https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/woody-allens-secret-teen-lover-manhattan-muse-speaks-1169782
For those that did not see this post by Melian about Woody Allen's 8-month affair with a 16-year-old beauty more than 30 years ago, there is this eye-popping, "Eyes Wide Shut Esque" paragraph. Pay attention to the last sentence and think about #metoo. I never heard of Bob/Robert Evans, so I looked him up. Turns out he became the Head of Production for Paramount Pictures (lots of power), he also had substantial business dealings with Roman Polanski including the assignment of him as the director for Rosemary's Baby. He was also the producer for the first two God Father movies and China Town.
Open and thoughtful, Engelhardt unspools a life story that took root in a strict German immigrant household and blossomed into a Zelig-esque series of adventures as she attempted to break into modeling: partying with Iman, jet-setting with Adnan Khashoggi, dining with Stephen King, working as a personal assistant to Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier later convicted for soliciting an underage girl. Following her time with Allen, she went on to become a platonic muse to Federico Fellini during the auteur's late-life journeys in Rome and Tulum, Mexico, then spent years tending to egos as a hostess in the executive dining room at Paramount before landing her current gig, working as an assistant for producer Bob Evans. What's made her attractive to these powerful men, both personally and professionally, she posits, is in part what Allen appreciated in the first place: "I was pretty enough, I was smart enough, I was nonconfrontational, I was non-judgmental, I was discreet, and nothing shocks me."
