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tonight on "nightline" -- who's your daddy? look at those baby blues. mia farrow says her only biological son with woody allen could belong to frank sinatra. we've got the bombshell revelations and tumultuous relationships of major league star-crossed lovers. who was responsible for michael jackson's death? tonight a blow to the family as the final verdict is in and the jurors speak out. we take you inside their decision. >> flying high. they're not just shaking pom-poms, the cheerleaders are bending the laws of physics and blowing our minds. bringing the sidelines to the headlines. >> announcer: keep it right here, america, "nightline" is back in just 60 seconds.

from new york city, this is "nightline" with juju chang. good evening. thanks for joining us. tonight, new questions about one of hollywood's most famous and famously fractured families. is the young man that oscar winning director woody allen believed for 25 years to be his son really the biological child of frank sinatra. maybe, according to his mother, actress mia farrow, in an explosive "vanity fair" interview out today. is this handsome 25-year-old frank sinatra's love child? the paternity guessing game that has everyone doing a double take. rowan farrow looks like his mother, mia farrow. >> very much mia, porcelain skin and blond hair and intensity of the eyes. >> reporter: but ease not

exactly the spitting image of woody allen, the man the world thought was his biological father, until today. with one word in a bombshell "vanity fair" interview, pharfa unleashed a tidal wave of speculation. >> i asked mia point blank is rowan frank sinatra's son. >> reporter: what was her answer, face to face? >> she said, possibly. >> reporter: he does bear more than a passing resemblance to old blue eyes, frank sinatra. and it goes beyond his looks. >> he was singing a steven sondhyme song. it was just the way he moved. the way he sort of was at ease and the way he threw phrases out there. i thought, wow. you know, this is pretty professional sounding and it -- it isn't that far away. >> reporter: like a naturally gifted, genetically gifted singer. sinatra, the man farrow calls the love of her life, was one of the glamorous stars of his day, behind some of the most iconic songs of his generation. ♪ and did it my way

>> reporter: when they met, mia was the 19-year-old star of "payton place." >> you make it sound so casual. >> reporter: and he was 30 years her elder. after a year and a half of marriage, sinatra served farrow divorce papers while she was shooting "rosemary's baby." but the love affair reportedly didn't end there. >> she and frank had never really completely broken up. that they had remained close throughout the years on and off. and that i asked her, is he the great love of your life? she said, yes. >> reporter: they were so close that ronan was treated like family by the sinatras. >> i also did e-mail nancy sinatra jr. and she was very forthcoming in how much they love ronan and consider him a member of the family. he told me that nancy sinatra sr. cooked for him and fussed over him. and i really do think they do

consider him a member of their family. >> reporter: woody allen was the other legendary man in mia's love life. over 12 years they raised a brood of children together. only one, ronan, was thought to be his biological child. she was his artistic muse in a dozen films including "hannah and her sisters." >> colleen and her friend made them. >> they're fantastic. >> reporter: that collaboration came crashing down during the filming of "husbands and wives." >> i thought it was a good idea to have a baby. >> i don't think it's such a good idea. >> why? >> reporter: that's when mia discovered lewd boil roads of her adopted daughter on allen's fireplace mantel. it became a prolonged tabloid obsession. in the midst of the storm, mia went on the set of "husbands and wives" to film her final scene. >> you were so beautiful in the black dress, really. >> don't do that. >> reporter: the breakup hit the entire family hard. farrow had raised nine biological and adopted children.

many with severe disabilities, who, according to orth, were all deeply affected. >> the soon-yi revelations were absolutely devastating to this family, according to the eight children i spoke to. not a single one said it was anything less than utterly shocking. here he was the de facto dad in the family for a long, long time. and so the fact that suddenly their sister was -- sort of betrayed the mother and ran off with woody and he didn't act like anything had gone wrong. >> reporter: ronan was just 4 years old at the time and always had a difficult relationship. >> ron and n and woody turned out to be like oil and water. >> reporter: a highly gifted prodigy. >> rowan went to college at 11 years old. mia drove him every day, 90 minutes each way. bard college. and she told me that she herself got a college education because he was so excited about going to school that he would tell her

the whole everything that he had learned during the day on the way home. >> reporter: he went on to graduate yale law school at 21. and won a prestigious rhodes scholarship. 20 years after mia discovered woody's relationship with soon-yi, ronan remains estranged from woody, who eventually married his adoptive sister. last year he tweeted, happy father's day, or in my family, happy brother-in-law's day. and mia retweeted with a simple word, boom. orth interviewed another of their children, adopted daughter dylan. now 28, dylan speaks about an incident that allegedly arose during a custody battle, that allen sexually abused her in their attic when she was 7. >> totally false. these outrageous allegations have sickened me. that i future for the sake of all my three children i must try

and remove them from an atmosphere so unhealthy it can surely leave irreparable scars. >> according to what dylan told me, she truly is terrified of woody allen, to this day, she can't bear to even look at one of his pictures in a magazine. >> reporter: did she tell you explicitly that she was molested in the attic? >> she told me that she remembers very clearly what happened to her in the attic and what she was wearing when she got there and what wasn't on when she left. so then she told me, my advice to the 7-year-old dylan today would be, be brave, testify. >> reporter: she told you explicitly that she had been molested? not just that she was made to feel uncomfortable? >> she told me that she was made to feel very uncomfortable. >> reporter: tonight, woody allen's representative told "nightline" that he continues to categorically deny those charges. they point out that at the time, doctors at the child sexual abuse clinic at yale new haven hospital conducted an investigation, interviewing dylan, her parents, and their

nannies. they concluded in their opinion dylan was not sexually abused. >> is there a chance dylan was a confused child? >> there are only two people who know what happened in that attic, woody allen and dylan. they're the only two people. i don't know, i wasn't there. >> reporter: criminal charges were never filed against woody allen though the states attorney at the time issued a statement saying he did not want to risk exposing dillian, whom he called the child victim, to the criminal process. but allen did lose his custody battle and was only allowed supervised visits with his kids. >> woody went through four different legal proceedings to try to get visitation rights and more visitation rights with ronan and dylan and ronan did not want anything to do with it. >> reporter: we may never know of what happened between woody allen and his kids. what we do know they are seemingly devoted to their mother. >> mia did a very unusual thing. she took four biological

children and 10 adopted children, some with very severe physical and emotional difficulties, and she was able to meld them into a whole family. of at eight that i talked to, they all said that they were very proud to be part of that family. that they considered themselves cool and unique. >> reporter: ronan and mia are in fact extremely close and travel the globe to crusade for humanitarian causes together. as to the identity of his father, ronan responded to the "vanity fair" article today with a wink. listen, he wrote, we are all possibly frank sinatra's son. >> the intrigue continues via tweet. coming up next for us, the michael jackson wrongful death trial against aeg live. did the final decision bring peace and money to his family? >> announcer: abc news "nightline," brought to you by macy's.

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tour, 2009. ♪ why, why >> reporter: michael jackson's last dance. he died days after this. >> katherine jackson vs. aeg live. >> reporter: the question before the court, did concert promoter aeg live bear any responsibility for michael jackson's death? >> did aeg live hire dr. conrad murray? answer, yes. >> my name is greg. i was juror number six. >> reporter: the jury ruled in favor of aeg. >> as far as the case, this was a difficult decision for us to make. >> reporter: the foreman acknowledging it might not go down well with the king of pop's fans. >> we reached a verdict that we understand not everybody is going to agree with. it's been an exhausting five months and it's been an extremely stressful last three or four days. >> reporter: this civil case, a wrongful death lawsuit following up on the criminal case.

>> we the jury find the defendant, conrad robert murray, guilty. >> reporter: in 2011, a different jury found jackson's doctor guilty of involuntary manslaughter. he's now behind bars. it was conrad murray who administered the fatal dose of hospital grade anesthetic propofol killing the pop star. the question in this case, who was murray working for? jackson or aeg live? >> if they hired him, they were controlling -- >> reporter: attorneys for katherine jackson, his mother, and his children, argued aeg live agreed to pay murray's salary, and that murray, who was seat creditly in debt, was under pressure to perform to get jackson ready for the tour. >> we got to get him. if he doesn't perform i don't get paid. there's an inherent conflict of interest. >> reporter: if there was any doubt whatsoever, the jackson family lawyer said this e-mail proved otherwise. in it an aeg producer expressed

frustration with murray, allowing jackson to miss rehearsals. >> we need to remind dr. murray it's aeg, not m.j., that's paying him. >> reporter: questioned about that e-mail under oath, aeg executives backpedalled furiously. >> i don't remember. >> i don't remember. >> i don't remember. >> all they would say, truthfully, is i don't remember the e-mail. he said he was getting hundreds of e-mails a day. >> reporter: aeg's lawyer argued murray was jackson's private doctor. only murray and his famous patient had any idea about the nature of his treatment behind closed doors. >> aeg live never would have agreed to finance this tour if it knew mr. jackson was playing russian roulette every night in his bedroom. >> reporter: aeg argued michael jackson alone is to blame for what happened. >> a grown man, he is responsible for his own health. certainly his own health care. and he's responsible for his own choices.

no matter how bad those choices might ultimately prove to be. >> reporter: not many cases come with a top 40 soundtrack. the jury in this one watching performances from the jackson 5 on down to "thriller." ♪ >> reporter: a reminder to the jury of the huge legacy at stake, the damages sought by the jackson family, $1.5 billion, representing their estimate of what jackson might have earned had he survived. the jury also watched touching home videos of michael jackson, the family man. an obvious tug at the heartstrings, the children whom michael jackson protected, whom the world really only met at his funeral. >> and i just want to say i love him so much. >> reporter: those children were among the plaintiffs here. in fact, the pressure of this trial was so much on young paris jackson, she had to be rushed to the hospital earlier this year

after twaaking 20 motrin and slashing her arm with a kitchen knife. tonight the jurors acknowledged it was not an easy verdict. >> when we first entered the jury room, after five months of being around each other and not being able to talk about it at all, we just felt like we had to let off some steam. so we spent the first several hours just letting off steam, talking about things. and i think that was important for us to do. and we took a vote on question number one. then we started discussing it. question one took us a long time. >> reporter: question one on the jury form, did aeg hire dr. conrad murray? on that issue alone, an emphatic yes. unanimous for the jackson family. a no vote would have thrown the case out. the second question -- equally important -- was murray fit for the job? in other words, should aeg have known he'd screw up? >> votes changed. i would say at least three or four times.

before we were finally able to come to the tally, tally of the vote was 10-2. >> reporter: 10-2 in favor of aeg. >> okay. you're discharged. >> reporter: which meant the jacksons get nothing, not a dime from aeg live. >> of course, they're not happy with the result as it stands now. we will be exploring all options legally. >> reporter: this is a one-off type of case or does this have larger implications for the entertainment industry, medical industry, whatever? >> i think this is a one-off case in the civil. in the criminal case, the prosecution of murray, i think that had large implications. >> reporter: will there are more michael jackson trials to come? >> a day doesn't go by that i don't get e-mails or people claiming to be michael's wife, michael's lover, michael's baby mama, this or that. he's literally larger than life. even in death. and that spurs litigation. >> reporter: barring an appeal, the fact that the jury ended up throwing out this lawsuit may

help dampen down future litigation. after five long months, michael jackson's legacy may finally be ready to move out of the courtroom. the king of pop's fans more forgiving than any jury. i'm david wright for "nightline" in los angeles. >> our thanks to david. coming up next, bring it on. could you focus on a game while these cheerleaders are doing this?

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