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"He said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said,” (Allen's High-POWERED PR machine}


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Allen was on magazine covers painting a picture of his ex Mia as a scorned woman seeking revenge. In a 60 Minutes appearance, Allen suggested Dylan had “been coached methodically” by Mia in her claims, an allegation that would find traction in the mainstream media for decades.

Mia, meanwhile, stayed publicly silent. “I didn’t feel it was seemly to get in a public fight with him,” she says in Allen v. Farrow, adding that she had hoped to maintain a sense of normalcy for her children.

“Part of the narrative was, ‘This is a he said-she said.’ But what we realized as we dug was that it was:

He said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said,”

Ziering told THR of exploring the high-powered PR machine behind Allen.

The filmmakers note in a title card that multiple private investigators looked into Mia’s family, as well as the Connecticut state detectives assigned to the case. “She knows that the more public things become, the more destructive it is for the family and her children. And that was the trade-off, I think, she made. It was better to protect her children than to try to get her point of view into the public.”

Dick added to THR: “Only one side was speaking and totally controlling the narrative. The public felt like, ‘Oh, we’re hearing both sides.’ And they weren’t. It was a little shocking to me that Mia didn’t mount a publicity campaign. Even into the project I said, ‘We’re going to find out her campaign, right, when we look into archival?’ And she kept saying no.”

To open the third installment, Ziering explains that, over the course of her and Dick’s three-year investigation for Allen v. Farrow, their team gained access to tens of thousands of court and police documents — most of which were never made public or obtained by the press — police files, additional evidence, affidavits, sworn testimony, private audio and video recordings, and “one cache of more than 60 boxes of documentation” that had been untouched since the ’90s.

Herdy told THR that their reporting process, and what they began to uncover, helped to put Dylan and Mia at ease as they went along with the interviews.

“Both of them had been gaslit for so long by Woody Allen. They had both experienced this dual existence with him of, ‘Everything is fine, everything is great and I love you and nothing is wrong,’ and, ‘If you feel like anything is wrong, it’s all in your head.’ Dylan as a child and Mia as an adult, as his partner,” said Herdy of the past. “So, going back to them and saying, ‘Hey, guess what I found out on this document? It indicates that this wasn’t accurate.’ And. ‘I found this that indicates this wasn’t accurate. And I found this person who said: No, actually, that wasn’t accurate.’ I started finding all of these facts that basically blew away all the gaslighting that had happened to them. And it told them there are facts and details and documents and people who are corroborating what you have said for years, and no one listened. I think that was very gratifying and eye-opening for them both.”


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Quite a bold statement to make about gaslighting, when Mia was the one who lied about pretty much every detail of their relationship. But yeah, go ahead and post the same stuff over and over. That#s gonna change people's minds, for sure.

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Amazing how with Woody's global control of the media that virtually all of Mia's lies are what have permeated the public mind in this case, enough that she can trot out these discredited accusations and even exaggerate them further over time and never have to prove anything or deal with claims from the other side.

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Mia used the lies she implanted into her daughter and pushed into the courts only to get custody of her kids. Woody was never convicted of the sexual abuse crime, but Mia got her wish nonetheless and was able to keep all of her kids after the separation from Woody. Now, decades later, it's not about custody anymore but covering her tracks for the disgusting lie. She got what she wanted back then, but even she knows that admitting it was a ploy to win a court case, now in our time where #MeToo and women's rights have come so far would be damning beyond belief. Dragging her grown up daughter - and now her son - into this is just the latest sad development of a woman's desperate attempt to cope with her inner demons.

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https://sports.yahoo.com/shes-not-woody-mia-farrow-033705151.html

Mia Farrow confronts her former boyfriend and frequent collaborator Woody Allen during heart-wrenching taped phone calls in the third episode of "Allen v. Farrow," which perhaps is the most damning in terms of countering Allen's long-standing proclamation of innocence.

"What you've done to Soon-Yi, what you've done to Dylan," Farrow says during her conversation with Allen that appears to take place in the early '90s, when the former couple was at odds. "Dylan's a baby. How could you do that to her?"

Allen seems to defend himself, though his response is inaudible on the calls, which he and Farrow taped. "I don't know anything of the kind," Farrow replies. "I know what Dylan tells me. You've told me nothing but lies. Dylan tells the truth and consistently."

"And she's not all right, Woody," Farrow says. "She walks around the house holding her vagina. She sleeps with me. She's scared of you, and you hurt her."

"She said, 'Mommy, you didn't help me.' She said, 'Daddy shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't have hurt me like that.' If you heard her, you would weep inside, and you would just want to be dead, because I don't know how you can live with what you did."


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According to the docuseries, that narrative of Farrow as a vengeful woman scorned went far and wide in the press, a move family friends of Farrow's called an attempt to distract from Dylan's allegations.

On that summer day in 1992, when Allen visited Farrow's home, babysitter Kristi Groteke noticed Dylan was missing. Groteke searched for her, according to her 1993 testimony excerpted for the doc, and testified Dylan was gone for "roughly 20 minutes."

Former Connecticut state attorney Frank Maco says in the series that Allen refused to take a polygraph test administered by Connecticut state police, but instead took a private test.

"View" co-host and attorney Sunny Hostin and Stephen P. Herman, a forensic psychiatrist and expert witness for Farrow who were interviewed for the docuseries also questioned the validity of a report from Yale-New Haven Hospital's Child Sexual Abuse Clinic

A separate investigation by New York authorities into Allen's alleged assault of Dylan, may have been covered up,

"In the end, the result was that people with power were able to get the case removed," Steinem says in the episode. "It just seemed to me from everything I could glean as a reporter to be a case of great injustice."

Farrow says she thought Allen "was all-powerful" and could influence the Yale-New Haven Hospital and authorities in New York, given the money his movies filmed in New York earned for the city. And Allen wasn't going down without a fight. He sued Farrow for custody of Dylan, Moses (their adopted son) and Ronan Farrow.

on June 7, 1993, New York State Supreme Court Justice Elliott Wilk found the evidence "established that Ms. Farrow is a caring and loving mother" and that "there is no credible evidence to support Mr. Allen's contention that Ms. Farrow coached Dylan."

It was also Wilk's opinion that "Mr. Allen's behavior toward Dylan was grossly inappropriate and that measures must be taken to protect her,"

Dylan, in an interview with filmmakers, remembers the severing of ties with her father. "It wasn't framed as, 'You're never gonna see your father again,'" she recalls. "It was framed as, 'Do you ever want to see him again?' And I didn't.


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Episode 3 of Allen v. Farrow explores how the typically reclusive Allen unleashed a press offensive once the investigation into his alleged child sexual abuse was first announced. He held a press conference at The Plaza hotel in Manhattan where he publicly declared his love for Soon-Yi, Farrow’s college-aged daughter, whom he’d helped raise, and branded Mia Farrow an abusive and manipulative parent who’d coached Dylan into making the confession. Allen’s now-wife, Soon-Yi, and his adopted son Moses Farrow—whose life Allen mysteriously re-entered just before the Dylan allegation resurfaced in 2014—have backed Allen’s narrative. Mia Farrow, Ronan Farrow, Daisy Previn, Fletcher Previn, Kaeli-Sha Farrow, Matthew Previn, Sascha Previn, Isaiah Farrow, and Quincy Farrow all support Dylan and have said Mia is a good mother. (Neighbors, babysitters, Connecticut state officials, and family friends have also backed Dylan and Mia.)

“A perfect strategy is to bait and switch,” explains Ziering. “Mia is not on trial. If you commit an offense, it doesn’t matter what everyone else around you is doing, so I just want to be wary of any narrative that starts criticizing any unrelated actions, because it’s spurious. It’s just white noise. The best defense is a good offense, so you go on the offensive and declare the person crazy, which is what Woody did. But all of this, ‘Let’s look into her as a parent,’ that’s just misogyny and character assassination that has nothing to do with it.”

Both Dick and Ziering say they—along with their chief reporter/investigator, Amy Herdy, a journalist—thoroughly probed the allegations of abuse against Mia Farrow leveled by Allen’s camp and that they found no evidence to support them.

“There was no record of any of this [abuse by Mia], and there would have been ample opportunity for any of the children to tell this to pediatricians, to babysitters. We tried to find corroboration for that, and we could not. And we worked very hard on that and were very curious,” offers Ziering. “We couldn’t find any eyewitnesses, any police reports, any complaints to child welfare agencies, any history of this ever being mentioned, and that was a very public family with lots of people coming in and out—friends, babysitters, nannies, tutors, teachers. On the contrary, when we interrogated these people and asked what they thought of their experiences, it was the polar opposite.”

Dick and Ziering also observed hours and hours of home videos of the Allen-Farrow family, which showed them “a family that was very loving,” with Mia “knitting stockings, building dollhouses from scratch, having friends come over, taping Soon-Yi as a child so that later on she’ll have the memory, bringing children on set with her.” As Vanity Fair reported, Soon-Yi had experienced horrible abuse at the hands of her biological mother, who would allegedly “force Soon-Yi to kneel in a doorway, and she would slam the door against the little girl’s head,” before abandoning her on the street in Seoul. Mia Farrow fought like hell to adopt Soon-Yi, even changing the law to do so.

“Mia waited almost a year to get her, and finally had to request that Congress change the law that limited the number of alien children an American family could adopt,” reported Vanity Fair. “She then stayed at the orphanage in Seoul washing dishes for 10 days until Soon-Yi’s papers came through.

Allison Stickland, a family friend’s nanny who said she’d witnessed Woody Allen burying his head in the lap of Dylan Farrow:

“I thought it was a lovely household. Lovely children, they all got along well together. There never seemed to be any sibling rivalry. The older children I would say had fun with the younger ones. It was just very happy. I wouldn’t say it was troubled at all,” said Stickland on a recent podcast episode with Dick, Ziering, and Herdy. “I thought [Mia] was lovely. She was a very soft-spoken, gentle lady. Very attentive. You could tell it was so obvious that she adored all her children.”

“We looked into everything. We did leave no stone unturned. We have no agenda. We would have welcomed talking to Woody and Soon-Yi. We asked to do that,” maintains Dick. “We read his books, read all his interviews, read his court testimony, and were very interested in his side. All we did was follow where the facts led us, and where we could find corroboration, and what the evidence presented to us as the truth, and that’s what we show.”


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Allen’s now-wife, Soon-Yi, and his adopted son Moses Farrow—whose life Allen mysteriously re-entered just before the Dylan allegation resurfaced in 2014—have backed Allen’s narrative. Mia Farrow, Ronan Farrow, Daisy Previn, Fletcher Previn, Kaeli-Sha Farrow, Matthew Previn, Sascha Previn, Isaiah Farrow, and Quincy Farrow all support Dylan and have said Mia is a good mother. (Neighbors, babysitters, Connecticut state officials, and family friends have also backed Dylan and Mia.)


SOME IMPRESSIONS and QUESTIONS:

The MYSTERY or the reason why MOSES suddenly decides to back Allen's "HE SAID" narrative (instead of his mother MIA) was also SOLVED by RONAN FARROW -- who explains how both he and MOSES were BRIBED by WOODY to say DEROGATORY things about her in exchange for WOODY SUPPORTING them and paying for their college educations.

So that also NARROWS it down to how MOST of MIA's kids (excluding SOON-YI) SUPPORT her, whereas we have NONE of WOODY or SOON-YI's Adopted children coming forwards to SUPPORT THEM. And both of the girls are also ADULTS now who are 21 or OLDER (the same age as SOON-YI was when she breaks off her relationship with MIA after MIA finds the PORNOGRAPHIC PHOTOS that WOODY took of SOON-YI).

What's also interesting to NOTE is how WOODY also has a character in his film ([Crimes and Misdemeanors[/i]) describe how as ADULTS people tend to CREATE situations again that MIRROR the one's that we grew up with:


Professor Levy: [i]You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.


In other words, NOTE how one of the 2 girls that WOODY adopted was a little blond girl (who resembles DYLAN), and the other one was an ASIAN girl (like SOON-YI). Could this also be the ATTEMPT of WOODY to return again to his PAST???

And after the break up with MIA, could HISTORY also have repeated itself again in the ALLEN/SOON-YI household??? If so, then that could also help to explain the reason why these other 2 girls haven't come forth to DEFEND WOODY. PLUS he could also threaten to CUT them OUT of his WILL and/or refuse to SUPPORT THEM if they were willing to talk to the press (the same way as RONAN also says MOSES was BRIBED by WOODY to say what he said about his mother).

What would you do if your father was accused of MOLESTING a 7 year old child??? Would you STAY SILENT like these other 2 girls that WOODY ADOPTED have done??? Personally, I find it EXTREMELY ODD that they have had NOTHING whatsoever to say regarding this matter when nearly ALL of MIA's kids have defended her.



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when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.


A look back at Woody's PAST Family HISTORY:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen

QUOTE: Allen's childhood was not particularly happy; his parents did not get along and he had a rocky relationship with his stern, temperamental mother.[22]

COMMENT: Perhaps this also explains the reason why he's was so STERN with Mia back during the CUSTODY trial???

FOOTNOTE [22]: Meade, Marion. "The Unruly Life of Woody Allen". The New York Times. Retrieved November 14, 2018.

Chapter One. He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat....New York was his town. And it always would be.

The family — father, mother, and son, Allan — were mashed into the apartment with Nettie Konigsberg's sister Ceil and her husband, Abe Cohen. Too many people in too few rooms made daily living somewhat volatile. Most of the time the child was surrounded by people who spoke to one another in loud voices and waved their hands, all of which made quite a powerful impression. As an adult, detesting family turmoil and the forced intimacy of overcrowded households, Woody would be obsessive about solitude.

Nettie's sister Molly was regarded by her sisters as painfully timid. Uncommunicative, she may actually have been drowned out by the ruckus of a family that never stopped yapping and complaining.


COMMENT: Which probably also helps to explain the reason why we hear WOODY MOAN and GROAN and complain so much in his films.

Commentary:

"My mother is an orthodox paranoid and, while she doesn't believe in an
afterlife, she doesn't believe in a present one either."
— Woody Allen, 1967

QUOTE: Young Nettie (WOODY'S MOTHER), who was anything but meek, would be, as an adult, famously excitable. In the 1989 film New York Stories, she would be memorialized by her son in his vignette "Oedipus Wrecks" as a harpy mother who disappears, only to hang in the sky above New York City like a Bullwinkle balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, from which vantage point she leans down and continues to berate her bad boy. Woody would come to describe his mother as a shallow, narrow-minded woman whose interests tended to be commonplace. He ticked off the highlights of her day: "She gets up in the morning, as she has for years, she works in a little flower shop downtown, she rides the subway home, and she makes dinner. Beyond that she is not too interested in too many things."

daily warfare had become practically a way of life. The household pathology was, as Woody remarked years later, "there all the time as soon as I could understand anything."(END QUOTE)


COMMENT: So if Professor LEVY is right about how we "attempt to RETURN to the PAST" again, perhaps things may also NOT have been very happy for the 2 girls who grew up in the WOODY/SOON-YI household either???



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If an attempt was made to "RETURN to his PAST" again, Perhaps this next section of FOOTNOTE 22 explains the reason why DYLAN said that WOODY SMASHED her face down into a HOT PLATE of food at the dinner table back when she was still a child:

In 1986, Nettie (WOODY's MOTHER) was a woman of seventy-eight, a resident of Manhattan's Upper East Side, living rent-free at her son's expense in one of the new apartment high-rises. Woody sat his mother on a chair, facing the camera.

"Did you hit me?" he asked from behind the camera. Making a documentary about her life and the life of Mia Farrow's mother, actress Maureen O'Sullivan, two women who seemed to share nothing in common, seemed like an intriguing idea. "Mia's mother was a movie star all her life and knew nothing else," he explained afterward. "She was Tarzan's mate. She had a Beverly Hills pool and hung around with Bogart and all these people." Maureen was a thoroughbred filly, whereas his own mother was a plow horse, "a typical Jewish-neighborhood cliché in every way," he said.

The tiny, snowy-haired woman was squinting.

"I remember you would hit me every day when I was a child."

Hit him? she asked incredulously. What did that mean? That she whipped him?

"No, but you were always slapping me."

His insistence on dredging up the past made her testy.

Of course she smacked him. What did he expect, a saint? He was a stubborn kid, never listening to her when she corrected him, jumping around and pulling off his clothes, making her crazy. But she refused to stand for any monkey business. "You were too active and too much of a child for me," she said. "I wasn't good to you because I was very strict, which I regret."

Her daughter, on the other hand, had been a cuddly docile child. "I was much sweeter to Letty than I was to you," she reminded him.


Two Mothers was harder than he anticipated. He never finished it.


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In addition to WOODY abusing DYLAN by SHOVING her face into the plate of HOT FOOD (simply because she'd called him by his name WOODY), we also have this other account that he also abused his son RONAN (who was called Satchel at the time).

https://www.thedailybeast.com/allen-v-farrow-lead-investigator-amy-herdy-hits-back-at-woody-allen-defenders

‘Allen v. Farrow’ Lead Investigator Amy Herdy Hits Back at Woody Allen Defenders

One thing that Allen v. Farrow doesn’t really delve into, because I suppose it’s a whole other can of worms, is Allen’s treatment of Satchel. What did you discover about Allen’s treatment of him? According to Orth’s report, Allen’s nickname for Satchel was “the little bastard,” and he would administer corporal punishment. Once, Allen allegedly twisted Satchel’s leg so hard he screamed, and then Allen threatened to break his legs.

And that quote is actually in Judge Wilk’s custody decision, and it’s presented in the finding of fact. When a judge releases a verdict, they give what’s called the “finding of fact.” They say, I believe this testimony. I’m not repeating it as someone taking an allegation; I’m repeating it as a finding of fact. And Wilk put that exact quote, about Woody Allen saying, “I’m going to break your fucking leg,” in his finding of fact.


Ronan also said this about MOSES:

https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/2379145/moses-farrow-mia-farrow-woody-allen-dylan-farrow/

Ronan Farrow, stepbrother to Dylan and Moses chimed in on the situation.
He said his brother’s essay was part of a “repeated campaign to discredit my sister, often by attacking our mother.”



So we have at least 2 reports from other children that they were abused by WOODY the same way as WOODY also claims that he was abused by HIS MOTHER as a child.

Thus also leaving one with the impression that what PROFESSOR LEVY from "CRIMES and MISDEMEANORS" said about the "attempt to return to our past" again is correct.

And that's because of the way that the lives of WOODY'S children (DYLAN and RONAN) also seems to MIRROR or REFLECT back to us that of Woody's own childhood where ALLEN claims to have been REPEATEDLY ABUSED by his MOTHER.

And this is what also worries one whenever one also takes into consideration how SILENT the other 2 girls have been about what their upbringing has been like inside of the WOODY/SOON-YI environment where they've been raised.

If you were raised by WOODY and had NOT been abused by him, wouldn't you also feel the need to come forward to state that fact??? Yet all we hear back from them is the sound of CRICKETS instead of hearing them DEFENDING him the way MIA's other kids did her???


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Here's a review of the BOOK that was found in FOOTNOTE 22 at the WIKIPEDIA website that sums up ALLEN as being:

self-involved, misogynist, egotistical, inconsiderate, isolated and stagnant.


https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/05/reviews/000305.05udovict.html

Deconstructing Woody

A new biography of the filmmaker analyzes a life as complex as one of his movies.

He married the 17-year-old Harlene Rosen when he was 20

the final two-thirds of the 384 pages in ''The Unruly Life of Woody Allen'' are devoted to Allen's relationships with Mia Farrow and Soon-Yi Previn, and the preceding pages, as the prologue indicates, are essentially designed to lay the groundwork.

his commercial popularity, as measured by movie grosses, has plummeted from a high of $45.7 million for ''Manhattan'' (1979) to $5 million for ''Celebrity'' (1998),

Basically, ''The Unruly Life of Woody Allen'' follows what has become, unfortunately for him, the consensus of opinion on its subject, depicting him as

self-involved, misogynist, egotistical, inconsiderate, isolated and stagnant.

And there certainly isn't much evidence out there that contradicts this portrait, including the evidence that can be inferred from Allen's work.

Allen was in analysis for 40 years, and although he chose to make a joke out of that fact, that does not mean it is one -- both in his work and in interviews, he frequently described himself as depressed or evinced the symptoms of depression, at one point telling an interviewer that not a day went by that he did not think about suicide. His rigidly controlled modus vivendi (the very opposite of unruly, despite Meade's title), with its reliance on a severely limited orbit of the same people, the same daily routine, the same foods and the same restaurants, suggests in itself a chronic disturbance.

Allen's relationship to his mother, which, again, he has himself often characterized in terms that could be translated as abusive and negligent, is surely worth more than the occasional line or two that ''The Unruly Life of Woody Allen'' devotes to it. Given Farrow's avocation for parenthood, Previn's relationship to her and the indelible blot these things have left on Allen's life, the marriage of Woody and Soon-Yi could be viewed as an attempt to make the mother disappear, only to find her dominating the landscape at every turn. Didn't Allen once make a movie that was something like that?


Since WOODY was in THERAPY for 40 YEARS (nearly for HALF of his life) it would also be INTERESTING to be able to see those NOTES that were taken during his therapy sessions.


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In addition to WOODY paying MOSES to change his story and attack his mother (in return for his SUPPORT and his COLLEGE EDUCATION), we have this other PROOF as well that WOODY also PAID off DYLAN'S NANNY as a way to get her to change her story about MIA:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/allen-v-farrow-lead-investigator-amy-herdy-hits-back-at-woody-allen-defenders

One person that Woody Allen’s defenders bring up is Monica Thompson, Dylan’s nanny. She initially said that Mia was a good mother, and then claimed she was pressured into saying it by Mia and retracted the statement, and then issued a statement—through Allen’s agent—saying that Allen was the superior parent. And then, upon cross examination in the child custody trial, she confessed to telling multiple other people that Mia was a good parent.

There’s more to it than that, and we didn’t have the time and the space to put everything in. You have to understand, this story was so sprawling that we tried to stay focused on the most pertinent facts. I know that we thoroughly investigated Monica Thompson’s account and did not use it because of what’s represented in the record, which are contradictions. She contradicted herself in the record, and it was reflected in the custody trial transcripts and the police report that she was not truthful with police.

She told police that she was on vacation when she was actually meeting with Woody Allen’s attorneys. From my experience, when you lie to police it’s a really bad thing, and they pretty much don’t believe anything you have to say after that.

And then, who paid her? It was Woody. And also, as she discloses in the custody trial, Woody had loaned her money.


Amazing isn't it how MONEY can get people like MOSES and MONICA to change their story and come up with another NEW and completely DIFFERENT ONE???


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Allen v. Farrow picks apart the Yale-New Haven report by interviewing a slew of child abuse experts who call the conclusion “bogus.” Raising eyebrows were the fact that Dylan, then 7, was interviewed an excessive number of times and that the notes from the examination were destroyed. Maco called it a “runaway evaluation” that cleared Allen in the press without having the authority to do so.

Meanwhile, over in the New York investigation, Dick and Ziering produce the notes from that caseworker, who found Dylan to be credible and quoted the social workers from the Yale-New Haven evaluation as agreeing with his findings. According to caseworker Paul Williams, “[Yale-New Haven social worker] Jennifer Sawyer indicated that she believes Dylan.” (Sawyer did not respond to comment requests for Allen v. Farrow; THR has reached out to the Yale-New Haven Hospital for comment.) Williams found sufficient information to open an investigation, but his superiors would go on to take over and he temporarily lost his job. At the time, the late David Dinkins was mayor of New York, and Allen — who shot all of his movies in the city — was considered a key figure in revitalizing the Big Apple’s image and driving tourism.

“There was clearly a strong, political climate to shut this thing down. This was a massive cover-up attempt and Paul was caught in the middle,” says Williams’ attorney, Bruce Baron, in Allen v. Farrow. Sheryl Harden, who was in charge of the New York investigation, also goes on the record to say she quit the following year over what she witnessed. “The elite can do whatever they need to do, whatever they want to do, and there’s no consequences for it,” she says.

“He made his movies in New York, that brought millions to New York City,” notes Mia in the doc, “and what Woody had said to me was, ‘It doesn’t matter what’s true, it matters what’s believed.’ He said it in such a cold way, that I thought, could he be right?”

Shortly after, Allen sued Mia for custody of the three youngest children, Dylan, Ronan and Moses Farrow, alleging she was an unfit mother. In more never-before-heard phone calls, Mia pleads with Allen to drop the lawsuit. “If Woody were believed that I was a horrible mother, what would happen to all the other adopted children in the family? There was a lot to lose,” she explains to the camera.


Due to his FALSE ACCUSATIONS about MIA being an UNFIT MOTHER, apparently ALLEN didn't give a damn about what would happen to the other ADOPTED KIDS.

And Thank goodness the JUDGE saw through WOODY and ruled against him!!!


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So Moses and Soon-Yi are lying about the abuse they suffered from Mia? Both Woody and Mia can be trash. No one has to pick a side to root for.

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Woody wanted to save his relationship specifically with those three kids because Mia basically cut him off. In his book Woody described how his "supervised" visitations with Satchel/Ronan went. They would send him on an hour's cab ride from the Connecticut country to New York City, and he would arrive tired, crabby and bored, to Woody and some often different expensive supervisor, often primed by Mia. It was virtually impossible to even take a walk because the supervisor had to go wherever they went, as if Woody was a danger to - supposedly his own son ... but who now Mia claims is Frank Sinatra's son.

The claims of Mia and Dylan Farrow are like QANON they are so ridiculously hyperbolic that the idea that they could not be true is what makes some people seem to believe them even more.

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In March of 1993, the famous Hollywood custody case begins. While taking the stand, Allen presented his case that Mia concocted the abuse allegations to punish him; saying in testimony that he believed Mia “brainwashed” Dylan. The videos of Dylan recounting the abuse — some of which aired publicly for the first time in the second episode of Allen v. Farrow — were entered as evidence. More of that footage airs here, as the filmmakers consult independent experts to evaluate the tapes.

More harrowing footage of a young Dylan includes the child repeating, “I don’t like it. I don’t like it. I also don’t want to talk about it,” which the experts conclude is typical in the progression of an abused child, and not consistent with a false accusation.

“What’s in that tape feels like that’s who I am when you strip away everything else,” says an adult Dylan, looking back in the doc. “You look underneath all my layers down to the very center of who I am. I am that little girl in the tape. So it’s a very vulnerable part of me. And a very hurt part of me.”

She continues, “That little girl is in a lot of pain. This kind of abuse warps something inside of you. Because it doesn’t happen by a stranger that snatches you off the street and throws you in a van. It happens by someone you love and someone you trust. Someone who buckles your seatbelt, takes your hand when you walk down the street, reads you bedtime stories. It’s incomprehensible to normal people because it’s not normal.”

After a seven-week trial and month long wait for the verdict, Allen lost. Allen v. Farrow quotes Judge Elliot Wilk’s decision, which characterized Allen’s behavior toward Dylan as “grossly inappropriate and that measures must be taken to protect her.” His ruling declared Mia as a “caring and loving mother” and called the Yale-New Haven report to be “sanitized and, therefore, less credible.”

With the custody case settled (Allen failed in his appeal attempts), the criminal case remains ongoing heading into the final installment of Allen v. Farrow, as Maco announces his conclusion that there was probable cause for an arrest warrant on the charges of 1st and 4th degree sexual assault of a minor.

Before jumping ahead, the filmmakers sit with Dylan for a moment. For her as a child, that period in time was a win; Mia had retained full custody and Allen lost his parental rights over Dylan for six months. “It was a strange feeling being told that I never had to see him again. It wasn’t framed as, ‘You’re never going to see your father again.’ It was framed as, ‘Do you ever want to see him again?’ And, I didn’t,” says Dylan to close the episode.


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