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Mia Farrow when asked if Ronan (officially, her one biological child with Woody Allen) was actually fathered by Frank Sinatra, the short-term first husband she tells Vanity Fair was the love of her life: We never really split up. Hmmm. Are you seeing it? Were not really seeing it. Actually. . . yeah, maybe around the eyes, now that you mention it. And the nose. Possibly the jaw and mouth. The forehead. Hmmm
(Nancy Sinatra tells the magazine they consider the 25-year-old Rhodes Scholar and former State Department aide part of the family.) Regardless, the story is a sensational opportunity for the ever-beguiling Farrow family to rehash the drama of 22 years ago, when Allen took up with Farrows adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn and Farrow accused her ex of molesting their daughter Dylan, who speaks publicly for the first time: I was seven. I was doing it because I was scared. I wanted it to stop. (Allen has continually denied the claims.) Read an excerpt at VF.com: Mia Farrow and Eight of Her Children Speak Out on Their Lives, Frank Sinatra, and the Scandals Theyve Endured
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2013/10/02/mia-farrow-suggests-that-son-ronan-farrow-might-be-frank-sinatras/
Ronan Farrow, who spent 4 years directing a program at the State Department is quite an interesting guy.
Farrow first came to prominence as a child prodigy[19] when at age 11 he became the youngest student to attend Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Although Simon's Rock specializes in teaching "younger scholars", most of its incoming first-year students are age 16. After receiving his AA degree, Farrow transferred to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where he moderated in the biology department and ultimately completed his senior thesis project in political science and philosophy. He went on to become the college's youngest graduate ever at age 15.[20]
At age 15, Farrow was accepted into the Yale Law School, in New Haven, Connecticut. However he deferred his admission until the fall of 2006 in order to work as an adviser to Richard Holbrooke, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and also to work with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Holbrooke would later appoint Farrow as a key member of his team upon his return to government as Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009. Farrow was among the close staffers reported to have been present the night of Holbrooke's death in December 2010. During his time at Yale Law School, he was a summer associate at New York-based law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell. In 2008, he headed a study for the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya, which focused on post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from Kenya's election violence.[10]
Advocacy and humanitarian work
From 2001 to 2009, he worked as a UNICEF Spokesperson for Youth in Nigeria, Angola, and Sudan. In 2001, he worked with youth groups and local leaders on the AIDS epidemic in Nigeria. In 2002, he traveled to Angola, assisting in fundraising and addressing United Nations groups on that country's needs in the immediate aftermath of decades of civil war.[2] On June 1, 2006, Ronan Farrow hosted a summit at the United Nations headquarters on ensuring that children are included in the global movement for universal access to AIDS prevention and treatment.[21][22]
Between 2004 and 2006, he worked in the Darfur region of Sudan. His writings on the Darfur conflict, often focusing particularly on child soldiers he interviewed in the region, appeared in Newsday, the Boston Herald, the International Herald Tribune,[23] and The Wall Street Journal. He appeared on MSNBC, ABC, and CNN advocating for the protection of Darfuri refugees.[2] Following on his experiences in Sudan, Farrow toured the United States as a representative of the Genocide Intervention Network, helping to build the student advocacy movement against genocide.[24]
In 2007, he served under the chief counsel of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs. In April 2008, he accompanied a congressional delegation to the Horn of Africa, during which he authored a column for the Los Angeles Times on Ethiopia's brutal counter-insurgency in the Ogaden desert.[25] On October 4, 2007, Farrow testified before the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus, advocating for increased funding for UN Peacekeeping efforts.[5]
Obama administration appointment
At the State Department since 2009, Farrow has directed the US government's relationship with nongovernmental actors in Afghanistan and Pakistan.[citation needed] His appointment was billed by late Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke as an unprecedented show of commitment by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to the civil society and non-governmental actors playing a critical role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan.[26] At the time of Farrow's appointment, a State Department official speaking on condition of anonymity referred to him as "a friggin' genius," adding that "hes young but he has a depth of experience that many people twice his age lack."[27]
The Pakistani daily The Nation praised the State Department for selecting Farrow, claiming that with his undoubtable [sic] access to corridors in Washington, [he] is worth many Haqqanis (referring to former Pakistani Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani) and projecting that he would revitalize efforts to combat poverty we have the expertise and the energy, and with people like Farrow to bring in business partners, we can do it.[28]
In his capacity as a State Department official, Farrow has spoken extensively, particularly at universities on the subject of youth engagement.[29][30]
In 2011, he was named one of the top 99 most influential young professionals under 33 years old in foreign policy by The Diplomatic Courier.[31] In fall 2013, he departed his government position to accept a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University.[32]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronan_Farrow
overachiever much? (and he's drop dead beautiful as well)
Lex
(34,108 posts)Nuff said.
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)louis-t
(23,296 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)Rectangle
(667 posts)Tree-Hugger
(3,370 posts)...like his mother in this pic. Wow!
Bryn
(3,621 posts)Only Frank Sinatra and this Ronan have blue eyes that stand out.
on edit: forgot to add: Woody Allen has brown, brown eyes!
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)that is one thing that males always share
tularetom
(23,664 posts)That ain't Woody Allen's kid.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)texanwitch
(18,705 posts)The shape of the face also.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)Why would she do this to her son? It seems to me that this is his business. And ONLY his business.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)He looks EXACTLY like Mia and no one else...neither "possible" father.
tblue37
(65,477 posts)FWIW, I see both Frank and Mia in hif face.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)In fact, it looks like Mia trying to pass as a man...they are eerily similar.
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)And I certainly can NOT see Woody in him at all. Mia, of course, since that is his mother.
Sinatra 100%. I'd bet on it.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)I see Mia totally and no one else.
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)and then to Mia's.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)There isn't a shred of Woody Allen in him.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)But I swear he could be Mia's twin! Or, the way she looked when she was his age.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)malaise
(269,147 posts)He is gorgeous
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)frogmarch
(12,158 posts)to the article:
"Listen, we're all *possibly* Frank Sinatra's son."
He sure does look like Frank Sinatra!
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)has to be either Allen or Sinatra, I'd say Sinatra.
I read some of the article, and Ronan is frank about his relationship with Allen. Last June he Tweeted "Happy Father's Day - or in my case, my brother-in-law."
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)That said, knowing that Mia is essentially admitting that she slept w/ Frank while with Woody, I don't feel quite as bad for her as I did before regarding the Woody/Soon Yi relationship.
The whole thing sounds like a plot to a Woody movie...
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)I think if the molestation accusations had happened more recently, he would have been treated very differently than he was in the 90's. He's a creep.
From a Vanity fair article in 1992, when Ronan was named Satchel:
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1992/11/farrow199211
No such favoritism was shown toward four-and-a-half-year-old Satchel, Woodys own son by Mia. Father and son seemed to have been allergic to each other from the start. Mia told friends that Woody appeared to be disturbed by her cesarean, from which she took a long time to recover; he was aghast at her nursing, particularly at a tube device that carried milk from a bottle down next to her nipple during the first week to give the baby formula when her own milk didnt come in immediately, as well as at the fact that Satchel wasnt fully weaned until he was two and a half. She said that Woody referred to the baby, who cried a lot, as the little bastard, and that once, when Satchel kicked Woody, Woody twisted Satchels leg until he screamed, and said, Do that again and Ill break your legs. On another occasion, Satchel poked Dylan in the eye in Woodys presence. Woody scooped up the little girl, cradled her in his arms, and railed obscenely at Satchel. I just dont buy it when a parent becomes so constantly angry at such a little boy, says Casey Pascal, who witnessed the scene. Pascal, Mias friend since boarding-school days in England, also has a seven-year-old, plus twins Satchels age, and often visits Mia both in the country and in the city. Woody clearly said he wanted a girl. Satchel was wrong from the beginning for him.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)pnwmom
(108,990 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)bonking your stepdaughter. totally.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Freddie
(9,272 posts)When this (allegedly) happened. And cheating on Barbara. Hmmmm.
I read in the same article that daughter Nancy and her mom Nancy Sr. have a warm and close relationship with Mia and Ronan.
cali
(114,904 posts)The "shocking" part is that I thought Mrs. Sinatra never let him out of her sight.
Xithras
(16,191 posts)His girlfriend (later wife, now widow) was 40 at the time.
Testosterone levels drop and things become less effective, but there is no male equivalent to menopause and men can father children right up until they die of old age.
Note that there's a difference between "possible" and "good idea". My cousin was only 7 years old when my uncle passed away. It's hard to explain to a little kid that his dad lived a "long life", when the kid got to spend so little of that life with him. The death of a parent is devastating to a child whether that parent is 26 or 76. When you have children at that age, you're all but guaranteeing that they're going to experience that kind of pain before they get into full adulthood.
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)There is EPIC bad blood between Sinatra's kids and Barbara.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)So, how could anyone have cheated on anyone?
Yup - wikipedia confirms, he was married to Mia Farrow (m. 19661968) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_sinatra
And over on *her* page, we have this tidbit: "In 1987, Farrow gave birth to their son Satchel O'Sullivan Farrow,[31] later known as Ronan Farrow. However, in a 2013 interview with Vanity Fair, Farrow stated that Ronan could "possibly" be the biological child of her first husband Frank Sinatra, with whom she claims to have "never really split up." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Farrow#Personal_life
Got it now - they might have been "playing" twenty years after their divorce, which means they were either running around behind their significant others' backs, or everyone had some kind of open thing happening.
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)They married in 1976 and stayed together until he died in 1998.
The inference with Mia is that she rekindled the affair, thus Frank cheated on Barbara.
The son is something like 25 years old, so that would mean Mia was sleeping with Frank while he was married to Barbara.
Barbara was known to keep Frank on a short leash, but it sounds like it wasn't short enough. There was NO "open marriage" relationship when Barbara was married to Frank. It was as closed as you can get.
Frank's kids really liked Mia Farrow despite her being nearer to their age than their dad's, as noted in Tina's memoir, and they detested Barbara as a golddigger.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)someone who had been taught to think of him as a father figure = icky.
I think Mia is pretty amazing with her adoption lifestyle.
I wish all of them the best; I obviously don't know enough to make any judgments on the situation.
(But he is a handsome guy. )
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)I read Barbara's autobiography and Tina's memoirs. Tina raked Barbara over the coals, while Barbara didn't really mention the kids at all in her book. I think she decided to make the point if you can't say anything nice...that sort of thing.
The Woody Allen thing, I am not really sure what the truth is. The disloyalty though is very, very, very hard to take.
He is still married to Soon-Yi. She is in her early forties now.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)And if the step-mom couldn't find anything nice to say about her step-kids, that kind of says a lot, too.
Multiple marriages are rough on folks. The power struggle over who gets priority in the family structure can get UGLY.
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)If I remember correctly, it also didn't help Barbara kept Frank's kids away from him in his final days.
I'd have to go back and look at Tina's book, but it is in storage.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)JI7
(89,260 posts)I never thought he looked anything close to Woody Allen.
I can see that he could be Sinatra's.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)duffyduff
(3,251 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)What else is new?
He does look more like Frank than Woody...but, then he has Mia's hair color. He's quite handsome. Yet...somehow there's more there than where this goes, me thinks.
But...hey! Whatever floats his boat. If he was so good that Holbrooke took him under his wing...what else can one say? Except that so many of these exceptional children seem to end up in places of power. Are there no other Exceptional Children from "non famous/entitled families who seem to get recognition? Maybe it's just not for the MSM to get involved in reporting about them.
Still fun stuff...for speculation.
JI7
(89,260 posts)Redford
(373 posts)I bet Ronan is thankful he did not get Woody's anything.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)I think if the child molestation charges (with regard to the girl Dylan) had come out now instead of in the 90's, the public reaction would have been very different. It was just too shocking then for most people to believe.
(Note: Ronan used to be named Satchel.)
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1992/11/farrow199211
No such favoritism was shown toward four-and-a-half-year-old Satchel, Woodys own son by Mia. Father and son seemed to have been allergic to each other from the start. Mia told friends that Woody appeared to be disturbed by her cesarean, from which she took a long time to recover; he was aghast at her nursing, particularly at a tube device that carried milk from a bottle down next to her nipple during the first week to give the baby formula when her own milk didnt come in immediately, as well as at the fact that Satchel wasnt fully weaned until he was two and a half. She said that Woody referred to the baby, who cried a lot, as the little bastard, and that once, when Satchel kicked Woody, Woody twisted Satchels leg until he screamed, and said, Do that again and Ill break your legs. On another occasion, Satchel poked Dylan in the eye in Woodys presence. Woody scooped up the little girl, cradled her in his arms, and railed obscenely at Satchel. I just dont buy it when a parent becomes so constantly angry at such a little boy, says Casey Pascal, who witnessed the scene. Pascal, Mias friend since boarding-school days in England, also has a seven-year-old, plus twins Satchels age, and often visits Mia both in the country and in the city. Woody clearly said he wanted a girl. Satchel was wrong from the beginning for him.