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It seems equally though Woody Allen will not be staying silent post-obit Dylan Farrow's recent open letter that appeared in the The New York Times in which she detailed her estranged father'south alleged sexual abuse.

"Mr. Allen has read the article and plant it untrue and disgraceful. He will be responding very shortly," Allen's publicist Leslee Dart said in a statement, suggesting that the iconic filmmaker will non allow himself to be publicly bashed.

Dylan, who was adopted by Allen and his ex-Mia Farrow , penned the missive afterwards Allen was honored at the 2014 Golden Globe Awards with the Cecil. B. DeMille Honour. Both Mia and Ronan Farrow publicly expressed their disdain for the praise of the Hollywood vet during the prove, taking to Twitter to cite the sexual corruption allegations.

In the letter Dylan detailed the supposed incidents, saying the noted filmmaker took her to the cranium in their home and sexually assaulted her when she was simply 7 years erstwhile.

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News bankrupt in 1992 that Allen was accused of inappropriately touching so 7-twelvemonth-one-time Dylan, and although the claims were investigated, charges confronting Allen were not pursued because Dylan was said to exist "too frail" to handle a trial. Allen has denied any allegations of the sexual abuse for decades.

Reflecting back on that fourth dimension, Farrow writes, "That he got away with what he did to me haunted me as I grew up. I was stricken with guilt that I had allowed him to be near other little girls. I was terrified of being touched by men. I developed an eating disorder. I began cutting myself."

"That torment was made worse by Hollywood," she continued. "All but a precious few (my heroes) turned a bullheaded heart. Nearly found it easier to take the ambiguity, to say, "who can say what happened," to pretend that nothing was wrong. Actors praised him at awards shows. Networks put him on TV. Critics put him in magazines. Each time I saw my abuser's face – on a poster, on a t-shirt, on television – I could just hibernate my panic until I institute a place to exist alone and autumn autonomously."

"At the fourth dimension, a thorough investigation was conducted past courtroom appointed independent experts," Dart, Allen'southward rep, besides said. "The experts concluded there was no apparent evidence of molestation; that Dylan Farrow had an inability to distinguish betwixt fantasy and reality; and that Dylan Farrow had likely been coached by her mother Mia Farrow. No charges were always filed."

Farrow also singles out several actors who have starred in Allen'southward movies in the alphabetic character, asking, "What if information technology had been your child, Cate Blanchett? Louis CK? Alec Baldwin? What if information technology had been you, Emma Stone? Or you, Scarlett Johansson? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me?" (Diane Keaton accepted the Cecil. B. DeMille accolade on behalf of the Hollywood heavyweight).

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Blanchett was asked about the epistle while attention the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Saturday night, and the 44-yr-one-time actress provided a tactful response.

"It's obviously been a long and painful situation for the family, and I hope they observe some resolution and peace," Blanchett, who is currently a frontrunner for the Best Extra Oscar for her performance in Bluish Jasmine, told journalist Jeffrey Wells.

Alec Baldwin, all the same, was far more edgeless when approaching the topic on Twitter. "What the f--one thousand is wrong w u that u recollect we all need to b commenting on this family's personal struggle?" Blanchett's Blue Jasmine costar responded to ane user who asked whether he owes Dylan an apology.

"And so you know who'southward guilty? Who'southward lying? You lot, personally, know that?" he replied to some other, earlier tweeting, "You lot are mistaken if you recollect in that location is a identify for me, or any outsider, in this family's issue."

In typical Baldwin way, his tweets accept since been deleted.

Allen'due south attorney wrote to CNN: "It is tragic that after 20 years a story engineered by a vengeful lover resurfaces even though it was fully vetted and rejected by independent regime. The one to blame for Dylan'southward distress is neither Dylan nor Woody Allen."

Source: https://www.eonline.com/news/506626/woody-allen-cate-blanchett-and-alec-baldwin-respond-to-dylan-farrow-s-new-york-times-letter

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