Here’s Why Woody Allen Wasn’t Charged (A Timeline)

What occurred between Woody Allen and Dylan Farrow one afternoon in August 1992 has been in dispute for 3 a long time.

On Sunday, the four-part HBO docuseries “Allen v. Farrow” will as soon as once more delve into the case — which pits the Oscar-winning filmmaker in opposition to his daughter, Dylan Farrow. Allen has accused Mia Farrow, his ex and Dylan’s mom, of “relentlessly coaching” Dylan Farrow as a toddler to accuse him of molestation. The motive, he has stated, was to get revenge for his relationship with Soon-Yi Previn, Mia Farrow’s daughter, whom he married in 1997.

Allen has by no means been charged with against the law, and authorities appeared torn on whether or not he must be when the accusations in opposition to him first got here to gentle. Here is a timeline of the accusations, and the non-public {and professional} fallout for everybody concerned.

February 1992: Mia Farrow found nude photographs of Soon-Yi Previn in Allen’s residence. He quickly confessed to an affair with Soon-Yi Previn, who was roughly 20 on the time. (Her precise age is unknown due to the circumstances of her adoption.)

Aug. 5, 1992: Mia Farrow stated Dylan Farrow advised her that Allen touched her inappropriately in an attic-like space of their Connecticut home, advised her to stay nonetheless and touched her “private part.” The baby stated he promised to take her to Paris and let her be in a film, in accordance with a November 1992 Vanity Fair article.

Vanity Fair stated Allen and Mia Farrow had been making ready to signal an elaborate child-support-and-custody settlement the subsequent day, Aug. 6, which might have given Mia Farrow $6,000 a month for the help of Satchel, their organic baby, and their son, 15-year-old Moses. Allen and Farrow had adopted each Moses and Dylan. (Satchel later modified his identify to Ronan, and lots of have speculated — together with Allen — that Frank Sinatra could possibly be Ronan Farrow’s organic father.)

Aug. 13, 1992: Allen’s legal professionals, notified of the allegation, pre-emptively filed a custody go well with in opposition to Mia Farrow, accusing her of being an unfit mom.

August 1992-1993: Connecticut police and prosecutors investigated the abuse claims in opposition to Allen. Vanity Fair stated Dylan Farrow was ready on the time to take the stand and testify in opposition to Allen.

Nov. 22, 1992: Allen gave his aspect on “60 Minutes,” saying within the interview:

A huge business has been constructed on a complete non-event, and once I say whole non-event, I imply whole non-event. It wasn’t — it wasn’t as if, you understand, I tickled my daughter or one thing and far has been exaggerated. I’m saying nothing in any respect … I’m 57. Isn’t it illogical that I’m going to, on the peak of a really bitter, acrimonious custody combat, drive as much as Connecticut the place no one likes me in a home — I’m in a home filled with enemies. I imply, Mia was so enraged at me and he or she had gotten all the youngsters to be indignant at me, that I’m going to drive up there, and out of the blue, on visitation, decide this second in my life to develop into a toddler molester?

May 1993: During the custody combat, a physician who led the investigation and interviewed Dylan Farrow 9 instances stated he had doubts about her accusations in opposition to Allen. Dr. John M. Leventhal stated she has modified key particulars, like whether or not Allen touched her vagina, and stated her accounts had a “rehearsed quality.”

“We had two hypotheses: one, that these were statements that were made by an emotionally disturbed child and then became fixed in her mind,” Leventhal stated, in accordance with the New York Times.“And the other hypothesis was that she was coached or influenced by her mother. We did not come to a firm conclusion. We think that it was probably a combination.”

Dylan Farrow (Getty Images)

June 1993: In a scathing judgment in opposition to Allen, a Manhattan decide dominated that Mia Farrow ought to obtain custody of the kids, and that he was not satisfied “that the evidence proves conclusively that there was no sexual abuse.” The decide additionally stated psychotherapists who interviewed Dylan Farrow had…