Soon-Yi Previn, the wife of film director Woody Allen, exchanged emails with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in which she claimed the #MeToo movement “has gone too far” and disparaged a 15-year-old girl involved in a sexting case with former congressman Anthony Weiner, according to newly released government files.
In a September 2016 email to Epstein, Previn called the teenager “despicable and disgusting” and accused her of manipulating Weiner. “I hate women who take advantage of guys and she is definitely one of them,” Previn wrote. Weiner later pleaded guilty to transferring obscene material to a minor and served a prison sentence.
The emails were part of a tranche of documents released by the US Justice Department under a congressional transparency law. Previn also criticised her half-brother, journalist Ronan Farrow, saying he received more “prestige … than he deserves” for his Pulitzer-winning reporting on Harvey Weinstein, which helped ignite the #MeToo movement.
Previn and Allen maintained a friendship with Epstein for years after his 2008 conviction for procuring a minor for prostitution. The files show Previn emailed Epstein as late as autumn 2018, months before his death in federal custody while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
In one exchange, Previn forwarded an article about Farrow’s reporting to Epstein without comment. In early 2018, she sent Epstein an email she had written to herself with the subject line: “Just as the Me Too movement has gone too far so has Botox.”
