Sinatra ‘can’t be the father of Mia Farrow’s son ... he’d already had a vasectomy!’
FRANK Sinatra cannot be the father of Mia Farrow’s son Ronan because he’d had a vasectomy by the time the boy was born, one of his daughters has revealed.
Tina Sinatra, 66, dismissed the idea that Mr Farrow, who bears a strong resemblance to her father, could be related to her.
Miss Farrow, 70, raised suspicions about her 27-year- old son’s paternity in a 2013 interview with Vanity Fair magazine.
Asked whether Sinatra, who died in 1998, could be his father, the actress and human rights campaigner replied: ‘Possibly.’
She later said she had been joking, and that his father really is her ex-partner, the director Woody Allen. But by then there had been rampant speculation on social media.
US journalist Roger Friedman said he recently spoke to Tina Sinatra at a party.
The event was held to celebrate a new HBO documentary about Sinatra’s life – as the singer would have been 100 in December. Mr Friedman wrote on his website: ‘[She] laughed when I asked if Mia Farrow’s son Ronan was her brother. “Couldn’t be,” Tina told me. “Frank had a vasectomy before that. I don’t know whose son Ronan is.”’ She reportedly added that Mr Farrow looks ‘just like Mia’s late brother’.
Miss Farrow’s claims in the interview led to an amused response from her son, who wrote on Twitter: ‘Listen, we’re all *possibly* Frank Sinatra’s son.’ His mother later retweeted the message.
Allen has admitted that Ronan ‘looks a lot like Frank’ in an interview.
Miss Farrow, then 21, married Sinatra in 1966 but the couple divorced in 1968. He was 30 years her senior. In the Vanity Fair interview she called him ‘the great love of her life’ and said that ‘we never really split up’.
Sinatra had a son, Frank Jr, and two daughters, Tina and Nancy, all with his first wife.