Dylan Farrow has renewed molestation allegations against Woody Allen, claiming the movie director sexually assaulted her when she was 7 after he and actress Mia Farrow adopted her.
In an open letter to the New York Times posted online on Saturday, Dylan Farrow made her first public comments about the alleged 1992 incident. In a letter to op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof, she said she was moved to speak out because of Hollywood’s continued embrace of Allen.
“That he got away with what he did to me haunted me as I grew up,” Dylan Farrow wrote. “I was stricken with guilt that I had allowed him to be near other little girls.”
The letter comes not long after Allen was honored at the Golden Globes with the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award.
The New York Times reported that Allen declined to comment. Representatives for Allen and for former partner Mia Farrow did not immediately return requests for comment from The Associated Press. Allen has long maintained his innocence.
In the letter, Dylan Farrow claims that in 1992 at the family’s Connecticut home, Allen led her to a “dim, closet-like attic” and “then he sexually assaulted me.” She did not specify Allen’s actions, but described other abusive behavior.
Dylan Farrow said Allen would have her get in bed with him, and at other times “place his head in my naked lap and breathe in and breathe out.”
“For as long as I could remember, my father had been doing things to me that I didn’t like,” she said. “These things happened so often, so routinely, so skillfully hidden from a mother that would have protected me had she known, that I thought it was normal.”
Allen was investigated on child molestation claims for the alleged 1992 incident, but prosecutors elected not to charge him.
The handling of the investigation was criticized after Litchfield County state attorney Frank Maco said in a press conference there was “probable cause” to charge Allen, although he chose not to. A disciplinary panel found that Maco may have prejudiced the then-ongoing custody battle between Allen and Mia Farrow by making an accusation without formal charges.
The 1992 allegation came shortly after Allen became involved with Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn. Allen was not the adoptive father of Previn, who was about 19 at the time. Allen was in his mid-50s. The two married in 1997 and have two adopted daughters.
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