This is a MPIMS, but since it involves show people (like unto whom are no people I know) I’ll put it here.
Mia Farrow’s son, born Satchel Allen but now known as Ronan Farrow, has long been hailed as Woody Allen’s only biological child (he has other adopted children with Farrow and her former daughter/his current wife Soon Yi). Now Farrow states that Ronan, a child prodigy turned up-and-coming lawyer and pundit at 25, might have resulted from her ongoing relationship with her ex-husband Frank Sinatra:
Nitpick: Is “confided” really an accurate word when you’re giving an interview to a magazine?
Ordinarily I would think that it was extremely tacky and more than a bit trashy to publicly admit your grown son was conceived in a tryst with your 78 year old ex-husband long after he remarried and while you were involved in a long term relationship with another man. However, I think an exception can be made when the “another man” is Woody Allen, as I believe in an America where all children should be able to sleep each night secure in the knowledge that Woody Allen might not be their biological father.
Nancy Sinatra, while not confirming it, definitely hinted at the possibility.
The best line is Ronan’s. One June he tweeted “Happy father’s day, or, as we call it my family, ‘Brother-in-law Day’”. About the Sinatra possibility he tweeted:
Whoever fathered him, this is a kid I’d want to take credit for if I was a possible sperm donor. Since he’s definitely not mine, I wouldn’t mind shagging him as he’s rather adorable.
Oh, sorry, but looking at that side-by-side picture, I can’t imagine how this could be considered a ‘possibility’ and not ‘pure fact.’ Damn, he is pretty cute! And funny, too, judging from the tweets. Hey, Sampiro, if it turns out that he’s totally into middle-aged happily married women, will you give me a heads-up?
I remember Farrow once said, shortly after Sinatra’s death, that while she was going through the very public break-up with Allen and the accusations about him were flying that Sinatra called her up and offered to have “a friend” get some thugs to beat the hell out of him. She declined (which to me is the biggest evidence the child molestation charges were exaggerated), but if Ronan is his son it explains why he made the offer to an ex-wife.
Jackie Mason (himself a ‘detached’ father) said that Sinatra had him beaten up back in the '60s when he told jokes about Sinatra and Farrow’s marriage. IIRC the joke was about their wedding night: “She puts her hair in curlers, he puts his on the dresser, she puts in her retainer and he takes out his teeth.”
He resembles Farrow more than either putative father, but he’s closer to looking like Sinatra.
Then again, he’s even closer to looking like Brando, who was alive then, albeit really fat. And hey, Mia had a thing for old, Italian entertainment legends…
Random observation: a hypothetical child of Brando and Farrow would have about 30 siblings. (Farrow has had 4 biological and 11 adopted children, Brando had somewhere between 10 and 20 depending on the source [and fat and old as he was, Brando had at least 3 kids younger than Ronan].)
Sinatra also had a very long on-again-off-again romance with Ava Gardner after their divorce, and in her final years he financially supported her. Very complicated dude: women and men who knew him well seemed to both love and hate him.
Man, that was one messed-up household. Woody’s hankering after the daughters, Mia’s boinking The Chairman. It’s amazing all those kids don’t have their very own season of Celebrity Rehab.