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Hachette publisher announced Friday that it will not publish the autobiography of American film director Woody Allen, whose release was scheduled on April 7, after receiving a wave of criticism.

"Hachette Book Group has decided that it will not publish Woody Allen's memoirs 'A Propos of Nothing'" and "will return all rights to its author," said Sophie Cottrell, spokeswoman for the publisher.

According to the company, after holding discussions with the staff, the leadership concluded that "it was not possible to move forward with the publication."

Hachette employees protested in recent days over the decision to publish Allen's book, with a symbolic strike this Thursday at the editorial offices in New York.

Last Wednesday, Dylan Farrow, adopted daughter of Woody Allen who accuses the director of sexually abusing her as a child, reacted furiously at the imminent publication of the filmmaker's memoirs. For Farrow, the launch of this autobiography, entitled 'Apropos of Nothing', was "another example of the great privilege granted by power, money and fame." In addition, in a statement Farrow charged against the Hachette publishing group, whose Grand Central Publishing label was going to release these memoirs, for not checking the facts Allen recounts in his book and thus becoming his "accomplice."

"I want to record that no one contacted me to verify the veracity of these reports," said Dylan Farrow in a statement published through his social networks in which he emphasizes that this "clamorous omission by Hachette to his responsibility more basic, "by not verifying the facts, contrasts with how they have treated their account of the abuses allegedly perpetrated by Allen. "My story has been subjected to relentless scrutiny and has never been published without thorough verification of the facts," he says.

In addition, Farrow described the publication of Allen's memoirs as something "very disturbing on a personal level" and a "total betrayal for his brother," journalist Ronan Farrow, "whose brave journalistic work, capitalized by Hachette, gave voice to numerous survivors. of sexual abuse committed by powerful men. " "Hachette's complicity in this must be qualified as it is, and they will have to answer for it," Dylan concludes.

Dylan Farrow referred to 'Catch and Kill', the research book in which Ronan Farrow delved into Harvey Weinstein's case through his victims' stories and was edited by Little, Brown and Company, a Hachette subsidiary . Ronan Farrow has announced that he cuts all ties with the publishing house after expressing, also in a statement published on social networks, his enormous "disappointment" at Hachette's decision to publish a book that "refused to publish other important publishers." In May of last year, 'The New York Times' reported that up to four publishers rejected Allen's book which, after the accusations, of his adopted daughter they considered someone "toxic."

Ronan Farrow, who has always endorsed his sister's version of Allen's alleged abuses, also claims that those responsible for the editorial "hid this decision from me and their own employees while we were working on 'Catch and Kill', a book about how powerful men, including Woody Allen, evade their responsibility for sexual abuse. " "As I told Hachette, an editorial that would behave in this way is one with which I cannot work in conscience," he says.

Apropos of Nothing

'Apropos of Nothing', autobiography of Woody Allen that was going to go on sale next April 7, would be according to his editorial, "a complete description of his life, both personal and professional, and talks about his work in movies, theater , television, night clubs and publications "in which " Allen also writes about his relationships with family, friends and the loves of his life. "

Allen, 84, has always denied this accusation of sexual abuse, which was first made in 1992 by Mia Farrow. His then partner, with whom he had already begun a tense process of separation, accused Allen of having sexually abused his daughter. The subsequent investigation, which lasted 14 months, dismissed the accusation because it could not find any conclusive evidence of such attacks.

In 2014 Dylan reiterated the accusations made by his mother more than two decades later and, in an open letter, recounted in detail the abuses he allegedly suffered from his adoptive father during his childhood. A story made public again in 2018, when, after uncovering the cases of sexual abuse of Harvey Weinstein and other members of the film industry, the Time's Up and #MeToo movements exploded.

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