Woody Allen Speaks Out

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

330. Let's unpack this...

For starters, the judge who issued the "probable cause" statement was reprimanded by the CT State Grievance Panel, calling his comments, "inappropriate, unsolicited and potentially prejudicial." It was a statement that he had no business making.

Second, Woody possibly had sex with a 19 year-old-woman. Fact is, Soon-Yi may have been 21 (there's some confusion as to the correct date on her Korean birth certificate). In any case, Soon-Yi was NOT Woody Allen's step-daughter and was NEVER Woody Allen's step-daughter and she was above the age of consent (17 in New York; 16 in Connecticut) when the relationship began.

Freaky? Yes. Titillating? Absolutely. But while we're pondering the 35-year age difference between the two, let's not forget that there was a 30-year age difference between Sinatra and Mia Farrow, yet nobody seemed to ever care about that. Nobody accused Sinatra of being a child molester because he married a woman who was the SAME AGE (or nearly so) as Soon-Yi Previn.

Third, there's a big difference between a man who likes to be around younger women (provided they're of legal age) and a pedophile. What's more, aside from one women Allen dated briefly in the 1970's, Allen's partners have all been women in their early- to mid-thirties. There's not even a "pattern of behavior" with regard to Allen's dating younger women, much less molesting children.

You want to stick to the facts on the table? They are these (and I repeat):

There was no medical evidence of molestation.
The six-month criminal investigation yielded nothing.
Allen has never before or since been accused of anything of the sort.

What you DO have is an unsubstantiated claim of molestation pursuant to an extraordinarily acrimonious custody dispute.