A spokesman for Woody Allen and his wife Soon-Yi Previn made a statement tonight to Deadline, criticizing allegations of sexual abuse made against the Oscar-winning author in the docuseries of Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick HBO tonight. Allen V. Farrow.
You can read below. Deadline just received:
These documentary filmmakers had no interest in the truth. Instead, they spent years surreptitiously collaborating with the Farrows and their facilitators to assemble an ax job riddled with falsehoods. Woody and Soon-Yi were approached less than two months ago and only had a few days to ‘respond’. Of course, they refused to do so.
As has been known for decades, these claims are categorically false. Several agencies investigated them at the time and found that, regardless of what Dylan Farrow may have been led to believe, absolutely no abuse had occurred. Unfortunately, it is not surprising that the broadcaster that will broadcast this is HBO – which has a production deal and a commercial relationship with Ronan Farrow. While this shoddy piece of success can get attention, it doesn’t change the facts.
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Ronan Farrow signed a three-year contract with HBO in 2018 to make special investigative documentaries. Allen v. Farrow it is not one of those productions by Ronan Farrow, as the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist only appears as a subject in the documentation; he did not produce it.
While Ziering and Dick said they contacted Allen, Soon-Yi Previn and also Moses Farrow (who wrote a 4,600-word essay on his bitter upbringing with mother Mia), the filmmakers say they never had an answer. That said, the docu filmmakers told Deadline that they were not interested in showing the side of the “myth makers” in their documentation, that is, anyone who expressed any argument on behalf of Allen. Ziering and Dick were strictly dedicated to the accounts and sources of Dylan and Mia Farrow that supported their arguments. At the Allen v. Farrow, the filmmakers document Yale New Haven’s sexual abuse report, which found Dylan’s sexual abuse charges against Woody Allen to be incredulous. The documentary ignores important facts, such as two of the adopted Farrow children who committed suicide, as well as Mia Farrow’s convicted child molester brother, John Charles Viller-Farrow, who spent 7 years at the Jessup Correctional Institution in Maryland. Tonight is part 1 of Allen v. Farrow in a four-part series that continues for the next three Sundays.
Before the debut of the Ziering and Dick documentary at Sundance In the registry which focuses on women who were allegedly assaulted by music titan Russel Simmons, Orpah Winfrey retired as an EP in the title, which in turn put the documentary in limbo for a while. The goal was to be distributed by AppleTV + under Winfrey’s agreement with the streamer. Winfrey believed that there were holes in the In the registry, moreover, she was being pressured by Simmons. HBO Max ended up acquiring In the registry after Sundance last year.
In the wake of Dylan Farrow’s second opinion piece in 2017, which was published in Los Angeles Times at the height of #MeToo (his first opinion piece was at New York Times in 2014), Amazon Studios withdrew Allen from this business, placing the nationally distributed film for his feature film at the time A rainy day in New York in limbo. So far, his most recent feature film, Rifkin Festival, has no distributor in the USA.