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Which is entirely your prerogative, as it is mine to disagree.
Of course not, but given the circumstances I believe the child over Woody Allen.
At the very least for the Soon Yi thing, for which I do not blame her. However, having said that, that does not necessarily equate to the other stuff. It is not unheard of for a person make these kinds of allegations when they themselves are really the only ones that were hurt that deeply emotionally. In fact, it's actually fairly common. We just don't hear about many of them as most people involved are not of the celebrity status of Mia Farrow or Woody Allen.Well, why does she have a hatred for him? Could it be because she found out that he sexually molested her child/children? I couldn't blame her for having some hatred in that case.
Orth’s revisitation of the Allen-Farrow scandal, including the first-ever media interview with Dylan. The interview was a bombshell: Dylan (who now uses a different name) did not waver from the story she told at age 7 about Allen molesting and sexually assaulting her in the attic of her mother’s home in Connecticut, on Aug. 4, 1992. On her side is her brother, media-star-in-the-making Ronan Farrow. After Allen received a lifetime-achievement award at last Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony, Ronan tweeted, “Missed the Woody Allen tribute—did they put the part where a woman publicly confirmed he molested her at age 7 before or after Annie Hall?”
What we know is that in August 1992, Farrow and Dylan visited Dylan’s pediatrician, who then contacted authorities about an abuse allegation. The Connecticut state attorney later asked the Yale–New Haven Hospital Child Sexual Abuse Clinic to evaluate Dylan. In March 1993, the clinic “concluded that Dylan had not been sexually abused,” according to Orth in Vanity Fair.
Case closed? Not necessarily. Three months later, that June, Acting Justice Elliot Wilk of New York State Supreme Court ruled against Allen in his effort to wrest custody of his three children from Farrow. Wilk criticized Yale–New Haven’s findings, stating that the hospital’s team had not interviewed Dylan, declined to testify at trial except via deposition, and destroyed its notes on the case. In her first piece for Vanity Fair about the Allen case, published in 1992, Orth had at least 25 on-the-record interviews—with sources both named and unnamed—attesting that Allen was “completely obsessed” with Dylan: “He could not seem to keep his hands off her,” Orth wrote.
In his June 1993 ruling, Wilk also denied Allen any visitation rights with Dylan or his older adopted child with Farrow, 15-year-old Moses. In May 1994, in a hearing considering custody or increased visitation for Allen, the Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court cited a “clear consensus” among psychiatric experts involved in the case that Allen’s “interest in Dylan was abnormally intense.”
But Finkelhor, again speaking generally, also makes the case for an entirely different scenario. “In other cases, people will make claims about things that they were willing to look past or that children were keeping under wraps for fear of breaking up the family,” he says. “These things will come out at the time [of a divorce or custody battle], because then they feel more freedom to articulate them. … The consequences of realizing that intra-family sexual abuse is going on are so devastating that it’s not uncommon for people to overlook it or explain it away.”
In the Time interview, Allen strongly suggests a cause-and-effect relationship between Farrow discovering his affair with Soon-Yi and the molestation allegations. But that account is hard to deduce from the timeline of events. Farrow found out about the affair when Allen left pornographic photographs of Soon-Yi on his mantel in January 1992—eight months before Dylan made her allegations. By Orth’s account, Allen was already in therapy for “inappropriate behavior” with Dylan before the revelation of the affair.
At the very least for the Soon Yi thing, for which I do not blame her. However, having said that, that does not necessarily equate to the other stuff. It is not unheard of for a person make these kinds of allegations when they themselves are really the only ones that were hurt that deeply emotionally. In fact, it's actually fairly common. We just don't hear about many of them as most people involved are not of the celebrity status of Mia Farrow or Woody Allen.
Woody Allen's adopted daughter accuses him of assaulting her at age 7 - CNN.com
Mia Farrow's daughter resurrects Woody Allen molestation claim | Fox News
So, what are your thoughts on Woody Allen?
Is he a pedophile?
Creepy bastard?
Harmless Peepaw?
Legendary director and actor?
Should legal action be taken immediately?
It appears that the accusation has been made, so yes it should be investigated.
But if Mia’s account is true, it means that in the middle of custody and support negotiations, during which Woody needed to be on his best behavior, in a house belonging to his furious ex-girlfriend, and filled with people seething mad at him, Woody, who is a well-known claustrophobic, decided this would be the ideal time and place to take his daughter into an attic and molest her, quickly, before a house full of children and nannies noticed they were both missing.
It was investigated at the time and the girl's testimony was found to be flawed. Has any new evidence emerged?
This is the best article on the matter I've read so far.
Did you read my link? The affair revelation with Soon-Yi came out AFTER Woody was already receiving therapy for "inappropriate behavior" with Dylan.
Did you read my link? The affair revelation with Soon-Yi came out AFTER Woody was already receiving therapy for "inappropriate behavior" with Dylan.
His own biological son says differently, and so does his adopted daughter, AND it shows his depravity marrying Soon. It is disgusting no matter how you want to justify it.
Woody Allen's adopted daughter accuses him of assaulting her at age 7 - CNN.com
Mia Farrow's daughter resurrects Woody Allen molestation claim | Fox News
So, what are your thoughts on Woody Allen?
Is he a pedophile?
Creepy bastard?
Harmless Peepaw?
Legendary director and actor?
Should legal action be taken immediately?
Very interesting.
Looks like I may have misjudged Woody, maybe he's not a pervert after all.
Are you talking about Woody Allen and Soon-Yi, or about Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra?Well, I agree that a 55 yr old marrying a 20 yr old is disgusting but not illegal
Many people don't even know about those cases. The people who pulled that crap were outright criminals, IMO. It should be noted that these accusations were also about the same time, when railroading innocent people was at its full height.I'll wait until there is a trial with complete evidence before I form an opinion. I don't think that his being with a seventeen year old makes him that much more likely to have molested the young children. I also don't necessarily trust the claims of the Farrow kids due to the years of influence from the openly bitter mother. Such claims should be taken seriously and investigated, but the satanic child abuse scares of the 1980s (McMartin et al) show that authority figures can and will induce false accusations from children and adults, especially when hypnotism is used.
Woody Allen's adopted daughter accuses him of assaulting her at age 7 - CNN.com
Mia Farrow's daughter resurrects Woody Allen molestation claim | Fox News
So, what are your thoughts on Woody Allen?
Is he a pedophile?
Creepy bastard?
Harmless Peepaw?
Legendary director and actor?
Should legal action be taken immediately?
Many people don't even know about those cases. The people who pulled that crap were outright criminals, IMO. It should be noted that these accusations were also about the same time, when railroading innocent people was at its full height.
“That he got away with what he did to me haunted me as I grew up,” Farrow wrote. “I was stricken with guilt that I had allowed him to be near other little girls.”
Representatives for Allen and his former partner Mia Farrow didn’t return requests for comment from The Associated Press. The Times reported that Allen declined to comment. He has long maintained his innocence.
In the letter, Dylan Farrow claims that in 1992 at the family’s Connecticut home, Allen led her to a “dim, closet-like attic” and “then he sexually assaulted me.” Farrow didn’t specify Allen’s actions, but she described other abusive behaviour.
Farrow said Allen would have her get in bed with him and at other times “place his head in my naked lap and breathe in and breathe out.”
“For as long as I could remember, my father had been doing things to me that I didn’t like,” Farrow said. “These things happened so often, so routinely, so skillfully hidden from a mother that would have protected me had she known, that I thought it was normal.”
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