Ronan Farrow, Mia Farrow‘s son (and perhaps Sinatra’s as well, though Woody Allen raised him), has been very vocal about his distaste for Woody Allen, citing the abuse of his sister, Dylan, as reason. It’s a good reason. In 1993, when Dylan was 7, she and mom Mia Farrow alleged that dad Woody Allen sexually abused her. Their claims were largely ignored by everyone from law enforcement to Hollywood celebrities. A doctor even accused Dylan of making it up. She’s never told, at length, her detailed account of what happened.
But that’s all changed. Now she’s come forward with an article she wrote for The New York Times detailing her abuse. It’s chilling. Here are some excerpts:
What’s your favorite Woody Allen movie? Before you answer, you should know: when I was seven years old, Woody Allen took me by the hand and led me into a dim, closet-like attic on the second floor of our house. He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set. Then he sexually assaulted me. He talked to me while he did it, whispering that I was a good girl, that this was our secret, promising that we’d go to Paris and I’d be a star in his movies. I remember staring at that toy train, focusing on it as it traveled in its circle around the attic. To this day, I find it difficult to look at toy trains.
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What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett? Louis CK? Alec Baldwin? What if it had been you, Emma Stone? Or you, Scarlett Johansson? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me?
Woody Allen is a living testament to the way our society fails the survivors of sexual assault and abuse.
I recommend that you read the whole thing here. I will never look at Woody Allen the same way again.
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In an earlier post, I linked to Ronan Farrow’s awesome Twitter, but he has an awesome Instagram too – go here to see. He loves Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jemima Khan and Oprah and he shades Kardashians. Anyway, as we discussed a few days ago, Ronan’s mom Mia Farrow was all, “Yeah, maybe Frank Sinatra is Ronan’s dad, I don’t know.” To Vanity Fair. Hours after the VF piece came out (and Mia appeared on the Today Show), Ronan tweeted this:
[From Ronan’s Twitter]
I like that he’s not engaging in melodrama about this stuff. I’m assuming his mom told him a while ago that yeah, Woody might not have been his dad after all and maybe it was Frank Sinatra. Page Six did the math they figured that Frank would have been 71 years old at the time that Ronan was conceived in 1987. Frank didn’t pass away until 1998 – maybe that’s when Mia said something? While the VF piece includes quotes from Nancy Sinatra – Frank’s daughter and possibly Ronan’s half-sister? – it seems that Frank’s last wife (and widow) has some thoughts about Mia’s claims:
Mia Farrow has gotten under the skin of Frank Sinatra’s fourth and final wife. Barbara Sinatra angrily discounted reports that Ol’ Blue Eyes fathered a child out of wedlock with the “Rosemary’s Baby” actress.
The last Mrs. Sinatra, who married The Chairman of the Board in 1976 and stayed hitched until his 1998 death, called revelations about Ronan Farrow “a bunch of junk.”
“I can’t hardly believe that. It’s just a bunch of junk,” Barbara Sinatra told The Desert Sun newspaper. “There’s always junk written — lies that aren’t true.”
Mia Farrow told Vanity Fair magazine that her son by Ronan is “possibly” Frank Sinatra’s kid. The crooner and Mia Farrow were married for two years between 1966 and 1968, but remained close — perhaps really close — after their split. Sinatra would have been about 71 if he had fathered Ronan Farrow in early 1987.
Ronan, 25, has long been described as the only biological child of Mia Farrow and scandalous moviemaker Woody Allen. Mia Farrow, Ronan Farrow and Frank Sinatra all have blue eyes. Allen has brown eyes.
Barbara Sinatra, who lives near Palm Springs, Calif., appears to be at odds with one of Francis Albert’s kids, Nancy Sinatra. The singer of “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ ” — and fellow Palm Springs resident — stopped just short of calling Ronan a blood relative, but told Vanity Fair that he “is a big part of us, and we are blessed to have him in our lives.”
Still, 85-year-old widow Barbara Sinatra said she doesn’t believe a word of the Ronan-Frank talk.
She bluntly told the newspaper, “It sounds like a phony to me.”
A rep for Allen also dismissed the magazine story.
“The article is so fictitious and extravagantly absurd that he is not going to comment,” the rep said of the 77-year-old filmmaker, who infamously married Farrow’s adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn.
[From Page Six]
I can understand that Barbara doesn’t want a lot of fuss and drama either, but what’s the big deal? Sinatra has been gone for 15 years. And it’s not like Ronan is some no-account, newly-discovered “heir” who is trying to get a slice of Sinatra fortune. Ronan is a Rhodes scholar, a lawyer, an activist and a genius. He’s got his own sh-t going on.
Last thing: Ronan is in talks to get his own MSNBC weekend show!! OMG. I would watch that. I want to watch him talk politics. I also kind of want to watch him eat. THOSE LIPS.
Photos courtesy of Ronan’s Twitter, WENN.
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Mia Farrow dropped a bombshell when she casually revealed in Vanity Fair that her son Ronan, could actually be the son of Frank Sinatra, and not Woody Allen. Ronan does resemble Sinatra a lot more than Allen, and he seems okay with the the idea of Frank being his dad, tweeting,
Listen, we’re all *possibly* Frank Sinatra’s son.
Goddamn he is awesome. He also burned Woody hard when last year he tweeted,
Happy father’s day — or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law’s day.
I really want to hang out with this dude.
Here’s what Ms. Farrow told Vanity Fair, via E Online:
Farrow admitted Sinatra was the great love of her life and “we never really split up.” […] When asked if Ronan could be Sinatra’s biological child, Farrow simply replied, “Possibly.”
Nancy Sinatra is totally cool with this, saying, “He [Ronan] is a big part of us, and we are blessed to have him in our lives.” Well that was fast.
Don’t you just love old school Frank Sinatra gossip?
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