported the testimony of a babysitter to whom Dylan said, "Mummy wants me to lie." Allen alleges that long before the allegation of abuse emerged, Farrow took Dylan to a child therapist because the girl had trouble distinguishing between reality and fantasy and that, in the midst of family turmoil, Farrow suggested to the child that she had been abused which resulted in Dylan sincerely believing it.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Allen |first=Woody |title=Apropos of Nothing|date=23 March 2020|publisher=Arcade |isbn=978-1-951627-34-8|oclc=1147948052}}</ref>

==''Allen v. Farrow'' documentary ==
{{main|Allen v. Farrow}}
The sexual abuse allegation was the subject of a 2021 HBO documentary series, ''[[Allen v. Farrow]]''. Directed by [[Kirby Dick]] and [[Amy Ziering]], the series features home videos and interviews with family members, including Dylan Farrow, and is told largely from her point of view and Mia Farrow's. Allen, Soon-Yi Previn and Moses Farrow declined to participate and were not interviewed for the documentary. It has received largely favorable reviews, but has been criticized for one-sidedness and omission of facts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/03/allen-v-farrow-woody-allen-mia-farrow-documentary-is-pure-pr-why-else-would-it-omit-so-much|title=Allen v Farrow is pure PR. Why else would it omit so much?|work=The Guardian|author=Hadley Freeman|date=3 March 2021|access-date=3 March 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Hoyle|first=Ben|date=2021-02-22|title=Allen v Farrow: documentary is 'a hatchet job riddled with falsehoods'|language=en|work=The Times|location=London|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/woody-allens-daughter-dylan-farrow-tells-of-assault-in-unseen-video-29t2bkxmp|access-date=2021-02-22|issn=0140-0460}}</ref>

Allen and Soon-Yi Previn denounced the series, which they accused of treating them unfairly and perpetuating falsehoods.<ref name="response">{{cite web|last=Abid|first=Rahman|date=2021-02-21|title=Woody Allen, Soon-Yi Previn Respond to 'Allen v. Farrow' Filmmakers: "These Documentarians Had No Interest in the Truth"|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/woody-allen-soon-yi-previn-respond-to-allen-v-farrow-filmmakers-these-documentarians-had-no-interest-in-the-truth|access-date=2021-02-21|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|publisher=}}</ref> The filmmakers rejected the charges.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56152960|title=Woody Allen says doc is 'riddled with falsehoods'|publisher=BBC News|date=22 February 2021|access-date=3 March 2021}}</ref>

== See also ==
* ''[[Woody Allen filmography]]''
* ''[[Woody Allen: A Documentary]]''
* ''[[Apropos of Nothing]]''

==Notes==
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==References==
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<ref name=MosesFarrowMay2018>{{cite web|url=https://mosesfarrow.blogspot.nl/2018/05/a-son-speaks-out-by-moses-farrow.html|title=A Son Speaks Out |first=Moses |last=Farrow |publisher=Moses Farrow official blog|date=May 23, 2018 |access-date=May 26, 2018|archive-date=May 26, 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180526025527/http://mosesfarrow.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-son-speaks-out-by-moses-farrow.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
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==External links==
*{{cite news|last1=Hoban|first1=Phoebe|title=Woody and Mia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3uQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA40|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|date=September 21, 1992|pages=32–42}}
* [https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/04/nyregion/doctor-cites-inconsistencies-in-dylan-farrow-s-statements.html Doctor Cites Inconsistencies In Dylan Farrow's Statements], The New York Times, May 4, 1993
* [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-02-mn-952-story.html Nanny Casts Doubt on Farrow Charges : Custody: She tells Allen's lawyers the actress pressured her to support molestation accusations against him. She says others have reservations], Los Angeles Times, February 2, 1993
* [https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/26/nyregion/agency-drops-abuse-inquiry-in-allen-case.html Agency Drops Abuse Inquiry in Allen Case], The New York Times, October 26, 1993

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