A women’s group in Spain is demanding the city of Oviedo remove a statue of comedian Woody Allen in response to his adopted daughter’s renewed allegations that he molested her when she was just 7 years old.
The life-sized sculpture must go because it serves “to honor an abuser and pervert,” the Asturias Feminist Organisation has said, according to news agency The Local.
The bronze likeness, designed by Vicente Menéndez Santarúa, has drawn tourists to the Calle Milicias Nacionales shopping street since it was erected in 2003, the site reported.
Allen, who filmed portions of his 2008 flick “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” in Oviedo, once praised the town as “delicious, exotic, beautiful, clean, lovely, tranquil and pedestrianized.”
Oviedo City Hall will consider the idea at an upcoming meeting, the Local reported.
Dylan Farrow, who was adopted by Allen and then-wife, actress Mia Farrow, says the director touched her inappropriately in a Connecticut attic in 1992.
Investigators at the time said they had “probable cause” to charge Allen, but never did.
Dylan, 32, reiterated claims in a 2014 open letter published in the New York Times.
She also detailed the alleged abuse last week, charging that Allen “touched my labia and my vulva with his fingers” while she was playing with a train set as a child.
Allen denies the allegations and claims his ex-wife Mia “cynically” coached their young daughter into leveling the accusations during a messy divorce.