The Dark Truth About Mia Farrow’s Marriage To Frank Sinatra

In 1966 a 21-year-old actress married the 50-year-old voice of an era, and Hollywood gave the union months. What actually happened ran far stranger. This traces Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra from her childhood inside a fading movie dynasty, the polio ward at nine, her father John Farrow's death, and the Peyton Place fame that put her on the Von Ryan's Express lot where Frank first noticed her. The marriage lasted 16 months. Sinatra wanted a wife who orbited his world; Mia chose Rosemary's Baby and her own career, and he answered by sending a lawyer with divorce papers onto her film set. She left for Rishikesh, later married André Previn, then spent years with Woody Allen, yet Frank never fully stepped away. Decades later Mia told Vanity Fair her son Ronan could 'possibly' be Frank's, and said the two 'never really split up.' From the offer to break Woody Allen's legs to the 10 dimes buried in Sinatra's pocket, this covers what the fairy tale version left out.