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Farrah Fawcett‘s low-cut red swimsuit is already part of history for the countless purchasers of the 1976 poster in which it famously appeared, and now the item will be preserved for future generations to see in one of America’s most iconic institutions.
Fawcett’s former partner, Ryan O’Neal, is donating swimsuit, along with other Fawcett memorabilia, to Washington D.C.’s Smithsonian Museum of American History.
“It’s an honor to see Farrah’s famous red bathing suit donated to the Smithsonian Institution, celebrating her place in pop culture,” said Ryan. “The swimsuit is exactly where it belongs, and I know Farrah is looking down on us today flashing that big smile that we all loved.”
“The donation will include the red swimsuit, an original copy of the swimsuit poster, a leather-bound book of Fawcett’s personal copies of scripts for the first season of ‘Charlie’s Angels,’ a Fawcett swimsuit jigsaw puzzle, a ‘Farrah Phenomenon’ 1976 edition of TV Guide, a ‘Charlie’s Angels’ 1976 edition of Time magazine, an original 1977 Farrah Fawcett doll and a ‘Farrah’s Glamour Center’ hairstyling toy,” according to the Smithsonian’s website.
Fawcett, a multiple Golden Globe winner, became a household name in the 1970s with recurring roles on TV hits including ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ and ‘The Flying Nun.’
It was her star-making turn as private investigator Jill Munroe on ‘Charlie’s Angels’ that earned the actress worldwide recognition as a sex symbol.
Fawcett, who rekindled her romance with O’Neal in 2001 after splitting in the late 1990s, passed away in 2009 after a lengthy battle with cancer.
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Farrah Fawcett‘s family has been stunned by allegations the actress included a secret lover in her will.
The Charlie’s Angels star passed away in June, aged 62, and reportedly left the bulk of her multi-million dollar fortune to her troubled son Redmond O’Neal – excluding her longterm partner Ryan O’Neal from her legacy.
But now British newspaper the Sunday Express claims the star left $96,000 to former Texas football player Greg Lott, who previously claimed to have been her secret longterm lover.
[see the document]
Lott published a string of love letters in a bid to support his story, and was subsequently dismissed by Ryan O’Neal as a “disgruntled ex-boyfriend from the sixties.”
But the former athlete has revealed he was included in Fawcett’s will and insists her decision to leave him a portion of her estate proves she cared for him until the end. He has also accused O’Neal of keeping him away from Fawcett when she was dying.
“I am a beneficiary of her estate. I have been asked to maintain the confidentiality of the estate, which I must respect.
This news that I am indeed in her will and Ryan is not raises some serious questions about why he prevented me from seeing the love of my life in her final months. Farrah meant the world to me and I know that I equally had a profound impact on her. I cannot understand how those around her chose to keep me from her.”
Ouch! Wasn’t she planning on marrying Ryan for the second time, right before she died?
source: Farrah Fawcett Included Secret Lover In Will [starpulse]; EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENT: Read Farrah Fawcett’s Will; Ryan O’Neal Not Mentioned [radar]
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Yeah just like the title says, Ryan O’Neal hit on his own daughter Tatum O’Neal.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Ryan told of how he met a nice blonde woman, but what makes this even more bizarre/disgusting is it was during Farrah Fawcett’s funeral!!
He says, “I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blonde woman comes up and embraces me. I said to her, ‘You have a drink on you? You have a car?’ She said, ‘Daddy, it’s me–Tatum!’ I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it’s my daughter. It’s so sick.â€
His daughter Tatum then told the magazine, “That’s our relationship in a nutshell. You make of it what you will. It had been a few years since we’d seen each other, and he was always a ladies’ man, a bon vivant.â€
Disgusting.
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The long time lover and friend of the late Farrah Fawcett revealed that his estranged son, Griffin O’Neal, was turned away from the funeral of the iconic beauty on Tuesday.
Even though Griffin drove 300 miles to pay his respects, Ryan O’Neal specifically requested his son be banned from the funeral.
When asked about his reasoning, Ryan would only suggest that his son is a “bad guy.”
Despite his father’s intentions, Griffin believes that Farrah would be upset to know he wasn’t allowed to attend her funeral.
source: Farrah Fawcett’s Funeral [inside edition]
“She’s mad right now that I’m not in there. I just wanted to say goodbye to someone that I knew and loved for 33 years.â€
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Farrah Fawcett died at 9:28 AM today. Ryan O’Neal and Alana Stewart were at her bedside.
She was 62.
Farrah Fawcett had taken a serious turn for the worse and her loved ones reportedly gathered at her bedside Wednesday night.
A priest also was summoned to the Los Angeles hospital where the 62-year-old “Charlie’s Angels” icon – a devout Catholic – is being treated for anal cancer, the television show “Extra” reported.
Her publicist, Arnold Robinson, would not comment on the reports, saying only that “she is still being treated for her condition.”
Those keeping vigil in the intensive care unit included longtime love Ryan O’Neal, who has been with the one-time sex symbol constantly since she was hospitalized two weeks ago.
Ryan O’Neal had recently proposed to Farrah — I wish she could have made it to the wedding, this makes me really sad.
source: Farrah Fawcett health worsening; priest summoned to deliver last rites [daily news]
 UPDATE (James):
CNN (Farrah Fawcett, sex symbol and actress, dies):
Farrah Fawcett, the blonde-maned actress whose best-selling poster and “Charlie’s Angels” stardom made her one of the most famous faces in the world, has died. She was 62.
People (Farrah Fawcett Dies of Cancer at 62):
Farrah Fawcett, who skyrocketed to fame as one of a trio of impossibly glamorous private eyes on TV’s Charlie’s Angels, has died after a long battle with cancer. She was 62.
Fawcett died at 9:28 a.m. PST at St. John’s Heath Center in Santa Monica, Calif. She was with longtime partner Ryan O’Neal, friend Alana Stewart and her doctor Lawrence Piro. She had recently returned to St. John’s for treatment of complications from anal cancer, first diagnosed three years ago.
“She’s gone. She now belongs to the ages,” O’Neal tells PEOPLE. “She’s now with he mother and sister and her God. I loved her with all my heart. I will miss her so very, very much. She was in and out of consciousness. I talked to her all through the night. I told her how very much I loved her. She’s in a better place now.”
Like so much about Fawcett’s life – including her bumpy relationship with O’Neal – her heroic struggle to beat the disease was closely followed by her legion of fans.
“I’ve watched her this past year fight with such courage and so valiantly, but with such humor,” Fawcett’s Charlie’s Angels costar Kate Jackson told PEOPLE in November 2007.
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In 1973, Fawcett married actor Lee Majors, forever known as Col. Steve Austin on TV’s The Six Million Dollar Man. Three years later, she appeared in the cult sci-fi film Logan’s Run and began her stint with costars Jackson and Jaclyn Smith on Charlie’s Angels. Well-coiffed and scantily-clad, the threesome created an instant sensation, with a weekly following of 23 million fans.
Fawcett moved on after just one season. By then, she was already a phenomenon, having donned a one-piece red bathing suit and a perfect smile for her legendary pin-up poster, which sold a still-record 12 million copies.
“I became famous almost before I had a craft,” Fawcett told The New York Times in 1986, four years after her divorce from Majors. (By then, she was already involved with Ryan O’Neal.) “I didn’t study drama at school. I was an art major. Suddenly, when I was doing Charlie’s Angels, I was getting all this fan mail, and I didn’t really know why. I don’t think anybody else did, either.
Though she left TV for what was assumed to be greener pastures – feature films – Fawcett’s initial three big-screen vehicles all crash-landed. Her first, 1978′s Somebody Killed Her Husband, was lampooned in MAD magazine under the title, Somebody Killed Her Career.
It took some serious dramatic TV roles, including that of a battered wife in 1984′s The Burning Bed (which earned her an Emmy nomination), as well as starring in small-screen biopics about pioneering photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White and ill-fated Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, for Fawcett to bounce back.
Fawcett is only slightly younger than my parents but she was the first iconic sex symbol I was ever aware of. She and Majors were the Hollywood “it” couple of the day and “Charlie’s Angels,” while not a show that has stood up well to the test of time, nonetheless remains a pop culture icon.
Even though she remained a celebrity through the end, she’ll always be remembered for that poster. It’s amazing how tame it was compared to the images of today’s sex symbols.
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Ryan O’Neal gave an update on Farrah Fawcett‘s status at the world premiere of her documentary, “Farrah’s Story,” in Los Angeles last night.
“[She's] wonderful, hopeful and proud of this that we helped her make it,” O’Neal told ET on the red carpet. Asked if she would be well enough to see the documentary herself when it airs on Friday night, O’Neal said yes.
The actor was also asked if he would wed Fawcett, after revealing recently that he loves the actress more than ever.
“I’d do that, I would do that. She’s still a little bit hesitant. I’m working though, I’m working.
You know she’s been married, I’ve been married. She’s said, ‘We have a good thing.’ But I said ‘you said that 30 years ago, shouldn’t there be a sea change?’ Maybe there is, you never know.”
Over the past week, O’Neal has spoken publicly after his decades-long relationship with Fawcett, most notably to Meredith Vieira on ‘Today. O’Neal had been optimistic five-to-six months ago. “She was athletic, healthy and hungry and beautiful,” O’Neal says. But then he knew things were wrong after a walk on the beach five to six months ago when Fawcett had to turn around because she wasn’t feeling well.
Fawcett’s documentary features the actress telling the camera directly that she’s relied on a combination of chemotherapy, radiation and prayer during her three year battle with cancer.
“I want to stay alive. So I say to God, because it is, after all, in His hands, ‘It is seriously time for a miracle,’ “says Fawcett. “Of all the things I’ve ever hoped for in my life, finding a doctor to surgically remove my anal cancer did not even make the top one million on my list.”
Meanwhile, TMZ reports exclusively that a man who claims to be responsible for the Farrah Fawcett documentary is suing Ryan O’Neal and others, claiming he was aced out of the project and O’Neal “physically threatened him.”
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Ryan O’Neal turned up for court this morning with son Redmond to face drug charges but spent less than 5 minutes inside the Malibu courthouse.
Judge Lawrence Mira agreed to move the case to January 9 to allow Ryan’s lawyer Mark Worksman more time to prepare his case.
The father son duo were arrested back in September after Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies made a probation visit to their Malibu home and found them in possession of methamphetamines.
[splash news]
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What Redmond O’Neal called a “major misunderstanding” is starting to make a little more sense.
The 23-year-old son of Ryan O’Neal and Farrah Fawcett, who was arrested along with his dad last month on suspicion of methamphetamine possession, was ordered into a two-week treatment program Wednesday after admitting that he had relapsed.
 “You’re a stand-up guy to come here and deal with your problem,” Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Scott Millington told Redmond, who also checked into rehab in 2004 to treat a heroin addiction. “I want you to stay clean…You better stay clean or the hammer is going to fall.”
An attorney for the O’Neals didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
No criminal charges have been filed against either Redmond or his dad in connection with their Sept. 17 bust at the elder O’Neal’s Malibu home during a routine probation checkup. Officers allegedly found Redmond to be in possession of what looked like meth, as well as a small vial of the stuff in his father’s bedroom.
At the time of their arrest, Redmond was about two months into a three-year probation sentence for DUI and possessing heroin and crystal meth.
Ryan O’Neal has maintained his innocence in the affair, his lawyer telling reporters that his client would no doubt be vindicated.
“Those were not Ryan’s drugs, he doesn’t use drugs, and has nothing to do with them,” attorney Mark Werksman said. “It’s a dangerous assumption for deputies to have arrested Ryan just because he was in proximity to the drugs.”
Redmond, meanwhile, characterized the situation as a “major misunderstanding. “Life goes on, you know,” he told a pack of paparazzi who followed him home from a market the day after his arrest. “It’s all I have for you, really…If I knew more, I’d tell you more.”
source: Ryan O’Neal’s Boy Ordered to Rehab [e online]
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Oh dear, another celebrity has been busted for drugs, this time it’s actor Ryan O’Neal and his son, Redmond, were arrested Wednesday at the actor’s Malibu, Calif., home for alleged drug possession, a sheriff’s spokesman confirms.
“This morning, deputies were doing a routine sweep to make sure Redmond was adhering to his probation,” sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said. “Upon searching the premises, the younger O’Neal was found in possession of narcotics. Later, a vial of drugs were found in the elder O’Neal’s bedroom. We believe the drugs found were methamphetamines.”
Both Ryan, 67, and Redmond, 23, are being held at a local sheriff’s station in lieu of $10,000 bail each.
Redmond O’Neal’s mother is Farrah Fawcett and his half-sister is Tatum O’Neal, who was arrested July 1 in New York City for trying to buy drugs.
Reps for Ryan O’Neal and Farrah Fawcett weren’t immediately available for comment.
Redmond has a history of drug abuse, having entered rehab in 2004 for heroin abuse. This past June, he pleaded guilty to drug possession and one misdemeanor DUI charge.
It must run in the family.
source: Ryan O’Neal and Son Arrested for Alleged Drug Possession [people]
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