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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Woody Allen’s wife, Soon-Yi Previn, told Epstein that #MeToo movement ‘went too far’

a man and a women in formalwear.
Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn on 15 May 2015. Photograph: Graham Whitby Boot/Allstar

Soon-Yi Previn, the wife of the film director Woody Allen, sent emails to Jeffrey Epstein telling the convicted sex offender that the #MeToo justice movement “has gone too far” – and smearing an underage girl at the center of a sexting case as “despicable and disgusting” rather than the former US congressman who went to prison for illicitly messaging the minor, according to recently released government files.

At one point, Previn also wrote about how her half-brother Ronan Farrow received more “prestige … than he deserves” in a New York Times article published months after his journalism about Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul and now-convicted sex offender, won a share of a Pulitzer prize and kicked off the #MeToo movement.

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