AMERICAN actress and former model Babi Christina Engelhardt claims she had an affair with Woody Allen when she was 16 and he was 41.
Now the 59-year-old is reflecting on her alleged relationship in the wake of the #MeToo movement. But who is she? Here’s what we know.
Who is Babi Christina Engelhardt?
Babi Christina Engelhardt was born in 1960, and took the stage name as Christina Engelhardt when she decided on a career in front of the camera.
She began modelling when she was 15, after a man reportedly told her she ” should be a model” on her way home from school.
Thanks to him, she was then able to travel to the model capitals of the world and met many fellow models during her career.
She modelled for Playboy, Allure and other famous magazines, before becoming an actress.
She appeared in many films, some of which were with Woody Allen.
Engelhardt is divorced and had two daughters.
What does she claim?
Babi Christina Engelhardt claims that she began sleeping with the director in 1976 and the two had an eight-year relationship.
She also claims she had threesomes with him and Mia Farrow where they smoked joints together.
Engelhardt claimed that she went to his Manhattan apartment more than 100 times where they would have sex with the curtains drawn.
Two years into the relationship, she says Allen introduced her to a group of “beautiful young ladies” and they began to have threesomes.
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Engelhardt described Allen as manipulative and said “the whole thing was a game that was being operated solely by Woody”.
She said that the plot of Allen’s film Manhattan, in which 17-year-old Tracy played by Oscar-nominated Mariel Hemingway has sex with Allen’s 42-year-old character Isaac was based on her affair with him.
When Engelhardt saw it she cried because she thought it made their relationship look like a fling – and she thought it was something more.
Allen’s family life has come under new scrutiny during the #MeToo movement and Engelhardt spoke out after being inspired by it.
Allen infamously began a relationship with Farrow’s adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn in the 1990s when she was 21 and he was decades older.
At the time Allen, now 83, was Farrow’s long term boyfriend and effectively Previn’s stepfather.
Now Engelhardt, 59, alleges that long before this he did something similar with her.
She states that they met at legendary New York City restaurant Elaine’s when Engelhardt brazenly dropped a note on Allen’s table reading: “Since you’ve signed enough autographs, here’s mine!”
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At the time Allen was a hot director who had just released Sleeper and would release Annie Hall the next year.
She would not turn 17, the legal age of consent in New York, until December.
Describing her appeal at the time Engelhardt, now a divorcee and mum-of-two, said: “I was pretty enough, I was smart enough, I was non-confrontational, I was non-judgmental, I was discreet, and nothing shocks me.”
In her unpublished memoir Engelhardt alleges that Allen wooed her by playing chess and inviting her to his apartment to watch basketball on TV and make out.
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