Wisconsin Prisoners Brawl Over Woody Allen's Right To Love
In 1997, preeminent American auteur Woody Allen gave the world a collective case of the nauseous willies by marrying Soon-Yi Previn, Mia Farrow's adopted daughter, 35 years his junior. Even a decade later, his decision continues to be the source of much heated debate—particularly among a pair of Wisconsin inmates, who came to fisticuffs in a mealtime exchange about the Scoop director's controversial personal life:
According to a criminal complaint filed Monday in Ozaukee County Circuit Court, the fight began about 5:30 p.m. July 9 during mealtime when James F. Lala, 31, of Grafton asked fellow inmate Corey T. Wilson, 36, of Menomonee Falls what he thought of Allen's marriage in 1997 to Soon-Yi Previn, an adopted daughter of Allen's longtime companion, Mia Farrow.
"Wilson told Lala that he thought that was perverted," the complaint says. "Wilson stated he continued to eat his meal when Lala came up to him and punched him in the face," and the two began to fight.
Lala, who was imprisoned in 1998 for having sex with a 15-year-old girl, was charged a year ago in May with 20 felony counts of possessing child pornography after investigators said they found 6,000 such images on his home computer.
Sadly, Lala opted to forfeit what could have been a lively debate on the moral obligations of parental figures not to sleep with and/or marry the children in their care, opting instead to settle the dispute with brute force. It's a story that quickly made the Ozaukee County Jail rounds, where inmates are now wary of being shived in the neck should they not give the kiddie-porn enthusiast the answers he wants to hear regarding whether or not Roman Polanski should be allowed to return to the U.S.