Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn’s Love Affair (1997)

Woody Allen is well-known to many cinephiles as the personification of the broody neurotic, a position he has reprised several occasions in his prize-winning films. Allen's actual life, on the other hand, exploded in scandal to rival any screenplay when people found out about Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn's love affair. She was his then-adoptive girlfriend's daughter — who is 35 years his junior.

Allen, whose gift for creating razor-sharp, intellectual one-liners propelled him to success as a writer, director, and actor in the early 1980s, was romantically related to actress Mia Farrow. Farrow adopted many children, including a little girl called Soon-Yi Previn.

Farrow found naked photographs of Previn, then 21, in Allen's house in 1991. Regrettably, controversy ensued. Nevertheless, unlike many more typical Hollywood collaborations, Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn's love affair has been extraordinarily successful. Allen and Previn wedded in 1997, when they were 63 and 27, respectively; the pair are still together as of 2021.