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Woody Allen And Soon-Yi Previn

February 4, 2012 by · Comments Off on Woody Allen And Soon-Yi Previn 

Woody Allen And Soon-Yi Previn, Director Woody Allen made headlines in 1992 when, at the age of 56, it was revealed that he was in a relationship with 21-year-old Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow, his girlfriend of over 10 years and the leading lady in 13 of his films.

Farrow discovered the relationship when she found n*de photos of Previn taken in Allen’s Manhattan duplex, according to a 1992 People magazine article. The revelation sent Allen’s name in the headlines and played out in court in a custody battle over Farrow and Allen’s biological son Satchel.

Farrow adopted Soon-Yi at age 8 with then husband Andre Previn in 1978. The couple divorced in 1979 and Farrow began dating Allen in 1980.

However, when asked in a new interview with Reuters to promote “Midnight in Paris” about the scandal, Allen, 75, replied, “What was the scandal? I fell in love with this girl, married her. We have been married for almost 15 years now.”

He added, “There was no scandal, but people refer to it all the time as a scandal and I kind of like that in way because when I go I would like to say I had one real juicy scandal in my life.”

Allen and Previn wed in December 1997 in Venice, Italy and have two adopted daughters. Back in 1992, Soon-Yi Previn told Time magazine she never considered Allen a father figure in her life.

“To think that Woody was in any way a father or stepfather to me is laughable. My parents are Andre Previn and Mia, but obviously they’re not even my real parents,” Previn said at the time. “I came to America when I was seven. I was never remotely close to Woody. He was someone who was devoted exclusively to his own children and to his work, and we never spent a moment together.”

Previn also said the two began seeing each other around the time she was 20-years-old. She told Time magazine “By that time his relationship with Mia was long done, and they were going through the motions.” She added, “They were friendly but rarely went out, and apart from when they worked together or played with their children, had little to do with one another.”

Allen’s biological son with Farrow, Ronan Farrow (birth name Satchel) — who is now a 23-year-old journalist/government official –said of the relationship according to Life magazine, “He’s my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression.”

“I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent,” he added, “I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.”

The 35-year age difference raised eyebrows back in the 1990s much like the recent wedding of 51-year-old “LOST” actor Doug Anthony Hutchinson to 16-year-old singer Courtney Alexis Stodden.

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