The women Hollywood abandoned

How is it, asks Louise O’Neill, that men accused of heinous crimes continue to have careers, while women, in less trouble, are discarded in LA?

ON February 1, the New York Times published a harrowing open letter from Dylan Farrow in which she told of the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her adopted father, Woody Allen.

Allen’s supporters claim Dylan has been brainwashed by her mother, Mia Farrow, and the letter has been published now to cause as much damage as possible to the Oscar hopes of Allen’s latest movie Blue Jasmine.