Do we believe him? We’re having a moment right now when we are really focused on believing people who claim to be victims. Are we as strongly defensive of people claiming to be honest and fair? Or nah? And if we question why it took Moses so long to come to his recollection, and we’re willing to use that as a reason to doubt him, are we doing the same with everyone here or not? Why not?

There’s an obvious shame that accompanies being victimized because of how our society has treated and still treats victims of sexual assault. We assign shame as a society to victims of sexual assault, as much as we provide compassion. An honest person also knows that perspective matters and perspective can be warping, distorting, and deceiving. The truth is messy. How willing are we to let it be messy and act accordingly? How willing are we to correct a bias or diagnosis we’ve made when it is exposed as biased or mis-diagnosed?

I honestly don’t know.

I'm generally uncomfortable with challenging specific narrative facts (eg, "an odd enticement for a 7-year old" - odd or not, it's something that an adult might consider appealing); and really, a garage isn't different enough from an attic that it seems like a non-issue with regards to accuracy of the important elements of Dylan Farrow's narrative.

That said, there's certainly a decent amount of smoke with regards to this specific allegation.

@2 What smoke? It was all just repudiated by Moses. Yes, the situation with Soon-Yi is messy, but she was 21 at the time.

Thank you for this link Katie. 2 for 2 today! as for @2 why should anyone believe Dylan and not Moses? Moses said he was abused by Mia, repeatedly.

@4 what I mean is that there's enough dirt about Woody that Moses's account isn't a slam dunk. All he's saying is that it didn't happen on a particular day in a particular place. But it still could have happened!

Sadly (as I love his films) I think the allegations against Alfred Hitchcock are far more credible, esp. coming straight from Kim Novak. @4, what other 'dirt' is there on Woody except for Dylan's accusation? Moses points out that she changed her story several times, I haven't followed this enough to know if that's true ...no matter what, Sleeper is still one of the funniest movies of all time.

As a side-effect of dating several people that went to expensive private schools in NYC during the 80s and 90s, I ended up knowing a few people who went to school with one or more of the Allen/Farrow/Previn kids.

For whatever it's worth, opinion was split on whether they believe Allen assaulted Dylan, they were all creeped out by the Soon-Yi thing and believed he'd groomed her, but they were 100% consistent on stories about Mia's behavior that completely dovetail with what Moses Farrow has written here: abusive and manipulative, and specifically abusive toward her non-white, adoptive children in a way that she wasn't with her biological kids. Every single one of them believed that Lark was a suicide.

My personal takeaway is that neither of these insane narcissists should have been allowed anywhere near a single child, nevermind given the go-ahead to adopt seven of them.

Moses’s story here sounds typical of what abusers tell their other kids to prop up their version of reality. As a mental health professional he should know that. It sounds like Mia was a genuinely fucked up mom, but that doesn’t make Woody innocent.

@7 I always read Novak as one of Hitchcock's biggest defenders. Is there something new or are you thinking of Tippi Hedron?

Dribbling chili on your shirt is “messy.”

Fucking your girlfriends adopted daughter is god damned repugnant. (Really HIS defacto adopted daughter.)

And, you know, let’s quote the rules lawyering about when his “relationship” with Soon Yi started. He had a father figure “relationship” with her when she was a child. That’s a relationship.

He shattered a family and social norms when the woman he lived with for years discovered Allen had taken naked polaroids of Soon Yi. It was only then that he discovered his deep adult love for former daughter.

Yeah. Any good will Allen has has long been burned by that obscene lack judgement and moral sanity. As far as the facts go how much does it matter if he may or may not have fucked ANOTHER one of his “daughters.”

Jesus Christ. Burn that pile of shit to the ground. Burn him down.

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I don't know what the truth is about Dylan, though it seems weird that Moses remembers that day with so much detail. It makes sense that Dylan would remember the day clearly if she was assaulted, but why would Moses? However, in addition to his predatory and very unequal relationship with Soon Yi, just look at all those Woody Allen movies wherein he portrayed relationships between men in their late 30's and middle age with girls in their teens and barely legal women. So much ICK! How is he different from Roy Moore?

@5: Maybe you molested Dylan? Or some other child? I mean after all, IT COULD HAVE HAPPENED!

Glad to know the mere vague theoretical possibility of something happening somewhere is now enough to constitute “smoke.”

A few thoughts occur.

First, this family is really effed up. I don't know who is responsible, Farrow, Allen, or both. I'm just not equipped to make a judgment. The police investigated and they didn't find enough to build a case. So, who knows?

Second, lots of families are really effed up. We just don't hear about them because they don't have any celebrities. Now, I personally am of the opinion that celebrity tends to attract effed up people and make them even more effed up (I'd discourage any young people I know from pursuing a career on stage or in front of the camera in any professional capacity). But people tend to be effed up anyways and some families are just way the eff out there in crazytown. It sucks, but it's life, and the most we can try to do in most cases is make resources available for those attempting to escape their effed-upedness.

Third, the artwork that both Farrow and Allen have created in neither hear nor there. Art takes on a life of its own after it has been created. In many ways, the artist is incidental. The work they've done will either stand the test of time or not; audiences 100 years from now will care not a whit about this real-life drama... if they know anything of it at all.

Those three thoughts incline me to suspend judgment here. In the absence of any real facts here, what we have is a bunch of opinions. And each opinion will be far more colored by the worldview of the person spouting it rather than the particulars of the case.

Plus, one thing we really don't hear often enough these days is that stuff like this is none of our business. And shame on every family member involved who has tried to enlist the public into what should always have been a private affair (yes, child abuse is of public interest, but only in a police and legal sense, not a titillating, gossip blog sense).

As for the relationship with Soon Yi Previn, I do have to ask the Slog crowd here if, in fact, the measure of acceptability of sexual behavior is going to be consent or not. Last I checked, both were consenting adults. If "ick" is going to be the measure of what is acceptable or not, there are a heck of a lot of social conservatives out there smiling and nodding along with you and glad that you've come around to their way of thinking.

To clarify on that last point, I, personally, happen to think that consent is an insufficient standard for acceptable sexual behavior, and so I would agree that the relationship between Woody Allen and his wife was and is inappropriate. But by the standard of consent, there really are no grounds to object to it.

Wow, he seems to remember that day really well. And to feel pretty passionately that he was obligated to keep his sister safe and that it is somehow a personal failure if he didn’t.

Some people do just assault one person, although Woody Allen has certainly engaged in all manner of creepiness.

Anyway, his mom sounds pretty f-Ed up. I hope he finds peace.

@17: "All manner of creepiness"? The Soon-Yi thing, maybe (and say what you will about it, but they are still happily together if that means anything). What else? The fact that he casts beautiful young women as lust/love objects in his movies? If that qualifies as "creepiness," then I guess all of Hollywood is creepy, along with most men of any kind anywhere.

A lot of you people have lost your damn minds over this.

@18 According to his eyes!

@20 You make a strong point, just look at Adam Sandler. Not to mention Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in Lost In Translation. Fuck, any Bill Murray movie later into his career.

Sad fact is, a mother with an axe to grind can "instill" rape memories into their child. Unfortunately for Darrow, child psychology wasn't as advanced as it is now when it comes to these things.

@10 good call, you're right, it was Tippi Hedren...

@17 I'm sure you're correct that some people only sexually assault one person, but I'd have to imagine those instances fall into scenarios like getting drunk and pushing things too far against someone's consent. It does seem odd that Woody would engage in such an extreme and premeditated (presumably) form of pedophilia, and then never do it again (that we know of).

Anyway, I just don't know. Maybe Dylan was assaulted, maybe she wasn't. Maybe Moses's recollection is accurate, or maybe his memory is tainted by the (alleged) abuse he experienced under Mia. He, consciously or unconsciously, could be retaliating against Mia out of anger (and Dylan, out of jealouy).

And full disclosure, I was a pretty big Allen fan...and I'd love to start revisiting and enjoying his films again. So yeah, I have a pretty big gaping selfish bias in this mess.

It's like a big old ball of fucked up Rashomon.

Personally, I don't believe anyone in this saga. I also feel Moses has other things that is fueling his need to speak out publicly, mainly his alienation with his mother. Whether something happened to Dylan or not, all those involved need to come to terms with this, and move on with their lives. Public rehashing of this, I feel makes thing worse..

What Woody Allen did with Soon Yi Previn is outrageous and sick enough, no matter if she was of legal age. One doesn't get intimate with a daughter of your romantic partner, that is the ultimate of selfishness and self center behavior. Woody Allen doing this, will destroy families, which he helped do by getting involved with Soon Yi Previn.

Mia Farrow has her own crimes, mainly how she has treated some of her children, but this is nothing comparable to what Woody Allen did by getting involved with Soon Yi Previn.

I just wish everyone in this never ending saga, go to their therapists, work out how to cope with their pain, and stop thinking arguing this in public is going to be cathartic..

@15 "As for the relationship with Soon Yi Previn, I do have to ask the Slog crowd here if, in fact, the measure of acceptability of sexual behavior is going to be consent or not. Last I checked, both were consenting adults. "

The relationship allegedly started in the late 1980s when Soon Yi Previn was still a teenager.. Mia Farrow didn't found about it until early 1990s.

Even if it is between two legal consenting adults, what Woody Allen did was reprehensible. He had children with Mia Farrow, he was in a romantic relationship with Mia Farrow. He not only broke the trust of Mia Farrow, but he was risking destroying whatever quixotic family structure that he had with Mia Farrow.

It doesn't matter if Woody Allen was never Soon Yi Previn's guardian, or had any legal ties with her before they started to become lovers.. It doesn't matter that Soon Yi Previn's relationship was fractured for some years with Mia Farrow, as Mia Farrow treated many of her adopted girls as maids.

What matter is that Woody Allen crossed some very specific boundaries as an authority figure to Mia Farrow's family, and the family that he shared with Mia Farrow. One doesn't bonk your romantic partner's teenage daughter, whether it is consensual or not.. The custody case back in the 1990s showed that Farrow won hands down, no matter some of her huge faults..

I don't know what to believe about Dylan Farrow's allegations, but what Woody Allen did by having sex with the daughter of his romantic partner that he already shared 2-3 children with, was outrageous and reprehensible.

For the record Woody and Soon Yi are still together. Not many people on Slog can make that claim of a long term relationship. Hell, most on here end it after one night and forget about it after the morning shower.

That said, this entire family is clearly fucked up (more so than average) and unless you are directly involved it really isn't anyone's fucking business. Though I know, it feels good to pretend you're morally superior this is nothing more than tabloid shit.

@22 well, a decade previous you had the Satanic Ritual Abuse scare.

I think the Soon-Yi thing is across-the-line. Good for them that they're still together, and after reading Moses Farrow's story about Mia Farrow, it's obvious why she gravitated towards Allen - he may have been the only caring figure in her life which had, up to that point, been bouncing between extremely abusive legal parents and homelessness. Now that we have access to the results, whatever Woody Allen did with her is better than whatever Mia Farrow did to her, no matter what age they started being intimate.

I don't know if he's guilty of molesting his daughter. Both sides of the story sound likely. I don't really care enough about these people to have an opinion.

I do think it was beyond forgiveness for him to have an affair with Mia's daughter, regardless of how long it lasted.

Re: Moses's specific memories- assuming he is telling the truth, for argument's sake- it makes sense that he would remember the day specifically because he was there as a teenager and just a short time later, Mia went public with the allegations. And Woody wasn't around all that much then so it wouldn't have been just another day. Therefore, it makes sense that it would stand out in his mind as probably even at the time, he played it over and over again in his head.

I'm of the opinion that all these people are so fucked up that probably neither Moses's nor Dylan's version is totally accurate though neither are lying, like a celebrity Rashomon.

@Corydon

Consent matters, and I don't think anyone is accusing Woody of having a nonconsensual relationship with Soon Yi are they? But that just means it's not assault. It doesn't mean it's ethical. It's not ethical to have secret sexual relationships with your lover's adult children- just like it's unethical to do so with their siblings or parents or friends. But the betrayal is worst with your partner's son/daughter, and it's especially bad if you were in a parental role. I know Woody was never her dad or even her stepdad, but she did know him from the time she was a child as the father of her siblings and the lover of her mother. That puts him in a stepdad role, even if he was not officially her stepdad and even though she was a young adult by the time he started sleeping with her while likewise sleeping with the mom and continuing to coparent with the mom. YIKES! This doesn't make him a child molester and it doesn't make him guilty of assault (we're not doubting the consent) but it makes him an unforgivable creep. So I agree with Ferret here.

When these allegations first surfaced over 25 years ago, they were neutralized by giving the Woody Allen PR team equal, if not more, space for full rebuttals. And they were successful in permanently planting a sufficient level of doubt among the public. They also managed to cast Mia Farrow as a "Mommie Dearest" character. Let's not forget that Mia found Polaroids of her adopted daughter nude, with her legs spread wide open, in plain view at Woody's apartment. That incident should have been more than enough to end his career forever. It didn't. Although being perpetually in therapy is the cornerstone of Woody Allen's entire career, he was also in therapy for his inappropriate behavior toward Dylan before the alleged incident. Rather than "coaching" her children, it's more plausible that having witnessed Woody's lack of respect for family boundaries, and having seen the perverse images of Soon Yi, Mia went into high gear to protect the rest of her children. She likely considered Dylan, who was already the focus of Allen's intense attention, the most vulnerable. Protecting her daughter makes her a good mother, not a monster. As Ronan Farrow just pointed out, Woody Allen offered to finance his college education on the condition that he contradict the testimony of his mother and sister. Enough of this nonsense, please.

@29 just an FYI - for all the reasons you just said, is the same reason why I think a teacher should not have a romantic relationship with their former student. I don't, however, find Allen unforgivable for the Soon-Yi thing because in the end, it worked out (as best we know presently). In the moment when things started, I still think it was wrong, because the outcome was more-likely-than-not to be bad for Soon-Yi. However, we do have access to the results now, she's probably better off for it. So, the process, was and still is 100% wrong; I still believe in that process and one outlier blip of success doesn't change the bigger picture for me. But it's hard to call it, with the benefit of retrospect, unforgivable.

Sporty, I dropped that conversation with you because I disagree so much and see that it's fruitless to continue it. If you can't see the difference between a teacher and a former student who is now an adult out of college and a man who is in a relationship with a woman with whom he has children having sex with a teenager who is also the daughter of his lover and sister of his own children, then it is futile for us to continue here.

Also I don't know why you think Soon-Yi was better off for it. Better off compared to what? I'm not arguing that she was long-term harmed, but you can't claim that her life is better off for being married to Woody since there is literally nothing to compare it to- he has been her lover since she was old enough to have one. And besides, even if it turned out fine, it still destroyed a family, it was still a betrayal to his lover and his other children and it still contributed to the mass of fucked up problems these people have.

I have no problem calling it unforgivable for your father to fuck your sister or for your boyfriend to fuck your daughter. That is unforgivable. Period. As for myself personally, Woody is neither my dad nor my lover so I don't really give a shit about any of these people beyond the celebrity diversion factor.

@32 we have plenty of things to compare it to. Reportedly, her birth mother abused her severely, then she was a homeless street kid in Seoul, then adopted by Farrow who also abused her. We'll never know what would have happened sans Woody Allen, but let's just say the prediction would have been dire. The prediction was also dire when she started sleeping with the significantly older partner of her adopted mom, but like I said - we saw the results.

Put it this way - if you were Soon Yi, would you go back in time and roll the dice?

Would you go back in time and roll the dice on your own life?

I was born to a teenage runaway mom, my dad - 14 years older than her - had just gotten out of ten years in prison. Both were (and are) drug addicts. I grew up just kind of assuming that's how things would go for me. As luck would have it, I was a really good athlete and kinda smart. Today I have a good job, a side business that's nominally profitable, etc. Things are pretty good! I'm still angry about things that happened to me as a kid, I'm still angry about some of the advantages that the white kids had, etc.

But you can be damn sure I'd never go back in time and roll the dice. The average outcome for kids like me was broke and in-and-out of jail. My dad, who turned 70 this year, is still in-and-out of jail. For all the shit that's happened to me, I ended up being among the richest... 2% (?) of humans who have ever lived. I'll take it. For someone like soon yi, the average outcome for her would be "died young" and that might be the kindest way to put it. She was born snake eyes and she'll die boxcars. In the grand scheme of things, she has nothing to regret.

@32 But hold on - " I dropped that conversation with you because I disagree so much and see that it's fruitless to continue it." - you say this while agreeing with me! Your argument is that once a particular relationship is set with regards to power imbalance, it's set. That's my argument about the teacher. I tihnk it's bad news. If Allen and Previn were happening today, I'd think it's bad news too. The only meaningful difference between these two cases is that in Woody Allen's case, it already happened and it worked.

@EmmaLiz and @Sportlandia: I've enjoyed the intelligent and creative speculation regarding Soon Yi's choices and path. It's important to point out that in over 25 years, Soon Yi has only released one brief written statement to People magazine. That statement was either very heavily edited by Woody Allen's highly-paid professional PR team or it was written entirely by them. The same could be argued regarding Moses' written statements. It will be interesting to learn how Moses has benefitted financially by breaking ties with his family and publicly giving his support to Woody Allen. Having one-on-one and separate interviews with both Moses and Soon Yi, with a prepared and deft interviewer, would quickly clear up many questions.

@Dadddy Woody Allen's career would have taken a possibly fatal hit, if his dirty Polaroids of Soon-Yi had not evolved into a long-term relationship and marriage. His unexpected domestication, and marriage to Soon Yi likely saved his career, at least for another quarter of a century. And I'd bet that his career is by far the most important thing in his life. It's more important than any person, and he was willing to do just about anything to save it. Now that he's in his 80s, he'll soon need someone to look after him. His much younger wife will likely assume that role perfectly.

I am amazed at the propensity of a lot of commenters here to just make shit up. Soon Yi gave an interview to Time magazine in 1992. She certainly could speak for herself. I also saw her - gasp! - actually speaking coherently and assertively in the documentary Wild Man Blues, as she accompanied her husband, Woody Allen, on a jazz tour through Europe. What is it with these baseless demeaning insults that Soon Yi and Moses cannot speak in their own words? Here's the Time link: http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,976382,00.html.

For anyone who wants to actually read a detailed account which challenges the accusations against Woody Allen concerning Dylan, by someone who has done extensive research, they should read Robert Weide's articles. Certainly, a number of people writing here have got their facts way out of whack and unfortunately they don't feel bad about just shooting them out there. https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-woody-allen-allegations-not-so-fast

That Time interview is written...not spoken. Neither Moses nor Soon Yi has given a live interview...alone...talking about Woody, Mia, or Dylan's allegations. And I'm ready for the arrows...and to be accused of all kinds of nasty things...but that aside I am going to point out the elephant in the room. There are an awful lot of Jewish journalists (still) defending Woody Allen...on both sides of the continent. That includes Weide (nasty article) and Isaacson. And, I'll list them all, with corresponding links if you so desire, because I've read their articles. And they include the same talking points. Wild Man Blues? That's an impartial movie? Produced by Jean Doumanian (Jewish, and Woody's long-time producer)?! And "directed" by Barbara Kopple (Jewish). You may fool the average reader, but you don't fool me.

@Sporty,

Wait a minute. I'm not doubting that being adopted changed Soon Yi's life for the better. I didn't think that was what we were talking about. I'm saying we have no idea if being in a relationship with Woody (which was not a condition of her adoption, come on) has changed her life for the better. There is nothing to compare it to. And regardless, I think it doesn't justify him having a secret sexual relationship with the sibling of his children and the child of his partner. Yuck.

@34- No that was not my argument. My argument is that you shouldn't fuck your child's siblings or your partner's child. I never said that "power relationships" are set - that was your opinion. I said that power relationships fluctuate and change with setting which is exactly why it's OK for someone who happens to be a teacher having a consensual relationship with someone who was their student five years back but is now an adult out of college. You are the one that said this power relationship remains in place forever even after the former student is an adult. I think that is ludicrous. Familial relationships are set- even if their power dynamics change. Right now, my father is no longer in a power position over me, but he is still my father. My opposition to the Soon Yi and Woody affair is not because of power dynamics. She was an adult when they started fucking as far as I know. She could've been 30 instead of 18 for all I care. She's still the child of his partner- he was carrying on a relationship with Soon Yi's mother while fucking her daughter. He was a father to Soon Yi's siblings while fucking her. It's disgusting.

BTW Sporty, after reading the comments after yours, I think I see where we misunderstand each other (in regards to Soon Yi, not the teacher thing which is a fundamental disagreement, not a misunderstanding). You seem to think I'm saying Woody wronged Soon Yi? I have no idea if he wronger her- if the damage the relationship did to her (if any) is far outweighed by the good of the relationship. I'll go by what she says which is that she's happy and it's a good marriage- fine. I think that interview is a little creepy with all Woody's going on about how he's like a mentor to her, but to each their own. She says she's fine, so fine. And she was an adult when it started.

I'm saying Woody wronged the rest of his family. He was cheating on his partner with her own daughter- that's a betrayal in their relationship for one thing, and it's a cruelty because it also causes a betrayal between a mother and daughter- all the lies and violations of trust. And he had other children with her as well- he's knowingly destroying this family to get a piece of ass and home-wrecking all across. It's not just about him and Soon Yi.

Also note, it's not like he and Mia broke up, years went by, and then he started a relationship with Soon Yi taking care to discuss it openly with her siblings (his children) so that they were able to process the weird compartmentalization of dad being the same person as brother-in-law. Weird things happen in families, this is a weird family, it could've perhaps been handled differently. But that's not what happened. What happened is that he secretly had an affair with his "step daughter" (I know not legally, he was not legally married) while continuing a sexual relationship with her mother and continuing to be in a father role to the other children including his own. This is immensely selfish and fucked up and causes harm and betrayal to loads of people- it's a massively unforgivable violation. I'm not wringing my hands over whether or not it harmed Soon Yi. She lost her entire family as a result- I think that is causing harm. But now it's coming out that her whole family is insane and abusive anyway so maybe in the long run it is better. We don't know. What would she have done if she could've gone back and had a normal early adulthood- all the exploration that most people go through? Who knows. I get her not wanting to roll the dice (as you say) since it's already happened and worked out fine. She might be perfectly happy. It might've been the better for her.

That does not justify breaking a family, lying to your partner, violating trust in your role as a partner and parent, etc. Cheating sucks always. Cheating with your partner's daughter is about as low as you can go, especially when you are co-parenting with them and the partner is trusting you in a father role with her children. It might be the case that Mia Farrow is also abusive and insane (appears that way) but that doesn't justify Woody being that way too, and it's no surprise that such a massive betrayal would make the violated partner question everything about you. She trusted him as a father figure- he lied to her and carried on a multi-year sexual relationship with her daughter while in that role- and then she starts to wonder if he's also fucking her other daughters. I think this is a natural response of finding out about such a massive betrayal. It doesn't make it true, and Woody's past of secretly fucking his teenage step-daughter doesn't mean he'd also secretly molest his elementary-aged bio daughter. I'm not accusing him of that and I have no idea if he did that or not- but I can see why betrayed people would start to question it. The accusation and psychological damage is a natural outcome of his creep ass behavior.

Here is the link to the email, Leslee Dart, Woody Allen's publicist, sent out after Dylan's 2014 op-ed piece appeared in the New York Times. Note how she incorporated Moses into the press release. I have absolutely no doubt that she orchestrated and wrote Moses' blog post.
https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/77438

@30: Uh, no. In fact, if Ronan Farrow says this, he's demonstrably lying. Check out how old Ronan Farrow was when he started college. I don't think Mia Farrow was allowing her estranged boyfriend contact with the child she had with Frank Sin...er, him. People who went to college with Soon-yi got the feeling, too, that Woody Allen didn't initiate that relationship. If you hate someone who calls herself your mother enough, and you're 20, what would seem like a good way to make a very special point to her? I guess 7/10 adopted children not killing themselves is a good percentage, right?

@45 Seems a little catty, your response...no? It also sounds like you might have some "inside" information, which means absolutely nothing, if you are unwilling to identify yourself and your association with that information. I highly doubt that Ronan would risk his hard-earned reputation by lying about Woody's bribes in exchange for college tuition. Also note that he started law school at the age of most undergraduates. So, WA could have been reaching out to him then. According to your sources, Soon-Yi could very well have hated her mother. But her mother went through great lengths to change US laws in order to enable her adoption. Had she not done so, Soon-Yi would likely be a toothless hag living in a whorehouse or dead by now. So, admittedly, she has done quite well. And your suicide rate data for the Farrow family is skewed. First, just because some children make bad decisions, as Lark Previn did (she died of AIDS-related complications), does not mean that those decisions are the result of bad parenting. There are plenty of examples of this in "normal" families. Tam's cause of death was not a suicide unless you are reading (Jewish) Mia-hater Robert Weide's articles. And yes,Thaddeus committed suicide. Thaddeus, like many of Mia's adopted children had severe disabilities and/or came from extremely difficult circumstances. Many adoptive parents would have passed on such opportunities, and I'd agree that many of these children needed way more attention than Mia, as a single working mother, could possibly provide. In that sense, she took on too much. Regarding Frank Sinatra, Mia admitted that she was joking. In fact Ronan is the only biological connection Mia has to Woody. And who could blame her for wanting to sever that, or at least jokingly raise a doubt. I'd personally take Frank Sinatra as my dad over Woody Allen any day. He was an imperfect human being, but he was loved by (all) of his kids. And he had Mia's back until the day he died. Also, Mia adopted Dylan after years of attempts to conceive with Woody. So, who knows, maybe Frank was the one who got the job done.