Quote: (02-08-2019 07:39 PM)John Dodds Wrote:
Quote: (02-08-2019 05:33 PM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:
Allen marrying his step-daughter did breach social norms .........
She was a teenage girl in a house with a world-famous man, who likely showed her attention she wasn't getting anywhere else. She apparently had learning disabilities and didn't speak English at first. Kids at school probably teased her or ignored her.
Only he didn't, and she wasn't, Woody Allen and Mia Farrow never shared a home and never married.
Because Woody is a bit smarter than us, they only ever stayed in hotels together. He recognised her craziness and didn't ever want her to get 'entitlements' to his money or home, so he just rented hotel rooms to bang her for the night.
It was Andre Previn (Mia Farrow's husband) who lived in the house with the kid.
Woody married Andre Previn and Mia Farro's adopted daughter.
Please note 'step-daughter' is the term used when one spouse is the biological parent of the child, and the other spouse isn't)
I was wrong about her marriage age, I posted while working yesterday, but you are totally wrong and obfuscating about Allen's marital arrangement. He did bang his stepdaughter for all intents and purposes, and did that while being in a long-term marital relationship with her mother.
Allen was in a LTR with Farrow for 13 years, it started in 1979 when Soon Yi was 9yo. And yes, he was
at the very least the father figure for Mia's children from 1979 on. Andre Previn, who you claim "lived in the house with the kid" was out of the picture after his divorce in 1979, he actually remarried in 1982, Farrow was the third of five Previn wives.
Allen lived in an Upper East Side apartment literally across the street from Farrow's, their pads faced each other, and they actually
as a couple, legally adopted two of Mia's children, and they had a child together, he spent a lot of time in Mia's pad with her and the children. There is no debate about him being at the very least the defacto stepfather in that family, even though he's kept some kind of legal arm's length arrangement.
The more you peel the layers, the worse Allen looks. I delved into this several years ago and it was a pretty clear cut case. The accusation of their daughter Dylan that Allen molested her when she was 7yo holds a lot of water:
-Allen had been in therapy for alleged inappropriate behavior toward Dylan with a child psychologist before the abuse allegation was presented to the authorities or made public.
-Allen refused to take a polygraph administered by the Connecticut state police when he was being investigated for child abuse.
- Allen subsequently lost four exhaustive court battles—a lawsuit, a disciplinary charge against the prosecutor, and two appeals—and was made to pay more than $1 million in Mia’s legal fees. Judge Elliott Wilk, the presiding judge in Allen’s custody suit against Farrow, concluded that there is “no credible evidence to support Mr. Allen’s contention that Ms. Farrow coached Dylan or that Ms. Farrow acted upon a desire for revenge against him for seducing Soon-Yi.”
-In his 33-page decision,
Judge Wilk found that Mr. Allen’s behavior toward Dylan was “grossly inappropriate and that measures must be taken to protect her.” The judge also recounts Farrow’s misgivings regarding Allen’s behavior toward Dylan from the time she was between two and three years old. According to the judge’s decision, Farrow told Allen, “You look at her [Dylan] in a sexual way. You fondled her . . . You don’t give her any breathing room. You look at her when she’s naked.”
- Dylan’s claim of abuse was consistent with the testimony of three adults who were present that day. On the day of the alleged assault, a babysitter of a friend told police and gave sworn testimony that Allen and Dylan went missing for 15 or 20 minutes, while she was at the house. Another babysitter told police and also swore in court that on that same day,
she saw Allen with his head on Dylan’s lap facing her body, while Dylan sat on a couch “staring vacantly in the direction of a television set.” A French tutor for the family told police and testified that that day she found Dylan was not wearing underpants under her sundress. The first babysitter also testified she did not tell Farrow that Allen and Dylan had gone missing until after Dylan made her statements. These sworn accounts contradict Moses Farrow’s recollection of that day in People magazine.
-Allen changed his story about the attic where the abuse allegedly took place. First, Allen told investigators he had never been in the attic where the alleged abuse took place. After his hair was found on a painting in the attic, he admitted that he might have stuck his head in once or twice.
- The state attorney, Maco, said publicly
he did have probable cause to press charges against Allen but declined, due to the fragility of the “child victim.” Maco told me that he refused to put Dylan through an exhausting trial, and without her on the stand, he could not prosecute Allen.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/02/...e-10-facts
Allen's works are infused with the theme of incestuous pedophilia. This is very relevant because a lot of the content in his movie is very personal and practically autobiographical. For example his relationship with a teen Mariel Hemingway is based with one he's had with a high school girl while in his 40s. This is a good article about this recurring sordid aspect that emerged through a lot of his films:
Re-Watching Woody Allen - The newly-chilling themes that you can see throughout his movies
I guess the natural instinct on this forum is to side with the dude against the wife, especially given that she's somewhat unstable, but if you care to dig into the story setting that bias aside, the case against Allen is quite damning.