A spokesman for Woody Allen and his wife Soon-Yi Previn made a statement to Deadline tonight and blew up the claims of sexual molestation against the Oscar-winning author in the Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick-HBO doctor series. Allen V. Farrow.
You can read it below. Deadline:
These documentaries had no interest in the truth. Instead, for years, they secretly collaborated with the Farrows and their enablers to put together an ax with untruths. Woody and Soon-Yi were approached less than two months ago and given a few days ‘to respond’. Of course, they did not want to do that.
As has been known for decades, these allegations are extremely false. Several agencies investigated them at the time and found that, regardless of what Dylan Farrow may have believed, absolutely no abuse took place. It is unfortunately not surprising that the network to air it is HBO, which has a firm production agreement and a business relationship with Ronan Farrow. While this bad hit piece may attract attention, it does not change the facts.
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Ronan Farrow signed a three-year deal with HBO in 2018 to make investigative documentary presentations. Allen v. Farrow is not one of the Ronan Farrow productions, as the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist appears only as a subject in the documentation; he did not manufacture it.
While Ziering and Dick said they were reaching out to Allen, Soon-Yi Previn as well as Moses Farrow (who wrote an essay of 4,600 words about his poor upbringing under mother Mia), the filmmakers claim they never heard from him again. That said, the docu-filmmakers told Deadline that they are not interested in pointing out the “mythmakers” side in their documentation, which means anyone who makes any arguments on behalf of Allen. Ziering and Dick were strictly committed to Dylan and Mia Farrow’s reports and sources supporting their arguments. In Allen v.Farrow, the docu filmmakers take out the report on sexual abuse of Yale New Haven, which finds Dylan’s molestation claims against Woody Allen unbelievable. 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 John Charles Viller-Farrow, who spent 7 years at Jessup Correctional Institution in Maryland. Tonight is part 1 of Allen v. Farrow in a series of four parts that continues for the next three Sundays.
Before the Sundance premiere of Ziering and Dick’s documentary On the record focusing on the women allegedly assaulted by music titan Russell Simmons, Orpah Winfrey removed her as EP over the title, which in turn put the documentary a bit in limbo. It was intended to be distributed by AppleTV + under Winfrey’s agreement with the streamer. Winfrey believed there were holes in it On the record, On top of that, she gets pressure from Simmons. HBO Max terminates acquisition On the record following Sundance last year.
In the wake of Dylan Farrow’s second open in 2017 which took place in the Los Angeles Times at the height of #MeToo (her first version in the New York Times in 2014) Amazon Studios dropped Allen from this agreement, placing the then local distribution film for its function A rainy day in New York in limbo. To date, its most recent function was, Rifkin’s Festival, does not have an American distributor.