At one point in his column, Kristof asks if Woody Allen is “honorable” - which, besides being a oddly Victorian turn of phrase, is also bizarrely minimizing. He often casts himself as a heroic rescuer of damsels in distress, and there’s a whiff of something like that going on here. Kristof has a penchant for writing about sexual abuse and exploitation in ways that make a lot of feminists uneasy.
First of all, let’s put the Nicholas Kristof issue on the table. It also brings up a host of painful and complicated issues. They were investigated, and “ Connecticut prosecutor said that there was enough evidence for a criminal case against Allen but that he was dropping criminal proceedings to spare Dylan.”ĭylan’s letter is well-written, moving, and brave. As Kristof explains, the abuse allegations originally came to light in 1992.
The letter is published on Nicholas Kristof’s blog and Kristof has written a follow-up column about it. In the letter, Dylan, a 28-year old writer and artist now living under a different name, accuses Woody Allen of sexually assaulting her when she was 7 years old. Tonight, the New York Times has published an explosive open letter from Dylan Farrow, the adoptive daughter of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow.
