Cancer Spreads, But Fawcett Not at Death's Door: Sources

Dad is a narcissist, "faithless"

(NEWSER) - Ryan O’Neal was habitually unfaithful to Farrah Fawcett, but “she stayed nice all the way to the end,” Griffin O’Neal told CNN yesterday. Ryan’s estranged son discussed his mistrust of his father (“He was flirting with everybody” at the funeral) and Fawcett’s friend Alana Stewart (“She was selling Farrah’s stuff on eBay the day Farrah died”), and his heartbreak at not being “allowed to say good-bye.” More»

Tatum, sadly, not surprised at this

(NEWSER) - Ryan O’Neal held little back in his Vanity Fair interview, including a story illustrating his “hopeless” parenting: At Farrah Fawcett’s funeral, “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,” he says. “I said to her, ‘You have a drink on you? You have a car?’ She said, ‘Daddy, it’s me—Tatum!’” More»

(NEWSER) - Farrah Fawcett left the vast bulk of her estate to her troubled 24-year-old son, Redmond, and nothing to Ryan O'Neal, sources have told KTLA-TV. Most of her $6 million estate was left in trust to Redmond in the will, which Fawcett updated in 2007. The fund will be controlled by two trustees, and Redmond will get money to purchase a home and a monthly allowance once he finishes a prison sentence on a drug charge. Fawcett also left money to her alma mater, the University of Texas. More»

Son promised her to be "good"

(NEWSER) - In his first interview since Farrah Fawcett’s death, Ryan O’Neal remembers her final days and son Redmond’s promise to her “of a good life. Of a life she would have been proud of,” he tells Meredith Vieira this morning on Today. Watching Fawcett’s long struggle was “horrible,” he says. At the end, the doctor “thought she would live just another couple of hours—she lived a couple of days.” More»

Fawcett got three acting nominations, but documentary nod would have meant the most

(NEWSER) - Farrah Fawcett’s Emmy nomination came 3 weeks after her death at 62, but it would have made her proud, pal Alana Stewart tells the Los Angeles Times. “This would have meant so much to Farrah,” says Stewart of the outstanding nonfiction special nod for Farrah’s Story, on which Fawcett was an executive producer. Her companion Ryan O’Neal “was very excited and happy,” Stewart adds. More»