Back in 2013, Vanity Fair published a lengthy interview with Mia Farrow and some of her children. The VF story caused a stir for many different reasons, but let’s just focus on the part about Ronan Farrow’s paternity. Ronan apparently believed that Woody Allen was his biological father for much of his life. But! Mia told VF that at the time she conceived Ronan, she was not just sleeping with Woody, but she was also fooling around with her ex-husband Frank Sinatra. As in, Ol’ Blue Eyes could have been Ronan’s biological father.
Frank’s widow said it was a bunch of crap and Ronan barely talked about it beyond saying it was a “ridiculous situation.” It doesn’t seem like Ronan ever got a paternity test or anything, so we really don’t know. But now Roger Friedman of Showbiz 411 spoke to Frank’s daughter Tina Sinatra and Tina says that Frank could not have fathered any child at that point because Frank had a vasectomy. Huh.
Ronan Farrow isn’t Frank Sinatra’s son. Tina Sinatra laughed when I asked if Mia Farrow’s son Ronan (with Woody Allen) was her brother. Mia let that slip in November 2013 and the rumor caught fire.
“Couldn’t be,” Tina told me. “Frank had a vasectomy before that. I don’t know whose son Ronan is.”
Mia Farrow had been invited to the dinner but was a no-show. Tina added that Ronan looks “just like Mia’s late brother.”
I think Ronan does look a lot like the Farrow side of the family no matter what. I’ve always been doubtful of his alleged biological connection to Woody Allen because even with those strong Farrow genes, you would expect to see something of Woody Allen’s genes in there, but there’s nothing. Does it follow that Ronan is Frank Sinatra’s son, come hell or high water? Eh. There could be a mystery third potential baby-daddy in the mix too. Maybe Mia was banging her other ex-husband, André Previn? Why not?
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Vasectomies do not always work, I know of quite a few babies born after the procedure. Just saying. Of course, if he wanted Ronan could always do the DNA test just to be sure.
And find out that he’s 100% Woody’s kid? I’d rather not know and have an ounce of hope.
Not that someone with Woody’s looks could have fathered someone with this guy’s face… but you never know.
He won the genetic lottery by not looking like Allen. That’s creepy that he wears contacts. Makes me not like him.
Wait he wears colored contacts?????
Dani
It’s been said he wears contacts that are tinted white to lighten his blue eyes.
For me the shape of his lids surrounding eye features and his nose are the same as Franks.
He looks like Mia, and he does have at least one feature in common with woody, which is body type: very short and small/thin. Frank had distinctive facial features that you don’t see in Ronan. My guess is that he has had a DNA test, but believes the rumors and controversy fuel his fame.
Yeah 97% efficacy. I just saw the chart at my doctor on Monday. I am surprised.
I had a friend whose husband had a vasectomy and then she got pregnant. It almost ruined their marriage because he didn’t think there was any way he could be the father. DNA test proved he was. Somehow they got past the mistrust.
It probably would have been less then. Now they cauterize where they cut to decrease the chance of reconnection, but I don’t think they took that step back then. They would have just cut and knotted them off. Not that I’m conspiring. Just adding the conversation.
This is making me super paranoid, my husband is getting a vasectomy. Do not want another baby lol
Me too! Mine just had his last week!
I am at a loss after reading this, but I’m not going to panic. There are different types of vasectomies. My husband had a vasectomy a few years ago and his procedure not only severed the vasa deferentia but cauterized the ends as well, so there’s no chance of them reconnecting and growing back together. Whew!
Make sure they cauterize the vas deferens instead of just tying the end in knots. It’ll be fine.
Make sure he goes in for the follow up appointment. My friends husband didn’t, it grew back and she got knocked up… and divorced
Was getting ready to post this. First of all. I don’t put it past ol Frankie to have lied to the old lady and familia – and TOLD her & them he got a vasectomy while never making the appointment. That’s not something Italian guys of a certain era would be too keen on. ..especially Frank. ..and even on the outside chance he did…as you say…they don’t always work…or…you can get them reversed.
My guess is Mia wasn’t just sleeping with Frank to get off – she WANTED to have HIS baby since perv was shooting blanks..or not at all (since we know she was well out of woody’s typical age range for partners)…she was a woman of a certain age who wanted one last bio kid and to have a baby lickety….creepy woody wasn’t getting the job done…to busy perving on teens and kids maybe?
Lastly..didn’t Nancy Sinatra..Tina’s sister, already imply Ronan WAS Frank’s son?
Exactly!!! There is zero chance and italian american catholic man of his era had a vasectomy, but claiming posthumously that Frank had is perhaps a way of saving face or maybe damping down interest. The whole family could have known of the paternoty all along and are fine with it and just dont put it out there for public consumption.
Yup! If she’s so sure about it, show me the medical record!
Agree.. No way Woody Allen is this man’s father!
Yep! My sister got pregnant two years after her husband’s vasectomy. They almost got divorced over it, because he didn’t believe the baby was his until the paternity test.
The boy looks like Frank Sinatra.
He just does.
No one ever said he looked like Frank before Mia claimed he was her father. He looks like Mia and her father John.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=john+farrow&go=Submit&qs=ds&form=QBIR#view=detail&id=2EFA01ACF760D563541B5DE698E9FF5E2E98B48E&selectedIndex=9
wow…thanks cubfan34! Ronan does look just like Mia’s father…I had never seen a picture of him before…
Well since we know Mia couldn’t have slept with her “father john,” and didn’t clone herself…the only other alternative is woody Allen and OJ stands a better chance of being Romans father than him.
It’s no surprise you didn’t get people saying he looked like Frank for the simple reason people had no idea what Ronan even looked like. He’s been in school and working in the gov. He was not a celeb and in the public eye at all. No one really knew what any of Mia’s kids looked like. Did you know what Dylan Farrow looked like before calling Woody allen out as a child molester?
Ronan’s also still pretty young. He’s what? Mid 20s? When he was a boy and rarely in the public eye no one on a large scale would have been assuming his dad was frank sinatra…they didn’t know what he looked like.
People who had seen the child fairly often have always said he was a beautiful kid and looked nothing like woody.
Ronan looks like Mia’s father because Mia looks like Mia’s father and Ronan looks like his Mother…ya know…MIA. Lol What he does not look like is Woody Allen. He looks like Mia and Frank Sinatra had a baby. Lolol
People are so odd. It’s like when they say Shiloh looks like Jon Voight when Angelina, her mother, looks exactly like Jon Voight, her father, and has his identical bone structure. Yet strangely they’ll balk at saying Shiloh looks exactly like her mother. Which she does. Some Internet site took half of Voight’s face and half of Angie’s and superimposed them together and it looked exactly like either one of them. Shiloh does have Brad’s eyebrows and eye color though.
Cubfan34
There were a number of people saying he looked like Frank. Mia making this claim just brought it to mainstream. This wasn’t a new thought.
The nose for me still is the tie breaker. And while Mia’s father does have similar features they also have seperate features.
Why is there not a DNA test to end this? Especially is Tina is so sick of it she should put it to rest.
Well, now I’m just creeped out that she married Sinatra who looked just like her dad.
It’s easy to speculate. To me he looks like Peter Martins, who Mia certainly could have come in contact with through Andre Previn. Here’s Peter (much older now) http://www.danzaballet.com/peter-martins-receives-denmarks-highest-civilian-honor/
and here’s his son Nilas, who could be Ronan’s half brother: http://www.tonyaplank.com/2010/07/22/nilas-martins-quietly-retires-from-nycb/
He looks like Mia and her brothers , I have seen some photos of them on line from last years (her brother trial). Young Ronan should just get over his father issues and move on with his life. It is sad when children are put in the middle of family disfunction and for him unfortunately comes from the both sides of his parents. His eyes are brown and perhaps his personal style is reminiscent of Sinatra I doubt that there is any truth to that.
Ronan has said very little about his paternity. He apparently has no father issues to “get over.”
I came across a family pic of Mia’s and thought one of her sons by Andre Previn was Ronan, until I realized the ages are off. I think Ronan looks exactly like Mia and her father, as does Mia’s other son.
If you look at images of Andre Previn when he was young, you can see the same eyes and face shape.
To me he is the spitting image of a young Frank, no question. I had that impression the moment I saw him so I will still believe he’s Franks son.
Except his “blue eyes” are colored contacts. They are not just the kind that “enhance” the blueness of naturally blue eyes. They are white and light blue to make his eyes look very light “baby blue”. It looks really creepy and unnatural to me, but apparently it fools a lot of people.
Aren’t Ronan’s baby blues colored contact lenses? Didn’t he have a nose job? calculated attempt to look like Frank.
Yes! Definitely have heard he wears contacts.
YES! Look at this pic! http://www.lvz-online.de/nachrichten/vermischtes/ronan-farrow-wird-in-den-usa-zum-star/r-vermischtes-b-409159-0.html
Wow.
Thanks. I think he looks better with the hazel/green-ish eyes. The blue looks so fake, especially in these last photos, ick. It gives him that “serial killer” look that people say B Coop has, imo.
And I think he really resembles Mia. I think we can see the Frank if we want to see it, kinda like people think Prince Harry looks like that Hewitt guy (when all I see is Charles in Harry’s face).
Those are blue eyes, photographed in darker lighting making them appear grey.
Hazel/Green eyes would look even darker in that lighting. I have blue eyes, at times they looks as clear as Ronan’s (in the sun, or a brightly lit mirror) – at other times they photograph a dark grey, as his do in the picture linked.
Ronan’s old nose WAS Sinatras nose!
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Ronan+Farrow+Frank+Sinatra&Form=IQFRDR&id=B003D02AD73F9C55E1830C789B0E85818C3C8288&selectedIndex=0#view=detail&id=A13F50F041DF2B64FCAD8F3C24830703E868F3BE&selectedIndex=19
Yup. He wears contact lenses for the ‘blue eyes’ effect.
And IMO the boy looks like his mom and grandfather, John and Mia Farrow but this Sinatra claim is good for business I guess.
No, I believe he wears them because he has vision problems. They might make his eyes bluer but that isn’t the primary reason he’s wearing them. People seem to think this is some calculated deception on his part, which I don’t think is true.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/04/ronan-farrow-blue-eyes-colored-contacts
Tina thinks he looks like Mia’s brother? Considering John Villiers-Farrow’s criminal predilection, that’s a pretty gross comparison.
@Xazi – Huh? Mia’s brother is a pedophile?
Jegede — Here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478439/John-Villers-Farrow-Mia-Farrows-brother-jailed-sexually-abusing-2-boys.html
Here is another picture when he’s young –
http://news.moviefone.com/photos/mia-farrow-and-ronan-farrow#slide=1255584
Same nose and same eye color.
His baby picture – https://instagram.com/p/wzslvoH4DQ/
Eh, sorry but that baby pic could be photoshopped…the pic I posted was a super close up in natural light from 2006 and clearly shows he has hazel muted green eyes.
And yes, I do believe he has had a nose job.
Eye color does not change from hazel to pale blue….they even look fake, like Paris Hilton’s contact lenses.
Daisy, I wouldn’t go by the baby picture…My son had the bluest eyes when he was little and over time they have turned hazel….
From the same moviefone link –
http://news.moviefone.com/photos/mia-farrow-and-ronan-farrow#slide=1255583
Under nature light. Is this photo-shopped too by UNICEF?
Eyes color, especially if blue, changes a lot depending of the light
Well this settles it. He’s Frank’s for sure. I see it does look like he’s had a nose tweak…but the amazing thing to me is that he has Frank’s identical nose pre nose job. Look at that pic then look at Frank’s in that black and white pic up top. That pic of him as a teen. Frank is stamped all over him. Also..corrective contacts or no contacts….the guy has blue eyes honey. Don’t know why you’re so resistant. Lol
In the pic with his old nose, he looks EVEN more like Frank, than with his new nose. I mean, if you look at that one that Observer posted, with his old nose, and compare to Frank’s younger photos, I don’t know how anyone could miss the similarity there.
Those moviefone photos are convincing for the Sinatra link. The eyes etc are whatever….it is the bone structure, cheeks etc that convince me of the Frank connection. It is different to Mia’s and definately not Woody. Yes he is very much like Mia’s father, face shape is all Sinatra IMO.
Ronan really won the spin of the genetic wheel .
BS!
Ronan has had a nose job or two and wears blue contact lenses, he has hazel/muted green eyes.
I don’t think Sinatra is his father but I also don’t think Woody Allen is his father either.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTTG-cYw1UAuSaVs1Segf22-g8NsBhdcpxjkM_9fc344xZ9EJoc
And another even better pic! http://www.lvz-online.de/nachrichten/vermischtes/ronan-farrow-wird-in-den-usa-zum-star/r-vermischtes-b-409159-0.html
Wow, that before pic of him is SO different than how he looks now!! That is enough to sway me from thinking he’s Sinatra’s kid.
He looks like a young Andre Previn.
Agreed @Lilacflowers
I think he looks just like Sinatra in that second photo.
He looks more like Frank Sinatra than any other human on planet Earth I have ever seen. They have the same eyes, same mouth, very similar noses… And it just so happens that Sinatra had a relationship with this guys mother? Yeah, just a coincidence, yep.
The mouth is the same. Not similar. THE SAME.
Look at this pic of him from 2006! He looks completely different.
http://www.lvz-online.de/nachrichten/vermischtes/ronan-farrow-wird-in-den-usa-zum-star/r-vermischtes-b-409159-0.html
Still a dead ringer for Sinatra, more so with that nose. And his eyes look different in different light. You can see that in the top pic.
You have to look past the eye color, and look at the shape of his eyes, the sameness in their smiles and mouth in general. His original nose was Frank’s nose: who knew? The similarities are building.
I agree. Not going based on the color eyes. I see it in the shape of his eyes, brow bone, forehead, hairline, face shape etc.
Heck if we were just going on the color eye alone, then my own son could be frank Sinatra’s long lost semen sample.
But I’m taking everything into account. Including the fact that she alluded to having physical relations with him during that time.
#OriginalTess and girlinbayou
I’m with you two. I have no doubt he’s Sinatra’s kid (regardless of whether his eyes change color in different light–a ton of blue- and green-eyed people I know have eyes that do) (and regardless of the fact that he’s also the spitting image of his mom at times–his mom and Frank looked a lot alike too).
He looks so much like Frank! Same forehead, same nose (before Ronan had his changed) and same eyes (even if the color is different).
Please lady, the kid is literally a dead ringer for Frank.
Ronan must look in his mirror every morning and thank God and his mama that he didn’t get Woody Allen’s genetics all over him. There is NO WAY that somebody who looks like Allen could have fathered him.
Plus it seems odd that Allen was never able to get anyone pregnant and the one kid he does have looks like his partners ex…Hmmm.
I seem to remember Ronan and Mia playing it up for PR when his show was still on.
Not exactly the correct timeline. He got the show AFTER all this speculation came to the fore.
Do you really think Frank was talking to his daughter, and said, “by the way, I got a vasectomy the other day”…It could have been something Frank’s widow put out there, because she was embarrassed about the whole thing. I think, Ronan really looks like Mia, but I can still see “old blue eyes” in him! Or maybe, its just wishful thinking!! But I would bet the farm, Ronan is NOT Woody’s son…I don’t see a hint of WA in him…
I see it, too, and also thought that would be an odd father-daughter conversation.
This. And I also think all these “before” pics are a little bizarre. Posting pics of a pubescent boy and comparing him to today is just strange… besides that, he clearly looks the same!!! I have family members with those very blue eyes – in bright light they’re almost see-through but when shaded they look much darker. I don’t really care one way or the other whether he wears contacts or not. But trying to say someone’s had surgery based on a teenage pic of them is so weird.
I don’t think it’s weird at all…people don’t change that much from teen to mid twenties, face shape fair enough but nose shape…no. He has definitely had at least one nose job and clearly this pic shows his eyes are hazel/green and not bright blue, sorry but eye color does not change that much.
http://www.lvz-online.de/nachrichten/vermischtes/ronan-farrow-wird-in-den-usa-zum-star/r-vermischtes-b-409159-0.html
*sigh* Clearly I’m not going to convince you, just as your myriad links are not going to convince me. To my eyes, he looks like an adult version of the adolescent in the pictures – no different. And, yes, people’s faces do change. My own eyes went from light blue to bright green when I was a teenager. In the pics with Mia, their eyes look the same color, but we know Mia also has very blue eyes. So… IDK… I guess I need the receipts on this one.
I don’t think it’s strange to compare pics of the man when he was a teenager to what he looks like now. Mia Farrow opened all of this up for discussion. I assume she wanted us to discuss this, otherwise why randomly bring up something so private like this for public consumption?
Gigi, I agree with you. I have blue eyes like Ronan’s and I can confirm that in darker lighting they photograph a dark grey. In good lighting (outdoors, or professional lighting) they look super blue. Side note:I’ve always understood why Oprah travels with her own lighting source! But yeah, using a low resolution picture of blue eyes looking grey does not convince me in the slightest that Ronan wears contacts. In fact, when celebrities wear those contacts, there is a tell-take ring around the pupil that shows a bit of the natural color. Pupils dilate and contract in different lighting. The contact lenses cannot mimic that natural effect. So sometimes, especially in bright light when the pupil are contracted, the true color of the person’s iris would show in a small ring around the dark center.
With Ronan, in bright light, with contracted pupils, all you can see is more blue. He has blue eyes.
Yeah observer but I think what you’re trying to disprove with your pics actually proves he’s Frank’s even more so. All of the teen pre teen pics show him with an identical young frank sinatra face. You can just rule out Allen. I don’t think Farrow is the type to say something like that off the wall…i think she has too much integrity and is an honest person. Frank it is.
@Thinker – Yes! I wear non-colored (just regular “I’m completely blind without them”) contacts and you can still see the outline of the contact around my iris. Just for shits & giggles, I looked at a blown up pic of Ronan & I can’t see that line at all… who knows…
I agree, Gigi, his face looks the same to me, just older.
Eye color does change…I had blue eyes until my teens & now green eyes..
Maybe there were medical documents lying around in a safe somewhere that could be opened after he died.
Or, alternatively, I could see the vasectomy conversation coming up during a doctor’s appointment when a child accompanied him for some other illness and the doctor asked him whether he’s had any procedures done (that’s a standard question that is asked before they dispense with medications).
Just speculating. I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility that his kids could find out he had a vasectomy. As your parents get older, you do tend to find out about their health history because it’s a necessity to know in order to help them out if an emergency arises.
Perplexed, I agree with you. Maybe I just have a weirdly close relationship with my parents but I know a lot of their medical info and have since I was young. Boob jobs, vasectomy, hernias, etc. Some parents do share that info with their family, I’m just saying.
Both my kids know their dad had a vasectomy. Why would you hide it?
@velvet
I remember when I was 7/8 I asked my mom if she was going to have another baby (because me and my twin had been the youngest until she had two more within four years), and she flat out said no, she got fixed.
I agree — I’ve always had a very frank (ha! Frank) relationship with my dad and it doesn’t surprise me one bit to hear that a dad might tell his daughter he’s had a vasectomy.
I didn’t mean it was impossible that a father and daughter would have that conversation. It would be impossible in my family, and my father is FS’s generation, but everybody’s different. My father would never have said the word “vasectomy” in front of me. Silly, I know.
Ha, Granger, very Frank of you.
Contacts and nose job or not, unless the shape of Ronan’s eyes is also the result of some knife work, I’d buy it. Those slanted, hooded eyelids, man. They’re near-identical to those of Sinatra.
Hooded eyelids are the most common eyeshape in the world, yes, even for white people so it doesn’t really say much in this case.
Except the fact that Woody Allen nor Mia Farrow have them and Frank does. ..and you call yourself “observer?” Lol 😉
Also aside from the hooded eyes it’s actually that heavier brow bone too which is like Frank’s…. and the way the eyes sit in his head…giving him that intense look…which when he’s not smiling can look…slightly angry. It’s Frank’s head baby..
lol fair enough but I don’t think Woody is his father either, dun dun duuuunn….And I do believe that’s why they won’t do a DNA test. They’re having fun with the rumors though, especially Ronan.
Too bad we’re in the dark ages and DNA testing doesn’t exist. That would put an end to this for sure. Oh well. Guess technology hasn’t caught up with, whaa? DNA exists and its easily done? Get these people to the Maury Show stat!
But if he took a DNA test, everyone would lose the fun of playing “guess the dad” game! lol
This. If he is going for publicity, it’s in his very best interest not to have the question settled.
I agree with Tulip. I think the Farrow’s are hyping this up for publicity. For sure a man who “hates” the man who is supposedly his father would get a DNA test to find out who his real father is! Even someone who didn’t have extreme emotions about his father would get the test if his paternity was in question.
In the before picture, he looks nothing like Frank. But now after surgery, dead ringer. However he still looks just like the Farrows. I don’t think his dad is Woody Allen, but also I am not sure about Sinatra either.
Nope. For me he actually looks more like Frank before.the nose tweak. The noses were near identical. Look at one of his before shots and that B&W of Frank’s nose up top. Wow.
My guess is the kid thought his nose was more like a remnant of woody’s since it appears by his statements his mom had him in the dark.about his true parentage…and loathing him like he does he want to lessen what he thought was a nose closer to Allen’s. Except italians can have strong schnozs…and it was actually Frank’s he was streamlining not woody’s. Lol poor kid
The other picture is so old. People’s faces do change as they age. They like lose fat and become more angular. I don’t think he has had surgery to look like Frank.
I came here prepared to state that he looks more like FS than his known biological children, but a quick image search has caused me to pause.
Even though Mia, her father and Frank have similar features (particularly nose structure wise), the kink is that Ronan really did look much different just a few years ago. In one image, he is standing side by side with his mother, and he does look more like her father. I still don’t see Woody, though.
Ronan Farrow is getting more and more unnatural looking the more famous he becomes. Woody Allen may not be his father, but he does appear to have enhanced his looks to favor Ol’ Blue Eyes. He looked quiet different as a teenager- lips, nose, chin are all new. I think too his eyes are actually brown and not blue. One thing that makes him like Mia, Woody, and the gang- Ronan is kind of a strange duck, but that is okay.
I’ve always argued that he looks like the Farrows and been shot down for it. The fact that he is a deadringer for Mia circa her wedding photo with Frank is apparently not convincing enough.
I do think it’s creepy that old man Frank married a woman who sorta looked like him or as Ava Gardner said, he finally married a boy (paraphrasing), but i’ve never thought Ronan looked like Frank.
The blue eyes are contacts. Babies’ eye colour can change, i’ve never known anyone who’se eye colour changed from hazel to bright blue in adulthood, except Tiny and we know that was an operation. Boy wears contacts.
BTW, since Mia is throwing out ‘whose the famous daddy?’ game, how about Marlon Brando. Ronan has a superficial resemblance especially head/face shape and lips if you compare him to 50s Brando.
+1000000000
(I see Marlon Brando’s lips but that’s about it hmm)
I, too, think he looks just like Mia and that the Frank Sinatra resemblance is probably just happenstance.
But it is actually common for eye color to change throughout a person’s life. Mine did during puberty and in my mother’s family, several member’s dark brown eyes have lightened to very light hazel as they’ve gotten older.
And flash photography can do a lot. My eyes are (to me anyway) a dark green. But in some pictures with flash, they come out a creepy light green that looks supernatural. Also, I look like neither parent, so I can’t really talk about who he looks like.
Flash photography and lighting does effect the way eye color reads in a still photograph!!! I keep saying it, but I have blue eyes and they look super blue in daytime photos, or well lit photos, but if I’m standing in a shadow they are nondescript gray.
To prove my point I’m going to use a Cameron Diaz as an example here, because nobody can deny she has very blue, baby blues. Photography and lighting have advanced a lot since the 90s, but look at how Cameron’s eyes appeared a nondescript gray in The Mask: http://media.baselineresearch.com/images/75797/75797_full.jpg
Even here in a promotional/modeling picture, her eyes look dark blue or grey: https://sites.google.com/site/rozerarun/Cameron_Diaz_001_StarLight.jpg
A professional photographer could explain light diffusion better than I could, but natural iris colors can appear differently depending on a range of external factors. The fact there are a couple of dimly lit photos of a person with blue eyes looking like they have a darker shade, does not mean their natural eye color is dark!
I get what you are saying with eye colors changing depending on light but what I am saying is, in the pic I posted earlier, it is a high quality close up pic of his eyes and they are clearly hazel/greenish and not blue or grey. Like at all.
So how can hazel/greenish eyes go from that to pale blue? I’d agree with you if it was a low quality pic like in your example but it’s not.
His eyes in the pics posted on CB look super fake like Paris Hilton’s blue contact lenses, zoom in and you’ll see a brownish color near the pupil.
If I was Woody I would have a paternity test taken and if he wasn’t Ronan’s father sue to get back all the child support he paid. It’s nasty to lie about who fathered your child. It was mean to Barbara Sinatra to make such statement.
You would do that to someone you raised as your own child? Make him feel that all those years were wasted because he didn’t share your DNA? For something over which he had no control? That would be really cruel. I wouldn’t put it past Woody Allen, but I bet if you thought it through, you wouldn’t really do that to someone you loved.
He hasn’t had much contact with Ronan since he was very young. Ronan professes to hate him.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the real reason why he won’t get a dna test is because neither woody or frank is his father and he knows it.
I agree. I think it is more likely Mia went to a sperm bank (with Woody’s blessing) than asking Frank to do the job. She was 100% devoted to Woody in those days – no way did she cheat with Frank and just happen to get pregnant.
Girl, he lied. Dude is his doppelgänger.
One thing for sure Ronan looks nothing like Woody Allen. And if you morf Mia and Frank – that’s Ronan.
Either way, Ronan Farrow is super, super lucky. Even if Woody Allen is his dad, there is NO resemblance in the least. He is a very lucky dude.
Frank had a wandering dong, vasectomies aren’t foolproof, and it sounds like no one is willing to do a paternity test, and the Sinatras are super possessive over Frank’s legacy, so who knows?
People keep saying he got a nose job, but when I look at his recent pics I see a lot of make up and contouring.
I feel like if Frank actually was his father, Ronan would have gotten a DNA test to prove it. It seems to me like both Mia and Ronan know he isn’t his dad and they just like the speculation. I could be wrong though.
+1.
If Mia really had a case, or believed what she was randomly spewing to magazines, you just know she would have raised or hinted it during that very, very, ugly divorce/custody case from then where everything was put on the table.
I don’t who his Dad is, but as far as not looking like Woody, I have three daughters and the oldest and youngest look like a mix of their Dad and me, but the middle looks exactly like her Dad. I’m nowhere in her physical appearance, you would never know I was her Mom if you saw us together. Genetics ate a funny thing.
If they won’t opt for DNA test I suggest they do a reality show “Who’s the fahter?”
Some years ago I watched something similar. Just the young woman wasn’t sure if it was A, B OR C. I sort of get fooling with the ex but with a third one? And the egg is fertile for 72 hours only. Some busy social life…
I thought it was kinda tacky for Mia to insinuate/instigate questions over her kid’s paternity. I mean, after everything is said and done, I’m guessing that she’s wishing that she never crossed paths with Woody, but it’s tacky, and it’s going to follow Ronan around for the rest of his life. Every time someone googles him, people are going to see that his mother was talking about how she was sleeping with her exes while with his “bio” father/sperm donor. Not something I’d want to see.
I agree, and the way she treated Soon-Yi pretty much says it all.
Sorry. Unless Soon Yi is emotionally stunted and mentally handicapped as was rumored…then Mia going off on such an ungrateful scheming idiot who was into spreading her labial folds for Polaroid pics taken by her siblings father and her almost stepdaddy is an offense that should mean automatic banishment if she’s staying to be his receptacle. ….i mean what was Mia supposed to do..thank woody for grooming her teenage daughter to be his victim and c-bucket in between sniffling the lap of their 3 yr old daughter and getting therapy for that? Yeah…she should have just been chill and had woody and his ‘bride,’ (AKA ‘desperate damage control PR maneuver’ to not have his life destroyed and his legacy be known as sexual predator of young girls -oops too late!) over for Thanksgiving. Lol
@Boopybette
I was under the impression that something was “off” with Soon Yi. Like she is very smart/intelligent, but mentally she isn’t all there? Something to do with her life before she was adopted (like alcohol fetal syndrome, etc)? Don’t know if it’s true, just gossip I read. If that is true….UGH.
@Boopybette I’m referring specifically to the allegations/rumours/facts that Mia struck and broke a chair over her 19 year old daughter when she found out that Woody Allen was “in love” with Soon-Yi. Based on everything out there about what a disgusting creep Woody Allen is, I believe he abused and groomed Soon-Yi, and what she needed was her mother’s protection. If you think Mia acted in the best possible way, okay.
I’m with you on this one, Virgilia. When this came out I thought it was a crappy thing to do to a kid. What’s weird is this one doesn’t seem to mind.
Yea, that would NOT be something I would address to the media. I don’t get it. Is the attention/clicks THAT important? For his profile?
The timing was suspect as well. He was getting ready to launch his own show. What a way to generate publicity.
It is amazing that he doesn’t seem to care (at least publicly). If he is truly good friends with Nancy S., I would privately pursue a DNA test, if for nothing other than genetic based health reasons.
Then again, they may be trolling us.
Looks like Frank …that chin!
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Ronan+Farrow+Frank+Sinatra&Form=IQFRDR#view=detail&id=B003D02AD73F9C55E1830C789B0E85818C3C8288&selectedIndex=2
He doesnt look like Sinatra either. Its just the blue eyes that makes people say that. He just looks like a young Mia.
You don’t just inherit looks you inherit other less physical characteristics too.
Ronans got a great brain which i don’t think came from sinatra. I am not saying Allen is wise or or has any moral integrity. But his IQ is fairly high.
Yeah, I was wondering where he got his IQ from.
Can he sing?
I did look up pictures of Andre Previn, and I can see a physical resemblance to that guy too.
Anyway, I think these people are kind of strange in wanting all of us to speculate.
I strongly believe Woody Allen is sterile. He’s a very autobiographical director and writer, and male infertility is a topic he’s covered heavily.
I think when Ronan was conceived, Woody wanted to believe he was the father. As time has passed, I think it’s clear to everyone that Woody is not and was never. (Never a biological father, and never an emotional father or a paternal role model)
Ronan doesn’t owe anybody a DNA test. He was raised by a single mom, and I’m sure that whatever DNA would say about it really doesn’t change the way he views himself or his family.
I don’t think he owes anyone a DNA test, but I don’t get why Mia Farrow brought all of this up for public discussion. What was the point?
I think she hates Allen so much and she might have her reasons, but I wouldn’t bring my son into the mess.
There is many way to know if Allen is the father or even a Sinatra blood relative, but this is their business.
I honestly never got Mia/Woody’s relationship. From what I’ve read, it seems like he had nothing to do with the kids (except when he was molesting/child grooming a few of them), didn’t live with them, and seems to be completely neurotic/focused on himself (while churning out movies that clearly play out his issues with women)…..what was the attraction in getting with him? Especially after Sinatra, etc? Don’t get it.
Side note — does anyone else remember when he was a child, known as Satchel?
It’s a well known fact that most of Mia’s kids did well in school and we’re accomplished – if anything being the youngest Ronan was the beneficiary of their (his family’s) shared intellect and good study habits along with his own. I don’t know how you would know what Allen’s IQ is…he was not a successful stand up which requires a certain mental agility…and sorry his movies where he’s typically perving on some young girl aren’t particularly brilliant in my opinion either. He’s an acquired taste. Just because he *looks* like a nerdy Jewish accountant…all nebbishy and Einstein-ish…it’s a leap to say he’s the only one who was contributing to the IQ gene pool.
Although I’m sure all of Mia’s kids did well in school, and her side contributed as well, isn’t Ronan more than just intelligent? Isn’t he considered some kind of prodigy (i.e finished school at some miraculously young age?) — as in, way more advanced than the regular intelligent person? I’m just contributing to the discussion, not disputing anybody’s claims about what other people know or have insight on.
I don’t know what Allen’s IQ is, but since he’s generally referred to as intelligent, I just kind of assumed it wouldn’t be considered low. I’ve always thought of Sinatra as musically talented rather than intellectually intelligent.
I think Ronan looks like both Previn and Sinatra around the mouth. And I see mostly Mia in his face (i.e the eyes).
He is Allen baby, get over it. I don’t look like my father at all, it happens.
It definietly does happen.
But y’know anytime a boy does not look like his father. The idea that – *horror*- he may look like his mother or someone from his mother’s family is not sexy enough or fantastic enough so here we go……………
Its not JFK Jr looks like mama Jackie and her dad Black Jack Bouvier its “His real father was Gianni Agnelli” (Jackie must have flying to Europe to for trysts while then Senator Kennedy was still campaigning in Wisconsin)
Its not Prince Harry looks like mama Princess Di’s older sister Lady Sarah and her kids, its “His real father is James Hewitt” (even though they did not meet till years after his birth)
And on it goes.
You must be one of his sad adopted daughters with soon yi. Unless you’re blind as a bat…there’s no way in hades woody Allen is that man’s father. It’s Sinatra. Mia wouldn’t have said jack if it wasn’t.
Erm adopted daughter? What?
Simply because YOU have a pathalogical insistence that Ronan is Frank Sinatra’s son, does not warrant personal attack on other posters who completely disagree with you.
(And Mia saying it in a mag years after sans validity does not make it true. Even celebs spout BS esp when they have agendas)
Boopybette
Let’t not attack eachother for having a difference of opinion. Especially when it’s not outright offensive or seeking to offend another.
I don’t get that behavior.
Mia Farrow is as crazy as they get. Everyone rags on and make jokes about Angelina Jolie for adopting 3 kids but no one says squat about this psycho adopting over 20 kids. I don’t know who fathered Ronan but he clearly is his mom’s kid and, while highly intelligent, a little strange as well. The fact that Ronan is officially his third name is bizarre in itself. I think Woody named him Satchel and then she changed it to another name for revenge and finally settled on Ronan. She was pretty desperate for Allen to marry her and if he wasn’t getting her pregnant and he was not connecting to her kids, I wouldn’t put it past her to get herself pregnant somehow.
@Boopybette, you’ve gotten increasingly rude as this thread continues. I’m not sure why you’re so invested in your belief, but unless you’ve personally viewed a DNA test, you’re no more in the know than any of us.
The vasectomy explains it! They thought they had protection so they didn’t use any! Conspiracy doubledown!!!
Wow, so Mia cheated, if you were Ronan, wouldn’t you be annoyed at your mother not only cheated while she was pregnant with you but also can’t give you a definitive answer when you ask who your biological father is?
I wonder what he does for Father’s Day?
He releases hilarious tweets. I think the last father’s day was covered here. Something about Happy Father’s/Brother In Law’s Day.
The discussion was leaning towards how biology doesn’t make family. He grew up understanding Woody to be his father and Soon Yi his sister. Even though there’s been a disconnect he feels this way. He phrased it very well.
LMAO! Thanks Florc!!
He looks totally like his mother who comes after her father. It is very common that a boy looks like the mother while a girl looks like the father or the kids come after the grandparents and look nothing like their parents.
I think he is Allen´s son, simply because Mia and Ronan try to use the public opinon to kill the Woody Allen-parentage. They play with this “secret Sinatra son” story. I think Ronan changed his face to create a special look… likely because he wants it to be true. The Allen hate is strong in mother and son (understandable). It´s telling that they don´t want a DNA test to shout the “good news” from the rooftops. They just give hints but refuse to give evidence. They know a DNA test could backfire and Allen would use it to discredit them.
Someone mentioned the first and last pic and how different the eye colors are and that it’s because of lighting. Notice how the pics are taken at two different occasions…..in the last one he is wearing his Paris Hilton-industrial strength-baby blue contact lenses and in the first one he might just be wearing the white ones that lighten your eye color slightly.
It has nothing to do with lighting. Look at the last pic and the color near the pupils – brown. Just like in the pics I posted of him in natural lighting which clearly shows he has hazel/green eyes.
Tina can say whatever she wants, but Ronan looks too much like Frank Sinatra for him not to be the father.
Vasectomies had to be changed due to the vas deferens growing back/together and reversing the vasectomy without the patient knowing. These deferens had to be cauterized/cut farther apart because of the amount of women getting pregnant years after the procedure was done. Depending on what year Sinatra had this done. I would assume it was during the time when it was common for the tubes to grow back easily. So, Sinatra being Ronan’s son does not sound too far fetched. This sounds more like a family that does not want another one of Sinatra’s relative’s hand in their cookie jar.
My friend was born long after his dad had a vasectomy – apparently it was a huge scandal in our church because his dad accused his wife of having an affair since there was just no way he was the dad. I always thought his dad was a dbag after I learned that…
Interesting that some people feel this really deep and ongoing urge to prove that he’s not Sinatra’s. Barbara, is that you?
What’s hilarious is on Frank’s wiki page, Ronan is listed as one of his children with a disclaimer of “disputed.”
Anyone else ever think the name Ronan sounds too close to Roman? Not that Roman Polanski is his father, but I just think she might have liked the name Roman, but given Polanski’s rep didn’t want to reference him, I don’t know I always thought there was a weird relationship between Polanski and Mia when they were doing “Rosemary’s Baby.”
His name was originally “Satchel” after Louis Armstrong’s nickname, “Satchmo” (short for satchel mouth). Woody Allen, jazz fan extraordinaire, insisted on the name. After he and Mia broke up she changed his name to Ronan. It’s a lovely name that reflects Mia’s Irish background and means “little seal”.
Nah, I still think he’s Franks. He looks a lot like his mom, sure, but there is still a lot of Frank in his face. Vasectomies don’t always work even now, I’d imagine they were even less effective in the late 70s and early 80s.
I went with a friend and waited while he had a vasectomy and the doctor explained how the vas deferens/tubes that transport sperm are cauterized or separated during the vasectomy. The doctor purposely does them very far apart because they will grow back together. He was very informative and it was interesting having him explain the amount of women that get pregnant because the doctor does not separate them far enough. I can just imagine the 70’s and their sub-par medical knowledge.
If Frank Sinatra actually had a vasectomy, I’ll eat my hat. A man of his cultural background and personality? No way, no how.
Agreed. No idea if Sinatra is his dad, but I’d need to see medical documents to believe he’d ever have a vasectomy.
He looks just like Mia Farrow’s father – the director John Farrow
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.latimes.com/includes/projects/hollywood/portraits/john_farrow.jpg&imgrefurl=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/john-farrow/&h=251&w=201&tbnid=H9nvvuL3GvQJZM:&zoom=1&tbnh=186&tbnw=148&usg=__RK-GREfVDYEnUDT0nB-GKnP1HiY=&docid=-5HI9Lxooeov5M&itg=1
I’m not sure why it matters if the point of dragging this up is to be able to say you aren’t related to a monster, because Sinatra was a pile of human garbage too. He beat women, had sex with underage girls and his business dealings were shady as hell. He was a cruel and abusive man.
Ain’t no way on earth that gorgeous kid shares a single ounce of Woody Allen’s mongrel genes. He’s Frank’s son and why does she even care about it? The kid’s a genius, she should be proud to have him as a brother.
If you look at Woody and you look at Frank, it’s obvious it’s more likely Frank’s. I think it’s Woody that had the vasectomy. I think he doesn’t want his genes to continue, and can you blame him? Ronan has Frank’s eye shape. I don’t see a pinky’s worth of Woody’s looks.
Regardless of who his father is what kind of mother speculates to the media about her child’s parentage? Mia Farrow is barking mad.
I don’t really blame her….her now adult daughter had confirmed what most already knew, that Allen had molested her – only she did it now and present day with the detailed language of adulthood. I think it was part of Dylan’s confronting her past and a cathartic healing exercise that she publicly call him out and that her family stand strong with her.
So i think it was in this context that Mia said what she did. The creep has to make that family violently ill. It’s no surprise that Ronan and Mia would want it definitively known that Woody Allen is not his biological anything. It severs very ugly rotten foul ties. I say good for Mia. I loved the humiliation he must have felt. Considering the horrific nightmare he put Mia through and how he destroyed her family it was more than just.
Also to the few people trying to claim Frank isn’t stamped all over that boy. Google Frank’s other older son: Frank Sinatra Jr. Put ‘young frank sinatra jr’ in the Google search and behold Ronan’s brunette twin. It’s more than obvious. I believe Nancy before Tina. Don’t know what her game is. But it’s laughable.
He looks like Frank Sinatra; especially the shape of his head and lips.