Part 3
Moses Farrow (b. 1978, a. 1980)
In 1980, Moses was a two-year-old orphan with cerebral palsy from Korea when he was adopted by Mia—now divorced from André Previn—as a single mother. Moses was later adopted by Woody Allen in 1991. After a 1992 custody battle between Mia and Woody, 14-year-old Moses was allowed to choose whether he wanted have visitation with Woody, which he declined. He attended Dalton, the prestigious private prep school in Manhattan, then moved on to Sienna College for undergrad, and The University of Connecticut for grad school. He lives in Connecticut, where he has been a licensed family therapist for the past decade. According to his LinkedIn "[h]e has chosen to work in intensive programs focused on children and families such as the Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (IICAPS) and Intensive Family Preservation (IFP)," and he works as an adoption counselor. He is also a freelance photographer. He has a son and daughter.
At some point after 2003, Moses reconnected with Woody and Soon-Yi and became estranged from Mia and many of his siblings. He has since come out in defense of Woody, telling People, "My mother drummed it into me to hate my father…I see now that this was a vengeful way to pay him back for falling in love with Soon-Yi." Moses, who was a teenager at the time, was there on the day that the incident of Dylan's molestation was alleged to have taken place, but says, "Of course Woody did not molest my sister."
Moses' most recent comments are consistent with what he privately told his nanny of seven years back in 1992. He also charged that Mia would go into "unbridled rages" when angered, and that she often would hit him. After Moses came forward to deny the molestation, Dylan responded by denying that he had been beaten by Mia. "My brother is dead to me," she said.
Dylan "Malone" Farrow (b. 1985, a. 1985)
Dylan was born in Texas and adopted by Mia in 1985 after her attempts to conceive a child naturally with Woody were unfruitful. Woody formally adopted Dylan in 1991. Like some of Mia's other children, Dylan changed her name several times (first to Eliza, then to Malone), which Mia attributes to maybe being "an Irish thing."
After the 1992 scandal faded from the public spotlight Malone attended Brearley, an all-girls private school considered by many to be the most intellectually elite in Manhattan. High school and college were rough for her, emotionally. When her sister Tam died in 2000, Malone fell into a deep depression and attempted suicide. She told Vanity Fair that her depression deepened after the two occasions that Woody tried to contact her in adulthood. Once, when she was 18, he sent her a letter asking if they could meet. She didn't respond. Later, when she was at college, he sent a manilla envelope filled with photos of him and her, with a note saying he still thought of her as his daughter.
Malone graduated from Bard in 2007, got married in 2010, and currently works as a freelance graphic designer in Florida. She lived in relative anonymity until she spoke publicly about the molestation allegations for the first time as an adult for an October 2013 Vanity Fair story. In February 2014 she wrote an open letter to the general public, published on the blog of a New York Times writer, reestablishing her claims that she had been "sexually assaulted" by Woody. After Woody responded with an op-ed in The New York Times, Malone issued a statement to The Hollywood Reporter saying, "I will carry the memories of surviving these experiences for the rest of my life."
Satchel "Ronan" Farrow (b. 1987)
Satchel was born to Mia (her youngest biological child) after nearly five years of attempting to conceive a child with Woody. His given name was Satchel, but he later changed it to Seamus before finally settling on Ronan.
A 1993 custody order gave Woody supervised visitation with Ronan three times a week. The judge said Ronan was not allowed to spend the night at Woody's apartment, nor was he permitted to see Soon-Yi. Ronan and Woody would bake cakes and build model toys. According to Woody in a 1994 interview with Esquire, "[W]hen I'd tell him I loved him, he'd say, 'I like you, but I'm not supposed to love you.'"
In 1996—with a custody battle still being waged—visitation was suspended after Woody was said to have put both his hands around Ronan's neck in front of the supervising psychiatrist. A judge ordered that visitation could resume only in the psychiatrist's office. It was a term to which Woody reportedly would not agree, but Ronan didn't want to see his father anyway, so visitations ceased.