Human Interest
Woody Allen denies abusing his daughter─── 09:09 Sat, 08 Feb 2014
Woody Allen has repeated his denial that he molested his adopted daughter, in a letter to the New York Times.
The filmmaker said Dylan Farrow had been coached to make the claim by his estranged former partner, Mia Farrow.
Mr Allen, 78, wrote in the newspaper that Dylan had been "used as a pawn for revenge" against him by her mother.
Dylan Farrow wrote last week in the New York Times that Mr Allen abused her in 1992 when she was seven years old in an attic at Mia Farrow's Connecticut home.
Mr Allen alleges that Mia Farrow orchestrated the "smear" after discovering earlier in the same year that he was having an affair with her other adopted daughter from a previous partner.
Mr Allen alleges that Mia Farrow orchestrated the "smear" after discovering earlier in the same year that he was having an affair with her other adopted daughter from a previous partner.
The Hollywood legend began a relationship with Soon-Yi Previn when she was about 19. They wed in 1997 and remain married.
Dylan Farrow alleges Woody Allen molested her when she was seven years old.
"Not that I doubt Dylan hasn't come to believe she's been molested," Mr Allen wrote in the New York Times, "but if from the age of 7 a vulnerable child is taught by a strong mother to hate her father because he is a monster who abused her, is it so inconceivable that after many years of this indoctrination the image of me Mia wanted to establish had taken root?"
He adds: "Of course, I did not molest Dylan. I loved her and hope one day she will grasp how she has been cheated out of having a loving father and exploited by a mother more interested in her own festering anger than her daughter's well-being."
In an open letter to the New York Times on Sunday last week, Dylan Farrow, now 28 and living in Florida, said Mr Allen was a "predator" who had abused her in a "dim, closet-like attic" while she played with an electric train set.
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