Epstein Secrets

12 WC: 191694 Woody Allen vs. Mia Farrow In my article on the 10 greatest legal blunders of the 20" Century, I included on my list, the decision by Woody Allen’s lawyers to sue Mia Farrow for custody of several of her adopted children as well as the one child they conceived together. I played an unusual role i

en as well as the one child they conceived together. I played an unusual role in that lawsuit, in which both sides were focused heavily on the media: Woody was concerned that negative coverage, particularly of allegations involving sexual improprieties with a young girl, might ruin his career; and Mia’s

te extreme insensitivity to Mia Farrow’s family. Here is how the appellate court ultimately characterized Woody’s behavior. “In January of 1992, Mr. Allen took the photographs of Ms. Previn [Soon Yi] which were discovered on the mantelpiece in his apartment by Ms. Farrow and were introduced into evidenc

e was facing a murder charge, and if convicted he would never again experience freedom, regardless of his writing skills. I agreed to visit Abbot on Rikers Island, where he was being held pending trial. I was allowed to meet with him in a private lawyer’s conference room, with guards standing outside. We began

lived the passion of my times and I’ve been very lucky, at least so far. (I don’t want to give myself a “kneina hura.”!’) Like the fictional Zelig in Woody Allen’s great film of that name, I was privileged to have been present—literally or virtually—at many of the most important legal and political events that t

but still I’m sure that if I examined it as closely as you have, I would find there would be no excuse for it. Thanks for keeping me informed. Best, Woody.” During the Apartheid regime, I was invited to speak at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. Many in that university had been on the foref

er heard from the ACLU, but I did hear from Woody Allen, to whom I sent my article because his film The F

e back to New York where I arrived at 5:30AM. Following a few hours of sleep in my New York apartment, I was picked up by a paralegal and driven to Rikers Island where I spent the morning conferring with my client Gigi Jordan, who is accused of murder. She had killed her autistic son and tried to kill herself

including the prestigious Financial Times/ Booz Allen prize for both best biography and best business b

n be indicted by a grand jury on seven criminal counts, including attempted rape, sexual assault, and unlawful imprisonment, spend two nights in the Rikers Island jail, placed under house arrest for over a month, and, two weeks before all the charges were dismissed by the prosecutor on August 23,2011, sued fo