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You look at her when she’s naked.”Īnd now, on to a related piece: Salon writer Roxane Gay’s tendentious misreading of the Dylan Farrow post I published last week. According to the judge’s decision, Farrow told Allen, “You look at her in a sexual way. “grossly inappropriate and that measures must be taken to protect her.” The judge also recounts Farrow’s misgivings regarding Allen’s behavior toward Dylan from the time she was between two and three years old. Maureen Orth quotes Judge Elliott Wilk’s ruling that Allen’s conduct toward Dylan was Woody Allen would eventually lose four court battles and was forced to pay Farrow over $1 million in legal fees. Finally, here’s a copy of the ruling in the custody case. This brilliant dissection of the case, which focuses on Allen’s narcissism, inability to feel empathy, and the deep emotional damage he inflicted on all around him, is a devastating portrait of Woody Allen the man. It also documents the sleazy, underhanded tactics Allen’s lawyers and investigators resorted to in pursuing the case. This Connecticut Magazine piece features a detailed discussion of some of the evidence, including the deeply flawed nature of the Yale study which Woody Allen and his supporters like to point to as proof of his alleged innocence. Katie McDonough’s Salon article on how the Dylan Farrow investigation was a fiasco, and the ways standard investigation techniques of child sexual abuse cases have improved since then, is well worth a read.
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Maureen Orth’s piece, “10 Undeniable Facts about the Woody Allen Sexual Abuse Allegation,” in Vanity Fair - if you read just one article on the case, this one should be it. In addition to the 19 Vanity Fair stories by Maureen Orth, which I linked to in my earlier piece, I’d also like to recommend the following: This week has brought forth a slew of fascinating articles related to the case.
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The man is clearly a world class narcissist who still, after all these years, hasn’t the foggiest notion that doing what he did (seducing his kids’ sister) was wrong. Woody’s misogynist slurs here were creepy as hell, as were his attempts to romanticize the fact that he slept with his kids’ own sister (Soon Yi). Farrow’s sexual history - Woody bitchily recounts Mia’s age when she married Frank Sinatra, the fact that her second husband was still married when she became involved with him, and the possibility that she cheated on Woody with Sinatra - is completely irrelevant to the question as to whether or not Woody Allen sexually abused Dylan Farrow. The editor of the Times op-ed page - is there one? - should have cut it out.Īlso, Woody did himself no favors by launching a slut-shaming jihad against Mia Farrow in the piece. But the whole question of whether Frank Sinatra, rather than himself, is the real father of Ronan Farrow is a complete distraction and had no business being in the piece.
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I’ll add this: of course I can understand Woody Allen addressing the abuse allegations - that was why he was given a platform in the Times today, after all. Dylan herself handily filets the piece and exposes its many omissions and gross misrepresentations here. Dylan, of course, made those charges in the powerful open letter that was published on the New York Times website last week.Ībout Allen’s op-ed - ugh. Woody Allen week has culminated in the man himself writing this response to Dylan Farrow’s charges that he sexually abused her.