Moses Farrow defends Woody Allen

[pscot]

One of Woody Allen's adopted children, Moses Farrow, has explicitly offered his support to the embattled film-maker, saying in an interview with People magazine: "Of course Woody did not molest my sister."

Moses, 36, is one of two children Allen adopted with Mia Farrow – the other being Dylan, the subject of the child sex abuse allegations – and has now reacted to the letter Dylan published accusing Allen.

Speaking of Dylan and Allen, Farrow told People: "[Dylan] loved [Allen] and looked forward to seeing him when he would visit. She never hid from him until our mother succeeded in creating the atmosphere of fear and hate towards him." He says that on the day the abuse is alleged to have occurred there were several people present in the house the whole time and "no one, not my father or sister, was off in any private spaces". Dylan alleges the abuse took place in an attic.

He continued: "I don't know if my sister really believes she was molested or is trying to please her mother. Pleasing my mother was very powerful motivation because to be on her wrong side was horrible."

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/05/woody-allen-dylan-farrow-moses

[Heather MC]

1. Who knows what the truth is, but it is clear this entire family needs intense therapy

[reddread]

3. I do

the truth is people are judgemental and quick to hate. easily manipulated and thoughtless.

[Texasgal]

2. Replace the story

with a clergy of the church.

Just change a few words and see where that gets you.

[frylock]

5. are we supposed to give the catholic church the benefit of the doubt?

really?

[Texasgal]

7. No. I guess you didn't understand.

Sorry. I was trying to make a point. I guess I failed it.

[frylock]

8. I didnt and I apologize

[sabrina 1]

4. Maybe it might have been better for all involved if they had handled their problems in private.

This seems to be a very dysfunctional family. And no one outside of it knows anything at all about them other than what they decide to tell the public and what they decide not to.

[El_Johns]

6. Yes, it definitely would have. Farrow says she didn't want to go to court because it would

have damaged her child, but she was very willing to try Allen in the media, both in 1992-93 and today, 20 years later. I wonder how much damage that has done and will do to everyone concerned.

[seabeyond]

9. it was allen that went to the press and used the media to threaten, unless he got his way.

barbara walter special ring a bell?

Woody Allen took a different tack: He used a “frivolous” custody suit, expert witnesses, and a media blitz that reportedly intimidated his daughter and dissuaded Mia Farrow from pressing criminal charges. On August 5, 1992, Dylan told her mother of her molestation. Eight days later Allen filed his custody suit, hiring expert witnesses to discredit his young daughter. Allen’s side portrayed Dylan as a confused fabulist and former partner Farrow as a hysterical, vengeful ex—allegations that anonymous sources relayed to media to generate headlines like “Mia’s Daughter May Have a Reality Problem” despite a gag order.

Allen’s tactics didn’t win him custody or even visitation rights, but his scorched-earth strategy scarred Dylan and deterred Farrow from pressing criminal charges. The custody battle lasted nearly a year. A criminal trial could take even longer and would be yet harder on Dylan and her siblings, especially if their privacy couldn’t be guaranteed. No doubt prospects for a fair criminal trial seemed dim; the challenge of convincing a jury of Allen’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, insurmountable.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/02/woody-allens-advantage-how-the-law-protects-celebs-accused-of-abuse/283595/

amazing how you can just flip facts on its ear.

[El_Johns]

10. Nov 1992. Written by the same friend of Mia's who wrote the recent VF article on the same topic.

Each monthly issue comes out before the month it's labeled as. IOW, the Nov issue comes out at the end of October.

Allen's 60 minutes interview aired November 22, 1992.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2620744/

The item you linked from the Gainesville Sun is a blind item and reports one fact; that Farrow fired Dylan's psychologist. It may be that Allen was the leaker or it may not, but leaking one fact is rather different from what Mia & her friend do below:



There was an unwritten rule in Mia Farrow’s house that Woody Allen was never supposed to be left alone with their seven-year-old adopted daughter, Dylan. Over the last two years, sources close to Farrow say, he has been discussing alleged “inappropriate” fatherly behavior toward Dylan in sessions with Dr. Susan Coates, a child psychologist. In more than two dozen interviews conducted for this article, most of them with individuals who are on intimate terms with the Mia Farrow household, Allen was described over and over as being completely obsessed with the bright little blonde girl. He could not seem to keep his hands off her. He would monopolize her totally, to the exclusion of her brothers and sisters, and spend hours whispering to her.

She was fond of her daddy, but if she tried to go off and play, he would follow her from room to room, or he would sit and stare at her. During the school year, Allen would arrive early at Mia Farrow’s West Side Manhattan apartment, sit on Dylan’s bed and watch her wake up, and take her to school. At her birthday party last July, at Farrow’s country house in Bridgewater, Connecticut, he promised that he would keep away from the children’s table so that Dylan could enjoy her birthday party with her friends, but he seemed unable to do that. Allen, who was a fearful figure to many in the household, was so needy where Dylan was concerned that he hovered over her through the whole party, and when the cake arrived, he was right behind her, helping to blow out the candles...

http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1992/11/farrow199211

[seabeyond]

11. you accused mia of going to the media. clearly it was allen that used that to hurt his family.

this post has NOTHING to do with what i replied to.

[El_Johns]

13. Not clear to me. You mentioned the 60 minutes interview, as showing the Allen started trying the

case through the media, and I've just shown that it aired at least one month AFTER MIA'S INTERVIEW IN VANITY FAIR.

The November issue comes out in October. Which means that Farrow was working on it in early October at the latest. That's a little under two months after the supposed molestation in August.

[seabeyond]

12. prosecution, i am not seeing mia making this decision, though as a parent, i am sure she was part.

In an unusual move, criticized at the time, Maco went public with his belief that even though there was probable cause to charge Allen with a crime, he would not do so because of the traumatic effect that testifying in court could have on the young girl.

Despite the latest uproar, Maco, who spent more than 30 years as a prosecutor -- first as an assistant state's attorney in Bridgeport, then in the Office of the Chief State's Attorney, and later as state's attorney in Litchfield -- has not changed his opinion.

http://www.newstimes.com/policereports/article/Prosecutor-in-Woody-Allen-case-back-in-the-5201622.php

[El_Johns]

14. If Mia & Maco wanted to try the case, they should have tried it in court, not in the media.

Maco's office, btw, commissioned the Yale-New Haven clinic.

The one whose report didn't find evidence of molestation.

And who started re-trying it in the media this time? Why, Mia and Ronan.

[seabeyond]

15. they explained why they did not try the case, and that is a norm. do not act like it is not.

when you have a society, and example we are seeing on du, right here and now, that blames the victim or assumes she is lying, this is what happens. to put a 7 yr old thru that would be troubling to say the least.

the judge took care of it.

NO custody
NO visitations
NO supervised visitations.

that never happens unless there is a huge problem with lots of distrust.

the verdict came in without putting the child thru trauma and the VICTIM was taken care of.

[El_Johns]

16. Because it "might harm Dylan." Like the rest of the media circus, the multiple investigations and

exams, etc etc etc didn't. Like "sharing" Dylan's video as soon as it was made with "a reporter and two producers from a New York television station" didn't.

There WAS NO "verdict," BECAUSE THERE WAS NO TRIAL. The custody case was not a trial of whether Allen molested Dylan, even though your team keeps pretending it was.

Allen got visitation with Satchel/Ronan.

Moses was allowed to decide for himself.

Allen wasn't given visitation with Dylan since she was reacting badly to seeing him but the door was left open.

[seabeyond]

17. there was a verdict when the judge said no custody, no visitation, no supervised visitation. courts

never deny the right of the father to visitation if there is nothing there. never.

the judge took care of it.

guilty.

[El_Johns]

18. I hope you never serve on a jury. Or anything else.

[seabeyond]

19. i am kinda feeling the same that you never sit on a child molestation case. nt

[El_Johns]

20. Ditto. What would be the point, when you've already made up your mind that every accusation

of molestation is true?

And when you've already demonstrated you are willing to bend facts and evidence to push your own POV?

Like a parent is never denied visitation. Ever.

Horseshit.

[seabeyond]

21. and that you have made up your mind that all are merely false claims, silly girls. nt

[El_Johns]

22. More horseshit. I've never said any such thing or anything that could be construed to mean

that by a normal person.

I don't think WOODY ALLEN molested Dylan. That view is specific to THIS CASE.

I have noticed you & your friends' use of such accusations as a tactic of argumentation, however.

Like the one who implied I was a pedophile.

[seabeyond]

23. lol. adn when did i say every accusation of molestation is true? you can play, and you cant.

it is fine for you to fling the horseshit but by gosh.... no one better fling it your way, right?

[El_Johns]

24. You're not the one who said "I stand with the child every time"?

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. Trash bin is my friend...