There's more on Ronan Farrow. The New York Post has run a story about Farrow trying to stop a profile of Soon-Yi Previn from running in New York magazine. This after all the crap from Farrow about people trying to stop his reporting on Harvey Weinstein.
Ronan Farrow has denounced Moses Farrow and Soon-Yi for talking about the abuse they suffered at the hands of Mia Farrow.
Soon-Yi was seventeen when Ronan was born. Moses was ten. It's safe to say that Ronan has no memory of Soon-Yi before she was an adult and no memory of Moses before he was in high school. He has no idea how they were treated as children but he felt free to call them liars for daring to talk about it.
From the Post article:
[Ronan] Farrow and his family directed a pressure campaign toward top brass at New York magazine in the days before they published Merkin’s lengthy profile of Soon-Yi Previn, the wife of Woody Allen and adoptive daughter of Allen’s ex Mia Farrow, Merkin — who has never spoken publicly about the conflict — told The Post.
“I wasn’t used to this level of fear … fear of Ronan, of being sued, of the power of Mia and Ronan, simply culturally, their power on Twitter,” Merkin said.
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Merkin’s story included Previn’s brutal assessment of Mia Farrow’s parenting and her dismissal of decades-long Farrow family allegations that Allen sexually assaulted his 7-year-old adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow in 1992.
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The alleged pressure campaign succeeded in knocking the story off the cover of the Sept. 17 issue, which Merkin says she was “practically promised” in exchange for agreeing to changes from Team Farrow.
The Farrows also specifically demanded the insertion of a line conceding Merkin had been “friends” with Allen for over 40 years. They cited her 2014 book, “The Fame Lunches,” in which she revealed she developed a correspondence with Allen after writing a fan letter to him. Allen also helped Merkin while she was suffering from depression and encouraged her writing career.
After the piece came out, critics zeroed in on this admission of friendship to savage Merkin as incapable of reporting objectively.
“I wasn’t that friendly with Woody Allen — saw him maybe once or twice, if that, a year for a drink,” Merkin said. “I was never invited to his Christmas parties or any of that stuff.”
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Merkin, 65, a former staff writer at the New Yorker, has spent decades covering hyper-litigious people and institutions. But she says nothing compared to the full-court press the Farrows brought to bear.
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The pressure campaign included a direct and contentious call from Ronan Farrow...to then-New York magazine editor-in-chief Adam Moss demanding he pull the plug on the 9,000-word story, a person who spoke to the former editor about the matter told The Post.
“Ronan did call Moss and Moss expressed unhappiness about the call. [Farrow] definitely tried to prevent New York magazine from publishing,” the source said. The magazine also confirmed Farrow did try to “discourage” the piece.
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“Ronan is a powerful journalist now with lots of connections. It had absolutely influence on what we’re doing,” Merkin’s editor, Laurie Abraham, told Merkin in a Sept. 10 email explaining the phone call.
There was also a flurry of emails from lawyers and other representatives of Dylan Farrow, now 34, to the magazine, said Merkin.
A New York magazine source confirmed to The Post that PR reps for Dylan and family did reach out but insisted the correspondence had been “standard for a controversial piece” and that no lawyers were involved.
Emails to Merkin from Abraham viewed by The Post, however, alluded to the “assertiveness of Dylan’s legal team” and warned that Moss was “nervous.”
Merkin ... also says Team Farrow was able to obtain at least a partial, and possibly full, draft of her story before publication, a dire concern she raised to her editors at the time.
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Dylan Farrow told The Post her efforts were necessary to push back against “falsehoods that Woody Allen has been pushing for a long time.”
“I did my best to respond to inaccuracies and flat-out lies about my assault and my family, and I was shocked that a magazine I respected was planning to run a one-sided piece on such a sensitive topic pertaining my childhood sexual abuse,” she said. “So, yes, I expressed my very real concerns about that, and I’m glad I did, because if I hadn’t, there would have been even more misinformation in what was already a puff piece about my abuser written by his friend.”
Ronan Farrow declined to comment, though a person close to him insisted Farrow “didn’t want to kill that story,” and accused the magazine of “deeply unethical” behavior.
He “only wanted to understand the story better, so he could advise his sister, who was worried about a piece that discussed her sexual assault,” the source continued.
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