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Mia Farrow’s family secrets: Sinatra, Woody Allen and abuse

Mia Farrow and her children are digging up some long-buried family secrets that Woody Allen would probably prefer stay forgotten.

Woody Allen woke up to some gnarly press today. His ex-partner Mia Farrow gave a fresh tell-all interview with Vanity Fair, and in it she spills who might be the real father of their son Ronan — plus daughter Dylan details sexual abuse at the hands of the famed director.

Allen created a huge scandal when he left Farrow for Soon-Yi Previn, the actress’s oldest adopted daughter, and was accused of sexually abusing adopted daughter Dylan during the resulting custody proceedings. Allen denied the claims and was never charged with a crime, but he lost custody of the children. Dylan insists it happened, and reiterated it in Vanity Fair.

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“There’s a lot I don’t remember, but what happened in the attic I remember. I remember what I was wearing and what I wasn’t wearing,” Dylan told the mag. “The things making me uncomfortable were making me think I was a bad kid, because I didn’t want to do what my elder told me to do.”

“I was cracking. I had to say something. I was seven. I was doing it because I was scared. I wanted it to stop.” For all she knew, she told writer Maureen Orth, “this was how fathers treated their daughters. This was normal interaction, and I was not normal for feeling uncomfortable about it.”

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Elsewhere in the juicy article, Farrow hints the Allen might not be the father of their biological son Ronan, but rather her ex-husband Frank Sinatra, to whom Ronan bears an uncanny resemblance.

When asked point-blank if Sinatra fathered Ronan, Farrow answered, “Possibly… We never really split up.”

Nancy Sinatra Jr. refused to confirm or deny the claim, but told the mag, “He is a big part of us, and we are blessed to have him in our lives.”

As for Ronan himself, he addressed the rumor on Twitter with his usual humor.

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