Woody Allen facing bombshell new allegations

An actress claims she had a secret underage affair with Woody Allen that included threesomes with his partner, Mia Farrow.

An actress and model claims she had a clandestine eight-year affair with Woody Allen that began when she was 16 years old — and included threesomes with the director and Mia Farrow in his penthouse, according to a new report.

Babi Christina Engelhardt, now 59, told The Hollywood Reporter that she first caught the then-41-year-old Allen’s attention in October 1976 at famed eatery Elaine’s on the Upper East Side, where she dropped a note with her phone number.

“Since you’ve signed enough autographs, here’s mine!” the starstruck girl scribbled.

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Allen soon invited Engelhardt to his Fifth Avenue pad, where she said she told him she was still in high school and living in New Jersey while pursuing a modelling career in the Big Apple.

They became physically intimate a few weeks later, but she wouldn’t turn 17 — the legal age in New York — until December, two months after they met, she claims.

“I was a pleaser, agreeable. Knowing he was a director, I didn’t argue. I was coming from a place of devotion,” she told the magazine, adding that they agreed not to discuss his work and to only meet at his place.

Christina Engelhardt says she started an affair with Allen when she was 16. Picture: Amy Graves/WireImage for Hollywood Reporter

“The curtains were always drawn,” Engelhardt said. “The view must have been spectacular. I wasn’t there for the view.”

Two of Engelhardt’s close friends from that time said they were aware of her relationship with Allen.

Photographer Andrew Unangst told the mag he was with her at Elaine’s the night she made her move on Allen.

“She was a knockout, and outgoing too,” he said.

Engelhardt’s younger brother Mike recalled that Allen called their parents’ Jersey home.

“I’d holler out, ‘Babi, it’s Woody!’ My brain didn’t think something romantic; I was 11 or 12 and a huge fan. I mean, ‘Bananas’?!” he said.

Woody Allen. Picture: AFP

Engelhardt said that about a year into their relationship, Allen began bringing in two other “beautiful young ladies” for three-way romps — and she found the experiences “interesting” after she had experimented with bisexuality.

Four years into their relationship, Allen happily announced that he wanted to introduce her to his new “girlfriend,” who turned out to be Farrow, the star of 1968’s “Rosemary’s Baby,” who was 14 years her senior, according to Engelhardt.

“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,” Engelhardt, a divorcee and mother of two college-age daughters who lives in Beverly Hills, wrote in her private memoir, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Allen with Mia Farrow in 1985. Picture: Getty

“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,” she said. “So I sat there, patiently, calmly trying to assess the situation, trying to understand why he wanted the two of us to meet.”

But despite her initial jealousy, Engelhardt said she grew to like Farrow during a “handful” of threesomes, as they smoked pot and shared a fondness for animals.

“There were times the three of us were together, and it was actually great fun. We enjoyed each other when we were in the moment. She was beautiful and sweet, he was charming and alluring, and I was sexy and becoming more and more sophisticated in this game,” she writes.

Mia Farrow (L) and daughter Dylan Farrow. Picture: AFP PHOTO / GETTY I

“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,” she continued.

“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,” she wrote. “I used to think this was a form of mother-father with the two of them. To me, that whole relationship was very Freudian: how I admired them, how he’d already broken me in, how I let that be all right.”

Engelhardt said she felt “sorry” for Farrow when the story broke about Allen’s relationship with the actress’s adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, who is now his wife of nearly 21 years.

“I thought, ‘Didn’t Woody have enough “extra,” with or without her, that the last thing he had to do was to go for something that was totally hers?’” she said. “He had groomed Mia, trained her, to put up with all of this. Now he had no barriers. It was total disrespect.”

Previn, 47, recently blasted Farrow as an abusive tyrant who physically assaulted her.

“What’s happened to Woody is so upsetting, so unjust,” Previn said in September, referring to renewed press about sexual abuse allegations levelled against him by his and Farrow’s adopted daughter, Dylan, in 1993 when she was just 7. Allen has consistently denied the bombshell claim.

Allen and wife Soon-Yi Previn. Picture: AFP

Farrow declined to comment to The Hollywood Reporter.

Engelhardt eventually grew unfulfilled by her arrangement with Allen and left New York.

“I thought I was special, and then I realised he’s a big person and he’s got a big life — I’m in his life,” she said. “It’s a rainbow with many colours, and I’m one of them.”

Engelhardt writes on her website that she studied acting with legendary coaches Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg — and trained alongside Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn.

In the late 1980s, while she worked in director Federico Fellini’s office in Rome, Allen called him.

“I was the one to pick up,” Engelhardt said. “He said, ‘You’re with Fellini — you left me for Fellini?! That’s so cool!’ He was shocked I was with, of all people, his hero.”

Despite the shocking revelations, Engelhardt was unwilling to have her relationship with Allen be judged based on today’s newly established norms under the #MeToo movement.

“It’s almost as if I’m now expected to trash him,” she told the Reporter as she looked back with mixed emotions on her eight-year relationship with the “celebrated genius.”

Decades later, she holds herself largely responsible for remaining in the relationship as long as she did and is unwilling to indict Allen, who also declined to comment for the article.

“What made me speak is I thought I could provide a perspective,” she told the mag. “I’m not attacking Woody. This is not ‘bring down this man.’ I’m talking about my love story. This made me who I am. I have no regrets.”

This story originally appeared on the New York Post and is republished here with permission.