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| Woody Allen attacks ex over abuse allegations Posted: 07 Feb 2014 10:59 PM PST In a nearly 2,000-word op-ed in The New York Times, Allen castigated his former partner over shocking allegations detailed by their daughter Dylan in the paper last week. "Of course, I did not molest Dylan," he wrote, adding that he had "loved" the girl he adopted with Farrow during their 12-year relationship that broke up in enormous acrimony. "I... 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." Allen also addressed reports that Ronan Farrow may be Frank Sinatra's son, not his. "Granted, he looks a lot like Frank with the blue eyes and facial features, but if so what does this say? That all during the custody hearing Mia lied under oath and falsely represented Ronan as our son?" the director asked. "Even if he is not Frank's, the possibility she raises that he could be, indicates she was secretly intimate with him during our years. Not to mention all the money I paid for child support. Was I supporting Frank's son?" Allen said he raised the matter to "call attention to the integrity and honesty of a person who conducts her life like that," referring to the older Farrow. In an open letter on a New York Times blog, 28-year-old Dylan Farrow said today she was molested by Allen as a seven-year-old, detailing the alleged abuse for the first time in her own words. Farrow suggested that other abuse may have started even earlier, saying: "For as long as I could remember, my father had been doing things to me that I didn't like." The unproven allegations first emerged in the aftermath of Allen's split with Mia Farrow in 1992. Allen, 78, left Farrow after starting a relationship with the actress's adopted daughter from a previous marriage, Soon-Yi Previn. A New York judge who presided over the 1994 custody battle between Allen and Farrow ruled that the abuse allegations were inconclusive, but at the same time lambasted the director as "self-absorbed, untrustworthy and insensitive." And a Connecticut police investigation did not result in any charges. "Could it be any clearer? Mr Allen did not abuse Dylan; most likely a vulnerable, stressed-out seven-year-old was coached by Mia Farrow. This conclusion disappointed a number of people," Allen wrote, referring to himself in the third person. The younger Farrow accused Hollywood of sweeping Allen's alleged crimes under the carpet by honouring his films. Allen was celebrated with a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes in January and his latest movie "Blue Jasmine" is up for three Oscars at the Academy Awards. Writing in the Times, the director said experts from Yale University's child sex abuse clinic at the time concluded he had not molested Dylan. The younger Farrow added "a few little added creative flourishes that seem to have magically appeared during our 21-year estrangement," Allen wrote. It was his second denial since Dylan's post was published. On Sunday, his publicist called the allegations "untrue and disgraceful". – AFP, February 8, 2014. |
| Lawyers seek to protect Bieber’s ‘personal parts’ from media exposure Posted: 07 Feb 2014 09:04 PM PST "While in custody at the Miami Beach police station the defendant was captured on videotape in various states of undress which show intimate personal parts of the defendant's body," the motion states, noting that the Florida constitution and state law prevent such images from being publicly disclosed. Bieber, 19, was charged with driving under influence, resisting arrest and using an expired license after police say they caught him allegedly drag racing on January 23. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges. He also had marijuana and prescription medication for anxiety in his system at the time of his arrest, according to the state attorney's office. One video of Bieber in police custody being patted down by and Miami Beach officer was already released to the media this week, the motion states, in violation of the law and prior to Bieber's lawyers being notified of its existence. Yesterday, Bieber's Miami lawyers Black, Srebnick, Kornspan & Stumpf, said they learned from the state attorney's office that various news media outlets had filed public records requests for all videotape footage from Bieber's time in detention. The Miami Beach police and the state attorney's office were not immediately available to comment. A Florida court has set a March 3 trial date for Bieber, who is Canadian, on the charges stemming from the January 23 arrest. Bieber, whose private life has taken a tumultuous turn in the past year, was also charged last week with assaulting a limousine driver in Toronto in December. – Reuters, February 8, 2014. |
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