Woody Allen on Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and life at 89 - The Sunday Story
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3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
He appeared at a Russian film festival, wants to work with Trump and still says Jeffrey Epstein was “charming and personable”. Does the film director Woody Allen not care what people think? Hadley Freeman meets him and his wife, Soon-Yi, at home in New York.
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| 1:12.4 | Hello, I'm Luke Jones. |
| 1:14.2 | My Sunday Times colleague Hadley Freeman recently went to go and interview Woody Allen. |
| 1:19.4 | The director was once lauded for his Annie Hall, Hannah and her sisters, Manhattan and more, |
| 1:26.0 | but is somewhat out in the cold at the moment. Even though he was |
| 1:30.2 | cleared in investigations, his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, insists she was molested by him, |
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