New Allegations Leveled at Woody Allen : Visitation: Judge orders a full-fledged hearing after charges are raised that the filmmaker had sex while his and Farrow’s children were present.

Faced by a barrage of sensational charges and countercharges, a judge Tuesday ordered a full-fledged hearing into Woody Allen’s request that he be allowed to visit his children.

During the hearing, which could serve as a dress rehearsal for one of the most publicized custody trials in years, both Allen and Mia Farrow, his former lover, could testify and be cross-examined.

State Supreme Court Justice Elliott Wilk ruled that the hearing, which could last as long as five days, was necessary after Farrow’s lawyers raised explosive new allegations against the filmmaker, who also is seeking a court-ordered psychiatric examination of Farrow.

Raising charges which Allen vehemently denied, a lawyer for Farrow testified that their 7-year-old adopted daughter, Dylan, told Connecticut investigators that she saw Allen having sex with Soon-Yi Farrow Previn, 21, one of Farrow’s adopted daughters from her former marriage to conductor Andre Previn.

Allen, 57, and Soon-Yi Farrow Previn have acknowledged they are lovers.

Dylan told police that she and her brother, Satchel, 5, were visiting Allen’s 5th Avenue apartment in New York City when they witnessed the filmmaker and Soon-Yi on the terrace with their arms around each other, the lawyer, Eleanor Alter, told the court Tuesday. Alter said that Allen told both children to go away because they wanted privacy and that later Dylan peeked through the bedroom door and saw them having sex.

“That is what she told the police,” Farrow’s lawyer said. Alter charged that it was “unthinkable” that Allen would have sex with children present.

Alter also charged that Dylan told police that Allen once got angry with her and pushed her face into a plate of hot spaghetti “and when he got angry at her he would say I am going to make a plate of spaghetti.” The lawyer added that Dylan also told investigators that Allen had threatened to break the legs of his and Farrow’s biological son, Satchel.

Both Allen and his lawyers strongly denied the allegations. Farrow, 47, who was the leading lady in several of Allen’s movies, did not attend the hearing.

Outside the courtroom, Allen charged that Farrow was “drumming these stories” into Dylan while denying her psychiatric help.

“It’s just criminal,” he said. “She is brainwashed. She has these stories pushed into her.

“Do you think I would try to break my son’s legs and push my daughter into hot spaghetti?” he asked reporters while accusing Farrow of lying. “. . . The stories get wilder and wilder. Every day the stories get more desperate. I can’t wait for the hearing.”

The state police in Connecticut, where Farrow has a home, are trying to determine the truthfulness of alleged claims by Dylan that she was molested by the filmmaker last summer. In court Tuesday, lawyers said it would be at least another two weeks before that investigation is complete.

Tuesday’s hearing was held so Allen could press arguments he be allowed to see the two children, as well as Moses, 14, another child that he and Farrow adopted. They told Wilk that Allen had been denied visitation with Dylan for 161 days.

The lawyers presented an affidavit from Richard Marcus, a former New York City police lieutenant and once head of the Manhattan Sex Crime unit, who viewed a videotape Farrow made of Dylan during which the child allegedly claims she was molested.

“He (Marcus) said the tone violates every rule of objective questioning,” said Harvey Sladkus, one of Allen’s lawyers. “Dylan constantly looks to Miss Farrow for approval in giving her answers.”

“Based on a bogus tape, Mr. Allen has not seen his daughter for 5 1/2 months,” Sladkus said. “All Mr. Allen wants is what every other loving father wants, judge, to be with his children.”

Martin Obten, another of Allen’s lawyers, in seeking a psychiatric examination of Farrow, charged that Farrow was an unfit parent.

“He (Allen) believes these children are in great danger and should not be with her,” Obten told Wilk.

In counter arguments, Alter said that Farrow had met in the past with psychiatrists who found “she has good mental health” and “demonstrates extraordinary emotional strength.”

“There is no basis for psychiatric examination of Miss Farrow,” she added.

Allen is seeking supervised visits with Satchel, Dylan and Moses.

During the hearing set to begin on Jan. 26, lawyers for both Allen and Farrow will be able to call witnesses.