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Jan. 28 2023, Printed 11:30 a.m. ET
Mia Farrow and her well-known youngsters, together with journalist Ronan Farrow, are bracing for a brand new tell-all about their controversial household — a e-book that’s promising to reveal the “darkish facet” of their “cracked fairytale life.”
Titled The Farrows of Hollywood: Their Darkish Facet of Paradise, the biography from creator Marilyn Ann Moss claims to research Mia’s sordid allegations in opposition to her Hollywood director ex-husband Woody Allen and pull again the curtain on what she has labelled a “fairytale Hollywood household” the place “all was not because it appeared.”
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“The Farrows of Hollywood: Their Darkish Facet of Paradise reveals that Mia Farrow’s allegations of sexual molestation by Woody Allen of their seven-year-old adopted daughter, Dylan, has roots in Farrow’s childhood relationship together with her father, John Farrow,” based on a blurb supplied to RadarOnline.com, selling the e-book.
“John was typically an abusive father to his youngsters, his spouse, and to his co-workers in Hollywood. Known as probably the most disliked man in Hollywood, John Farrow was a tortured, tragic artist and father. He left his youngsters a legacy of trauma and ache that the household saved hidden. It erupted solely years later when Mia Farrow unknowingly revealed her ache by means of her phrases and conduct in her allegations geared toward Allen.”
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Mia’s father was an Australian born Oscar-winning director who was married to actress Maureen O’Sullivan, who performed Jane within the Tarzan collection of movies.
“The e-book contains new analysis, never-before-revealed interviews with actors who labored with John Farrow, and an authentic principle from creator, biographer, and documentarian Marilyn Ann Moss,” the blurb continued.
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In 1992, authorities in Connecticut investigated Mia’s allegations that Woody abused their younger daughter Dylan. Required by legislation to report the accusations, a pediatrician contacted authorities.
No felony costs have been ever filed in opposition to Woody. Nevertheless, the disturbing allegations turned the centerpiece of a bitter custody battle between the previous companions — and a choose later rejected each the filmmaker’s bid for custody of their three children and the allegation of sexual abuse.
The Annie Corridor director has at all times vehemently denied all claims he was inappropriate with Dylan, who’s now in her thirties.
Woody charged jilted Mia tried to poison Dylan and her different youngsters —together with son Ronan, the journalist behind the takedown expose of monster filmmaker Harvey Weinstein — in opposition to him after discovering his romantic relationship with one other of her daughters, Quickly-Yi Previn. Quickly-Yi is Woody’s present spouse.
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The now 87-year-old additionally has claimed his spurned ex Mia coached Dylan into making the stunning statements.
Within the director’s explosive memoir, Apropos of Nothing, which was printed in 2020 by the identical writer behind the newest tell-all, the octogenarian hotly denied sexually molesting one daughter, whereas discussing his “lust” for Previn.
“On the very early levels of our new relationship, when lust reigns supreme, we [Woody and Soon-Yi] couldn’t maintain our fingers off one another,” he gushed.
The Oscar winner was 56 and Quickly-Yi was simply 21 when the 2 attached in December 1991 — whereas he was nonetheless concerned together with her mother. Woody had been relationship Mia — who’d starred in 13 of his films — since 1979.
The Rosemary’s Child magnificence found the affair when she discovered sleazy pictures of Quickly-Yi on the director’s residence.
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“After all I perceive her shock, her dismay, her rage, all the pieces. It was the proper response,” Allen wrote within the e-book.
However the director additionally expressed no remorse over seducing the Korean orphan who was adopted by Mia and her then-husband, famed composer André Previn, in 1978.
“Generally, when the going bought tough and I used to be maligned all over the place, I used to be requested if I had recognized the end result, do I ever want I by no means took up with Quickly-Yi?” he wrote. “I at all times answered I’d do it once more in a heartbeat.”
He married Quickly-Yi in 1997. They’ve two adopted children.
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His e-book was dropped by its authentic writer after being blasted by critics over long-standing allegations he’d sexually abused Dylan. He blamed the claims on Mia’s “Ahab-like quest” for revenge.
“I by no means laid a finger on Dylan, by no means did something to her that might be even misconstrued as abusing her; it was a complete fabrication from begin to end,” he mentioned.
He admitted plopping his head in seven-year-old Dylan’s lap however insisted: “I definitely didn’t do something improper to her. I used to be in a room full of individuals watching TV mid-afternoon.”
In his tome, Woody mentioned he believes Dylan’s brother, Ronan, who crusades in opposition to sexual assault, is his son — regardless of Mia suggesting the journalist was actually fathered throughout a fling together with her ex-hubby Frank Sinatra.
“I feel he’s mine, although I’ll by no means actually know,” he shrugged.
In a 2016 interview, retired Connecticut State Legal professional Frank Maco, who probed the preliminary claims, mentioned the filmmaker solely dodged a toddler abuse cost in 1993 as a result of he believed a celeb trial would have destroyed the alleged sufferer, Dylan.
“It was a heart-wrenching choice, but it surely was a call that needed to be made,” the legal professional mentioned. “I used to be not going to sacrifice that youngster on an altar of sensationalism.”