Fawcett: False Tab Reports Add Pain to Cancer

She and Sienna Miller tell UK ethics panel about media 'siege'

(NEWSER) - The media ethics panel set up in Britain in the wake of the News of the World phone hacking scandal is getting an earful today from some high-profile witnesses:

• JK Rowling: The Harry Potter author complained that a journalist once slipped a note into her 5-year-old daughter's school bag requesting an interview, reports the BBC . "I can't put an invisibility cloaking device over myself or my house, nor would I want to. (But) it feels threatening to have people watching you." She also said reporters posed as tax officials to get personal information from her husband.

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»