Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 26, 1993 TAG: 9303260116
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-8 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: NEW YORK LENGTH: Medium
FARROW SAYS ALLEN AFFAIR BEGAN EARLIER
Woody Allen's affair with Mia Farrow's oldest daughter began at least a year earlier than he said it did, Farrow testified Thursday. Her voice shaky, she then admitted she punched the young woman after finding nude pictures Allen took of her.Farrow, testifying for the first time in their custody battle, also accused Allen of inappropriately playing in bed with another, much younger, adopted daughter and said she feared that Allen had had a homosexual relationship.
In three days of testimony beginning last Friday, Allen described Farrow as hysterical, manipulative, even violent. Outside of court, Allen said last week that investigators in Connecticut cleared him of Farrow's allegations that he molested the younger girl, 7-year-old Dylan.
Allen, 57, and Farrow, 48, his companion and leading lady of 12 years, are fighting for custody of Dylan; adopted son Moses, 15; and their biological son, Satchel, 5.
Their state court fight follows the disclosure of Allen's affair with Soon-Yi Previn, 22, Farrow's adopted daughter.
Allen has said the romance began in late December 1991 or early January 1992, when Previn was a college freshman. Farrow testified that Previn told her she had met Allen on Saturdays throughout her senior year in high school, which ended in mid-1991.
Farrow conceded that after finding the nude pictures of Previn in January 1992, she twisted the young woman's head to force her to look at them.
A few days later, Farrow said, "I hugged her and told her I loved her" in front of her siblings. "I told her I didn't blame her."
But a few days after that, overhearing Previn discuss the affair on the phone, "I just pounced on her," Farrow said. "I hit her on the side of the face and on her shoulders. She kicked me and I was crying.
"I'm not proud of it," said Farrow, her voice trembling and her eyes welling with tears.
There was no further elaboration; questioning on the topic abruptly ended.
- Associated Press