She wasn't his daughter.
Or his Stepdaughter.
If she was his wife's daughter, he was a father figure and as such, a stepfather. To put a wedge between a mother and daughter using sex is lower than snake snot.
Except she was never "his wife".
She was his girlfriend.
Now, yeah, is it creepy. Um, yeah, kind of.
But how about this. Mia Farrow had already kind of set an example that the way a woman gets ahead in life is by seducing older famous men.
She was 21 when she married a 50 year old Frank Sinatra.
She was 25 when she got involved with 41 year old Andre Previn (Soon-Yi's adopotive father), who himself was married to Dory Langan.
In short, "Get married to an older man, even he's involved with someone else, that's the way to get ahead".
She was a girlfriend for about 12 years, so he was in those children's lives, including Soon Yi, for many years and went on family vacations with them, even if he didn't live in the same apartment in NY.
If Mia got involved with Sinatra at 21, she was an adult, a successful actress at that time. As far as Preven, the difference between 25 and 18 is huge. Also, Mia did not get involved with an older man who was her mother's boyfriend and who was the father of her siblings. Huge difference.
Soon Yi was an 18 year old college student. And Allen's own children's sister by adoption, a child who had grown up with his own children in the same home and as their sister. Creepy, incest, inappropriate, taboo....all come to mind. And a very, very difficult thing for the kids to deal with.
In any case, I don't blame Soon Yi, and I don't think her mother set any kind of "example" that allows or supports Allen getting involved in a sexual relationship with a young woman who is his girlfriend's daughter and his children's sibling. Also, you suggest the young Mia "seduced" the older men. Seriously? She seduced them? Not the other way around? Both of those men were very rich, famous, mature and sophisticated and probably were used to lots of women who are 'willing' if not pursuing them. They can be seduced by a young, probably somewhat inexperienced woman? Give me a break. You also seem to suggest it was Soon Yi who seduced Allen, something I find highly ludicrous.
Mia may not have been Allen's wife, but they were involved for at least 10 years, adopted children together, and went on family vacations together. Far, far more than just a 'girlfriend.'
I do wonder why people make excuses for and defend Allen. I like his films. I didn't stop watching them 21 years ago when all this occurred. I didn't pay much attention to all of it, but I didn't disbelieve or believe entirely in any side as far as the molestation, and I definitely didn't approve, from my own moral perspective, his relationship with Soon Yi. However, I separate the art from the artist. If we didn't do that, we would have to set aside at least 50% of the art currently in our museums and libraries. Michelangelo had corpses stolen from the morgue and dissected him, yet he is deeply admired around the world for his artwork. Just one example. However, I would draw the line at some point, probably murder, in separating the art from the artist.
I think people on here would not defend such a man if he were in your personal world. For example, say your sister was involved in a long term relationship with a man who didn't want to get married, who didn't want to live together and didn't want to have anything to do with her children? Would you think he was a great guy? And later on, during a relationship that lasts 12 years, he agrees to adopt 2 children with her and have another one biologically, but still doesn't live with or be a full time father for them. Great guy, huh? And then, after 12 years together, he begins an affair with one of her children, a young woman who is only 18 and still in college, probably her first sexual experience, and he is 35 or more years older than her, a child who has grown up with this man as her mother's boyfriend and her siblingÂ’s father? You'd think this was all hunky dory? I doubt it.
It is because of this kind of behavior in him that allegations of some kind of inappropriate sexual contact with one of the children cannot be ignored. He has no moral compass. He likes young woman. He does what pleases himself without concern for how it affects the children. An amoral man who suits himself without respect for how his actions will damage others, especially young children or a young woman like Soon Yi. Someone mentioned she is looking rather haggard now. I agree. She is not that old but is looking it. I imagine he doesn't treat her very well.
