Judge's 33-page ruling from 1993 against Woody Allen in custody dispute with Mia Farrow - very detailed on allegations/claims made by everyone

Judge's 33-page ruling from 1993 against Woody Allen in custody dispute with Mia Farrow - very detailed on allegations/claims made by everyone (pizzagate)

submitted 6.9 years ago by Psalm100

With all that's been said about the allegations against Woody Allen, this ruling by the judge against Allen is the place to start.

It is very detailed and extensive and settles many factual "questions" that the media haven't covered well.

In short, Allen was already in therapy for acting inappropriately towards Dylan. The therapist who was apparently more on Allen's side found him fairly obsessed with her (I believe before the relationship with Soon-Yi even came out) although she says she didn't see it as "sexual." Obviously she'd be motivated not to see that, given who he was and that at that time there weren't accusations of actual abuse against him.

Links:

https://www.scribd.com/document/205403621/Allen-v-Farrow-Custody-Ruling-June-7-1993

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-shea/heres-the-1993-woody-alle_b_4746866.html

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carmencita 6.9 years ago

Ultimately, “we will probably never know what occurred on August 4, 1992...[but] Mr. Allen’s behavior toward Dylan was grossly inappropriate and...measures must be taken to protect her.”

Good God, what more do we need. If he was just a guy living down the street from you, what would be your verdict. Forget about people calling him an Artiste. It should have No Bearing.

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Psalm100 6.9 years ago

Yes, if he wasn't Woody Allen the case would have gone very differently. He's confirmed to have done things like this (from page 5 of the judge's ruling):

Her apprehension was fueled by the intensity of the attention Mr. Allen lavished on Dylan, and by his spending play‐time in bed with her, by his reading to her in his bed while dressed in his undershorts, and by his permitting her to suck on his thumb.

Ms. Farrow testified that Mr. Allen was overly attentive and demanding of Dylan's time and attention. He was aggressively affectionate, providing her with little space of her own and with no respect for the integrity of her body. Ms. Farrow, Casey Pascal, Sophie Raven (Dylan's French tutor), and Dr. Coates testified that Mr. Allen focused on Dylan to the exclusion of her siblings, even when Satchel and Moses were present.

In June 1990, the parties became concerned with Satchel's behavior and took him to see Dr. Coates, with whom he then began treatment. At Dr. Coates' request, both parents participated in Satchel's treatment. In the fall of 1990, the parties asked Dr. Coates to evaluate Dylan to determine if she needed therapy. During the course of the evaluation, Ms. Farrow expressed her concern to Dr. Coates that Mr. Allen's behavior with Dylan was not appropriate. Dr. Coates observed:

"I understood why she was worried, because it [Mr. Allen's relationship with Dylan] was intense, … I did not see it as sexual, but I saw it as inappropriately intense because it excluded everybody else, and it placed a demand on a child for a kind of acknowledgment that I felt should not be placed on a child …"

She testified that she worked with Mr. Allen to help him to understand that his behavior with Dylan was inappropriate had to be modified. Dr. Coates also recommended and that Dylan enter therapy with Dr. Schultz, with whom Dylan began treatment in April 1991.

It's how to understand how that therapist didn't see Allen's attentions to Dylan as sexual, except, again, it was Wood Allen the director. Ronan Farrow wrote he had a virtual army doing his bidding to protect him.

The judge also went into how the people who did the Yale investigation actually declined to testify but just submitted an affidavit saying there was no abuse.