I would recommend people read the following articles:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/27/the-woody-allen-allegations-not-so-fast.html
Some relevant bits:
“Did this event actually occur? If we’re inclined to give it a second thought, we can each believe what we want, but none of us know. Why does the adult Malone say it happened? Because she obviously believes it did, so good for her for speaking out about it in Vanity Fair. Her brother Ronan believes it happened, so good for him for sticking up for his sister in 140 characters or less. They’ve both grown up in a household where this scenario has been accepted as indisputable fact, so why shouldn’t they believe it?
I know I’m treading a delicate path here, and opening myself up to accusations of “blaming the victim.” However, I’m merely floating scenarios to consider, and you can think what you will. But if Mia’s account is true, it means that in the middle of custody and support negotiations, during which Woody needed to be on his best behavior, in a house belonging to his furious ex-girlfriend, and filled with people seething mad at him, Woody, who is a well-known claustrophobic, decided this would be the ideal time and place to take his daughter into an attic and molest her, quickly, before a house full of children and nannies noticed they were both missing.
Even people who give Woody the benefit of the doubt and defend him on the internet are often confused on a few points. Some mistakenly say that the court found him “not guilty” of the molestation charges. The fact is there was never such a ruling because he was never charged with a crime, since investigative authorities never found credible evidence to support Mia’s (and Dylan’s) claim.”
And the other bit:
“A heavy piece of fact seems to have broken off of a much larger and buried truth. However, on April 20, 1993, a sworn statement was entered into evidence by family doctor, Dr. John M. Leventhal.
“[Dr. Leventhal] swears Dylan’s statements at the hospital contradicted each other as well as the story she told on the videotape,” claims Allen friend Robert B. Weide, in a report for The Daily Beast.
Citing Leventhal, Weide recants that the doctor said, “Those were not minor inconsistencies. She told us initially that she hadn’t been touched in the vaginal area, and she then told us that she had, then she told us that she hadn’t.”
Leventhal, later in his sworn statement, also recounted: “Even before the claim of abuse was made last August, the view of Mr. Allen as an evil and awful and terrible man permeated the household. The view that he had molested Soon-Yi and was a potential molester of Dylan permeated the household...it’s quite possible—as a matter of fact, we think it’s medically probable—that [Dylan] stuck to that story over time because of the intense relationship she had with her mother.”
In conclusion is Woody Allen’s relationship with Soon-Yi pretty odd... yup, kind of creepy too. But the “facts” about the alleged molestation of Dylan are just not credible.
Mia Farrow is nuts... and I would be too if my adoptive daughter later ran off with my ex-lover. But ultimately she has poisoned the well and there’s simply no way to know the truth and there’s certainly no evidence whatsoever to back up Mia Farrow’s claims.
Yancy
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/27/the-woody-allen-allegations-not-so-fast.html
http://www.classicalite.com/articles/5654/20140131/fact-check-woody-allens-rape-case-gets-murky-as-mia-farrow-and-dylan-malone-lay-questionable-claim.htm
Thanks. The first article you linked to is very detailed and comprehensive.
As much as many around here love to hate a liberal like Woody Allen, the evidence presented by Dylan is far, far from conclusive. It seems quite possible, based on my reading of these additional thoughtful, sober-minded articles, that Dylan's memory of this incident could indeed be false, and that her mother Mia Farrow may have manipulated her.