Mia's kids Part 1

After more than 20 years of dormancy, the dirty laundry of the Allen-Farrow-Previn family has gained renewed interest, with accusations of molestation, abuse, and lying being volleyed among members of the clan. The only major change in the situation from when it first made headlines in 1992 is that Farrow's 14 kids are now all adults capable of telling their side of the story. What happened to them between then and now?


Matthew Previn (b. 1970)

Matthew, Mia's first biological offspring with then-husband André Previn (the two were married from 1970-79), graduated from Yale and Georgetown Law. He got married in 2003 to a fellow lawyer, with whom he has two daughters, and is a partner at white shoe law firm BuckleySandler LLP in New York City.

Sascha Previn (b. 1970)

Sascha is Matthew's twin brother. In her 1997 memoir What Falls Away, Mia Farrow wrote that doctors told her that Sascha had "autistic tendencies" and recommended she place him in a residential school. He graduated from Fordham University and studied special education at Dowling College. His 1995 wedding was announced in The New York Times, but he has since divorced and remarried a pediatric cardiologist. They live in Michigan, where he's a stay-at-home dad to their baby girl.

Lark Previn (b. 1973, a. 1973)

Lark joined the Previn family in 1973 as the first child adopted by Mia Farrow and André Previn. In 1991, Lark became the first of the Previn-Farrow children to wind up in gossip columns when, while a senior at the prestigious Nightingale-Bamford—an all-girls private school in Manhattan—she and her sister Daisy were arrested for shoplifting hundreds of dollars' worth of Christian Dior lingerie from a store in Danbury, CT. A judge sentenced them to a rehabilitation program. She reportedly struggled with a drug problem. Lark was a key figure in her mother's custody battle with Woody Allen. She showed up at the New York Post one day in 1992, unannounced, offering an interview in return for learning the whereabouts of her sister Soon-Yi. Later, a former nanny testified that Lark was treated like a "scullery maid" in the Farrow household and that she would be the most likely of the children to write a Mommie Dearest type of memoir.

After two years at NYU Lark dropped out to marry Christopher McKinzie, an unemployed construction worker with a criminal record whom the Farrow family reportedly didn't like. Lark made a living cleaning houses and in 1996 was diagnosed with AIDS, which she unwittingly passed on to her two daughters. She eventually left McKinzie. She lived in relative poverty (court records indicate a decadelong struggle paying bills) in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn until her death of AIDS-related pneumonia on Christmas Day in 2008. She was 35.

Fletcher Previn (b. 1974)

Fletcher—Mia's third biological child with André— graduated from Connecticut College in 2000 and works as an executive assistant at IBM. He's married with two daughters. Described as his "mother's protector" in a recent Vanity Fair piece, he lives next door to Mia Farrow in Connecticut. (They recently attended Time's 100 Most Influential People gala together.) He has said that he Photoshopped Woody Allen out of all of the family photos and edited him out of their home movies.

Summer "Daisy" Previn (b. 1974, a. 1976)

Summer was adopted from Vietnam in 1976 by Mia and André. She renamed herself Daisy at some point in her childhood, in reference to the role her mother played in The Great Gatsby. Like her sister Lark, Daisy had a troubled adolescence, getting arrested for shoplifting, forging checks, and playing hooky from her private, all-girls school in Manhattan. Seventeen at the time of the scandal, she was very vocal in support of her sister Dylan's allegations against Woody Allen, giving newspaper and television interviews. Later, she dropped out of Wheaton College after a semester and became pregnant by Lark's husband's brother, whom she married and later divorced. She went on to get her associates in graphic design from an online university. Today, she's remarried, lives in Brooklyn, and works as an office manager of a construction company.

Soon-Yi Previn (b. 1970, a. 1978)

The sixth child added to the Previn family, Soon-Yi was adopted by Mia Farrow and André Previn in 1978, just a year before the couple's divorce. Public records, and her passport, indicate that her birthday is October 8, 1970. However, after news of Woody's affair with Soon-Yi became tabloid fodder, Mia and the rest of the Farrow family implied in interviews that Soon-Yi's exact age was not known. In a 1992 interview with Vanity Fair, Mia said that Soon-Yi was "about seven" when she was adopted. In her 1997 memoir, What Falls Away, she claimed that Soon-Yi was five when she was adopted. The ambiguity about her age opened the door to speculation that Soon-Yi was a