In an earlier post, I linked to Ronan Farrow’s awesome Twitter, but he has an awesome Instagram too – go here to see. He loves Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jemima Khan and Oprah and he shades Kardashians. Anyway, as we discussed a few days ago, Ronan’s mom Mia Farrow was all, “Yeah, maybe Frank Sinatra is Ronan’s dad, I don’t know.” To Vanity Fair. Hours after the VF piece came out (and Mia appeared on the Today Show), Ronan tweeted this:
I like that he’s not engaging in melodrama about this stuff. I’m assuming his mom told him a while ago that yeah, Woody might not have been his dad after all and maybe it was Frank Sinatra. Page Six did the math they figured that Frank would have been 71 years old at the time that Ronan was conceived in 1987. Frank didn’t pass away until 1998 – maybe that’s when Mia said something? While the VF piece includes quotes from Nancy Sinatra – Frank’s daughter and possibly Ronan’s half-sister? – it seems that Frank’s last wife (and widow) has some thoughts about Mia’s claims:
Mia Farrow has gotten under the skin of Frank Sinatra’s fourth and final wife. Barbara Sinatra angrily discounted reports that Ol’ Blue Eyes fathered a child out of wedlock with the “Rosemary’s Baby” actress.
The last Mrs. Sinatra, who married The Chairman of the Board in 1976 and stayed hitched until his 1998 death, called revelations about Ronan Farrow “a bunch of junk.”
“I can’t hardly believe that. It’s just a bunch of junk,” Barbara Sinatra told The Desert Sun newspaper. “There’s always junk written — lies that aren’t true.”
Mia Farrow told Vanity Fair magazine that her son by Ronan is “possibly” Frank Sinatra’s kid. The crooner and Mia Farrow were married for two years between 1966 and 1968, but remained close — perhaps really close — after their split. Sinatra would have been about 71 if he had fathered Ronan Farrow in early 1987.
Ronan, 25, has long been described as the only biological child of Mia Farrow and scandalous moviemaker Woody Allen. Mia Farrow, Ronan Farrow and Frank Sinatra all have blue eyes. Allen has brown eyes.
Barbara Sinatra, who lives near Palm Springs, Calif., appears to be at odds with one of Francis Albert’s kids, Nancy Sinatra. The singer of “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ ” — and fellow Palm Springs resident — stopped just short of calling Ronan a blood relative, but told Vanity Fair that he “is a big part of us, and we are blessed to have him in our lives.”
Still, 85-year-old widow Barbara Sinatra said she doesn’t believe a word of the Ronan-Frank talk.
She bluntly told the newspaper, “It sounds like a phony to me.”
A rep for Allen also dismissed the magazine story.
“The article is so fictitious and extravagantly absurd that he is not going to comment,” the rep said of the 77-year-old filmmaker, who infamously married Farrow’s adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn.
I can understand that Barbara doesn’t want a lot of fuss and drama either, but what’s the big deal? Sinatra has been gone for 15 years. And it’s not like Ronan is some no-account, newly-discovered “heir” who is trying to get a slice of Sinatra fortune. Ronan is a Rhodes scholar, a lawyer, an activist and a genius. He’s got his own sh-t going on.
Last thing: Ronan is in talks to get his own MSNBC weekend show!! OMG. I would watch that. I want to watch him talk politics. I also kind of want to watch him eat. THOSE LIPS.
Photos courtesy of Ronan’s Twitter, WENN.
Barbara Sinatra reportedly wanted Frank to adopt her 40-year-old son so he could be in Frank’s will. For Barbara, it is all about the will.
No f****ing way Ronan could have come from Woody’s ugly-ass sperm. Woody is so horrendously unattractive any child he could have produced would have at least been mediocre looking, even with an attractive mother. Now Woody’s daughters have to grow up with a well known child predator. I can’t wait until that Vanity Fair article comes out. F Soon Yi, stupid lady.
+1
Also, if I remember my HS biology correctly brown eyes are dominant so if he WAS Woody’s son, he probably would have brown eyes. I mean, anything can happen as far as genes go but he’s pretty fair. I never really looked at him before this week but now when I seen him it’s impossible to not see Frank Sinatra in him.
Not necessarily. My parents have brown and green eyes. They had three kids – brown eyes, green eyes, and blue eyes. That being said, Ronan looks a lot more like Sinatra than Allen.
The eye thing is actually a myth! The genetics are a lot more complicated. I was blown away in college when the prof told us all our high school bio teachers were wrong. 🙂
I know – now I cannot NOT see Sinatra in him.
Ronan is just so stunning, unearthly even. I would love to see him on TV. He’s witty, charming, and intelligent – yeah, I love him. 🙂
I know brown eyed people can have blue eyed children, but we were always taught that two blue eyed people could only have blue eyed children. Is that not true?
Also, if I didn’t think Ronan was Sinatra’s son, the photo of him smiling above is a dead ringer for Sinatra’s smile.
There’s a lot of recessive factors at work. Fiance’s dad has kind of hazel eyes, his mom has blue. His sister has blue eyes, and he has brown eyes with some green sectoral heterochromia. There’s no way he isn’t his father’s son.
My husband and I have brown and green eyes, and our youngest child has dark blue. Both grandfathers had blue eyes though…
I have brown eyes and produced an incredibly blue-eyed child. She’s also blonde even though both her parents have dark brow hair. Generics are complicated.
If Allen had the blue eye gene, he could still have brown eyes and father a blue eyed child, especially with someone who has blue eyes and thus would have only blue eye genes.
Still, I get your point.
RF’s tweet was the best response ever.
Both my parents have brown hair and brown eyes. So do I. My sister is a redhead with blue eyes but definitely a cross between my dad and my maternal grandmother (also a redhead). So the blue eyes/brown eyes doesn’t really mean anything.
His father is Frank. Now let’s move on…
Two brown eyed people can have a blue or green eyed child but two blue eyed people CAN NEVER have a brown eyed child. Brown is a dominant gene and blue is recessive gene. If both brown eyed people have a blue recessive gene and they get get together they child can have blue or green eyes. The blue and green gene is the same, it’s just the pigment that is different. That being said, HE IS FRANK’S son. I don’t care if Frank was 71 when he was conceied, he obviously still had it. He looks more like Frank than Frank, Jr.
Clearly I’ve been out of school for awhile LOL. Anyway, he looks exactly like Frank so case closed. 😉
My Dad had brown eyes; my Mom blue. I have 6 siblings: 4 with blue eyes; 3 with brown.
That second pic? I see more Sinatra than Farrow.
Yeah, he COULD be Woody’s son, if two recessive genes got passed on, but he LOOKS just like ol’ blue eyes. I never noticed it until Mia said it, now I see it all over his face! I hope they do a DNA test.
I agree that he’s Frank’s son – I mean he looks so much like him in that framed photo!
My mom has brown eyes, my dad has grayish-blue. Out of us six kids, four have bright blue, two have brown. Nothing unusual about Ronan’s eye color if dad has brown, mom has blue. I’m sure both he and Mia wish he was Frank’s son, but I doubt that’s the case. This is Mia’s payback for what in incorrigible pig Woody has been, but I sincerely doubt even she believes it to be true.
If, as @Samtha says, the dominant eye-color gene is a myth, why did Mr M make us mess with those gross fruit-fly larvae & breed the red-eyed ones w/the black-eye flies? He admitted he’d tell us “some temporary lies” involving complex stuff beyond our 7th-grade math & science. But if he had me knocking out flies to sort them by gender & eye-color (after the maggots grew up)–the truth behind that whopper had better be VERY complex.
Kid looks like a fair-haired cookie-cutter of the CoB–David Miscavige is so evil he even stole Sinatra’s moniker ;-). He also looks quite full of himself & his hotness, like our last presidential Rhodes Scholar. But that would be beyond cool…
Woody’s children with his now wife Soon Yi are cute enough and don’t really resemble him. I think he has weak… DNA? It’s not a scientific reason, but it works. The man is a walking recessive.
That said. Ronan is so amazingly hot I would swoon in his presences.
I believe those children with soon yi (spelling ?) are adopted,so they wouldn’t look like Woody anyway…
Oops. Triple answer!
His children with Soon Yi are adopted.
Woody’s kids with Soon-Yi are adopted so they wouldn’t look like either of them.
*edit* wow, we are all fast responders. 🙂
I think Woody is sterile and that’s why they adopted. Someone made a great point about Woody’s films being life imitating art and in Husband and Wives he and Mia play a couple ith fertility issues.
I think Mia got a donor, but it’s not Frank or Woody.
Google “Frank Sinatra Young” images.
There’s the answer!!!
Woody Allen is garbage.
How does anyone trust Woody around the adopted young daughters of his wife/partner? How could anyone not think it’s possible for history to repeat itself since he has shown he has no problem being sexually involved with girls who are not biologically related to him but are raised in a household with him as a parental figure? Ugh.
@marina actually two blue eyed people can produce a brown eyed offspring. It’s not common but it can and does happen. It’s way too complicated for a simpleton like me to explain but you can find out more here: http://genetics.thetech.org/how-blue-eyed-parents-can-have-brown-eyed-children.
Thank you! Go science! I shudder to think of how many women may have been vilified due to the blue eyed peeps can’t have brown eyed babies myth before the days of genetic testing.
This. My niece has brown eyes, her husband has hazel eyes, and their daughter has bright blue eyes. She also has two grandmothers with blue eyes. Punnet square ahoy!
Their son has brown eyes, BTW.
That said, there’s no way Ronan is Allen’s kid. He may be Frank’s (I think he is) but Allen definitely would have hit him with the ugly stick, er, genes, and Ronan is a beauty. His facial Punnet square may have obviated the defective Allen alleles, but I doubt it.
The Middletons are the currently most visible example that it does happen indeed.
Both Ma and Pa have blue/grey eyes, but Pips has brown eyes.
P.S.
“Go science! I shudder to think of how many women may have been vilified due to the blue eyed peeps can’t have brown eyed babies myth before the days of genetic testing. ”
Yes, but it was precisely “science” that was responsible for those vilifications. People actually knew better. Then science came along…
He looks like Mathew Crawley.
yes, I can see that a little! Also like former NYC Ballet dancer, now director Peter Martins
And a bit like Farm Boy/Dread Pirate Roberts/Wesley.
Scroll down and look at Frank as a child. A blind man could see the similarities.
http://bernardibeautyblog.com/man-of-style-frank-sinatra/
Barbara is probably afraid that if proven,he might be entitled to some of Frank Sinatra’s fortune. Why not do the DNA test? Can Ronan sing too?
In some of those photos there is a strong and uncanny resemblance to Frank Sinatra. As for Barbara Sinatra, she has proven herself long ago to be greedy and manipulative, only out for money to siphon to her son. The will has long been settled. I don’t know what she’s so worried about.
There is no way that homely little troll Woody Allen looks anything like Ronan.
Even the blind can see that this is Sinatra’s kid.
What Sabrine said. Barbara Sinatra was a Vegas showgirl who slept her way to Zeppo? Marx, then Sinatra. She tried to get Sinatra to adopt her adult son so he would get some of Sinatra’s money. So her veracity on this is about the same as mine when talking about nuclear fission/fusion.
all of Frank’s kids (Nancy, Frank Jr. Tina) all HATE Barbara and have totally cut her off. And they’ve hated her for years. It’s telling that the 3 of them are closer to Mia and her family than to their last gold digger stepmother.
For Barbara its all about the money. She doesn’t want to have to share with another heir and is still trying to get more money for her own son (frank’s stepson)
Nancy and Mia came from the same generation of Hollywood children. There’s a natural connection that goes way back. Little Princesses all – they got each others’ backs.
yes, apparently he CAN sing! The Vanity Fair article from years back is so compelling, I reread it last night and highly recommend y’all look it up. It has many observations from people close to the family about Woody’s relationships with Mia’s kids including Soon-Yi. The family tutor had much to say about young Soon-Yi.
Where can I find that article?
Its easy to make Barbara out to be some has-been gold digger in a state of denial about this, but that is not the whole truth. Her marriage to Zeppo was full of misery due to his depression, sharp tongue and substance abuse. She didnt trade up with Frank he just persistently swept her off her feet. She cheated, which was all kinds of wrong but she was loyal and completely devoted to Frank for decades. Franks kids openly despised her and always wanted their parents to reconcile. They liked Mia because when she married Frank she was nearly their age! They thought she was groovy, lol.
If this is Frank’s son let us all be glad that he seems to have his mom’s personality. Frank was a violent, disturbed, complicated man – historical romanticizing has given him the swaggering rat packer/tender crooner mystique that his songs personified. But ol’ blue eyes was a nasty piece of work. Rat pack? More like rat bastard.
If Sinatra knew about Ronan, he probably left him something. Even if he didn’t, I think the gene contribution is legacy enough, considering the alternative. Barbara’s gold-digger nut wouldn’t be affected anyway.
Ronan doesn’t need money, anyway, as he’s been an international human rights advisor since he was, like, 16. Plus he’s been a lawyer since he was 19 or 20. He’s fine.
ronan’s twitter is a gift from god. i love him.
Ronan’s lips are a gift from God. Talk about bee-stung!!
Lovely lips. Making me feel all funny inside.
I would really like to meet him, pretty please. Sorry, did I say meet? I meant, I would like to *marry* him, pretty please.
Don’t care who his father is.
hahaha this!
Whoever his dad is (and I am in the Sinatra over Allen camp), he’s gorgeous. But have I read that he’s gay?
Just went and googled. Data Lounge thinks he is.
I don’t care if he’s straight, gay, bisexual, whatever- if I could kiss those lips every night before I go to sleep, my life would be complete.
I don’t either, nono. It’s just that every man I find hot turns out to be gay. So I don’t even have a shot in my fantasies. (I’m a terrible fantasizer.)
Data Lounge thinks every hot guy is gay.
Haha, but you should! I mean if it’s Allen you have to deal with him as a father in law 😉
Farrow has no contact with Allen, so the father-in-law thing is moot.
Ronan has the best response. Roll your eyes, make light of it and move on.
He’s always dealing with things so well… How he dealt with Father’s Day… or Brother-in-Law Day. And how Soon was adopted and married his dad, but she’s still a sister in his eyes. Man has Grace coming out of his ears!
Agreed! A lovely man and definitely Old Blue Eyes!
I didn’t know he still acknowledged Soon-Yi as his sister. That’s pretty cool considering her own parents consider her dead, or never born.
That’s waht I don’t like in this situation–Mia and Andre considering her “dead”. If what I’ve heard is true, that Soon Yi is a little “slow”/has developmental mental issues, then why on earth would they blame her? If anything, because of her age (18!!!!), I would’ve put everything on Woody. He was the adult in the situation–not her, especially if it was true that the relationship started when she was underage i.e statutory rape.
So I don’t understand why Mia hates her so much–if anything she should feel sorry for her.
@Virgilia Coriolanus: she was not 18, but 22. So older than M.Farrow when she married Sinatra
also not “slow”.. she’s college educated.
@Dap
From what I’ve heard she was 18 when they got together (were caught together) and got married at 22….
Actually Mia Farrow found out about Allen and Soon Yi when she went to his apartment and found Polaroids of a naked Soon Yi on the mantle. Nice. Yeah, Allen isn’t a filthy old man AT ALL.
@Virgilia Coriolanus: Nope. 22 when they got caught together, 27 when they married. Check wikipedia, if you care.
Hey Barbara, denial is not just a river…
He’s a beautiful man, and I would totally watch his show.
Apparently this is the same wife that had to beg for Frank to remove a nude portrait of mia from their bedroom so……there may be some jealousy issues still lingering. Nancy’s statement and Ronan’s blue eyes says it all for me.
Ok, I don’t know if that is a ‘just jealous’ response. I wouldn’t want a nude portrait of my husbands ex wife hanging in our bedroom. :/
Hahahahah oh it was definitely strange!
Wow. I’m starting to really believe it.
Ugh. That just makes me more disgusted with how disrespectful Frank Sinatra was then anything else. And I think if it was Ava Gardener (his second wife) she would’ve have broken that picture over her knee without asking him anything, lmao. My kind of lady!
Seriously.
People are praising Frank, but come on, he was an asshole and emotionally abusive (in a ‘I’m a man so I can do whatever, little lady will endure) way.
And is it a surprise that Barbara is not exactly happy about everyone being gleeful and hoping that her husband totally cheated on her with his ex?
he’s the full package. really really really my type.
I don’t get the attraction to this guy. To me, he always have this creepy kind of stare (ie. last pic).
Agreed. Granted, he’s brilliant, which is great, but he looks a little serial-killeresque/psychopathish to me.
More douche-y to me, but either way I also don’t find him attractive at all. I don’t know anything about his intelligence or work, but the two tweets I’ve seen of his here, about Father’s Day and Frank Sinatra, seem cheap and easy.
+1. I think he looks just like his mother, not Frank or Woody.
I don’t understand the swooning either. Because he’s smart and pretty?!? So are lots of people. We’ll have to wait to see how he actually turns out once the prodigy label gets worn down to illegibility.
I think he’s been too influenced by his mother’s version of events, which has some major holes in it even though I know folks love to despise Woody (who is smart but not pretty). He would be wiser to avoid commenting about his family troubles in public, he just hasn’t lived long enough to see that things are always more complicated than it seems as a kid. I remember Ronan complaining in an interview about Woody not giving him a bunch of money for school (might have been grad school if not college, some place with a very fancy price tag). I cut off my loser father when quite young too, but it never would have even occurred to me to hit him up for even the price of a stamp. Done is done. The price of going your own way is lack of access to the wallet. So that puzzled me about Ronan, he might be more resentful of the money issue than he would like to appear. I thought at the time with the details in front of me that it was inappropriate to expect what he was asking, considering he has nothing to do with the guy and he was an adult. If Ronan knew that old Blue Eyes was really his sperm donor by the time of the interview, makes even less sense.
I’m sorry, he looks EXACTLY like Frank Sinatra to me. Look at that close up photo; the one he is pointing to. THAT, my friends, is Frank’s doppelgänger. And amen to that! *Woody Allen, shivers*
Yep, first thing I thought when I saw his pic next to Sinatra’s, the resemblance was uncanny. Those piercing blue eyes are mesmerizing. No way could a little nasty toad like Woody produce this.
It’s not just his looks, but his mannerisms. The portrait and the way he’s pointing at it are particularly uncanny resemblances. Barbara is only worried about the money.
Christin: Exactly. And that smile in the photos above!
I agree. I’ve been a fan of Frank Sinatra’s for a long time, and have followed him from his youth to his old age. This is his son. You simply can’t deny it. They look SO MUCH alike.
The trolling was a success! We are still talking about him.
Didn’t Frank’s children not have a good relationship with their stepmother Barbara? Maybe the children knew about Ronan being a sibling and chose to keep it a secret?
This. They’ve always had a contentious relationship with her. She was a gold digger and not nice to his kids.
Or maybe they know he’s not really a sibling but they like that the speculation hurts their stepmother. There was a woman who claimed to be Franks illegitimate daughter from way back and his kids refused to even explore the possibility.
That woman is trying to use this latest situation to her advantage. She’s hoping Ronan will pursue paternity so then she will have a claim as well. That may have something to do with his response.
This is what I’m thinking, too. It’s interesting to see how this story is playing out.
Frank’s kids hate Barbara. I agree that they might be just enjoying embarrassing her.
+1
He is gorgeous and smart… the best of both worlds. I would so watch his show.
+1
Hm…
“Barbara was married to American film star Zeppo Marx when they first met and in her telling, it was Sinatra, then in his mid-50s, who initiated their long-term affair…
Of Sinatra’s notorious reputation as a womaniser, Barbara says she took the advice of her Palm Springs neighbour, Lee Annenberg, and ‘looked the other way’.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1392767/Obsessive-Frank-Sinatra-took-12-showers-day-smelled-lavender-reveals-widow.html#ixzz2glW6TTsa
Kind of sounds like Frank Sinatra did what and who he wanted, when he wanted to. His wife didn’t really have much say.
Bleeding shit I want to ravage him.
Hahahaha
Oh my gosh, Ronan is sooo incredibly beautiful! And not typical beautiful, he’s INTERESTING beautiful.
He doesnt look like sinatra, he just doesnt look like Woody which is why people are so ready to believe he is sinatras, that and the fact that people hate woody. Come to think of it he is far too beautiful to be sinatras son too, frank was no looker. The only one he really looks like is his mom who was gorgeous as a young woman.
Why would he not want a DNA test though?
It is so obvious. I mean look at him.
Ronan is a fantastic combination of both Mia & Frank… Like WOW…
*fans face*
So why didn’t Mia tell the courts that Frank was his dad when she was going through the custody case with Woody? If Frank was willing to have someone kill Woody for Mia don’t you think he would have been happy to have his son acknowledged as his rather than possibly have custody of his son given to Woody? If Frank really is Ronan’s dad that is….
I have wondered the same thing, someone. It would have been the ultimate slam on Woody to tell him the son he thought was his wasn’t. Reading your post, I wondered if she didn’t say anything because Sinatra knew and didn’t want her to?
Psst, it’s all calculated for maximum exposure for Ronan’s new show. Don’t tell anyone. They get to have it both ways, by qualifying with “possibly”.
Saw that the other day, kiddo. Explains the timing. But you sound so sour about this.
I keep coming back to the possibility that Woody was unable to have biological kids so Mia had to find a sperm donor. It just seems so unlikely that Frank Sinatra would be who they’d turn to or that he’d agree to it. Wouldn’t they just go to a sperm bank? No way was Mia cheating on Woody. She was obsessed with Woody – she wouldn’t have taken that chance and lost her position as his main muse.
I was thinking the same thing too. Whether true or not, this is is a PR move for attention to his new show.
Mia brought this up in an interview that was done quite some time before the possibility of a talk show with MSNBC even came up. From what I’ve read and seen, Ronan just doesn’t work that way. Their family situation may be crazy, but these people are not the Kardashians.
read the Vanity Fair article written about the end of their relationship. Very interesting and a lot of insight.
I reread that Vanity Fair article and it only reinforced to me that Mia was heavily under Woody’s thumb and there is no way she would have cheated on Woody with Frank and had his child.
Where can I find this article?
SageM : http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1992/11/farrow199211
Replying here as it din’t let me reply directly, but thank you for the link, that was a very good read indeed!
Excellent point!
I googled this guy after the last post. People were quoting bible portions on some sites I visited & are convinced he’s the antichrist
Really? Woah!
All that means is he has liberal politics. That’s all it takes in this country to be accused of worshiping the devil by some nuts. Don’t you know God’s on the Republican’s side?
Sounds like they watched Rosemary’s Baby too often.
I was just watching Sinatra last night. Ronan totally looks like him. I’ve always looked at pictures of Ronan searching for hints of Woody Allen with no luck. Also, just looked up heights. Ronan is 5’10”, Frank 5’8″ and Woody 5’5″.
Ha! I love his twitter response. Good sense of humour. He’s a brilliant and accomplished young man. His mom should be proud!
Ronan the Humanitarian
He needs to do a project with Angelina.
More like make babies with Angelina. They would be breathtaking.
he’s got a cereal killer look to me
It’s very bad to kill cereal, especially corn pops.
Sorry, had too 🙂
What? He likes eating cereal?
God he’s pretty.
MSNBC, listen up! Many potential viewers out here AWAIT Ronan Farrow’s show!
Bring it on!
Go Ronan!
Y’all. No need to call Maury here. Woody is NOT the father.
Ronan is too good for MSNBC.
Especially if he’s straight.
He may be a genius, but there are still one thing or two is mummy should explain him about human reproduction because no, we can’t all possibly Sinatra’s children
Second picture after the jump– Am I crazy or is that the actress from Orange is the New Black?
Genetics is an interesting and very complex thing and it shakes out with a LOT of variables. Despite his resemblance to Sinatra, he still looks far more like Mia’s family – actually spitting image. It’s still quite possible that he’s Woody’s kid.
There’s a lot of hate for Barbara (Marx) Sinatra here as well. I’ve been told that she’s completely lovely and was mad about Frank. Frank however, was on occasion, wildly abusive – as he was to all his wives.
I take no stock in anything Nancy Sinatra says. She’s a serious and bitter piece of work.
As for Barbara wanting her adult son in the will, it’s not at all uncommon among people that wealthy to ask for something for their children from the earlier marriages – not anything close to what the bio kids would get either. Despite being a Marx brother, Zeppo left very little.
Very true. No need to slutshame Barbara just because she used to be a showgirl. She wanted financial security for her son, not millions. Frank agreed but had to reverse because his kids went batshit crazy when they heard.
The winners get to write history and Sinatra’s kids were spoiled, manipulative, vicious brats. Barbara was no angel but she was a good mother and a loyal, protective wife to that abusive, violent, misogynist husband of hers.
wow, woody allen is 77????
Dang he is fine! I would watch his show too. He is so beautiful. Beautiful face and brain, so obviously Mia’s child. As for the blue eyes…this paper does not understand biology AT ALL.
Not that it matters, but I always thought he was gay and a lot of sites say he is.
Two things here:
1. The fact a man didn’t tell his wife about a possible illegitimate child is not a great surprise.
2. Isn’t there a rumour that Jackie Collins based her character ‘Susan’ in the Lucky Santangelo books (married to a star who left no money so married for money and tried to get her children in the will) on Barbara Sinatra? The character was a total bitch btw.
Ugh I dont know people are celebrating the possiblty of him being sinatras son from all I have heard he wasn’t the nicest man either. Also find farrows revelations trashy , i mean he is “possibly” his son? If you dont know the paternity of your child dont speculate in the media. if this was say a kardashian people would trash her and call her our for sleeping with other men during a marriage. I have always like Mia but this was trashy and makes me wonder what she is like besides her wonderful humanitarian efforts I feel bad for her son that has to find himself in the Kerry springer show.
I posted yesterday that I thought public speculation on paternity of one’s own child is pretty despicable. I hate that she waited until Sinatra is dead, and his widow is forced to deal with the issue. As pointed out above, I find it hard to believe that Mia kept this a secret when fighting for custody against the legal father, who she accused of molestation. She would have been shouting it from the roof tops.
It’s not quite as bad, but Barbara Walters waited until an old lover was dead to write a book bragging about how they had an affair while he was married. The man’s widow is left having to field the questions. I thought it was a total bitch move.
People can do good in certain aspects of their lives and do harm or at least stupid in other aspects. I think there’s a lot wrong with Mia, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t also do good things. People are always a mixed bag.
My gut would say he’s Woody’s, if only because I think a Farrow/Allen child has a much greater chance of being a crazy genius than a Farrow/Sinatra child.
Yes, I would bet money that it’s Woody’s before Frank’s. I don’t think he’s either though.
So several years ago I bought the book written by Mia Farrow’s nanny on remainder for $2. Basically it was Mia’s book and the nanny was presenting Mia Farrow’s side of the story. I don’t think Mia Farrow wrote it, but she must have given it her okay – there arre a ton of photos in the book supplied by her.
In the book, the nanny speculates about one of the revelations that came out during the 1992 scandal – basically, that Mia Farrow and Woody Allen hadn’t had sex for the last five years of their relationship. The nanny wrote that she never saw Mia and Woody kiss or hug each other in years that she was working for them – not even once.
So if Mia and Woody weren’t having sex anymore, and Mia was 41 and wanted one more baby before she couldn’t have any more…yeah, she might turn to her ex-husband for help. (I actually know of one divorced couple that temporarily reconciled specifically for that reason.)
And if there was absolutely no sex going on between Mia and Woody by that stage of things, then there would be NO NEED for a DNA test.
That would explain why Ronan was welcomed with open arms by the Sinatra family…even without a test.
I really hope he is Franks son, the only picture that leaves doubt is the third one down. His gesture to his photo is a classic Woody pose, it could be Woody Allen there with Ronan’s head on top.
Can we have daily pictures of Ronan from now on?
THIS! I love looking at him.
He looks just like Sinatra. Omg.
i totally understand why everyone wants as much distance from wood-yi as possible. but i think there are too many holes in the story. and he looks totally like his mom. if it comforts ronan to think that pervy dad/bro in law has no shared genetic material, then i think a little fantasy is fine. but i think mia wants to eff with wood – yi and barbara jr likes to eff with barbara. prior to frank and mia’s marriage, mia and nancy jr were very good friends.
One oddity mentioned by other posters as a plus is that he still considers Soon-Yi as his sister. I’m sure he does because she is- but if you do the math, there is a huge age gap between them. Their overlap in the family was slight at best – he was a tiny kid at most the last time she lived in the same home with him. Maybe he got to know her when visiting Woody in his younger days? But they otherwise didn’t have much in the way of shared memories. His spin on her might also be through his mother. He always struck me as Mia’s golden child, though, so his experiences with mom may have been significantly different from his siblings. Rumblings from her other adult children who aren’t on good terms with Mia suggest she’s okay if you do as expected but not if you deviate from her plan. Hence her basically saying Soon-Yi is dead to her while at the same time trying to paint the situation as poor gullible slow Soon-Yi manipulated by Woody the Demon. Maybe the real problem is that Soon-Yi was neither gullible nor slow and made a conscious decision to do what she did (including placing the nude pic where she knew Mia would see it while picking up a kid). It’s obviously a major strain when your adult daughter decides to hook up with your ex, even in Hollywood. But I wonder how well Mia ever bonded with Soon-Yi if she could toss her completely away like that.
Re: eye color, come on folks, it’s elementary biology. You have two genes for every trait – you get one from each parent, so brown eyes, which are dominant, can be a set of brown-brown genes (one brown fom each parent) or brown-blue (if one of the parent’s has recessive blue as part of their brown-eyes duo). So Woody has brown eyes. We do not know if his combo is brown-brown or brown-blue (or brown-green, etc). All these combos would create brown eyes. So, if he had a blue recessive and gave it to Rowan, Rowan would have blue eyes. BTW, green is the most recessive, so to get green, you need to get one recessive green from each parent. Blue could be a result of blue-blue or blue-green as blue is dominant over green.
He looks nothing like Woody (luckily), but I can definitely see a resemblance to Sinatra.
I don’t need a DNA test because he has passed the “two eyes in my face” test. Look up Frank’s early mugshot and compare it with the photo Ronan is posing with. Twinsies. When Ronan was younger his face was so full and baby-faced he looked just like Mia.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg/tsg/release/sites/default/files/imagecache/670xX/photos/sinatramug1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/celebrity/music/frank-sinatra&h=523&w=665&sz=178&tbnid=jwr8g1weK1AFxM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=124&zoom=1&usg=__9vKVAAdX_NxNq6BM3IgPzHe6aIU=&docid=-xXpEsoUIA75HM&sa=X&ei=UyFPUuG8PKy7jAKUvoGQDA&ved=0CDAQ9QEwAA
A nicer, genius Frank Sinatra – Ol’ Blue Eyes in the flesh. SWOON! Thank you from everybody for producing this gorgeous guy, Frank, you ole rascal. It’s completely obvious he’s Frank’s son.
I think it’s funny how Barbara is so adamant about something that she knows absolutely nothing about, when Ronan doesn’t even want any money from the witch. She needs to just shut up now.
Am I the only one who thinks he’s terrifying? I would cross the street to avoid getting within a few feet of his crazy eyes. Him and Bradley Cooper–you’ll get no competition from me!
He looks more like Steve McQueen’s kid to me:
h t t p : //movies.mxdwn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/steve-mcqueen.jpg
Woody Allen is a pig, but Mia Farrow is still treife. They’re both disgusting, and should never have been permitted to raise children, regardless of their wealth.
And no, Flim, he has crazy in the eyes, fer sher.
If I could translate/compare his beauty, I would say he is the male version of La Jolie: big lips, big eyes, striking beauty!
My husband has Sinatra’s CDs. I looked at his face on the different covers, and at Ronan’s face. There definitely is a resemblance.
Just for the heck of it, I googled Andre Previn, another of Farrow’s lovers. Ronan’s nose is *exactly* like Previns, imo. Curious.
Wow. You may actually have something there. His lips and ears are much more like Previn’s too. If I were Ronan, I would prefer Previn as a dad, to the other two.
I think he’s old blue eyes son. Look at a photo of Frank Sinatra Jr as a young man. He and Ronan look like brothers, especially the cute top lip. There’s no way Woody Allen was bio dad.
I can see a huge resemblance between Frank and Ronan. Lucky guy! Check out the pictures of Frank and Ronan side by side! Google the pictures!
It isn’t just the eye color, it is the characteristics of the eyes, the gaze also the shape of the face. It’s Frank’s son…..case closed. Woody is scum anyway. Who’d want to be his kid?
I just think it looks classless to glibly fan the flames of speculation, rumor, and controversy about your own child’s paternity in a national magazine. I think Mia should have taken a paternity test and been sure about who his father was before bringing it up at all.
Exactly-Frank may be gone, but the possible sibs should be able to supply genetic material to confirm. No, I’m not a geneticist; but I’m pretty sure that the technology has come that far by now.
This is just so obviously true. LOOK AT HIM!
Ronana looks so much like Angelina Jolie – wonder if Jon Voight could be the father?
http://www.biography.com/imported/images/Biography/Images/Profiles/V/Jon-Voight-9520019-1-402.jpg
I wrote in this thread that I think he is the male version of La Jolie! (Comment #50)
I love that response! Based on his looks, he definitely looks like a mix of Mia and Frank. He looks NOTHING like WOody
It’s the eyes. Look at his eyes and tell me Frank Sinatra is not his father. Those aren’t just blue eyes – they’re Ol’ Blue Eyes’s blue eyes.
I think Woody and Mia are both high-functioning sickos; I can’t stand either one of them. But Ronan appears to be a gifted and funny writer. Maybe he got Mia’s looks and Woody’s brains.
Hot sexy ok yeah Ronan whatever you say, can i buy you a drink?
Come to think of it, Sinatra would make me want to say that, not Woody…
Anyone who has eyes can tell that yes, he is definitely Sinatra’s kid. If you asked any person to imagine what would happen if Sinatra and Farrow had a baby, they would picture a kid who looks exactly like Ronan because he looks like Sinatra with Farrow’s hair and jawline. He looks more like Frank than Frank Jr.
I don’t know….but he truly does look like Old Blue Eyes. Look at their facial structures, almost identical. From the top of the forehead to the chin. they even have that same gaze and smile. Yup Woody’s wood did not carve this handsome man.
Eye color is determined by more than ONE gene. That said, he looks like Frank.
I say Marlon Brando is the father of this luscious young lass.
Look here:
http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/marlon-brando/images/30617129/title/marlon-photo?card
Blood may be thicker than water, but money is waaay thicker than blood. Right Mrs. Sinatra?
Regardless of who his father may or may not be, he looks like a spitting image of his mom…
Agreed! He’s definitely Mia’s son!
It’s sooooo obvious that he is Frank’s child…if you look at Frank Jr’s photos and his son’s photos you can certainly see the resemblance. Just don’t get why Mia is coming out now with this information…maybe guilt?
By the way Ronan is very handsome!