May 11, 2016: Ronan Farrow wrote about the accusations in a column titled, “My Father, Woody Allen, and the Danger of Questions Unasked.”
Oct. 10, 2017: Ronan Farrow reported on sexual misconduct against Harvey Weinstein for the New Yorker, days after another explosive Weinstein story in the New York Times. The Weinstein reports helped launch the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, which drew new attention to the accusations against his father.
Jan. 18, 2018: Dylan Farrow spoke out to CBS News and shared largely the same account she shared in 2014.
Allen responded: “Dylan’s older brother Moses has said that he witnessed their mother … relentlessly coaching Dylan, trying to drum into her that her father was a dangerous sexual predator. It seems to have worked — and, sadly, I’m sure Dylan truly believes what she says.”
Dylan Farrow told CBS: “What I don’t understand is, how is this crazy story of me being brainwashed and coached more believable than what I’m saying about being sexually assaulted by my father?”
Jan. 29, 2018: Though of Allen’s past collaborators have distance themselves from him, his Annie Hall co-star, Diane Keaton, stood by him.
“Woody Allen is my friend and I continue to believe him,” she tweeted. “It might be of interest to take a look at the ’60 Minutes’ interview from 1992 and see what you think.”
Timothee Chalamet, Greta Gerwig, Rachel Brosnahan, Rebecca Hall, and Mira Sorvino are among those who have expressed regret about working with Allen.
Sept. 16, 2018: Soon-Yi Previn gave her side in a New York Magazine story.
“What’s happened to Woody is so upsetting, so unjust. [Mia] has taken advantage of the #MeToo movement and paraded Dylan as a victim. And a whole new generation is hearing about it when they shouldn’t,” Soon-Yi Previn wrote.
Dylan Farrow responds on Twitter: “Woody Allen molested me when I was seven years old, part of a documented pattern of inappropriate, abusive touching that led a judge to say there was no evidence I was coached and that it was unsafe for me to be in Woody Allen’s presence.”
She also took issue with the fact that the author of the New York Magazine interview with Previn described herself as “friends with Allen for over four decades.”
Dec. 17, 2018: Former model Babi Christina Engelhardt tells The Hollywood Reporter that she started a secret eight-year relationship with Allen in 1976, when she was 16. She says she is hesitant to have the relationship judged by today’s standards: “It’s almost as if I’m now expected to trash him,” she told THR. Engelhardt is also a former assistant to Jeffrey Epstein.
Feb. 7, 2019: Allen sues Amazon for $68 million, saying the company abandoned a four-film deal with him because of “a 25-year-old, baseless allegation.”
Nov. 9, 2019: Allen and Amazon settle. No terms are disclosed.
Ronan Farrow has criticized his publisher, Hachette, for also publishing Woody Allen’s memoir.
March 2, 2020: Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, announces that it will publish a Woody Allen memoir, Apropos of Nothing, on April 7.
“The book is a comprehensive account of his life, both personal and professional, and describes his work in films, theater, television, nightclubs, and print,” Grand Central Publishing said in a statement. “Allen also writes of his relationships with family, friends, and the loves of his life.”
Dylan Farrow castigated the publisher, which also published Ronan Farrow’s Me Too book Catch and Kill.
“Hachette’s publishing of Woody Allen’s memoir is deeply upsetting to me personally and an utter betrayal of my brother whose brave reporting, capitalized on by Hachette, gave voice to numerous survivors of sexual abuse by powerful men,” she said in a statement on Twitter. “For the record, I was never contacted by any fact-checkers to verify the information in this ‘memoir,’ demonstrating an egregious abdication of Hachette’s most basic responsibility. On the other hand, my story has undergone endless scrutiny and has never been published without extensive fact-checking. This provides yet another example of the profound privilege that power, money and notoriety affords. Hachette’s complicity in this should be called out for what it is and they should have to answer for it.”
March 3, 2020: Ronan Farrow blasted Hachette, which also published his #MeToo book Catch and Kill, for its decision to also publish the Allen memoir, saying he could no longer work with the publisher “in good conscience.” He said Hachette had concealed from him its plan to publish the memoir.
Hachette had no comment.
March 5, 2020: Employees of the publisher stage a walkout to protest the memoir.
March 6, 2020: The publisher drops Apropos of Nothing.
March 23, 2020: Woody Allen’s book, Apropos of Nothing, is published with no warning by a new publisher, Arcade Publishing. The Associated Press report that in the book, Allen again denies ever sexually abusing Dylan Farrow: “I never laid a finger on Dylan, never did anything to her that could be even misconstrued as abusing her; it was a total fabrication from start to finish,” he writes. He also says that he has no overall regrets about being with Soon-Yi Previn.
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