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Allen, 64, and wife Soon-Yi Previn, 29, confirmed Wednesday through their publicist that they adopted a baby girl earlier this year.
According to the New York Daily News, the child was born in Texas about six months ago and arrived at Allen's New York town house shortly thereafter.
As is his wont, the Woodster, a part-time clarinet-tooter, named the tyke after one of his jazz influences. His first adopted daughter, who joined the Allen clan last year, was christened Bechet Allen after the filmmaker's idol, clarientist extraordinaire Sidney Bechet. The new addition was named Manzie Tio Allen, after Manzie Johnson, a drummer in Bechet's outfit, and Lorenzo Tio, the guy who taught Bechet how to play.
Of course, the neurotic comic has a well-documented and troubled history with his charges. He first met Soon-Yi when she was just 8 and he had begun courting her mom, Mia Farrow (Soon-Yi was adopted by Farrow and her ex, conducted André Previn). Allen and Farrow went on to adopt three children together.
But in 1992, the household exploded, after Farrow discovered nude Polaroids of a teenaged Soon-Yi snapped by Woody. Turns out the two were having an affair on the sly. Farrow then sued for custody of their adopted children. A Manhattan Family Court judge eventually barred Allen from seeing his youngest daughter.
Allen, who insisted he never engaged in any improper behavior with his children, married Previn in 1997.