Woody Allen’s son disgusted by his dad marrying his sister & won’t talk to him


You may know about this story already but it’s news to me. Woody Allen and Mia Farrow’s biological son Ronan Farrow, 23, is a former child prodigy and now works as a Special Adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Ronan is so gifted that he graduated Bard college at 16 and then went on to Yale law school, which he graduated at 21. Apparently Ronan threw himself into his studies and later his career, and hates his dad and doesn’t even talk to him. Who can blame him when his father married his own sister? Soon Yi is 41 now but she was just 21 when she allegedly first started seeing Woody in 1991, who was 55 at the time. As background which you probably already know, Soon-Yi was adopted by Farrow and her then-husband, Andre Previn, in 1978 when she was about eight years old. Farrow and Previn split up and she got together with Allen in 1980, when Soon-Yi was about 10. Once Soon-Yi was legal (or maybe before), Woody was all over that. It’s interesting to hear how his son feels about it. Again, these quotes are older but they’re new to me.

‘He’s my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression,’ Ronan has said.

‘I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent… I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children,’ – Via The Daily Mail. Quotes are from several years ago.


“Ronan grew to hate his father,” continued the source. “He was disgusted by Woody and his relationship with Soon Yi.”

“Ronan couldn’t care less if Woody’s proud of him or not,” added the source. “The only person who matters to him is his mother.”

[From The Daily Mail and The National Enquirer, print edition, December 19, 2011]

I guess this story of Ronan’s estrangement from his dad came out again after the news late last month that Ronan had been awarded a prestigious Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford for a year. There also was a PBS special on Woody called American Masters that aired recently, and Woody “never mentions Ronan in the entire three-and-a-half hour series,” according to The Daily Mail. For her part Mia Farrow has acknowledged no longer speaking with her daughter Soon-Yi, who is still married to Woody Allen. Mia said of Soon-Yi in 2006It’s been a long time now. And I really don’t think of her as my daughter any more. I can’t. She isn’t. She’s estranged – and strange.”

Woody and Mia had son Ronan and they also adopted two children together. Mia had three biological children and three adopted children from her relationship with Andre Previn prior to Woody. After Mia and Woody split up, she went on to adopt six more children to bring her total number of kids up to 15. That must have been a pretty crazy household.

Woody and Soon-Yi Previn are shown in Rome on July 21, 2011. Woody is holding the hand of his adopted daughter, Manzie. They are also shown at Cannes on May 11, 2011. Ronan and Mia Farrow are both shown in 2009. Credit: WENN and Fame

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  1. Love Angie. says:

    I hope to God that Angelina is able to pull off a Woody Allen in a decade. That would be Tabloid gold.

    • Rhiley says:

      I hope I am misunderstanding what you have written because it seems you are implying that you hope that Angelina eventually has a romantic relationship with one of her children. There is nothing funny about the tragedy Oedipus Rex. I am not sure if Soon Yi has an Electra complex, but the union of her to her father has definately affected the family as a whole. It is very sad, and I hope the none of the Jolie-Pitts ever know that kind of pain and confusion.

      • Ming says:

        Lighten up – this is gossip. If you react to this nonsense as furiously as to global news – you have a strange understanding about planet earth 😀

      • bluhare says:

        Sorry Ming, but hoping someone has sex with their adopted child is sick, not gossip.

    • NO SH¡T says:

      For you to even hope for something like that just show how disturbed you really are…… you need help

    • SkyNet says:

      Really?!?! That’s a terrible ass thought.

    • Happy21 says:

      I’m pretty sure this is a joke…

      • mln76 says:

        Whether or not it’s a joke it’s twisted. Incest isn’t funny.

      • NotaBitterBetty says:

        What kind of joke is that? Not everything has to be good for gossip or ‘tabloid gold’. There are some things in life that should remain sacred and a parent/child relationship is one of those. Know where to draw the line people.

    • Jen D says:

      Erm, I know this is a joke, but really? Ick.

    • Gigi says:

      That’s just gross, joke or not. I can barely think of the possibility of any of the children liking each other when they hit adolescence, much less Angelina and …. eeeewww. And back on topic, I’m getting serious heebie jeebies from the photos of Woody holding his adopted daughter’s hand…. I mean, since nothing’s off limits to him right? Yuck.

    • Sarah says:

      I thought it was pretty funny.

    • christi says:

      Who cares if she hopes Angelina or anyone for that matter falls for one of there adopted kids, yah its f’d up but so what Woody did it.. and u all arnt in a rage over that..she just wants good gossip in the future..its not like she wants her with one of her biological kids..it was just an amusing after thought…And as someone still young i remember being 9- to now 29 very well everything and i never clung to my dad how his new adoptive daughter is..not in public ..normally ud wanna be more grown up not a baby holding your dads hand..Something maybe going on here too im sure he has thought of it when he and soon yi got together b4 she was 21 considering thats when they got married who knows when it started..ew. anyway this kinda frightens me how they seem more like a couple then father and child.

  2. KMD says:

    That creeps me out so much. I get that they aren’t biological but that is still his daughter. I am adopted and I couldn’t dream of doing something like this. I get why his son does not want to talk to him.

    • Bermuda Blues says:

      It really is an insult to adopted children everywhere. Its emotional incest. Its psychological incest. Even if its not biological, that doesn’t make it okay.

      • SweetLou says:

        VERY Well said!!! It is just so disgusting! He raised her from 10….like was he eyeing her from then??

        You adopt a child to be a parent to them, not to rare them like cattle to satisfy your sexual needs when they have reached maturity. And to those who say it’s only gossip so we should find it funny….not everything is a laughing matter, some things are just plain sad…like families being torn apart and incest. I don’t find these one bit funny!

      • GradStudentEatingHotPockets says:

        Agreed. So agree with you.

    • Lithe says:

      Woody and Soon-Yi have pretty much said that they never had father-daughter affections for each other. I don’t disbelieve them. But I still find it as creepy as hell that he would take explicitly nude pictures of his girlfriend’s teenaged daughter (his son’s sister!). I can only imagine how sick Mia felt when she discovered those photos in Woody’s home.

      He is a sick, twisted, manipulative little creep. I needed a shower after reading these stories:

      http://www.andythibault.com/columns/CT%20Magazine%20-%20Apr%2097.htm

      http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1992/11/farrow199211

      • Sassy says:

        I was particularly creeped out at the adopted daughter hand holding. Would this child be the adopted daughter of Soon Yi and Woody? Very disturbing.

      • Lithe says:

        @Sassy I agree with you. I hope Woody Allen has changed his ways, but alarm bells were ringing in my head when I saw those pictures of him holding his adoptive daughter’s hand, with Soon-Yi walking behind them. I’m wondering how messed up Soon-Yi must be to have agreed to adopt a child with him—not only because of his own history with her, but also because of the old molestation allegations against him regarding Soon-Yi’s adopted sister, Dylan.

      • Boo says:

        From what I’ve read about Soon-Yi and from what Mia Farrow has said in interviews, Soon-Yi is a wee bit…how shall I say…simple in the head. Naive. Easily managed. I suspect she wouldn’t doubt his motives, even if he were raising a new crop of daughters to marry. If she adopted them herself and his name is not on the paperwork, I’d call Social Services.

      • Zay says:

        Creepiness crawls my thoughts of looking at him holding his adopted daughter hand.

      • Emma says:

        I remember when this all exploded in the news. As I recall, Mia found out about their relationship when she found some nude photos of Soon Yi, in which she recognized Woody Allen’s apartment. I don’t remember if Mia was suspicious and went looking for the photos, or if Soon Yi left them where Mia could find them.

        When Mia found the pictures, she and Woody had been together for 12-years, but had lived in separate residences (I’m sure at Woody’s insistence, he’s always been a strange bird). At the time, Woody also showed an intense interest in adopted daughter Dylan, who was a baby when Woody and Mia Adopted her.

        There was a nasty custody battle about a year after the scandal broke, during which time I lost all respect for Woody Allen (man, did he go low and dirty) and haven’t seen one of his films since. Woody filed for legal custody of his 4-year-old biological son Satchel (the young man pictured above, now known as Ronan Seamus Farrow), 7-year-old adopted daughter Dylan, and 14-year-old adopted son Moses on the grounds that (he claimed) Mia was an unfit parent. Eventually, and thankfully, after several months of a very public, and extremely nasty, custody trial … Mia won.

      • Seal Team 6 says:

        The photos were left out on the mantle, on a day when Woody Allen knew Mia would be coming over to his apartment when he wasn’t home. It was done, imo, on purpose, to either shock her or/and as an “EFF YOU”!

      • Lenore says:

        …I so wish I hadn’t read those articles. Thank you for posting them but I really feel the need to dynamite those images out of my brain now.

        For years, I’ve been firmly in the camp of “Oh yeah, Woody’s got issues, but she wasn’t HIS child and she wasn’t UNDERAGE and they’re still together happily, so people really need to step back from the whole Woody-Allen-is-a-paedophile thing”. I had no idea about the rest of it, none – it’s not that I heard it and didn’t believe it, I just never even was aware of any other issues, the stuff with Dylan, with the way he treated Mia or the other kids. Even taken with a pinch of salt, that’s a lot of witnesses and a lot of strangeness and a lot of stuff that if MY boyfriend did it, he wouldn’t be my boyfriend for long. Even the way he’s alleged to have treated Mia herself, the emotional abuse and neediness, is grotesque.

        Just goes to show what a good PR campaign Woody’s people did, in that the media seems to largely cast Mia as a crazy baby-collector, and Woody Allen as just good old, messed-up Woody.

  3. dragonlady sakura says:

    I don’t blame R

  4. normades says:

    Fortunately he looks like his mother.

    • Cait says:

      He’s beautiful, isn’t he?

    • Maria says:

      sooo true!!! lol 😉

    • Anguishedcorn says:

      Wow, yes he is. I had no idea.

    • fabgrrl says:

      That is exactly what I clicked on the comment section to add — he looks just like his mother. What a lucky, lucky boy!

    • Bermuda Blues says:

      They have the same lovely soft blue eyes, and the same fair complexion. He’s very nice looking.

      • Jane says:

        …and beautiful full lips rarely seen on a guy. Ok, maybe it’s a little too beautiful to be on a guy. lol

    • bluhare says:

      Yes he does. He also changed his name from the one on his birth certificate. He was originally named Satchel.

      • Carolyn says:

        Ronan is a much better name than Satchel. Sigh..so many brains, morals and good looks in one person. Mia did a great job raising him to be so grounded. In such a troubled extended family, it’s a relief. I refuse to watch anything that Woody is associated with…filthy creepy man.

      • k castillo says:

        You refer to Soon-Yi as Woody’s adopted child when she was actually Andre Previn’s adopted daughter. There may well be a reason why Woody & Mia kept separate residences and perehaps only they know why. Mia adopted children bewfore Woody, during and after. Pehaps Woody didn’t want to foster or adopt the role of Papa to fifteen children. Soon-Yi should have been calling Andre Previn “Papa” and not Woody, who may have been a nurturing adult figure in her life without the role of “Papa.” As an adopted child myself, I can guarantee that not all who adopt numerous children the way others collect pets do so for “do-good” reasons. What was so lacking in Mia’s life that prompted here to adopt SO many children while basically an oft-single parent? What was missing? Perhaps even the parties involved don’t even know themselves. Hmmmmm. This has all been very much on my mind since the issue re-surfaced thru TMZ–who, I might add, either didn’t do their research or chose to present a very scewed, one-sided view of what I’ve mentioned here (separate residences,Andre Previn, and FIFTEEN children whose lives were affected by ALL of the adults involved).

  5. Boo says:

    Bravo, Ronan. And may I say, that boy is gorgeous. Thank God he looks like his mother.

    • GABY says:

      Seriously, there is no resemblance of him to Woody which I’m sure he is grateful for. And it disturbs me to see Woody holding hands with his young, pretty, adopted, Asian daughter because obviously that’s “his type.” He’s a sick man.

      • T.C. says:

        Took the words right out of my head. It’s a bit disturbing. I mean he got with Mia when Soon-yi was only 10 years old. So she met him as a child and only knew him as her mother’s boyfriend/lover. Grew up with him in that manner then as soon as she was legal he was hitting it? Disgusting. I don’t blame his son at all and good for him for putting all his energy into his studies instead of acting out and becoming a problem child. Which usually happens when kids have to deal with some dysfunction in their families. Mia must be so proud of her son.

      • DarkEmpress says:

        They should not have been allowed to adopt a child in the first place. Child protection services should have investigated them the minute they brought her into the country. I do not believe that Woody Allen started his relationship with Soon Yi after she became an adult. He was probably engaging in paedophilia with her for a while before they went public once she was the legal age of consent. Yuck. I’m very impressed my Ronan and even more impressed by Mia as a mother with 15 children to raise such an accomplished and moral young man.

      • MorticiansDoItDeader says:

        I’m with DarkEmpress. No way did he wait until she was of age.

        It makes me sick to see him holding hands with his daughter, as he obviously sees nothing wrong with having a relationship with young girls who aren’t biologically related to him. Never mind the fact that said relationship probably began before the age of consent.

        This man is truly disgusting.

      • autumndaze says:

        agree with Gaby, TC, Dark Empress and MDID:

        My first thought at seeing those photos of him with his adopted daughter was that he was exploiting another child-victim.
        It would be highly unlikely that he “waited” until Soon-Yi was legal; even if he did, it is morally repugnant that he engaged in a sexual relationship with someone who looked up to him as a father figure.
        Wrong on so many levels, I haven’t watched one of his films since news of his relationship with Soon-Yi was revealed….

  6. ShanKat says:

    Whoa!

    Hey there, Ronan…hmm, probably not “Allen.” Farrow?

    What does he call himself? I call him fox-ayy.

    • Twez says:

      Mia and Woody were never married, so Ronan has always had the last name “Farrow”.

    • Boo says:

      Actually, his name was not originally Ronan…it was Satchel, after Satchel Page. Not sure what his original last name was. He hated the name Satchel (especially because his father chose it), and I believe he went by the name “Seamus” for awhile before he settled on Ronan. I can’t imagine how disturbing it is to have Woody as a father and to not even feel like your name is right because your morally corrupt father picked it out. Poor kid.

  7. Kaboom says:

    Mia Farrow married Sinatra when she was 21 and he was 51. I guess that made Soon-Yi the apple that didn’t fall far from the adopted tree.

    • djork says:

      Sinatra wasn’t her adoptive father married to her adoptive mother. No comparison. Sheesh!

    • Kit says:

      sorry, but that’s not the same situation at all. Frank Sinatra wasn’t Mia Farrow’s stepdad and i dont think they
      met when Mia was 10. There was no step parent – step child relationship.
      Yes the age difference is creepy but any kind of parent/child role takes it to a whole other level. Its just inappropriate -for lack of a better word

      • JM says:

        I concur. Mia did not grow up with Frank as her father figure. In fact, when I read her autobiography several years ago, she said Frank called when the whole Woody/Soon-Yi thing was revealed and asked her if she wanted Woody’s legs broken.

      • The Other Katherine says:

        Shame she didn’t say “yes” when he called. I bet Ol’ Blue Eyes could have hooked that up.

    • Seal Team 6 says:

      That’s not even remotely the same situation, factually or ethically.

  8. Toot says:

    Ronan thankfully looks like his mother, he’s cute. Woody is a creepy, nasty old man and I hope his new adopted daughters will be okay with him. The one holding his hand looks kind of miserable in the pics.

  9. jamie says:

    Well, Woody is a perv and Mia is just plain odd (15 kids?). Their son is a cutie though and sounds fascinating.

    • mia135 says:

      I could be wrong in my assessment but I actually admired Mia. She adopted a lot of special needs children, some with severe physical and mental challenges and was never a super-rich celeb with tons of money, so at great sacrifice to herself I’m sure. She was always low-key about it too, and seemed to have a genuine desire to help others.

      However, with regards to Farrow’s comment about Soon-Yi being “strange”, Soon-Yi was adopted at eight years old; there is no way of knowing what she might have gone through as a child before then that may have led her to make certain decisions as a young adult. To dismiss her as being “strange” seems cruel and insensitive to me.

      • Lenore says:

        One of the articles posted by Lithe, above, states that Soon-Yi was abused as an infant – it quotes an incident where her birth mother repeatedly slammed her head in a door as a punishment. It also states she was a slow learner and that she found it difficult to follow conversations and subtleties of what was going on around her; she couldn’t pick up on things easily.

        So of course, what this vulnerable, previously abused adolescent girl – maybe still feeling isolated among all her faster, more communicative siblings – was to have her mother’s boyfriend suddenly shower her with attention and take pictures of her with her clothes off. That’s healthy. That’s the kind of sensitive therapeutic approach that any adult in a position of authority would take, right?

        Gah, seriously, f Woody Allen.

        I forgot what my original point was, I’m so disturbed right now. Sorry.

  10. Jillian says:

    That boy is gorgeous. For what it’s worth, Woody and Mia lived in separate apartments the duration of their relationship. My opinion is that Soon-Yi probably never looked at Woody as a father figure. They’ve been together for 20 yrs now. Let them be.

    • carrie says:

      and Ronan probably didn’t see Allen since 20 years :the divorce was very nasty

    • T.C. says:

      Soon-yi was 10 years old when he started dating her father of course she would have seen him as a parent figure even if they didn’t live together. After my parent’s divorce, any man by mother dated I viewed as a potential parent. I for sure wasn’t thinking sexual thoughts about them.

    • Taksi says:

      Assuming that’s true, it’s still twisted to be screwing your girlfriend/wife’s daughter, no?

  11. Eleonor says:

    I am an adopted child, and even if I wasn’t 8 like Soon Y, I was 1 year old,my sis was adopted at 6, this story has always disturbed both of us. It’s not the age factor, it’s that there must be something terribly wrong in your mind to let your mother’s husband/fiancé or whatever take naked pictures of you.

    • MorticiansDoItDeader says:

      Ewwww. I vaguely remember that. How old was she when he took those pictures?

      • Eleonor says:

        I don’t know, but that was the way Mia discovered the affair: she found naked pictures of Soon-Y , and after they went to court to battle for the custody of Ronan. I think it was between 1991 and 1992.But I suppose they started their relationship before 1991.. and we should also remind that nobody knows the real age of Soon Y, because she was a street child.

  12. Girl says:

    Wow. I can’t imagine how that must be for him. Good job to him for standing behind what he believes and also of course for what all he’s accomplished in life. It must be rough to have something like this follow you around.

    I’d be estranged from a parent who did that too. Frankly I’m not unconvinced of the allegations that WA abused some of the children aren’t true. Sadly many more mothers than one would think turn a blind eye to that situation. I don’t think Mia Farrow did though thankfully.

  13. Cait says:

    And now he and Soon-Yi have an adopted daughter? *shudder*

    • layla says:

      That was exactly MY response when I looked at the pic of Woody holding his daughters hand.

      Sure, its a HUGE assumption… but with the history as it is, how can one NOT assume.

      *Eeeeck.

      • Hellen says:

        The body language in that photo of Woody and his adopted daughter is just frightening.

      • Lake Mom says:

        She doesn’t look like a happy young girl either.

      • Emily says:

        The body language of the kid doesn’t bother me, she could just be a grumpy teenager who rather die than be seen in public with her parents. I know I would’ve looked like that when I was a teenager, especially if one of my parents was committing the mortal sin of holding my hand! But the way he’s grabbing her like that creeps me out. Especially with the way Soon-Yi’s walking a couple of steps behind them.

  14. Julia says:

    Poor guy but he is right. If he wants to keep his sanity, he should stay away from his dad. It’s great that he isn’t into entertainment and a great student…the Willis daughters should take notes.

    Mia has 15 children, including 10+ adopted ? Wow. But I bet nobody will ever called her a child collector…

    Anyway, She and the late Josephine Backer are true inspiration for adopting all those children and giving them a home and a better chance in life.

    • Mari says:

      I agree with you! And she adopted 6 in a period of 3 years! Not an easy task since a few had health problems on top of that.
      My humble opinion is that WA was not a tottaly regular person, and this Soon yi Previn had most probably lived a Difficult life as a street child… Weird and in the limits, but truth is that the child doctors blamed off the abuse allegations on the other child on either stress, or the story having been planted by the mother, that has happened before, but this story is weird either way.

  15. Azurea says:

    While this is absolutely an odd & painful situation, there must be something between Woody & Soon Yi, even if you call it a folie a deux. He married her, after all, & he never married anyone else before. And neither of them is what you’d call terribly attractive. It’s lasted a long time, (and yes I concur that the length of a relationship may have nothing to do with its health!)

    • Jillian says:

      Acutally Soon-Yi is his third wife.

    • fabgrrl says:

      But that “something between Woody & Soon-Yi” isn’t necessarily a mature relationship between equals.

      • Jillian says:

        Soon-Yi is now an educated 41 yr old woman. How is she not “mature”?

      • fabgrrl says:

        Yep, she is an adult woman now. Woody got to raise her up from childhood. He got to groom her to be exactly the “woman” he wanted. You don’t think there is a SERIOUS power-imbalance there? I want what you are smoking.

      • Mari says:

        I have to say that many, many marriages or relationships are not between equals, not just this ones, being objective.
        Socially, monetrary, educatively, many times can be said that one is more than the other, that is giving one of the pair an upper hand, but they agree on that… Donald Trump and his latter wives, Monroe and Miller, etc.
        Creepy in this case because of their background, but it is thrut that Soonyi has studied and improved herself, she has gotten something, whatvever it is from this relationship, being stability or whatever she was looking for.

  16. Quest says:

    Ewwwww

  17. dorothy says:

    Wonder if adopted daughter Manzie will be his next conquest. Ewww…creepy.

    • Anguishedcorn says:

      I’m trying to figure out how he was allowed to adopt after that.

      • Veruca says:

        Simple. Money. If you’ve got enough, you can get whatever you want.

        I’m just worried that he’s already after his ‘daughter’.

        Just too gross to imagine.

  18. djork says:

    Woody Allen is an amoral sociopath who has always been given a pass on his thing for young girls. LOVE Mia Farrow. And Ronan is absolutely right!

  19. Jayna says:

    If I remember right, he had questionable behavior with his son in this article, obsessive behavior, and at some point had to have supervised visitation with him after the Soon incident.

    • fabgrrl says:

      Well….I wouldn’t want to be accused of defending Woody Allen or anything…but I think there might have been a bit of exaggeration on Mia’s part regarding his behavior with his (bio) child.

    • Jaded says:

      It was he and Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter, Dylan, that he was weirdly obsessed with and may have messed with, Mia certainly thinks he was inappropriate with her at some level. She was an angelic looking little girl, curly golden hair and big blue eyes….she’s since changed her name to Eliza.

  20. J says:

    His son is totally right.

    And totally hot. He has a Rhys-Myers crazy/sexy eyes thing going on.

  21. mia135 says:

    Very gifted young man. And wise beyond his years.

  22. Javagirl1 says:

    Interesting write up. Ronan is smoking hot, with brains! I don’t blame him for not talking to his dad. Woody Allen is a creepy mess and that’s all he’ll be known for in the end.

  23. spinner says:

    Geez…& I thought I had family problems.

  24. Zooey says:

    I didn’t know Woody and Soon-Yi had a daughter together. Creepy. So creepy.

  25. Nina says:

    Boy is gorgeous and incredibly smart. I remember him from Oprah Show. He was like 10 and he sounded so mature and wise. I hope he has a great future and that soon nobody would call him Woody Allen’s son

  26. marybeth18 says:

    Mia Farrow adopted special needs children- she’s kooky, but she’s done something pretty great with her fame and money.

  27. Julie says:

    I wish more kids would be allowed to stand up to their parents when they do vile, disgusting things – none of this – oh hes your father you HAVE to LOVE him – why? How can you teach right and wrong when their own parent can do wrong and you are still supposed to have a relationship with them. Good for this kid standing up for right and wrong!

  28. kristipistol says:

    Seeing him hold hands with what I presume is their daughter makes me uneasy. He is disgusting. Ronan is a cutie and oh so smart, yum!

    • T.C. says:

      I can’t believe the adoption agency let him adopt a girl knowing his history. But it looks like he did a foreign adoption, they will let you get away with anything overseas as long as they have the money and fame. *shudders*

    • Fabgrrl says:

      If I didn’t know who he was and saw the picture I would think, “Aw, holding hands with grandpa. Maybe he gets a little confused outside. What a polite young lady.”

  29. Tapioca says:

    I’m pretty sure they have 2 daughters – the second (Bechet?) is in the pink T-shirt in the 3rd photo down.

    It’s obviously creepy(!), but he was never her father and they got together when Soon-Yi was 21. I suspect that had Woody left her for anyone Mia Farrow would have spent the last 20 years bitter and brainwashing her other kids into thinking he was the Devil.

    • Toot says:

      Woody had been around Soon-Yi since she was 10 as her mother’s boyfriend. Yeah, supposedly he didn’t get with Soon-Yi until she was 21, whatever, it’s still sick.

    • Eleonor says:

      But they met when she was ten, and we can’t know when they got together.

      • Tapioca says:

        I don’t think you can just label someone a paedophile without any proof!

        Mia did say that he had abused their kids all along, but only AFTER his relationship with Soon-Yi came out – in which case either she enabled the molestation of her own children for YEARS and turned a blind eye to it, or she’s lying and making the most damaging kind of false accusation out there to harm her ex.

    • Bermuda Blues says:

      How does this situation fall on Mia Farrow? No way. Woody Allen abandoned his own son when he was very young, to run away with his son’s sister. That was probably a very difficult reality for a little boy to come to terms with, and Ronan Farrow does a great job of explaining that it is his father’s transgressions that are the reasons why he can’t reconcile a relationship with him. Ronan was only two or three when Woody left. Ronan had years to decide to not speak to his father, but as it turns out Woody probably didn’t care too much, it doesn’t seem like he made any effort at all. There is NO reason to blame Mia, what Woody did was unforgiveable.

    • fabgrrl says:

      No, they “got together” when Soon-Yi was 18. At least, that is how old she was when Mia Farrow found out they were having sex.

      I think they got *married* when Soon-Yi was 21.

  30. Wildone says:

    Azurea & Jillian@ Your telling me that if you were with someone and you guys had a child together and later you found out he was sleeping with YOUR daughter you would be ok with because she never look to him as a father figure and they are together for a long time?

    Sorry but Woody Allen is a pedophile who ass should have been in prison for what he did. I also don’t trust him with his adopted daughters because from his action that means nothing to him or any other child.

    • Julia says:

      Exactly !

      It doesn’t matter if they don’t share the same blood or an official link. He was his step father ! It would have been immoral even if she was an adult when they met.

      It’s straight up damn wrong and pedophilic cause she was his underage step daughter.

      You don’t have romantic/sexual relationship or/and marry step daughters, let alone those you have raised and for who you were the main father figure when they were not even a teen ! He started a man/woman type relationship with his ‘daughter’ in the main house, under the same roof he shared with her mother and other siblings he fathered or/and co raised.

      He is a major creep, nasty and immoral to the core!

      Love cannot justify it. That’s totally f*cked up !

    • Jillian says:

      But she was not underage. She was 21 when they became involved. How does that make him a pedophile?

      I know I’m the minority here, but I love Woody. He’s a genius.

      • normades says:

        I am a huge Woody fan too. All his films up until the mid 80’s were brill, afterwards they are hit and miss.

        But Woody was always a perv and many of his films have a “Lolita” theme like Manhattan, Husbands and Wives, Anything Goes…

        His private life grosses me out but that doesn’t take away from the fact that I still love his films and will continue watching them. Same goes for Roman Polanski.

      • Iggles says:

        @normades – I’m glad your liking of his work doesn’t blind you from his vile personal transgressions. I hate it when people excuse “geniuses” because they like their films/music/whatever.

        A predator is a predator!

        For me, I cannot get past what he has done in his personal life. I do not watch Woody Allen films. Nor do I watch Roman Polanski films. I’ve never see “Piano” or any of his other Oscar winning films. The man is scum in my opinion and I choose not to support him or men like him in any fashion.

      • MJ says:

        The Piano is not a Polanski movie. You should check it out if you haven’t already – it’s a great one.

        The Pianist is the Polanski one.

      • normades says:

        @Iggles: I think you misunderstood my post…I watched Midnight in Paris the other night and loved it. Sorry! *covers face*

      • Iggles says:

        @MJ – Whoops! Got them mixed up… Yeah, I mean “The Pianist” and I’ll never watch that one!

        @normades – No, I didn’t misread. I understood you do watch his movies, but do not defend the man. A lot of people have difficulty separating the two (see: Polanski apologists!)

        I was saying that for me, I condemn his transgressions AND refuse to watch his films or provide support him in any manner.

        I do that with actors and musicians too. I boycott Chris Brown and Mel Gibson. If I hear they’ve done something vile and abusive in their personal lives I absolutely exercise the right to boycott their professional offerings.

      • badandsad says:

        I don’t disagree that Woody’s movies are well done.

        However – he MARRIED Soon-Yi when she was 21. When their sexual involvement began is under debate. When Soon-Yi was 18, Mia discovered full-frontal nudity photos of her, taken at Woody’s house. This was shortly after Mia and Woody (who were never married but were dating at the time) had adopted a young girl named Dylan who had told Mia that Woody was making her uncomfortable and had touched her in her private parts. Mia spoke to Soon-Yi about the photos and Soon-Yi explained that she and Woody were in love. Woody later spun the story that Mia and him were not a couple shortly before involving himself with Soon-Yi, however, according to Mia and numberous friends, they were very much “together” and a couple when Mia discovered the photographs.

        Since it was a family tradition that every child in the family had their own therapist, teachers, etc., when Mia was speaking with Soon-Yi’s PEDIATRICIAN, that Doctor legally had to inform the police.

    • Rose says:

      He’s not a pedophile ( look it up) in ANY sense of the word, and as much as I dislike him personally, I wish people would stop this kind of slanderous nonsense.

      • GradStudentEatingHotPockets says:

        Yeah, unless it came out that he WAS doing that stuff to her and Dylan when they were really, really young (like 10, 11, 12…essentially before puberty) then it’s not pedophilia. But it’s predatory behavior for what he did, hands down.

  31. can't wait says:

    i can’t wait for the day he moves on to his adopted daughter with soon-yi. they’re already practicing their handholding

  32. maxi says:

    Baaam! His son is hot

  33. Pont Neuf says:

    That is Woody Allen’s biological son?!?!?!!!! At the risk of sounding incredibly superficial, I have to say that Mia Farrow’s genes must be miraculous – because only a miracle could nullify Allen’s amphibian like ugliness.

    Now, regarding the Soon Yi incident, things seem to be very complicated. First of all, Woody is a creepy pedophile who was denied visitation rights to all of his other children because well, he has severe mental problems. Disgusting, overrated old pig. Also, it has always been said that he and Soon Yi first got together when she was 13, not 21.

    As for Miss Farrow, she is hardly innocent. Does anyone remember how she publicly accused him of abusing her children for the entire duration of their relationship, and when she was told that, in that case, she would be an accomplice (because she had failed to report him to the authorities even though she knew what he was doing all along), she only answered with “I have not come here to be judged”? How convenient.

    It looks like, after all, they were made for each other, and Soon Yi learned well from her dear mother, who had her first child with André Previn while he was still married to his previous wife. Classy mum, classy daughter.

    As for their son, he sounds like a fascinating character. Bright intelligence, integrity, knowledge, talent and beauty are always a great combination.

    • Starla says:

      Thank you! Someone said it. No one seems to put any of the blame on Mia. She let it go on for years and yet everyone puts the blame soley on Woody. He’s a disgusting perv, but she was an accomplice.

      • Bad Fairy says:

        That is because he is the perp. What do you want to blame Mia for? Being obtuse? Trusting? Sorta like blaming a rape victim for wearing a short skirt. And you have NO idea what she did or did not know. You don’t know these people remember? The only facts you have are that this man married someone he raised as a daughter. That fact makes him a pig by our cultural standards.

  34. TheOriginalKitten says:

    I can’t believe how much he looks like Mia! What a face! This was a really interesting post…

  35. Maya says:

    He’s obviously a very intelligent, well-adjusted guy, which is great. Is he still in contact with Soon Yi? Isn’t that also kind of awkward?

  36. WTF says:

    its just creepy – like Morgan Freeman dating his step-granddaughter. You are an adult and its morally wrong.

  37. CandyKay says:

    He looks a lot more like his dad in candid shots.

    But there are lots of glamour photos of him floating around Google, so apparently he’s an egghead who also likes to have his picture taken.

  38. jc126 says:

    This kid – this young man – is really incredible, as far as his achievements. I know he comes from privilege and had access to the best education, but DAMN, he is accomplished.
    And holy crap, he is hot!
    And has a moral compass.
    Whoever he pairs up with is going to be very lucky. He seems awesome.

  39. The Original Denise says:

    What a gorgeous, smart young man. Woody Allen is disgusting, but Hollywood gives him a pass because he is a “genius” like Polanski….barf. I hope this young man goes on to ever bigger things. His mother did a wonderful job.

  40. Mitch Buchanan Rocks says:

    Ronan looks like Angelinas long lost kid and that girl holding Woodys hand is that his bio daughter? and is giving the shank eye to Soon yi.

  41. Julie says:

    Their son is gorgeous. I love extra smart men and he’s handsome to boot. Woody is sick and who cares if Mia is quirky or strange; she has every right not to expect her ex to marry their daughter. I wish pp here would boycott Woody as they have Roman P.

  42. Ari says:

    Ugh I am surprised anyone let Woody adopt ANOTHER YOUNG ASIAN GIRL after he married the last one >_> wtf world!? That girl looks miserable. I hope he isn’t molesting her :L

  43. NM9005 says:

    Oh HELLOW Ronan!
    Smart and beautiful, good combination.

    Who wouldn’t feel that way when such drama would occur in their household? I think Farrow and the family handled it quite well. I would go apeshit crazy :).

    I find it weird that Soon-Yi trusts Woody as a father. I think there was some sort of power abuse/struggle when they hooked up and can’t believe she actually stayed with him and conceived his children.

    • Jaded says:

      Actually Woody and Soon-Yi’s children are both adopted….ruh roh….

    • NM9005 says:

      Really!?
      Thanks for the info guys :).

      That makes it even more weird :O! I can’t believe they let him adopt! Even though he wasn’t offically married to Farrow, he helped raise those children so it’s pretty sick he sleeps with the woman he once tucked in at night as a girl. Shivers!

      You know what, I just can’t believe anything about this guy. He’s a lesser evil than say Polanski but still fucked up to high degree! Good thing Farrow didn’t allow Sinatra to fuck up Allen (although he deserves it).

      • Mari says:

        And as I recall, they never actually lived in one place together, they kept his and hers places… It was confusing, I betnfor the authorities too. He was notbthe father of Soon Yi, Previn was,
        Allen was the mother’s boyfriend and he lived apart…she had brothers and sisters with different fathers… And on top of that she surely was insecure and the guy a film director who took his “modeling” nude pictures… Too bad eevrything was found when she was already legal, it is a mess.

  44. boo says:

    I saw Woody one day in Beverly Hills not too long ago, I was in a car with my daughter. It was odd, because his wife was walking in front and Woody was walking with his adopted daughter, holding her hand and following behind, I guess they all couldn’t walk together but it looked odd. Same old Woody, he had those funky pants and the hat, and he’s really old now but it was Woody all right. It was a strange sight, he looks down, he does not walk looking straight ahead.

  45. Justaposter says:

    Ohhh I remember when this whole thing EXPLODED!

    If I remember correctly, Mia found out by dropping by Woody’s apartment and “found” nekked pictures of Soon Yi on the fireplace mantle.

    All hell broke loose after that!

    I do remember Woody never had any contact with the rest of the Mia’s kids.

    And Ronan, what a stunning man!

  46. Luise says:

    Woody Allen is a disgusting old perverted pedophile. I refuse to watch any of his movies ever.

  47. pwal says:

    Good for Ronan.

    Usually, children of celebs pander to the parent with the most money and power. Good for him that he’s siding with his mother.

    Woody, on the other hand, has problems. It wouldn’t sit well, at all, if my children disowned me, especially if I was the one who put my junk before their well-being.

  48. TheOriginalKitten says:

    Also, Ronan has (or I guess HAD) a Scottish Fold named Basil Farrow (big internet sensation) 😉

  49. NO SH¡T says:

    Woody Allen is a sick SOB its crazy how everyone that he works with don’t have a problem with it.

  50. bagladey says:

    That man is a pervert and I’m creeped out by Woody holding his daughter in short shorts’ hand, like he probably held his wife’s hand while she was his daughter.

  51. serena says:

    omg he’s so beautiful, he’s all his mother. Never imagined that a son of Woody could be that hot and good looking.

  52. canan says:

    he just gave an interview to a turkish newspaper yesterday and sald that he contacted hls father to ask money for his education. Apparently woody declined and he earned scholarships all the way.

  53. Palermo says:

    Don’t forget Woody was also accused of molesting his own biological daughter. He was the “father figure” for Soon-yi so how anybody can think that was ok is beyond me. He’s a sick old pervert. I hope he’s not molesting his current kids.

    • Jaded says:

      Dylan is actually adopted, and has changed her name several times – first to Eliza and now to Malone.

  54. Roma says:

    Let’s take away all adoption talk from this for a moment.

    Mia had a child from a previous relationship and that child met Woody at the age of 10. While her mother was still with Woody, they started a sexual relationship when she hit 21. When you boil it down, it is obviously wrong-wrong-wrong as even if she didn’t view Woody as a father figure, she was sleeping with her mom’s bf.

    I think the adoption angle confuses people and quite frankly, the more it is said the more it takes away from the fact this was a mother/child relationship.

    And this is coming from someone adopted.

    • L says:

      She was 21 when Mia found the pictures. Most reports have them getting together when she was around 18 or (even worse) 13.

    • orion70 says:

      Even if this was the family’s babysitter, at those ages, it is wrong. Even more so in this situation. And he, as the adult, should have been the one to run as fast as he could in the other direction even if she threw herself at him at age 18.

  55. Ida says:

    Woody Allen is not Soon Whatever’s father, as some of the posters have suggested. Apart from that, he has repeatedly stated that he did not see her or treat her as a daughter (which does not mean that he did not treat her kindly) and she has also stated that she never saw him as a father figure. Perhaps one father figure, a.k.a. her own father, was enough for her. I certainly know that my own father is more than enough of a father figure for me, I don’t need an extra helping. The notion that children see caring adults, even if they are one of their parent’s other halves, as parent figures and relate to them in those terms is simply not always true. As for his biological son, although I obviously understand his trauma, what’s funny is that his own mother obviously does not see Soon Whatever as her daughter anymore (and I doubt he actually sees her as a sister either by now) so his entire dilemma is in a sense somewhat misplaced at this point.

    • MissyA says:

      With respect, I have yet to see a ten year old not form some sort of emotional bond with a parental figure’s mate. Even if it’s a fleeting romance, kids subconsciously need some way to identify with a new relationship.

      Regardless of how Soon-Yi felt, Woody was the defacto father-figure in her life. And even if Woody truly didn’t regard Soon-Yi as his daughter (which given any other context is a terrible thing to say!), there is still an innate power dynamic between an adult and a child. He certainly overstepped his boundaries. Disgusting man.

      Literally got a cold chill down my spine when I saw him holding hands with his adopted daughter. There’s a special place in Hell for pedophiles.

      • Eleonor says:

        I think they were obliged by the situation to release statements like this, it was a pr move as far as their marriage was one. I remember when all this mess came out, and that was an hell of scandal. Woody’s image was in pieces, and they had to work hard to appear normal.

      • Ida says:

        Hmmm, I think my pervious statement stands, insofar as I really don’t think that all children see caring adults as parents and that one does not have to treat a child as a their own in order to love and care for that child, there are other types of love, the parent-child relationship does not exhaust all of them.
        Look, there’s no doubt that Woody overstepped the boundary, but, paradoxically, it is a very very fine line that we’re talking about here. It would be disingenuous, I think, to claim that 17-18-19-year old girls (or boys) do not have sexual appetites that they are conscious of, and, yes, sometimes appetites that can be somewhat transgressive, such as a young girl’s desire for an older man. It would be mistaken to shout: abuse! in all such circumstances I think, even if abuse means simply exploitation of the power that an adult has over a much yonger person with whim he or she has dealings. The truth is, we don’t know what happened, but they’re still together and by all accounts happy so it is probable that they simply fell in love with each other. As for the allegations of the other type of abuse, well, apart from the fact that Allen spent years in courts and was not convicted, unlike Polanski, who definitely has a penchant for young girls-he married his current wife when she was 18 or something like that, all of Allen’s former partners have been his contemporaries. I think that’s quite telling.

    • fabgrrl says:

      I can agree to a point. Both of my parents, after their divorce, had romantic relationships with people that I did not in any way consider parental figures. But, then again, Mia and Woody had a child together, who is now the gorgeous hunk of man in the top photo. So that makes Woody Allen the father of Soon-Yi’s brother – which I think does confer some sort of parental status.

    • orion70 says:

      Those statements about how he “never saw her as his daughter” etc are, to my ears, justifications, much in the same sense that some make such as “she was coming on to me/was sexually precocious”, “I was drinking/drugged” or “It just kind of happened”.

  56. chloe says:

    I find it disturbing that every picture of Woody and his daughter they are holding hands, isn’t she kind of old for that? Maybe she’s holding him up.

  57. Sara says:

    I have to wonder if Woody is one of the people Corey Feldman was speaking about in Hollywood. I can’t help but wonder about this adopted child. I never held hands with my father at that age, it’s beyond weird to me.

  58. mariaj says:

    ” As for Miss Farrow, she is hardly innocent. Does anyone remember how she publicly accused him of abusing her children for the entire duration of their relationship, and when she was told that, in that case, she would be an accomplice (because she had failed to report him to the authorities even though she knew what he was doing all along), she only answered with “I have not come here to be judged”? How convenient.”

    Oh, i am glad that after a lot of comments someone wrote this! Ok, Woody din’t behave well( but the last two comments clarify a bit the things), but why forget that Mia accused him of HORRIBLE things, and done to a child of not even 10? She is hardly a model. IF you care about the children, what about seeing your father be accused of molesting you or the others children,or see a friend-father figure be accused of molesting your siblings? How cruel that is? Yes, Mia was an hurt woman, but she didn’t care to involve the children in her revenge.

    Btw, i don’t blame Ronan for standing by his mother side, i don’t find it all that right, since his mother has her flaws, but this little man is still young, needs some firm point, maybe later his thoughts will be less harsh.

    • Jennifer says:

      If Farrow thought he was molesting the kids, why shouldn’t she say so? I read that friends saw Allen having their adopted daughter suck his thumb. That’s off. I don’t think Farrow’s “perfect” by a long shot, no one is, but there’s nothing wrong with accusing someone of sexual abuse of your kids if you think they have. The daughter was supposedly starting to wet her pants and show signs of being abused, as well, according to Farrow. Sorry but it’s not hard to imagine Woody Allen crossing boundaries,and the thumb sucking thing he did in front of Farrow’s friends. He doesn’t get boundaries and that in combo with narcissism is a dangerous mix.

  59. Criss says:

    Ronan is the best production Woody has ever done. The whole Soon Yi thing he did was really sick. Woody has always been a weirdo, but I think most cultures would laugh at us if we said there is a rule to holding your kids hand. My kids are older and I still hold their hands, because I love them, not because I’m a purv. The hand holding comments make me think their are a lot of pervs out their, creepy.

    • Sara says:

      There is nothing wrong with holding your child’s hand. However, when you end up hooking up with your adopted daughter, it’s no surprise that people are starting to wonder about another adopted Asian daughter. Do you really think people would care about him holding his kid’s hand if this hadn’t happened? Who cares that you hold your older children’s hand, you didn’t hook up with your adopted son. It’s not even a comparison on any level. Dude is sick and people are right to wonder about this poor girl.

  60. Jennifer says:

    It’s ironic Dory Previn wrote “Beware of Young Girls” re Mia Farrow moving in on Andre Previn..and Farrow dismissed it as “tacky”, but she really should’ve listened, cos it happened to her 10 times worse.

    Ronan said something years ago about Soon Yi only getting with Woody because she’d never had any other boyfriends. So he was likely grooming her well before she was 21. I can see her as an insecure teenager with this beautiful celebrity mom everyone worships as this perfect mother and humanitarian so “good” for adopting her and that totally pissing her off. And Allen making her feel beautiful and seeming like a savior to her. I would blame Woody Allen more, I would hope, if I were Mia Farrow.

    I feel the worst for all the kids, including Soon-Yi, though, maybe she’s happy now. Woody Allen just took a sh** on a single mother’s family, his own family in fact, and walked off.

    Men like him are the single mother’s stuff of nightmares. Don’t realize the value of others, and certainly don’t comprehend the damage that they do. Too self referenced about every goddamn thing. He’s smart, but emotionally, he’s mad- stunted. At any rate his holding hands with his adopted Asian teenager gives me the jeebs.

  61. RobN says:

    He ought to thank his Dad for his smarts; he didn’t get those from Mom. She’s a bit of a simpleton.

    Woody’s getting up there in age; after he’s dead, Ronan’s going to wish he had talked this whole thing out with him instead of doing it with the media.

    • Jennifer says:

      He got the genetic benefit from his dad, which cost Allen exactly one orgasm. That gift involved no self sacrifice on Allen’s part. The “thanks” goes to his “simpleton” mom for her gifts which all required both smarts enough to value one’s own child, as well as self sacrifice including decades of time, support, a real day to day relationship, and not abandoning him for a romantic relationship with one of his own siblings. Ronan Farrow seems deep enough to understand the value of what his mother gave and what his father did not. He doesn’t want to be like his dad. It is to his benefit he’s not like many boys who worship their dads and end up just like them. It’s nice to see him role model something different than the usual. He obviously respects his mother, his family, and is fiercely protective of his own integrity.

      • The Original Mia says:

        Excellent post!

        Woody is a perv. Ronan is well within his rights to cut his father out of his life. He owes Woody nothing.

      • RobN says:

        “It is to his benefit he’s not like many boys who worship their dads and end up just like them.”

        Wow, hate men much? It’s a good thing to not look up to your dad? You should try meeting some nicer guys. Or here’s a hint, don’t have children with men whom you wouldn’t want your kids to look up to and emulate.

      • Jennifer says:

        RobN, woops what I meant to say is that it’s no good to be a boy worshipping a *messed up* parent just to end up like them. (Now if your dad is great, or even just decent, wonderful.) The ability to tell the difference is crucial to a kid’s own future as a healthy or destructive parent. Woody, an absentee father who seduced his son’s sister and walked away, does not merit emulation. For a boy to be able to see this, and state it, to me, speaks well of a very young person understanding boundaries and the emotional responsibilities a father SHOULD have or at least acknowledge and/or see in retrospect. But Woody Allen doesn’t seem to get it at all in anything I’ve read from him. He’s clueless as to what all the hoopla is about, yet his behavior dramatically affected his son. Ronan’s dad Woody sh*t on him. Props to Ronan that no matter how much that hurt, he maintained his sense of self worth and respect, he didnt let it pervert his character or morals. Sure Woody can walk away, but Ronan was a kid and couldn’t just walk away liek Woody did. I am happy Ronan has spoken in media on this as it reminds parents why you shouldn’t act in recklessly selfish ways as this causes hurt and there are lifelong consequences. Maybe Allen is ok w/the trade-off but I’m sure it will always hurt Ronan Farrow. However I do agree that Ronan should at least speak with his dad once more as an adult, if he hasn’t already. Cos once your parent is dead, you’ve lost something, even if you never had much of anything by way of relationship, and even if they left you.

      • Jo 'Mama' Besser says:

        No one said anything about hating men, so I think that’s a bit unfair. Children emulate, children hero-worship, children learn how to be adults from the adults in their lives, so if you’re in such a position, it’s incredibly easy to manipulate and corrupt–heck, that happens frequently even the intentions are pure. This is not a model of manhood you want to mirror and the point is that it’s incredibly difficult and rare to be a kid who can look at a parent (especially the same-sex parent) objectively, understand that an adult’s behaviour is inappropriate and too undesireable to foster within his own person. It’s bad enough to hear a ‘yo mama’ joke, I mean, what’s the automatic go-to response on that one?

        But it must be misery to be a kid who understands the joke and yet through all of the embarrassment and trauma have to conclude that it’s not a joke, it’s the truth. This isn’t about man-bashing, it’s about kids whose lives get bashed in by the most important man and through denial or youthful ignorance cling to the person who is such a detriment to the child’s well being. How difficult must it be to cut your own apron strings with nothing seeming certain but a huge fall from grace?

    • Jaded says:

      Having heard Mia Farrow speak on several occasions, she is no simpleton. In fact Angelina Jolie gets all the credit for swanning around the world being a UN ambassador but Farrow is regularly in the trenches in Darfur and elsewhere witnessing the most appalling atrocities, disease, rape and starvation imaginable. Her thoughtful, informative and passionate articles are regularly published in the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, CNN, etc. Go to her advocacy website, miafarrow.org, and read up a bit, she is anything but simple.

    • gab says:

      I’m pretty sure that by now Ronan wants nothing, no thing from WA. Doubt that it will be Ronan with any regrets when all is said and done.

    • Violet says:

      Mia was a fool for trusting Woody, but Ronan definitely got his brains from her.

      Intelligence is determined by the X chromosome, which means a man’s intelligence is inherited from his mother.

      (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-imprinted-brain/201002/identical-genetically-different-and-why-you-can-thank-your-mother-yo)

  62. whatevs says:

    it’s been so many years and this is still fucking disgusting.

    • Reece says:

      I’ve known a step brother & sister who got married had kids and got divorced and it still doesn’t nearly creep me out as much as this story always has and will.

  63. Victoria says:

    Actually she found pictures of a naked Soon-Yi in Woody’s collection when Soon Yi and ONLY SEVENTEEN.

    I hate him. As a survivor of family incest, I take that shit to heart. This is why why people in Hollywood are talking to about Prop 8, Going Green, or any other matter in a accusatory and haughty tone, the first thing I find is whether they support Woody or Roman PoNASTY. If they are affirmative, I no longer buy or support their work. ScarJo, HUGH JACKMAN (who has his own adopted children). So that the majority of Hollywood.

    This man is still hailed and financed for his films, most of them about old men with barely legal chicks (art imitating much) and people are all, “I love Woody.”

    I still haven’t seen Vicky Christina Barcelona. And I really feel as much as we call out celebrities for their bullshit, we need to seriously boycott all of that man’s shit because what he did was disgusting.

    On a side note, i thought Soon Yi was pregnant at one point.

    • Justaposter says:

      Victoria I knew she very close to being underage. And I think you are correct about Soon Yi being pregnant. I thought they had a child together.

  64. Reece says:

    Gorgeous and intelligent!

    Edit: Ronan I mean.

  65. ... says:

    Ronan is such a catch! And with such a strong moral compass….
    All that needs to be said about Allen is:
    He slept with his daughter.
    His name is often seen at the top of the petition to “leave Roman Polanski aloneeeeee!” petition. You stay classy Woody Allen.

  66. Kim says:

    Good for him. Mia did a great job raising this kid. Poor kid having a pedophile dad would be the worst than to top it off his dad is a pedophile with his sister!!!

    DO NOT tell me Woody wasnt attracted to her until she turned 18 – plleeaaasseee!! Woody Allen is sick and should be locked up!

  67. Violet says:

    Ronan could’ve gone one step further in expressing his digust for Woody, but no doubt held back out of respect for his sister Dylan.

    Namely, Ronan could’ve brought up that charges were filed against Woody Allen for molesting his 7-year-old daughter Dylan. The case never went to trial, but it’s pretty clear that he was guilty. The official statement by the state attorney was that there was “probable cause” to prosecute Allen on charges of sexual molestation of Dylan, but he was dropping the case to spare her the trauma of appearing in court.

    Even though Soon-Yi is now an adult and her relationship with Woody is now technically consensual, if he molested her as a child — and I believe he did, considering he preyed on her younger sister Dylan — then she is likely so psychologically damaged by that that she doesn’t see him for the predator that he is.

    The fact that she and Woody adopted two girls — despite the evidence that Woody molested Dylan as well as her own firsthand experiences — clearly reflects the fact that Soon-Yi doesn’t understand that he’s a pedophile, no doubt because then she’d have to come to terms with being his victim.

    Frankly, I can’t believe that Woody was allowed to adopt even more children. I hope for the sake of his youngest daughters that he’s impotent these days.

    • LeeLoo says:

      Whoa. I never head this story before. I hope Dylan got the help she needed after that and I hope Woody Allen was made to pay for it. I hope this sick bastard gets what he deserves. How in the world was he allowed to adopt more children after that?!

  68. Kim says:

    Anyone who works with Woody should be blackballed as SHOULD HE! The people that work with him disgust me! And you know damn well he is most likely molesting his daughter with Soon Yi. He is a PEDOPHILE!!!!!!!!

    Everyone should ban his films and everything he is associated with.

  69. Nymeria says:

    Is he a child molester? Is he molesting his adopted daughters?

    Do bears sh-t in the woods?

  70. Lukie says:

    That isn’t Manzie’s hand he is holding. That is Bechet. Manzie is the little girl on the balcony with all Soon Yi, Bechet & Woody Allen.

    I know someone that goes to school with the older one (Bechet), which is why I know this, not b/c I like Woody Allen. I never got over him banging Soon Yi and the fact that it has been 20 years, doesn’t change that for me…

  71. imabrat says:

    How embarrassing for his son. I know I’d have a hard time forgiving, and learning to call my sister “mama”.

  72. Rosanna says:

    I personally can’t stand WA. But I see loads of bio fathere walking hands in hands with their daughters – and I don’t like that either.

    • Callumna says:

      Normally it’s GOOD for a father to walk with and protect their daughter.

      Too many jack asses abandon their kids, let’s not jump on the sweet and wonderful fatherly hand holding among good dudes.

      Woody Allen is a known boundary crossing freak. For him, that hand in hand shot with Soon Yi the Sequel should go straight to the sherrif’s office.

  73. mariaj says:

    ” Sorry but it’s not hard to imagine Woody Allen crossing boundaries,and the thumb sucking thing he did in front of Farrow’s friends”

    Sure, ther is no need of many imagination…JUST only of a certain kind.

    Anyway, sure there is nothing wrong to accuse a man of molesting a child, if you think so….that’s why to me it seems VERY strange that she tell out about the supposed molesting AFTER the custody battle. Did she know already? So why din’t she tell it before? Sorry, but i don’t buy it at all.

    • Embee says:

      It is highly likely that, once Mia came across the naked photos of Soon-Yi, she investigated further. Her children, once they understood they could tell (a huge issue w/incest) may only then have opened up.

  74. sandy#1 says:

    that’s so sad woody tore that family apart, with his selfish behavior, thank god his son turned out great.

  75. Claudia says:

    From some of the comments, it’s clear this clarification needs to be made:

    Soon-Yi was NEVER his step-daughter OR adopted daughter.

    Woody Allen never married Mia Farrow, so he was not a step-parent to any of the kids. He also never adopted Soon-Yi. They are not biologically related, nor were they ever adopted family.

    Go ahead and say what you will about the rest, but again: no marriage, no step-anything, no adopted-anything.

    • Jaded says:

      You’re right. What it is, though, is adultery of the worst kind. Someone you live with having a secret affair is shameful enough but when it turns out to be with your daughter, adopted or otherwise, it’s really despicable and immoral behaviour by both WA and SY.

      • Claudia says:

        Oh, I agree. I’m not trying to excuse his behavior in that sense. It was the worst kind of betrayal.

    • Violet says:

      Nonsense.

      Woody and Mia never legally married, but he was Mia’s partner and Soon-Yi’s de facto stepfather in every true sense.

      Soon-Yi was only 10 when Woody and Mia started having children together, and Woody is the father of THREE of Soon-Yi’s siblings — Moses (born in 1978, adopted in 1980), Dylan (adopted as a baby in 1985) and Ronan (born in 1987).

  76. Jennifer says:

    @marjaj Having a kid suck your thumb, or any part of your body, is weird. The only time I’ve ever seen it between an adult and child (excluding little babies) was between a grown man and little girl. That man was later found to be sexual abusing this little girl, who was a relative of his. Even if sometiems it may be innocent, I think for most people, it should raise a red flag, and now i know why I felt so weird about seeing it happening (I was a child myself when I saw it but even I felt like it was just weird and made me uncomfortable just to see it.)
    Anyway, the judge didn’t forbid a multi millionaire film icon from seeing his own child for nothing. It was deemed in the child’s best interest to not be alone with Allen- court’s orders.

    • anon33 says:

      You shouldn’t even have to explain why a kid sucking an adult’s thumb is wrong. It’s pretty fucking obvious.

    • Emily says:

      Unless the kid’s teething. Aren’t fingers good for kids to gnaw on when they’re teething?

  77. the original bellaluna says:

    Yeah, I would be disgusted too. In fact, I still am, to this day.

    The level of deceit, on SY and WA’s part is…devastating.

  78. Claudia says:

    As an aside, his daughters always look bored out of their minds.

  79. meta says:

    FYI that is not their adopted daughter Manzie – that is their other adopted daughter named Bechet Dumaine Allen.

    On a side note – Soon-Yi is about the ugliest Asian woman i have ever seen

    • Koa M. says:

      I’m shocked that you were the first to point out how flippin’ ugly Soon-yi is, that’s a face that could give one nightmares!

  80. Pearl says:

    It grosses me out the way he is holding his daughter’s hand. Is she next?

  81. Meanchick says:

    I instantly got the willies from watching him hold the new adopted daughter’s hand. I think there is something really sick and illegal about his “ways.” How silly is this fugly Soon-Yi to allow more adopted girls into the family after her own experience? This is wrong. Sick and wrong.

  82. macherie says:

    is anyone else concerned with the dude holding his daughters hand?? shouldn’t his daughter/wife step in? or is this just his natural course? woody allen is all kinds of messed up.

  83. mariaj says:

    ” It was deemed in the child’s best interest to not be alone with Allen- court’s orders. ”

    And a court dismissed the accuses of child molesting, but you semm to pick the court decision that you like.

    • Jennifer says:

      True, they were, but the ruling remained that he cannot be alone with his own children. That’s heavy, and looks horrible. So who cares. If the court will not allow you to be alone with your own children, something is wrong, period, and the court is acting on some believed information, regardless what has been thrown out. And the fact he’s as rich and famous as he is, and yet the court still came to this decision limiting his parental rights in such a fundamental way, speaks volumes.

  84. Meadowlark says:

    It’s cool if people don’t “get” this situation (it is unorthodox) but it irritates me when people don’t get the facts. Woody was never Soon-Yi’s step-father (He never married Farrow, and he never even “accepted her children into his home” so it’s no even de facto step-parent). And, obviously, Woody was never Soon-Yi’s adopted father either. They both have said they never had a father-daughter relationship and that they didn’t even get to know each other until Soon-Yi was an adult. Taking all this into account, I personally don’t see it as immoral. Maybe it IS a bit sleazy to date your baby-momma’s adult daughter, though. And I don’t think the “Oh, no, now he’s going to abuse his own adopted daughter” stuff is fair or appropriate. I totally respect Ronan’s decision, though. Talk about a Modern Family! /rant

    • Claudia says:

      I agree. I don’t think they ever really lived together, even. He maintained his own place, and would essentially visit Farrow at her apartment or stay with her at vacation homes during the time they were together. How is that a model of family or a family home? He did everything in a wrong, bizarre way and betrayed his then-girlfriend… but I do not believe for one second that he is morally bankrupt or perverse. I find it disgusting that people are insinuating abuse from hand-holding. When has it suddenly become unnatural to hold hands with your father? I see it all the time.

      • Pancake Bacon says:

        Forget whether Woody was considered Soon-Yi’s father – as far as Ronan is concerned, his FATHER SLEPT/MARRIED his SISTER. Woody should’ve walked away out of respect for his son.

        “The heart want it wants” is baloney.

      • Jo 'Mama' Besser says:

        No kidding. Quit the hand-wringing. There’s three billion women in the world and he’s one of the most famous women in the world, take your pick–any pick is better, probably. People seem to understand the situation without the benefit of your education and 20 years later this how they feel, what more do you want? i mean, how long would you date someone who wasn’t interested in some kind of relationship with your kids, especially after you had one together? Probably not for over a decade. Maybe it doesn’t send you moral meter off, but what if the positions were reversed? At any rate, the people involved in this debacle are still reeling it seems, so they seem to think something deeply, deeply wrong happened and they’d know.

        They probably knew since he’s so rich, powerful, influential and acclaimed this would blow over and he’d have more defenders than detractors again in not too much time because when you’ve his position time and space themselves will fin new and challenging ways to knot itself for you and the most paltry of defenses will suddenly become revolutions if they can the suit the chosen one’s security. Not living with your girlfriend does not mean you’ve been given a direct order to screw her kid. What difference does it make to his own son how they ‘thought’ of each other? If you have to introduce your relationship with a preamble like that, where’s the comfort?

  85. mariaj says:

    ( and i DO have seen baby sucking adult thumbs, AND i didn’t see any wrong in it.

    • Jennifer says:

      @mariaj- How nice for you. But I exempted babies, so your point is moot and argues nothing that was written.

      • mariaj says:

        ” True, they were, but the ruling remained that he cannot be alone with his own children. That’s heavy, and looks horrible. So who cares.”

        That DOESN’T mean that he was guilty, cause the judge may decide that is better that you stay away from their life WITHOUT that means that you’re a pedophile. Mom accused his father to be a pervert, how could children live with two grandparents in such fight? Anyway, later Allen was allowed to adopt again, so if this is your your point about child molesting accuses then your point is…pointless.

        And sure i have wrote wrongly ” baby”,but i meant also children. But i see that here there is also someone that see” sick” that a father hold hands with a daughter.

  86. Amanda says:

    The son is cute. I can see why he wouldn’t want to talk to his father.

  87. Tee says:

    Thank goodness he takes after mia!! He is beautiful just like her inside and out! Woody is a disgusting human being! And I don’ say such things lightly

  88. lydia says:

    Referring to Angela Jolie above..she practially did have a romantic relationship with her brother for all of us to see..who knows what she did when we were not watching. Umm

    • Mari says:

      You have a sick mind. Who cares?

      What it seems interesting or weird is that a woman like Mia, who by 1980 Had 6 children by Andre Pevin, three biological and 3 adopted, Just accepted a relationship with Woody A. Who apparently did not care much about her children, her family, and integrating. I know that he was so dependent of therapy that he had to ask permission to his therapist to father a child, and then he and Mia adopted 2 and had this young man above… And he still lived in his place?
      I am all for understanding a person who is mentally ill, but this is too much.
      I think Mia had her issues too. She married Frankie who could have been her dad, meddled in a delicate marriage and ended up pregnant by a man double her age, and falls for a genious (never seen his movies, but everyone praises him) with too many peculiarities. She had a large family already, too many responsibilities and accepts this? She is weird too, charitable and nice, lovely, but weird.

      • lydia says:

        i have a sick mind and mia is weird. didn’t realize that you mari were such an expert on human behavior. romantic liasons with relatives is not okay.

      • Jennifer says:

        I agree Mia’s got her own issues. I think Farrow’s a very interesting person, admirable even, but i’m wary of people like her who seem to collect children. I say that as someone from a humongus family. And as someone who has known many families that are huge both biologically, thru adoption, or thru a mix of the two. Strangely enough, there’s often an extremely shallow side to such people. When I say “collecters” I mean THere’s a tendency not to see the children as individuals, but as collectables, as extensions of the parents’ earth mother/father self-identifications. It does not foster a sense of feeling valued in the children. You can feel more like a prop or “thing” make your parent look good. However such parents often also have wonderful, expansive, loving and humanitarian qualities.

      • Mari says:

        Good try. I should have posted that separately, dear, since all I was stating was that she, as well as woody has her own issues and it shows in how she accepted to be in a relatioship like that where the man she chose would not accept to be ina family with her, and she still adopted and had children with an man unwilling to live with her, accept completely your life. That’sad and probably convenient for her, like dating, probably.
        What he did has no name, the daughter having lived what she lived, probably was mesmerized withthat creep, but … Mia accepted too much, in my opinion, she should have not accepted that unusual relationship where the man in your life does not accept or wants to live with you and your children. That was a sign that something was no right from thebeginning.
        Thank you for acknowledging that I am an expert, at least I do not judge by pictures. Go and cry out at what Gloria Grahame allegedly did 40 years ago now, if you are examining all HW suspicious relationships, that is more outrageous than young AJ looking to be the center of attention.

      • laura says:

        Mari, you are fairly illiterate. I had to stop reading your post because it was so difficult to follow or make sense of. Go back to school…

    • Boxy Lady says:

      I caught that mention of Gloria Grahame which this whole situation reminds me of. And Mari, there’s no “allegedly” about it: Gloria Grahame divorced Nicholas Ray, the director of Rebel Without a Cause, then married *his* son, her stepson, and had at least one kid with him, if I recall correctly. And this was happening in the 50s and 60s, so it was super scandalous then.

      • Mari says:

        The “alleged” was for the rumors that she had something sexual to do with the 14 yr old boy she was a stepmother to, and that the husband/ boy’s father found them, and that was the cause the boy’s father divorced her. She married someone else and then, she married her former stepson.

        I offer my apologies since English is just a foreign language I learned. I do not even practice it much. I beg your pardon for daring to participate.

  89. Callumna says:

    Holy crap.

    Look at old Woody next to the new young one.

    I’m sorry, but he’s holding her hand with Soon Yi in the background.

    Ain’t that how things started with Soon Yi!

    Nasty old molestor.

  90. Callumna says:

    That kid. Smart, cute. Rich. Has morals. Knows what morals are.

    It’s so rare a kid in Hollywood combines all the GOOD from parents. He’s like a real life kid.

    Maybe when the dad ditches the family in a really really nasty way, the Hollywood part cancels out?

    Like Angelina Jolie, a little. Good for him for avoiding the old molestor. A terrible thing his dad did to him and his family but he has risen.

  91. Diane says:

    Oh my gosh, what a handsome young man. Real striking blue eyes and brain too… Who cares about Woody, it’s good he takes after his mother.

  92. Victoria says:

    There is no real evidence that Angie and her brother did anything. And even if they did, as sick as it is, they were two consenting adults? Maybe. I don’t know. I can’t say for sure without proof where I stand on that.

    All I know is that we do know that as de facto father figure, whether he was living with them or not, he had an adult child relationship with Soon-Yi and some where way before she became a consensual adult, things became romantic. Naked pictures of your baby’s mama’s child at seventeen is still consideres and was considered child pornography.

    I don’t think there is anything wrong with holding your father’s hand at 13. I did but my father nipped everything else in the bud. No sitting on his lap, falling asleep on his bed, and stuff like that. Why? Because he said as a father it was his job to teach me about the boundaries in relationships and why some things are not appropriate. Fathers, father figures, boyfriends, whatever have no business doing any of those things with a minor, let alone their girlfriend’s kiss, I don’t give a fuck if she was adopted and never saw her that way or not. It’s sick.

    • kirsten says:

      Seriously. They are sister and brother. Consenting adults…duh, they are from the same womb. What is going on in this world. Ick

      • Victoria says:

        I never said that it was right. It is sick, but if two consenting siblings decided to get it on, then as sick as it is, that shit is on them.

        There is a whole lot of difference in that situation then there is a grown man screwing around with a child that, especially when he has an an adult/parental role in said life since she was 10. That is disgusting. What is the world coming to indeed where they try to bring Angelina Jolie’s grown ass creepily kiss her grown ass brother.

        Both are disgusting, but one is a rumour (understandably so) and the other is a fact and it involved a minor. Nasty

  93. laura says:

    The guys is a pedophile; disgusting and creepy, just like his buddy Polanski. Dirtbags – no matter how much money they have, they are filthy pedophile perverts.

    Check out this article:

    http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1992/11/farrow199211

    • mariaj says:

      To me they seem sexophoby maniacs, sorry.

      Not Woody ( that has his own perversions, though i think lecit) those od accuse him and see pervert sex everywhere.

    • Eleonor says:

      I’ve read all the VF article, and what stroke me more was: Soon Yi IQ was slightly below the avarage, and what her ex tutor said
      “She has trouble processing information, trouble understanding language on an inferential level. She’s very, very literal and flat in how she interprets what she sees and how she interprets things socially. She misinterprets situations”
      For those who say Woody wasn’t a father figure: he had also adopted some Mia’s children,he didn’t live with them, but he shared a life with the kids, he wanted to be a father figure. I think this man is sick and he has found a girl who could be easily manipulate.

  94. jin says:

    I don’t blame him. It’s such a twisted situation. She was never Woody’s daughter, still it’s just wrong. The thought of him dating Mia Farrow all those years while her daughter was young. I think Soon Yi just wanted to live the high life. She was wrong too for going behind her mother’s back that way.

    I’m glad it seems Ronan turned out so well. Rhodes scholar? Graduated Bard at 16?! He’s got to be a genius!

  95. Mooshi says:

    So, they adopted a beautiful little girl.

    Now Woody’s “wife” doesnt have to put up with touching Woody at night (nor will she care since this child was probably a purchased product).

    The daughter is purchased so she can take care of the dirty work.

    Sex slaves are indoctrinated young.

    Technically this is perfectly accepted as NON abuse as the child is not Jewish.

    So just get over it. It is the way of the world now.

  96. skuddles says:

    Woody is a disgusting, perverted, amoral little man. What he did was beyond redemption – not only to the underage, simple Soon Yi, but also to his long-time partner and all the other children…. he deserves to have his nuts roasted and fed to him.

  97. Mooshi says:

    What did Woody do that was not moral?

    Define moral please.

    He never harmed a single Jewish child in his LIFE!!!

    • skuddles says:

      Do you actually need someone to define “moral” for you? Alright what the hell. It’s an awareness of right from wrong. Wrong being what Woody did when he started having sex with his long-time partner’s underage daughter. All clear now?

  98. LeeLoo says:

    1)If I were still single I would figure out how to score a date with Ronan. Not only is he gorgeous but he’s smart too. 😀

    2) There is definitely a special place in hell for a sick cretin like Woody Allen. The only reason he is still with Soon-Yi is because no other woman would touch him with a 12 foot pole. I don’t blame Ronan for disowning him and of course Woody won’t mention him as I have no doubt that reminds Woody of the horrible things he has done to the family he had with Mia Farrow. I hope the guilt of what Woody has done eats him up alive 24/7.
    Words cannot describe what a disgusting excuse of a human being he is.

    3)That being said, I effectively put this on a moral transgression equal to stepfather and stepdaughter having sex and hooking up. It doesn’t make it less morally repugnant but it irks me when people say this was Woody’s adopted daughter as she obviously was adopted by Andre Previn. I see her as Woody’s stepdaugher. I always felt that this story was in some ways blown out of proportion in that sense. But that doesn’t make it less morally revolting. There are things you don’t do and one of those things is have sex with a child you helped raise, no matter how small of a role.

  99. crtb says:

    Please Stop Posting That, Woody Allen has repeatedly stated that he did not see Soon-Yi or treat her as a daughter and she has also stated that she never saw him as a father figure. He was her mother’s boyfriend! A man doesn’t sleep with his girlfrined’s daughter. End of story . Don’t care if he saw her as a daughter or she saw him as a father. It’s a No-No! That would be Like Brad Pitt marrying Zaharah. Saying he was never a father figure to her (rolling eyes). He was with Angelina and her kids are off limits to him. Woody, there are 5 million women in NYC, you should have found someone else.

    • Pancake Bacon says:

      But for Ronan, his father is married to his sister, and it’s totally understandable he can’t abide by that.

  100. Angel says:

    Oh come on. Yale by 16? Working for the Secretary of State two years out of Uni? PLEASE! Cause that’s how life really works. I find the blatant nepotism the more interesting story, here. This kid is taking whatever daddy has to offer; total bullshit of a story. Though, I don’t doubt he’s an ungrateful blowhard who would talk trash in an interview, but I doubt he is running of indignance for daddy.

    Oh, and B Clinton did the same scholarship, no? Hmmm. It really is all about who you know. Meanwhile some genius, somewhere, is doing the night shift at Walmart. Gotta love it!

  101. LuckyLilGem says:

    Wow, love that Ronan is sticking to what he believes is morally right. Makes him hot! Kudos to the man for supporting his mom too.

    Does Manzie look distraught and unhappy or is it just me?

  102. Andie B says:

    If Soon-Yi also has adopted children with the creepy Woody, I’d like to know how she can trust him around them. The hand holding pics give me a MEGA creepy vibe. I remember when the Soon-Yi/Woody scandal first hit the papers. I was a couple of years younger than her. I remember thinking ‘what does a 21 year old woman see in a 55 year old man?’. Especially one that looks like Woody Allen.

  103. ViloDeMenus says:

    One story I read, long ago was that Soon Yi was found on the streets of Seoul a street child who because she was girl was simply thrown out when she was three years old to die and nearly did.

    Allen nearly destroyed the entire family and most of Mia’s children had severe disabilities – Soon Yi included, Mia is a person who should be admired, she’s already had to bury two of her girls, and lost another to her perv ex. I’m so glad to hear her son grew up to do great things, it’s a real tribute to his mother and family. Not Woody, he’s a selfish man who thought only of himself.

  104. Orange says:

    I’m on team Woody and Soon-Yi. Mia gives me the creeps.

    I found this old quote about Mia from 1992..

    “We always joked that Lark would be the one to get out of the house and write the Mommie Dearest book.” Lark died in 2008 at age 35, on Christmas day. Apparently she had been estranged from Mia by the time she died. She was sick for a long time- cause of death wasn’t released. Lark’s two daughters went to live with Mia.

  105. jh says:

    Yuck, it all looks incestuous. It looks like Soon-yi knows how to pimp for her husband.
    I never believed he was a brilliant film-maker. You only have to see one or two and you’ve seen them all.

    I think he’s unable to stand a relationship with an intelligent women – he had to live apart from Mia and was moody with his other gfs – but he’s clearly found a comfortable fit with these women.

  106. J.Mo says:

    Only one commenter noted that Soon-Yi was known to not be the sharpest young lady. I recall hearing her described as “mildly retarded” and when I’ve seen video of her speaking I’ve tended to believe it.

    • miri says:

      Somewhere I read that there was poverty in S. Korea and It seems that her mother, who was most probably a prostitute used to put her in the entrance of rooms and hit Soon yi’s head with the door and more… the was mistreated, and finally abandoned on the streets, where she was surviving and after that, he was adopted by Mia.
      I know that Mia fought to get to adopt her, but who knows? Soonyi as a child lived and suffered things probably hard to comprehend for most of us, and that affected her is ways that we do not know.
      she should be grateful to her mother, yes but instead she chose another path. Mia got rid of Woody and her daughter chose him.
      Good gor Mia, and as for Soon, she has the life she wanted with that man… no words.

  107. Sia says:

    I don’t know much about Woody’s point of view only Mia’s and I think it’s only natural for his son not want to deal with a parent that hurt his mother so badly. I think Woody could care less though how anyone feels about his relationship. He clearly cares for the girl and Soon Yi was a poor street child…who knows what psychological damage she suffered before being adopted. I say move on, it’s been 20 years.

  108. charlotteanbella says:

    Ronan is so handsome…thank goodness he takes after Mia

  109. xploxite says:

    There is a sadness in girl’s face in all three pictures, something is wrong that’s for sure.

  110. badandsad says:

    I’m pretty sure that the only reason Woody married Soon-Yi was to put a positive PR spin on the whole disgusting fiasco. The PR assault he launched on Mia when she wouldn’t just look the other way was horrific, especially given that he manipulatively offered to marry Mia because (in his own words at the time) “It’s just a silly dalliance, good for Soon-Yi’s self-esteem and won’t last long anyway.” Mia didn’t even leak the situation- the information became public knowledge when Soon-Yi’s pediatrician was apprised of the situation and legally had to go to the police.

    I’m pretty sure that Soon-Yi is too deluded to realize what’s going on between him and their adopted daughter, despite the obvious that anyone looking at these photos can see. What a sad, perverted man.

    • Eleonor says:

      I’m totally with you on the pr thing. They HAVE to appear as more normal as they can, so people can easily forget Soon Yi is the sister and the wife of her brother’s father.

  111. mary simon says:

    doesn’t resemble his father physically or morally – good for him.

  112. Linda says:

    Why isn’t he holding his wife’s hand instead? Why is Soon Yi walking behind them?

    People, there is something terribly wrong with this picture??

    When this all broke out 20 years ago, that is exactly how he would hold Soon Yi’s hand in public.

  113. krys says:

    ronan is so goodlooking, and smart: i like woody allen movies, but always think hes a freak u cant marry ur daughter even if shes adpoted come on, it also muts be very hard to be on mias position…wow some crazy people on this world………

  114. Mitch Buchanan Rocks says:

    It would be interesting for Chelsea Handler to interview Woody as a guest on her show.

  115. Elizabeth says:

    Ronan looks like the young Frank Sinatra.

  116. Blakesley says:

    Woody Allen also molested his daughter Dylan.Those pictures with Manzie speak a million words.

  117. Brannie says:

    If I was Soon-Yi, I’d watch out. He’s probably grooming their adopted daughter right under her nose. He’s nothing but a filthy pervert.

    • yasmine says:

      everyone is talking about Woody allen comments being the “sick” (something that I also approves) but I also think that soon yi has something to do in this sh**.
      I’m consedering the fact that she had a difficult life during his early childhood, but that is not normal that a young girl finding a home with a family, brothers and sisters and especially a MOM may think a day to come out with the partner/boyfriend/fiancé or wathever…of this women that is carriying you and considering you as her DAUGHTER.
      there is something wrong with her,and to repeat the scenario and adopt childer with the man who has never considired the family cocoon with respect this shows that she’s unable to determine the psychic balance of a humain being.

      i’m also thinking that even if she found that WA is having an affair with their daughter or step daughter she will not react at all.
      excuse my english it’s not my first language

  118. Mari says:

    WoW. That is Woody Allen’s son???! Good thing he looks like Mia Farrow.
    On the other hand Soon Yi was not Allen’s daughter. She was adopted by Mia and a previous husband André Previn. So, it’s not illegal but it is immoral.

    And who in her right mind would adopt children with a man known for inappropiate interest in adpted children???
    Anyways, those two are just a pair of sick f*cks

  119. Lynn says:

    I could be wrong, but I think that at one point, Soon Yi said that she’d left the naked pictures of her that were taken at Woody’s apartment where Mia would absolutely have to discover them in a short amount of time. Maybe she did that briefly when she still had hope that her adoptive mom would forgive her while condemning Woody since he was supposed to be the adult/father-type? Either way, it was probably a good idea for her to keep her expectations low regardless of whether or not Woody was promising her they’d marry/live together/shack up with short term/to keep her as his mistress – makes nearly any action on his part a reason to celebrate.

    As for Soon Yi and Woody choosing to adopt – Joseph Smith (the guy who started the mormon church) put his first wife Emma in a situation where she’d spend eternity alone and unable to enter heaven if she didn’t agree to plural marriage – then Joseph ‘allowed’ her to choose the women her husband would take for wives (even though he’d already married them in secret). Maybe Soon Yi is smarter than people think, and as the First Wife, she’s going to make for damn sure that everyone in her household knows she’s the real boss?

    DISCLAIMER: Sorry if that offended anyone, yes Woody and Soon Yi built a relationship from an inappropriate foundation at the very start, and if a similar situation is being created once again with his new adopted daughter(s) then that’s something that warrants at the very least, a full investigation by law enforcement. The comment is for entertainment purposes only, and is not intended as a statement of fact or to be used as such.

  120. This is interesting. Stacey Nelkin: The film Manhattan is said by the Los Angeles Times[74] to be widely known to have been based on his romantic relationship with the actress Stacey Nelkin. Her bit part in Annie Hall ended up on the cutting room floor, and their relationship, though never publicly acknowledged by Allen, reportedly began when she was 17 years old and a student at New York’s Stuyvesant High School.[75][76][77]

  121. Stupid, misleading, inflammatory article designed to generate controversy about a decades-old non-story.

    Allen and Soon-Yi Previn were never related by blood nor marriage, and rumors of their having an affair while she was underage are just that, rumors.

    And honestly, who cares what this kid has to say? He is a nobody. Period.

  122. misspdx says:

    who the eff would let WOody Allen adopt another child?!?!

  123. YouAreAllStupid says:

    You’re all dumb as sh*t.

  124. slongo says:

    Soon-Yi was adopted by Farrow and her then-husband, Andre Previn.

    Woody and Mia never married.

    Woody Allen did not adopt Soon-Yi.

    Just the facts. The facts don’t erase the “wrongness” we feel as a society when a 55 year old man has a sexual relationship with a 20 year old woman. Particularily when most parties view the relationship as step father/step daughter. It is creepy-though not as creepy as if he had committed adultery with an adopted daughter. No adultery (no marriage) and no adoption (she was adopted by Andre Previn not Woody Allen) existed.
    To suggest that the asian children that he and Soon-Yi did legally adopt are at risk from their father, is however, very creepy. The gossip itself is off the scale creepy.

  125. DuckyGirl says:

    You younger gals, look up a photo of the late movie star Paul Newman. Maybe the Woodster wasn’t the only one fooling around! It’s the eyes!

  126. Ollie29 says:

    I’ve read many real life stories from women discovering that their husband or bf is a pedo and Woody Allen fits the pedo description to a T. He acts like of this behavior is normal because he doesn’t think there is anything wrong with him. The only reason why he is getting away with this is because he has money.
    I also read a police report on pedos and there is no doubt in my mind that woody is a huge pedo and by looking at these pictures I can see he doesn’t even try to hide it anymore.
    The sad thing is that these girls have been manipulated from a young age and probably feel an attachment to him. Therefore it will be hard to help the. He knows how to pick them.
    I recommend this article to every single mom who wants to protect herself or person who wants to know how the pedo mind works and other useful information regarding pedophilia. Its a long read but its useful because there are too many pervs out and we must protect the innocent from them.
    Its true that he should not have been allowed to adopt those little girls but pedophiles also work in high places.

    http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/psychology/pedophiles/1.html

    The only thing is a find Mia Farrow to be a huge hypocrite. This woman apparently went on film to defend that other pedophile Roman Polanski.

    In a woody allen interview he states how he was happy that mia farrow found the pics. In his pedophile mind he probably left the pictures for mia to find them, that way he could marry his daughter. He’s a huge pedo and there is no doubt he’s molesting his 2 new daughters.

    The only reason why he is still married to Soon Yi is because she lets him live out his pedophile fantasies and adopts girls for him to keep abusing. I don’t blame Soon Yi, she was a street child and easily to manipulate, a pedos perfect victim. Woody allen is the only to blame, he’s a sick man.

    I think its hard to put blame on mia farrow because imagine if you’re in her position. It is incredibly hard to imagine thinking that your bf or husband like little kids. You become a bit in denial because its just so gross to imagine it being true.