#woody-allen

#woody-allen

"Paul Weiss was retained by Leon Black, then the CEO of the firm's longtime client Apollo, to negotiate a series of fee disputes with Jeffrey Epstein that spanned several years," Paul Weiss said in a statement. "The firm was adverse to Epstein, and at no point did Paul Weiss or Brad Karp ever represent him." And yet... The most recent release of files from the Epstein case reveals something more.

Somewhere, maybe, Woody Allen finally regrets opposing that bike lane. Among the millions of pages the federal government released on Friday - as part of the wide-ranging pedophilia scandal involving Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, Donald Trump and other figures - a single page involving the film auteur and groomer stands out as a perfect crystallization of New York privilege, wealth, contempt for the public and flat-out NIMBYism.

"My reaction has always been the same," Allen told Variety in an interview published this week. "The situation has been investigated by ... two major investigative bodies. And both, after long detailed investigations, concluded there was no merit to these charges. ... The fact that it lingers on always makes me think that maybe people like the idea that it lingers on. You know, maybe there's something appealing to people."

Isaw Woody Allen onscreen for the first time as a 17-year-old, a senior at an all-girls Catholic school in a small New England town called Riverside. In the middle-class Rhode Island suburb where I was brought up, the type of person Woody Allen plays in Manhattan -a glib, disaffected, neurotic, middle-aged TV writer-did not exist. Or if they did, I had no knowledge of them-and that's probably the way it should be,