Woody Allen attends NYC sex app party with wife Soon-Yi Previn

American filmmaker, actor and comedian Woody Allen and his wife Soon-Yi Previn made quite an unusual return to New York City's social scene this Wednesday. Shockingly, they attended a launch party for a sex app at Daphne Merkin's Upper East Side abode. 

Due to the #MeToo allegations which resurfaced against the NYC native in 2017, the couple had limited their social outings and were visibly absent from the NYC cocktail party circuit. So the Wednesday outing was quite unusual for the couple.

The party marked the launch of Feeld's heavyweight literary magazine, which bills itself as "the dating app for the curious." Allen didn't stay at the party for long, however, he did chat with a few guests during the short time he was there.

The magazine is called AFM, Page Six reported, and includes material from contributors such as Jazmine Hughes, Allison P. Davis and Susanna Moore, with Haley Mlotek and Maria Dimitrova editing.

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Other notable names at the bash included Feeld CEO Ana Kirova, painter David Salle, novelist Emma Cline, and journalists Candace Bushnell, Paula Froelich and Molly Jong Fast.

"The inaugural issue Pursuits of Happiness explores all facets of what it means to reach for joy, pleasure, satisfaction, grace, desire - or whatever other euphemism comes to mind when you think of what it means to be in pursuit or to be happy, or both - as well as the experience of feeling these concepts most acutely in their absence," the publication said.

The Academy Award-winning filmmaker, 88, was accused of sexual misconduct by his adopted stepdaughter Dylan Farrow in 1992. Allen, who has denied the allegations, wasn't charged following a 1993 probe by authorities in Connecticut.