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NEW YORK: A number one writer, Hachette, on Friday scrapped plans to launch the autobiography of filmmaker Woody Allen following an outcry and a employees walkout. He has lengthy been accused of molesting his daughter.
Hachette’s announcement got here after Allen’s son Ronan Farrow, who’s extraordinarily vital of his father, denounced the e book group over Apropos of Nothing, initially scheduled to hit cabinets subsequent month.
“The decision to cancel Mr. Allen’s book was a difficult one,” a spokeswoman for Hachette stated in an announcement emailed to AFP, including it could return all rights to the writer.
Allegations that Allen molested his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow when she was seven years previous within the early 1990s have dogged the Oscar-winning filmmaker for many years.
The 84-year-old director of Annie Corridor and Manhattan was cleared of the fees, first leveled by his then-partner Mia Farrow, after two separate months-long investigations, and has persistently denied the abuse. However Dylan, now 34, maintains she was molested.
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Hachette stated on Monday its Grand Central Publishing subsidiary would launch Allen’s memoir in the US on April 7. This sparked a direct backlash with high-profile investigative journalist and best-selling writer Ronan Farrow, brother of Dylan, saying on Tuesday he would now not work with Hachette.
Ronan has lengthy defended Dylan, who renewed her accusations towards Allen within the wake of the #MeToo motion in early 2018.
On Thursday, dozens of staff firm staff in New York staged a walkout in protest on the determination to publish the memoir. “We stand in solidarity with Ronan Farrow, Dylan Farrow, and survivors of sexual assault,” the workers stated in an electronic mail, Publishers Weekly reported.
The spokeswoman for Hachette stated firm executives had engaged in “extensive conversations” with employees and others up to now few days.
“After listening, we came to the conclusion that moving forward with publication would not be feasible for HBG,” she stated. She added that the imprint does “not cancel books lightly.”
Allen didn’t instantly remark.
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