Woody Allen sexual assault allegation Woody Allen sexual assault allegation In August 1992, the American film director Woody Allen was accused by his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow, then seven years old, of having sexually assaulted her in the home of her adoptive mother, the actress Mia Farrow, in Bridgewater, Connecticut. Allen has repeatedly denied the allegation. When the allegation was made, Farrow and Allen had been in a 12-year relationship and had three children together: two adopted children, Dylan and Moses, and one biological son, Satchel (now known as Ronan Farrow). The assault is alleged to have taken place eight months after Farrow learned that
Woody Shaw degenerative eye disease and was losing his eyesight. A user of heroin throughout his adult life, Shaw was in extremely poor health when he returned to the U.S. from Europe in 1988—he needed a wheelchair at the airport. Details of the accident are unclear, but on February 27, 1989, Shaw was struck by a subway car in Brooklyn, NY, which severed his left arm. Shaw suffered complications in the hospital and died of kidney failure on May 10, 1989. He was 44 years old. He was survived by his mother, two brothers, a sister, and his son, Woody Louis Armstrong