EXCLUSIVE: Farrah Fawcett's Father & Lee Majors Snub Ryan O'Neal Sequel
Posted on Apr 03, 2010 @ 11:53AM - 17 comments
Three of the most important men in Farrah Fawcett's life have spectacularly snubbed Ryan O'Neal and his planned documentary sequel, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.
Farrah's 92-year-old father James and former husband Lee Majors have rejected approaches from O'Neal, along with her drug addict son Redmond, has refused to star in the project.
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A source has told RadarOnline.com that James has had a major falling out with O'Neal, in another bitter battle engulfing his daughter's life after death.
James was left $500,000 in Fawcett's Estate, as RadarOnline.com was first to report.
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"James and Ryan are not at all talking," said the source.
"James has an opinion about what has happened since Farrah died; who was not allowed to see her, where the assets of the Estate are going and what he is entitled to.
"James and Ryan were once close - but it couldn't be further from the truth now."
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James also sat alongside O'Neal at Farrah's funeral service last year, where a letter, addressed to Farrah's "beloved" father, was read in front of mourners: "You gave me life and you were the greatest dad around."
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Earlier this month O'Neal sent Majors, who married Farrah in 1973 yet separated six years later, a personal letter and asked for him to participate.
But he too has refused to cooperate, a source confirmed.
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Earlier this month, RadarOnline.com revealed The Six Million Dollar Man and Farrah had planned to reunite with his former wife on stage in Las Vegas in the final years before her death.
The three rejections are a significant blow to O'Neal's project, which began filming in February.
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In letters he sent to interviewees asking for their participation, O'Neal said the sequel was "to focus on three main areas of her legacy: her art (namely her films and her sculptures), her inspirational battle with cancer; and the light of her life, our son Redmond, who is now fighting to reclaim himself in honor of his mother.”
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But according to National Enquirer columnist Mike Walker, Redmond is fed up with the money-grubbing exploitation of his dead mother and has refused to cooperate with his controversial father.
The trio have joined Karen Spelling, a lifelong friend who grew up with Fawcett in Corpus Christi, who has also refused to participate, as RadarOnline.com previously revealed.
EXCLUSIVE: Ryan O'Neal Starts Work On Farrah Fawcett Documentary Sequel
Posted on Feb 18, 2010 @ 07:15PM - 13 comments
Ryan O'Neal has started work on a sequel to Farrah Fawcett’s cancer documentary, RadarOnline.com is reporting exclusively.
O’Neal employed a photographer to capture every heartbreaking moment of Farrah’s funeral and burial - and it will all be feature in the sequel about her cancer battle, even as litigation rages over the first documentary.
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A producer for the new project traveled to Fawcett's home state of Texas earlier this month to film a series of one-on-one interviews, RadarOnline.com learned exclusively.
One of the late Charlie's Angels' closest friends from college, Sylvia Dorsey, participated in the interview.
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But Karen Spelling, a lifelong friend who grew up with Fawcett in Corpus Christi, refused to participate, in another apparent protest against O'Neal, who is suing – and being sued by – Craig Nevius, the producer who was dropped at the last minute from the first documentary.
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The new project is being billed as a tribute show, RadarOnline.com has been told. It is not known if NBC will be involved in the second production.
"It will take a completely different approach than the documentary," said a source, familiar with the production.
O'Neal confirmed exclusively to RadarOnline.com that he was working on a project.
"My understanding is that he is collecting recollections/memories of Farrah from her friends and family for archival purposes," the actor's publicist Arnold Robinson said.
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In a September classifieds advertisement placed in The Hollywood Reporter, a producer who identified herself as Stephanie Lynn, sought from the public: "Looking for candid footage of Farrah for upcoming one-hour tribute."
Lynn is the same woman who has been regularly photographed alongside O'Neal after Farrah’s death and in photos published on RadarOnline.com.
RadarOnline.com has also learned O'Neal employed photographer Samuel Lippke to shoot still images inside Farrah's funeral service at Los Angeles Roman Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.
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"I had the honor of photographing an amazing woman’s funeral," said Lippke, in a statement posted on his website.
"I can’t write much due to discretion rules and I can’t post images that I took... all of my images go straight to Ryan and no one else."
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However, Lippke revealed that he photographed "some extremely touching moments, bagpipes, tears, rosary beads, eulogies, it was beautiful."
O’Neal has been accused by Nevius of exploiting Farrah in her final days. And Farrah’s Charlie’s Angels co-star Kate Jackson also claimed that Ryan controlled Farrah and refused to let Kate see her.
