Timing of renewed allegations against Woody Allen ‘suspect’: lawyer

File photo of director Woody Allen during the premiere of his film "Blue Jasmine" in ParisWoody Allen's lawyer defended the filmmaker on Tuesday after renewed allegations of sexual abuse by his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, and questioned the timing of her comments. So all of a sudden we're seeing these allegations surface again, and one has to wonder why," Elkan Abramowitz told NBC News in an interview. "The case is over – there is no case." Last week, Farrow repeated her allegations in a letter published by The New York Times. She said Allen sexually assaulted her in the Connecticut house where she lived with her mother, Allen's then-girlfriend Mia Farrow.