As further commentary on your post, see my previous post just above relating this event to the day care hysteria prosecutions of the era.
I’m no big fan of Allen, but think it quite likely something like memory implantation of the sort that happened in these day care witch hunts might have happened in the midst of a contentious divorce between Mia and Allen.
Agree 100%. I’m a fan of Allen’s films, but his actions during the final years of his relationship with Farrow were reprehensible. I don’t doubt his attraction with Soon-Yi developed when she was either 20 or 21, but there’s no way he could legitimately believe it would not have a devastating effect on his family... and that is simply unforgivable.
However, there’s this little thing called the law, and called justice. While his relationship with Soon-Yi is odd there was nothing illegal done. She was a full grown woman, and by all accounts is extremely smart, so she certainly what she was getting into. Secondly, the court determined no molestation occurred between Allen and Dylan. There was simply no evidence and the child appeared coached.
I fully understand Farrow’s feelings of shock, pain, horror and betrayal, but that does not justify trumping up these accusations to exact one last pound of flesh.
There was never a divorce because they were never married.
The molestation charges were the one way Farrow could get him into court.