An alleged former teen lover of filmmaker Woody Allen has come out of the woodwork to share the “hidden eight-year affair” she had with the then-41-year-old filmmaker that began in 1976 when she just 16.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, former model Babi Christina Engelhardt says she met Woody Allen at the New York City power restaurant Elaine’s in October 1976.
“It was October 1976, and when Engelhardt returned from the ladies’ room, she dropped a note on his table with her phone number. It brazenly read: ‘Since you’ve signed enough autographs, here’s mine!'” reports THR of the encounter. “Soon, Allen rang, inviting her to his Fifth Avenue penthouse.”
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After about a year into the relationship, Engelhardt says that Allen would occasionally bring other “beautiful young ladies” over to his apartment for threesomes. She had experimented with bisexuality at the time and found her threesomes with Allen “interesting — a ’70s exploration.” Four years later, however, things took a sharp turn when Allen introduced Engelhardt to his new girlfriend: actress Mia Farrow.
“I felt sick. I didn’t want to be there at all, and yet I couldn’t find the courage to get up and leave,” she said of the moment in one of her unpublished memoirs. “To leave would mean an end to all of this. Looking back now, that’s exactly what I needed, but back then, the idea of not having Woody in my life at all terrified me. So I sat there, patiently, calmly trying to assess the situation, trying to understand why he wanted the two of us to meet.”
“It wasn’t until after it was done when I really had time to think of how twisted it was when we were together … and how I was little more than a plaything,” says Engelhardt. “While we were together, the whole thing was a game that was being operated solely by Woody so we never quite knew where we stood.” – READ MORE