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Actor Ryan O’Neal Wins Lawsuit Over Disputed Andy Warhol Portrait of Farrah Fawcett

Sunday, December 22nd, 2013

A lawsuit over the ownership of an Andy Warhol portrait of the late actress Farrah Fawcett has been settled in favor of her husband, actor Ryan O’Neil.  The lawsuit settles a dispute between O’Neal and the University of Texas in Austin, which had received the work from Fawcett’s estate, even though O’Neal maintained the work had been given to him as a gift from Warhol. (more…)