Princewill Pius
Mia Farrow first accused Woody Allen of sexually abusing their daughter Dylan in 1992, shortly after Mia and Allen split, per Vanity Fair. A prosecutor found that there was “probable cause” to prosecute him, but that a then-7-year-old Dylan was too “fragile” to deal with a high-publicity trial (via People). Dylan has opened up about her story in recent years, including a 2017 Los Angeles Times op-ed and a 2014 New York Times open letter.
Allen previously claimed that Mia coached her daughter to tell the story as revenge after he pursued a relationship with her other adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn (who was about 20 at the time). In Apropos of Nothing, he reiterates this same defense, calling the allegations part of Mia’s “Ahab-like quest” for revenge. “I never laid a finger on Dylan, never did anything to her that could be even misconstrued as abusing her; it was a total fabrication from start to finish,” Allen writes in the memoir, per The Associated Press. He then admits that he put his head on Dylan’s lap in August 1992, when the alleged abuse took place. But he adds, “I certainly didn’t do anything improper to her. I was in a room full of people watching TV mid-afternoon.”
After two investigations in the 1990s, Allen never faced charges, though he was denied custody of Dylan by a judge who called his conduct “grossly inappropriate,” according to the New York Times.
Written by: Nicki
