EXCLUSIVE This is not in the HBO doc “Allen vs. Farrow ”, directed by Kirby Dick and Ian Ziering. It is the forgotten story of Mia’s brother, John Charles Viller-Farrow, convicted child molester who spent 7 years at the Jessup Correctional Institution in Maryland for abusing two boys over an 8-year period.
Farrow was sentenced to 25 years, which turned into 10 years. He served only 7, although it destroyed the lives of two young men who have to live with what he did to them. He was released on February 12, 2020.
Mia Farrow never acknowledges that this has happened. Nor Ronan Farrow. Or any of your defenders. Woody Allen was never formally accused of anything, arrested or charged in the case of his adopted daughter, Dylan.
But Mia’s brother was successfully prosecuted and arrested for sexual crimes. This fact alone confuses the so-called “devastating” documentary that paints Woody as an intellectual criminal.
John Farrow, as you read this, is a registered sex offender in Maryland. He’s on probation. The woman who sued him in 2012, Kathleen Rogers, who still works in the Maryland government, told me on Friday that in preparing them, “he took advantage of these boys in a particularly horrible way.”
In “Allen vs. Farrow, ”Mia is portrayed as Snow White or Mary Poppins, wandering happily from one carefree episode to another. She is one of four children, but only one – Tisa Farrow – is interviewed. Omitted are sisters Prudence and Stephanie. And Brother John. Another brother, Patrick, recently committed suicide.
John Farrow committed his crimes between 2000 and 2008, against the two boys. He had sex with them, repeatedly, which is documented on his payroll. In 1992, when the Woody-Mia scandal broke out, John Farrow told People magazine: Allen “will be indicted and ruined. I think that when all of this is discovered, he will go to jail. “
Woody was not ruined and did not go to jail because he did nothing wrong. But John Farrow went to prison for seven years. He took three years off for “good behavior”.
When he was tried in 2021, Farrow faced 39 counts of sexual abuse. He was accused of abusing a victim for seven years, starting when the boy was nine, and of abusing another boy aged 8 to 13.
A jury was chosen and the trial started. But immediately, he was interrupted when Farrow filed an appeal from Alford, admitting that there was a preponderance of evidence that proved guilty, but he did not admit his guilt.
According to the Baltimore Sun, “prosecution documents allege that Villers-Farrow abused the boys together and alone, showing them pornographic films and having oral sex with them.”
At the time, Rogers told the court, Farrow was “every parent’s worst nightmare.”
The judge in the case said that Farrow “sees himself as the victim in this case”.
So, when you’re watching “Allen vs. Farrow ”, think of those two boys, now adults, the same age as Dylan Farrow and his hypocritical brother Ronan. And ask yourself: what else is this documentary not telling me?
Quite.