The son 'perfect' Woody Allen was lost

Today him as the most promising of the new policy, the young man destined to change the world, but until recently was a child prodigy. Ronan Farrow is better known for being the son of Woody Allen that all the labels that have put him in his short life, you just add an achievement. At 23 years, the only biological descendant of the famous director and Mia Farrow has been chosen as one of the Rhodes scholarships from the Foundation, an elite distinction that will pay studies at the University of Oxford for two or three years from next October. A unique honor for an American student who may not share his father.

Ronan and Allen have not seen since the filmmaker split from Farrow and established a relationship with Soon-Yi Previn, adopted daughter of Mia and 34 years younger than the director. "My father is married to my sister, which makes me his son and brother. I think a moral transgression," said the young man for years about the relationship forever divided his family. Ronan was only five when his mother found pictures of naked Soon-Yi Allen held. The separation of the couple in 1992 was followed by a tough legal battle over custody of their children, Ronan, Dylan and Moses, which ended in victory for the actress after unsubstantiated allegations that the director had sexually harassed the girl. "I feel awful. I have invested millions of dollars and have struggled for years in court but I could change anything," Allen admitted in one of his few public comments on the bitter dispute. Then the director, who now lives in New York with Soon-Yi and his two adopted daughters, admitted he did not maintain any relationship with the children he had with Mia. Dylan, in fact, changed the name to Malone and the other adopted son, Moshe, Moses did.

Meanwhile, his only natural child, whose full name is Satchel Ronan O'Sullivan in honor of the baseball player Satchel Paige and her grandmother, actress Maureen O'Sullivan, Bard entered the school at age 11 and now at 16 entered Yale University as an outstanding student early. After graduation, she followed her mother as a spokesman for Unicef ​​from 2001 to 2009 and remained linked to numerous charitable causes for children and youth.

Today it is part of the Department of State where, under the orders of Hilary Clinton, working as special adviser on youth issues, especially for Afghanistan and Pakistan and has become a regular political commentator on Los Angeles Times or The Wall Street Journal . The Huffington Post chose his opening speech at his old high school course as one of the best of the year, a sentiment echoed by numerous publications Ronan see much more than the victim of a scandal, looking at his brilliant political and social future.

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