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  • Nancy Sinatra Denies Rumors That Dad Frank Sinatra Is Father To Mia Farrow’s Son, Calling The Claim ‘Nonsense’

    Nancy Sinatra is denying allegations that her late father, crooner Frank Sinatra, is the biological father of Mia Farrow’s son Ronan Farrow, calling the allegations by her former stepmother “nonsense.”

    In a segment of a CBS Sunday Morning interview that was posted online on Wednesday, days before the Sunday premiere of the HBO documentary Sinatra: All Or Nothing at All, Nancy Sinatra said allegations made in 2013 by Frank Sinatra’s third wife, Mia Farrow, were unfounded.

    The comments came when Mia Farrow was asked in a Vanity Fair interview if Ronan was Frank Sinatra’s son, to which she responded, “Possibly.”

    Ronan Farrow, who was born Satchel O’Sullivan Farrow 20 years after Mia and Frank divorced, is now 27.

    Few can deny, however, that he does resemble the legendary singer; far more than his reported father, Woody Allen.

    “Mia’s son? Oh, nonsense,” Nancy Sinatra told CBS Sunday Morning. “He would just laugh it off. We didn’t laugh it off because it was affecting my kids, you know. They were being questioned about it and we all knew it was nonsense.”

    “I was kind of cranky with Mia for even saying, ‘Possibly,’ she added. “I was cranky with her for saying that because she knew better, you know, she really did. But she was making a joke! And it was taken very serious and was just silly, stupid.”

    Although she became “cranky” with Mia Farrow for her joke about her father, Nancy has enjoyed a great relationship with her former stepmother.

    “Well, we loved Mia,” said Nancy Sinatra of the Rosemary’s Baby star, who was married to Frank for just two years in the mid-1960s. “Mia was one of our… like, a sister. We had a good time, [sister] Tina [Sinatra] and Mia and I did.”

  • Mariel Hemingway Claims Woody Allen Made Romantic Overtures to Her When She Was a Teen

    Mariel Hemingway is claiming that director Woody Allen made overtures to her when she was 18, inviting her to take a romantic getaway to Paris.

    In a memoir penned by Mariel Hemingway, the actress said the inappropriate attention came just after she played Woody Allen’s teenage girlfriend in the 1979 movie Manhattan.

    Mariel Hemingway explained in her upcoming memoir, Out Came the Sun that following the completion of the shoot, Woody Allen, who was in his mid-40s at the time, flew out to her parents’ home in Idaho and invited her to take a trip with him to Pars, which the actress claims made her very nervous.

    “Our relationship was platonic, but I started to see that he had a kind of crush on me, though I dismissed it as the kind of thing that seemed to happen any time middle-aged men got around young women,” writes Mariel Hemingway.

    She warned her parents “that I didn’t know what the arrangement was going to be, that I wasn’t sure if I was even going to have my own room. Woody hadn’t said that. He hadn’t even hinted it. But I wanted them to put their foot down. They didn’t. They kept lightly encouraging me.”

    Hemingway says she woke up in the middle of the night “with the certain knowledge that I was an idiot. No one was going to get their own room. His plan, such as it was, involved being with me.”

    Mariel Hemingway said she confronted Woody Allen in the guest room of her parents’ home.

    “I’m not going to get my own room, am I?” As Allen fumbled for his glasses, Hemingway informed him: “I can’t go to Paris with you.”

    According to Hemingway, he called for his private jet the next morning and left Idaho.

    Woody Allen has long been accused of inappropriate behavior with young women. The director has always denied allegations by his ex-girlfriend Mia Farrow that he sexually assaulted his adopted daughter, Dylan, when she was 7, and no charges were ever brought.

    Woody Allen began dating Soon-Yi Previn, Farrow’s other adopted daughter, when she was a young woman, and they are now married.

    Despite the strange encounter with Woody Allen in the 1970s, Mariel Hemingway was on hand to help honor Allen last year for a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes, which Allen eventually boycotted.

  • Mia Farrow Posts “Black Children” Tweet

    Mia Farrow is kind of known for her interesting Twitter feed.

    The actress and activist simply wanted to wish her 21-year-old adopted daughter a happy birthday with a lovely picture of her.

    However, the usually tech savvy Mia Farrow made a very public faux pas.

    Mia Farrow forgot to remove the search terms used to find the picture, and they were certainly unfortunate.

    At the top of her daughter’s picture were the terms: Mia Farrow and her black children.

    The tweet was almost immediately removed and replaced with this one:

    This time, Mia Farrow left out the search bar.

    But, that didn’t stop self-proclaimed news domain expert Nick Carbone long to call Mia Farrow out on her mistake.

    Mia Farrow replied with a tweet at Nick Carbone, in which she attempted to explain just what happened.

    The text of Mia Farrow’s explanation reads like this, “nah. I took the photo myself & posted it before. Then someone sent it to me & I didn’t check source.”

    Sure, pass the buck, Mia!

    So, what do you think? Should Mia Farrow’s tweet garner her public humiliation?

    Or do you think it was just an honest mistake made by someone else and that she is only guilty of not double checking her tweet? You know, like we all are at one time or another.

  • Mia Farrow Accused Woody Allen Of Child Molestation But He Remained Unaffected

    Mia Farrow Accused Woody Allen Of Child Molestation But He Remained Unaffected

    After facing a social media firestorm this year sparked by allegations he molested his adopted daughter, director Woody Allen remains unaffected. He revealed this in a recent interview with the London Times, saying, “I don’t agonize over it for a second.”

    The allegations were made by his ex-wife Mia Farrow and concerned Allen’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow. When asked whether the scandal would affect Allen’s film legacy and what he thought about that, he replied with equal indifference. “That means nothing to me. I’ve never given it a second’s thought, afterward. And what do I care, when I shuffle off my coil? I don’t really care about anything that happens after my death. I don’t care if they take all of my movies and burn them,” he said.

    These answers reflect what seems to be a bleak view of existence held by the Academy Award-winning director of Annie Hall. In an interview with the New York Observer, he talked about noticing how children are currently aware of the supposed meaninglessness of their lives.

    “I think these poor kids, they become aware of their mortality. When they become aware of it, it’s life changing and traumatic. I feel sorry for them, but the cold hard facts don’t change,” said Allen.

    Allen has consistently denied Farrow’s claims about her daughter. He told the London Times’ Kevin Maher that he had a dull private life. “I lead, in general, a very uneventful, very dull middle-class life,” he said.

    Despite his scandals concerning the women in his life, the director of Magic In The Moonlight shared that he was lucky to have worked with some of Hollywood’s most successful leading ladies, including Meryl Streep, Maureen Stapleton, Judy Davis, Penelope Cruz, Diane Keaton, Geraldine Page and Gena Rowlands. Meanwhile, Magic In The Moonlight stars another female ingénue, Emma Stone, who joins the roster of talented female actresses that have worked with Allen.

  • Woody Allen Talks Mia Farrow, Death and No God

    Acclaimed director Woody Allen had a lot to say recently about Mia Farrow, death and his belief that there is “no God” and “no magic.”

    In an interview with the Times of London‘s Kevin Maher, Allen said his longtime dispute with ex Mia Farrow — including allegations he molested his daughter Dylan Farrow — has little impact on his life today.

    “I don’t agonize over it for a second,” he said.

    Allen, who has always denied Dylan’s claims, said he leads a very simple life.

    “I do have a dull private life . . . ,” said the actor and director. “I lead, in general, a very uneventful, very dull middle-class life.”

    The 78-year-old says he gives little thought to how he will be remembered after his death or whether the dispute with Farrow will be a lasting legacy of his life.

    “That means nothing to me. I’ve never given it a second’s thought, afterward . . . And what do I care, when I shuffle off my coil?” he said. “I don’t really care about anything that happens after my death. I don’t care if they take all of my movies and burn them.”

    Allen became even more morbid while talking about death and the hereafter.

    “There is no God. There is no magic. There is nothing other than the cold hard facts of what you see with your eyes. It begins. It ends. There is no reason for anything,” said Allen.

    To which Maher commented, “I can’t help but feel that some of the gloom of his current worldview has been forged in the base bitterness of this long-running dispute.”

  • Ronan Farrow Has Successful MSNBC Debut

    Ronan Farrow Has Successful MSNBC Debut

    Ronan Farrow has been in the headlines quite a bit lately because of some very serious accusations within his family, but the 26-year old is forging a path for himself outside of his family name, and on Monday night he made a successful debut.

    Farrow is the new face of “Ronan Farrow Daily”, an hour-long show on MSNBC that will tackle–in depth–the stories Americans want to know about. For his first episode, he delved into the student loan debt crisis and is attempting to put faces to the problem, which he hopes will in turn keep a sympathetic ear on viewers. Farrow asked viewers with student loan debt to send in a picture of themselves along with how much they owe, which gave the segment a personal touch.

    “The good stories kind of leave you at the side of the road afterwards. What do you do with the information? And I think for my generation of news viewers you want the extra stuff. So my idea with this show is you mobilize people,” he said.

    The UNICEF spokesman and activist is a big on Twitter, where he made a post after the Golden Globe awards that started a firestorm of controversy. After Diane Keaton took the stage to accept the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award on behalf of Woody Allen and give a speech about her old friend, Farrow posted this:

    “Missed the Woody Allen tribute – did they put the part where a woman publicly confirmed he molested her at age 7 before or after Annie Hall?”

    Immediately afterward, the media latched onto the story and ran with it, and Allen’s adopted daughter Dylan came forward with her story of sexual abuse once again in an open letter to the New York Times. Allen subsequently denied the accusations as he has for years, but Dylan Farrow has not changed her story since she was seven years old. Charges were never filed against Allen because it was decided that a trial would be too much for Dylan to handle at such a young age.

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  • Woody Allen Responds to Molestation Allegations

    Woody Allen, the famed film director and one-time lover of actress Mia Farrow, published an op-ed in Friday’s edition of The New York Times responding to reignited allegations of molestation by his adopted daughter, Dylan.

    In 1992, during Allen’s court battle with Farrow at the end of their 12-year-long relationship, Dylan, then 7, claimed that Allen had sexually abused her.

    The claims came on the heels of the news that Allen had been having an affair with Farrow’s 19-year-old daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, who was adopted by Mia Farrow and musician Andre Previn. Allen and Soon-Yi Previn continued their relationship, eventually marrying five years later.

    Allen maintains that the frenzy surrounding the claims made by Dylan stem from nothing more than the affects of a child brainwashed to hate their father by their jilted mother.

    In the Times piece, Allen writes, “Not that I doubt Dylan hasn’t come to believe she’s been molested, but if from the age of 7 a vulnerable child is taught by a strong mother to hate her father because he is a monster who abused her, is it so inconceivable that after many years of this indoctrination the image of me Mia wanted to establish had taken root?”

    Dylan Farrow quickly responded to Allen’s disregard for the situation and his determination that the rumors were false. (There was a police investigation in 1992, but it did not conclude in any charges being brought against the filmmaker.)

    “Once again, Woody Allen is attacking me and my family in an effort to discredit and silence me — but nothing he says or writes can change the truth,” Dylan says. “For 20 years, I have never wavered in describing what he did to me. I will carry the memories of surviving these experiences for the rest of my life.”

    Allen and Farrow had three children together; two adopted and a biological son, Satchel. Satchel now goes by Ronan Farrow, and is estranged from his father. He recently took to Twitter to vent and show support for his sister.

    Main image courtesy TheLipTV via YouTube.

  • Woody Allen Finally Responds to Abuse Claims

    Woody Allen doesn’t attend award shows and rarely gives interviews. However, the normally shy, reserved 78-year-old film director cannot stay quiet any longer. Finally, after two decades, he is giving his side of the story.

    On February 1, his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow, 28, renewed her claim that Allen molested her as a 7-year-old child. She posted her accusation in an open letter in The New York Times for all the world to see. Now, Allen has posted a letter of his own, published on Friday on The New York Times website, in response to his daughter’s scathing claims and ultimately pinning the blame on Dylan’s mother and Allen’s ex-partner, Mia Farrow.

    Allen contends in the letter that Mia Farrow is responsible for putting the horrid molestation story in Dylan’s head. That, in fact, 21 years ago when the allegations of abuse first surfaced Mia took Dylan to the doctor. The young child told the doctor that she was not abused. And it was only after a trip to an ice cream shop with her mother that young Dylan changed her story. Allen also writes in the letter that Mia Farrow was upset with the relationship that Allen started with Farrow’s adopted daughter Soon-Yi, and amid their bitter breakup, Farrow put the story in Dylan’s head as a form of retribution.

    The director continues his letter chronicling the police investigation that ensued and the decision by the local authorities and experts that Allen did not molest his daughter. Even still, Allen lost custody of his children. He wrote, “I never saw her again nor was I able to speak with her no matter how hard I tried. I still loved her deeply, and felt guilty that by falling in love with Soon-Yi I had put her in the position of being used as a pawn for revenge. Soon-Yi and I made countless attempts to see Dylan but Mia blocked them all, spitefully knowing how much we both loved her but totally indifferent to the pain and damage she was causing the little girl merely to appease her own vindictiveness.”

    Allen also insists in the letter that he doesn’t blame his daughter for the accusations. “Not that I doubt Dylan hasn’t come to believe she’s been molested, but if from the age of 7 a vulnerable child is taught by a strong mother to hate her father because he is a monster who abused her, is it so inconceivable that after many years of this indoctrination the image of me Mia wanted to establish had taken root?”

    Finally, Allen closes his letter with a final denial and a plea to Dylan. “Of course, I did not molest Dylan. I loved her and hope one day she will grasp how she has been cheated out of having a loving father and exploited by a mother more interested in her own festering anger than her daughter’s well-being.”

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  • Woody Allen’s Adopted Daughter Claims Sexual Abuse in Letter

    The adopted daughter of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen has come forward with allegations that she was sexually abused as a child.

    In an open letter reported by NY Times, Dylan Farrow, 28, came forward describing a traumatizing event she experienced as a child in 1992.

    Farrow begins the letter with an open-ended question to her readers: “What’s your favorite Woody Allen movie?”

    She then leads into a very descriptive story of her life growing up as a child:

    “He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set. Then he sexually assaulted me.”

    At the tender age of seven-years-old, Farrow writes that she was taken to the attic room of her home where Allen abused her:

    “For as long as I could remember, my father had been doing things to me that I didn’t like. I didn’t like how often he would take me away from my mom, siblings and friends to be alone with him.”

    Farrow details how her mother even at times didn’t believe her claims against Allen. After the two split in 1992, Mia admitted Farrow into therapy where she was doubted even more.

    Although Allen was never convicted, his own son believes Farrow’s story.

    On Jan. 12, Allen was the recipient of an honorary Golden Globe award. Ronan Farrow posted on Twitter his obvious ill feelings towards his father’s award.

    Accusations against Allen appeared to become even more plausible amidst the reports of his relationship with Mia’s other adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, which he married in 1997. Farrow refers to it in her letter:

    “I didn’t know that my father would use his sexual relationship with my sister to cover up the abuse he inflicted on me.”

    According to an article published on The Daily Beast, producer and director Robert B. Weide of “Woody Allen: A Documentary,” counterattacked the accusations against his industry friend, whose career seems to still thrive:

    “I am not in a position to say they didn’t, any more than all the people on the Internet calling for Woody’s head can say they did. The point is that accusations make headlines; retractions are buried on page 12, and coerced accusations are as much a reality as coerced confessions.”

    However, Farrow’s letter takes a stab at a few of Allen’s industry friends that may have been well-aware of the abuse:

    “What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett? Louis CK? Alec Baldwin? What if it had been you, Emma Stone? Or you, Scarlett Johansson? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me?”

    As she concludes her letter, she yet again asks a very important question:

    “So imagine your seven-year-old daughter being led into an attic by Woody Allen. Imagine she spends a lifetime stricken with nausea at the mention of his name. Imagine a world that celebrates her tormenter.

    Are you imagining that? Now, what’s your favorite Woody Allen movie?”

    Allen’s reps have yet to respond.

    An interview with Allen denying the accusations:

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  • Mia Farrow Visits Ecuador To Condemn Chevron

    Mia Farrow may be most well known for her relationship with director Woody Allen and its disastrous end, but the actress also takes time out of her day to do some serious humanitarian work.

    Farrow, who has served as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador to Africa, has turned her attention to perceived injustices carried out in Ecuador by oil giant Chevron. The company was ordered to pay a $9-million fine for polluting the Amazon river area in the time period between 1964 and 1990.

    The offenses in question were committed by Texaco, which Chevron acquired in 2001, thereby taking on the burden of its lawsuits. Chevron is claiming that the trial was marred with corruption and refuses to pay the fine, but the company is unlikely to earn any sympathy given the track records that oil companies have with oil spills and general environmental destruction. Claims that Ecuadorians have contracted cancer from the pollution near their homes piles even more damning evidence onto the company.

    Farrow traveled to the small nation to witness the pollution, and expressed anger when shown pools of oil harming the environment. She even symbolically dipped her hand in the oil, following in the footsteps of other celebrities who have tried to call attention to both themselves and the plight they are observing.

    Farrow’s visit is unlikely to have any measurable effect on the situation in Ecuador, but anytime an individual tries to draw attention to injustice can be counted as a win for humanity in my book.

    [Image via ENOUGHproject]

  • Mia Farrow and Son Ronan ‘Twitter Slam’ Woody Allen

    Last night on the Golden Globe Awards, Woody Allen received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for a lifetime of critically acclaimed movies. The award is an honorary Golden Globe bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment.”

    On Sunday evening at the 71st annual Golden Globes, Allen’s award was accepted by Annie Hall actress Diane Keeton.

    However, almost immediately after the award was presented, online feeds buzzed when Ronan Farrow, son of Mia Farrow, began to slam the 78-year old actor and director via Twitter.

    In the early 1980s, Allen had a 12-year relationship with Mia Farrow which ended in 1992 when Allen had an affair with Mia and Andrew Previn’s adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, who was 20-years old at the time. Eventually he and Soon-Yi married.

    Later, Mia accused Allen of sexually molesting their adopted daughter, Dylan, who was 7-years old at the time. The sex abuse charges were found inconclusive by a judge, but Farrow won custody of the children.

    It was first said that Ronan was the biological child of Mia and Allen, but in an interview in 2013, she said that Ronan could “possibly” be the child of her first husband, Frank Sinatra, with whom she “never really split up.”

    Ronan’s tweet on Sunday was praised by many, who said he was standing up for sexual abuse survivors.

    But Ronan wasn’t the only one who took to the social network to express their opinion about Allen.

    Mia tweeted a response herself this morning.

    About an hour later, she added:

    According to E Online, Allen continues to deny any allegations of sexual abuse.

    Allen and Soon-Yi Previn are still married and have two adopted daughters.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3XcaZToZV4

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  • Woody Allen Tribute: Farrows Take To Twitter

    Woody Allen was given the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award at Sunday night’s Golden Globes, but because he’s not a fan of awards shows, he had longtime friend and collaborator Diane Keaton accept on his behalf. After a somewhat strange speech, Keaton ended with a rendition of “Make New Friends” that had many wondering if she was inebriated during the festivities.

    But the speech wasn’t what had Allen’s estranged son Ronan Farrow so upset; both he and Allen’s ex, Mia Farrow, took to Twitter to let the world know they were unhappy with the award.

    “Missed the Woody Allen tribute – did they put the part where a woman publicly confirmed he molested her at age 7 before or after Annie Hall?” Ronan wrote.

    Mia was a little more subtle, tweeting right when the tribute began, “Time to grab some icecream & switch over to #GIRLS”.

    According to a Vanity Fair article on Farrow and her children, daughter Dylan opened up about the sexual abuse perpetrated by Allen and says she has memories of feeling like a bad child because she tried to tell him no.

    “According to Dylan, “There’s a lot I don’t remember, but what happened in the attic I remember. I remember what I was wearing and what I wasn’t wearing.” She tells Orth, “The things making me uncomfortable were making me think I was a bad kid, because I didn’t want to do what my elder told me to do.” The attic, she says, pushed her over the edge. “I was cracking. I had to say something. I was seven. I was doing it because I was scared. I wanted it to stop.” For all she knew, she tells Orth, “this was how fathers treated their daughters. This was normal interaction, and I was not normal for feeling uncomfortable about it.” Woody Allen’s lawyer Elkan Abramowitz says that Allen still denies the allegations of sexual abuse.”

    Mia Farrow later tweeted more about the accusations against Allen:

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  • Barbara Sinatra Denies Allegations

    Barbara Sinatra Denies Allegations

    Barbara Sinatra, Frank Sinatra’s widow, is describing the allegations that Mia Farrow’s son, Ronan, was actually fathered by her late husband as, “a phony deal”.

    Farrow shocked millions earlier this week, when she admitted to Vanity Fair that Sinatra could “possibly” be Ronan’s father.

    Farrow, who was married to Sinatra for only 18 months, said that he was the “great love of her life” and that “we never really split up”. Despite being involved with Woody Allen at the time of Ronan’s birth, Farrow still says that there is a chance that Allen may not be his father. A DNA test has not been done at this time.

    Barbara was reached by the Desert Sun, via telephone, for a comment on the situation, which she quickly denied. “I can’t hardly believe that. It’s just a bunch of junk. There’s always junk written — lies that aren’t true,” she said. She also informed the newspaper that Sinatra did not acknowledge Ronan as his son and nothing was left for him in his will.

    http://youtu.be/TaCIzODdEbA

    Woody Allen’s rep also debunked the rumors saying, “The article is so fictitious and extravagantly absurd that he is not going to comment.”

    Ronan took a more humorous approach to the situation, via Twitter, when he jokingly said, “Listen, we are all possibly Frank Sinatra’s son.”

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  • Mia Farrow’s Daughter Shatters the Silence

    Dylan, who now goes by a different name, has opened up about the child molestation allegations brought up against her adopted father, Woody Allen. In 1992, at seven years old, Dylan told her mother, Mia Farrow, that Allen had “touched her private part” and asked her mother if “her daddy ever did that to her”. Farrow videotaped Dylan speaking about the abuse and her accusations led to a court case that eventually was dropped in order to prevent Dylan from testifying.

    In an interview with Vanity Fair, Dylan discusses what she remembers and how Allen’s behavior and actions have traumatized her, to the point where she can no longer say his name. The childhood sexual abuse that she endured in the attic was her breaking point.

    “There’s a lot I don’t remember, but what happened in the attic I remember…The things making me uncomfortable were making me think I was a bad kid, because I didn’t want to do what my elder told me to do. For all I knew, this was how fathers treated their daughters. This was a normal interaction, and I was not normal for feeling uncomfortable about it,” she stated.

    Victims of childhood sexual abuse often feel how Dylan has felt, and suffer from immeasurable pain and intense feelings of guilt, fear, and shame. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, adult retrospective studies show that 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men were sexually abused before the age of eighteen, which means that there are more than 42 million adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse in the United States.

    Childhood sexual abuse can also have a devastating impact on others. Farrow’s son, Fletcher Previn, even eliminated Allen from all of the family photos and videos, and briefly discussed the effects that these traumas had on the entire family.

    In one of her last statements, Dylan commented, “I have never been asked to testify. If I could talk to the seven-year old Dylan, I would tell her to be brave, to testify.”

    To learn more about the long-term effects of sexual abuse, you may click here.

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  • Frank Sinatra May be Father of Ronan Farrow

    Mia Farrow admitted to Vanity Fair, in an article published today, that the father of her son, Ronan Farrow, could possibly be Frank Sinatra, according to AFP. With all the pictures posted all over the web with Ronan and Sinatra side-by-side, it’s going to be hard to convince anyone that the handsome 25-year-old is not Sinatra’s, but….Woody Allen’s.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1-IMIyGJ-E

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xHcUdIntfs

    “We never really split up” she told Vanity Fair of Sinatra, who she referred to as the great love of her life. They were married for only two years and divorced in 1968. She went on to have a relationship with Woody Allen and she had Ronan, technically Satchel Ronan O’Sullivan Farrow, in 1988, when Sinatra would have been 72.

    Mia Farrow left Woody Allen in 1992 after she discovered the sexual relationship between her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi, and Allen. The two later went on to marry, and are together still, over 20 years later. Ronan no longer speaks to his father.

    No DNA test has been administered, but Ronan is almost a blue-eyed carbon copy of Frank Sinatra. When Vanity Fair asked Sinatra’s daughter Nancy about her treating Ronan as part of her family, she replied: “He is a big part of us, and we are blessed to have him in our lives”.

    But Ronan took to Twitter Wednesday to distance himself from his mother’s reported remarks.

    From just the small side of Ronan Farrow that can be gleaned from public knowledge, his life certainly doesn’t resemble Sinatra’s swinging, wild existence. According to his Twitter presence, Ronan is a lawyer, journalist, and former U.S. Global Youth Issues Envoy.

    Let’s say there were a DNA test, and let’s say I am a betting woman. My money, without hesitation, would go straight on Sinatra as his biological father. Those eyes and that face really don’t seem to have come from Woody Allen or Mia Farrow. We shall see.

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  • Ronan Farrow Celebrates Father’s Day, Twitter-Style

    Ronan Farrow, the human rights activist whose parents are Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, celebrated Father’s Day by issuing a tweet directed at his estranged father. For those of you who aren’t overly familiar with the story, here’s the short, short version: Back in the land that was the 1990’s, Farrow and Allen’s relationship promptly fell apart thanks to the director’s infamous affair with Soon-Yi Previn, Mia’s stepdaughter from a previous marriage. Despite the couple’s 34-year age difference, Allen and Previn soon married.

    Ronan, a Rhodes Scholar, was five when his parents split, and his relationship with his father has been admittedly rocky ever since. However, don’t be so quick to feel sorry for the guy, as he’s done pretty well for himself. At the age of 11, Ronan enrolled in college, a feat he soon followed up with his acceptance into Yale Law school at 15. Now 24, Ronan has decided to take a year off from his academic studies to assist the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Despite his father’s maladjustments, I’d say Allen’s son has his head screwed on straight.

    “He’s my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law,” Ronan explained several years ago. “That is such a moral transgression.”

    On Sunday, Ronan decided to celebrate Father’s Day by dedicating a snarky little Tweet to his father. Now that you’re familiar with the setup, the punchline makes a bit more sense:

    Did his mother have a problem with this comment? Not really. In fact, she retweeted her son’s tribute to his father and added a little comment of her own.

    Considering the amount of press coverage Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn’s relationship received when the story broke, not to mention the countless jokes made at everyone’s expense, it’s nice to know that Ronan and Mia have a sense of humor about the ordeal.

    In related news, Allen and Previn recently made an appearance at the premiere of the writer/director’s latest cinematic endeavor, “To Rome with Love”. Some footage featuring the pair has been embedded below.