Twenty years after Vanity Fair special correspondent Maureen Orth reported on the sexual-abuse case involving Woody Allen and Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter Dylan, Orth reconnects with Farrow to discuss her human-rights work, her relationship with Frank Sinatra, the home she created for her 14 adopted and biological children, and the scandal that nearly destroyed it, 20 years ago. For her piece in the November issue, Orth talks to eight of Farrow’s children, including the long-silent Dylan, who speaks on the record for the first time about the alleged incident.

Farrow’s son Fletcher Previn, who built his first computer at the age of 13, tells Orth that he has Photoshopped (Woody) Allen out of every single family photo and edited him out of family videos so that none of them would ever have to see him again. “We can look at them and be reminded of the good and not be reminded of the bad,” Fletcher tells Orth. 

Of the family’s reaction to the crisis with Soon-Yi, Fletcher says, “To my siblings and me, you thought of [Allen] as another dad. It can disrupt your foundation in the world. It resets the parameters of what is possible.” He also discusses the impact Allen’s actions had on the family, telling Orth, “There were casualties, who were totally derailed. It had a different impact on everyone, but everyone had a reaction.” 

Fletcher singles out Lark, who died at 35. “I really do think he’s got some blood on his hands,” he says of Allen.

How awful.

I know, I know.   Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine" is about the victim/survivors of a wicked man.  He used a Madoff-like character as the villain but I wondered if there was something deeper there, a parallel.

Mia Farrow in "Rosemary's Baby"