Actor Ryan O’Neal was buried today next to his longtime lover Farrah Fawcett in Los Angeles, California at Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery.

The 82-year-old Oscar nominated actor died in Los Angeles on December 8th of congestive heart failure.

Exclusive DailyMail.com pictures show about 25 people in attendance at his graveside service including ex-wife, Leigh Taylor-Young, and their son, Patrick O’Neal and Fawcett’s best friend Alana Stewart.

The services started at 11 AM with a brief ceremony inside the chapel at the cemetery, then O’Neal’s redwood colored coffin was taken to his final resting place beside his longtime partner Fawcett. 

The former A list Hollywood couple endured a tumultuous relationship for the better part of three decades until she died on June 24, 2009 from cancer at the young age of 62.

O’Neal was best known for his movies in the 1970s, which included Paper Moon, costarring his daughter Tatum. The acclaimed film, which was directed by Ryan’s What’s Up, Doc? collaborator Peter Bogdanovich, earned the young girl the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress when she was just 10, making the budding star — who had turned nine during the production — the youngest person to ever win a competitive Oscar.

He also worked with some of the top female stars of his day such as Barbra Streisand on What’s Up, Doc? and The Main Event, and Marisa Berenson on Barry Lyndon.

Ryan was nominated in 1970 for a Best Actor Oscar for his blockbuster film Love Story with Ali MacGraw.

Streisand shared a tribute to the late star on X, formerly known as Twitter, upon hearing the heartbreaking news of Ryan’s passing and shared a black and white image of the pair taken in the past.

The actress also typed, ‘So sad to hear the news of Ryan O’Neal’s passing. We made two films together, What’s Up, Doc? and The Main Event. He was funny and charming, and he will be remembered.’

Mia Farrow also uploaded a tribute by sharing various throwback images and penned, ‘Rest in peace dear Ryan.’

The two notably costarred in the series, Peyton Place. 

Sharon Stone also paid tribute with a black-and-white photo of O’Neal from his later years.

‘It’s w deep sadness I post this. RIP Ryan O’Neal,’ she wrote, adding a heart emoji.

Ryan was known for his high-profile relationship to Charlie’s Angels actress Farrah Fawcett which lasted decades; they never wed.

The two were partners from 1979 to 1997 after he stole the bubbly blonde beauty away from her husband, Lee Majors of The Six Million Dollar Man fame.

Together they had a son named Redmond, 38, who had trouble with the law, even serving time in jail.

O’Neal was jailed in 2009 after he was found in possession of heroin during a routine security check at the Pitchess Detention Center, California. He was behind bars when his mother died from cancer in June, 2009.

Redmond has acted in the films Love Don’t Cost a Thing (2003), The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1998) and Johnny Bravo (1997), but is not often seen these days.

Ryan also romanced Ursula Andress, Bianca Jagger, Jacqueline Bisset, Streisand, Joan Collins and Diana Ross.

Ryan is survived by four children: Tatum O’Neal and Griffin O’Neal with Joanna Moore, Patrick O’Neal with Leigh Taylor-Young, and Redmond James Fawcett O’Neal with Fawcett.  

And the star has five grandchildren.

His son posted a lengthy note with the photo a beach at sunset.

‘This is very difficult for my wife Summer and I, but I will share some feelings to give you an idea of how great a man he is,’ he wrote.

‘My father Ryan O’Neal has always been my hero. I looked up to him and he was always bigger than life. When I was born in 1967 my dad was already a TV star on Peyton Place.

‘That’s where he met my mom Leigh Taylor-Young, and about 9 months later (give or take a date night or two) I was born,’ he added.

‘My dad became an international movie star with Love Story at the beginning of the 1970’s, a decade he absolutely crushed by starring in movies like What’s Up, Doc?, Paper Moon, Barry Lyndon, A Bridge Too Far, The Main Event, and The Driver.

‘He is a Hollywood legend. Full stop. The growth spurt of the first name Ryan can be traced back to my dad. That’s a fact.

‘He was Rodney Harrington on Peyton Place 3 days a week (he starred in 500 shows over 5 years) and then of course the name Ryan peaked after Love Story (the film that saved Paramount Studios and earned my dad a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame).’

Ryan was born in Los Angeles and began acting in the 1960s.

He did guest roles on TV shows such as Bachelor Father, My Three Sons and Leave It To Beaver.

He then landed his big breakthrough role on the soapy night time TV series Peyton Place as he played small town hot stuff Rodney Harrington alongside Mia Farrow.

Soon after Hollywood snapped him up for film roles, as he had the looks and charisma to carry the silver screen.

In 1970, he played an Olympic athlete in The Games.

He was then recommended for the lead in the romantic drama Love Story (1970), which not many had faith in as it was a slow and tear-jerking story.

But his chemistry with Ali was so strong that fans went wild for the sob story about two Harvard students in love: a spoiled rich kid who hates his father and his smart, scrappy girlfriend who comes from a working-class family.

‘I hope the young people like it,’ O’Neal said before the film came out. ‘I don’t want to go back to TV.’

He was next in the TV movie Love Hate Love (1971), then the Western Wild Rovers (1971) with William Holden.

His next hit was the comedy What’s Up, Doc? (1972) opposite Streisand. He played the stiff, uptight man to her wacky, outspoken drifter. They had a romance in real life too.

Later O’Neal played a jewel thief in The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1972) opposite Jacqueline Bisset and Warren Oates.

Then he was reunited with Bogdanovich for Paper Moon (1973) in which he starred opposite his daughter Tatum O’Neal.

His performance in the film earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and he was voted by exhibitors as the second-most-popular star of 1973 in the country.

O’Neal spent over a year making Barry Lyndon (1975) for Kubrick but the costume drama was not well received.

Next was the comedy Nickelodeon (1976) with Burt Reynolds and Tatum O’Neal. It was a bomb.

O’Neal followed this with the big ensemble movie A Bridge Too Far (1977), playing General James Gavin. It was another dud for the box-office king.

An action film was next, The Driver (1978), but it didn’t have wheels.

His reputation as a massive film star who could sell movie tickets was starting to strain.

More flops followed, however, like Green Ice in 1981 and Circle Of Two, which he would later say he did for the money.

In 1989 he had a mild hit with Chances Are with Cybill Shepherd.

He turned to TV with Farrah as they costarred in Good Sports in 1991. Fans were hoping for chemistry and sizzle, but it was DOA.

Next came a string of bad movies like Malibu’s Most Wanted (2003) and the Alicia Silverstone TV series Miss Match, also in 2003.

His next highlight was in 2016, when reunited with Love Story co-star MacGraw in a staging of A.R. Gurney’s play Love Letters.

His love life made headlines for decades as he had a penchant for pretty ladies with their own fame.

O’Neal married his first wife, actress Joanna Moore, in 1963.

They had two children before separating in 1966.

Moore lost custody of their children to O’Neal as a result of her alcoholism and drug addiction.

His second marriage was to actress Leigh Taylor-Young, with whom he had a son and divorced in 1974.

Then came beauty Fawcett, which was the scandal of its day as fans loved her with Majors.

Eventually, he cheated and they fought, however, and they became tabloid news.

Fawcett broke up with him after she found O’Neal in bed with actress Leslie Stefanson. But they got back together 2001 and spent time together before her death in 2009.

He also dated Anjelica Huston. She would accuse him of abusing her in her tell-all book.

According to his daughter Tatum, he also had an affair with Melanie Griffith.

O’Neal has four children: Tatum O’Neal and Griffin O’Neal with Moore, Patrick O’Neal with Taylor-Young, and Redmond James Fawcett O’Neal with Fawcett.

Along with his 2009 prison sentence, Redmond has faced multiple run-ins with the law. In 2015, he was sentenced to three years in jail due to violating his probation after being in possession of a firearm.

He was released the following year in 2016. His half-sister, Tatum, has battled with addiction as well in the past.

At the time of his 2015 arrest, she told People that his substance abuse and addiction was ‘so bad that it breaks my heart.’

‘I love him, but I have never seen a more scary side of addiction. Nobody knows what to do with Redmond. From what I’ve seen, there is no way he’s going to survive.’

In 2018, he was arrested once again on charges of attempted murder as well as robbery and possession of illegal drugs – including meth and heroin.

Shortly after the arrest, Redmond opened up to RadarOnline in May 2018 from jail and stated that it wasn’t ‘dugs that have been a problem’ and claimed ‘it’s the psychological trauma of my entire life – my whole life experiences have affected me the most.’

He put blame on his parents, stating that ‘being kicked out and living on the streets’ only added to his issues, such as ‘going to jail, being put in a psychiatric ward, being embarrassed all the time because of who my parents are.’

‘The pressure that came with that set off a time-bomb in my head. I never asked for any of this, I never wanted any attention…’

The publication later reported earlier this year in February that Redmond has been serving time in a state psychiatric hospital for a little over three years after it was ruled that he was unfit to stand trial on attempted murder and robbery charges in 2018.

By Sharon Mai for Dailymail.Com

Published: 7:07 PM EST, December 9, 2023 | Updated: 7:07 PM EST, December 9, 2023

Hollywood star Ryan O’Neal will be reunited with Farrah Fawcett in heaven, his son has said, as the world remembers how one of Hollywood’s greatest love stories began. 

The iconic star, who was both a matinee idol and an award-winning actor, died at the age of 82, his son Patrick confirmed via social media on Friday. 

In a heartfelt tribute alongside a photograph of a sunset, he wrote: ‘So this is the toughest thing I’ve ever had to say but here we go.

‘My dad passed away peacefully today, with his loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as he would us. He is a Hollywood legend. Full stop’. 

He also spoke of his father’s on-off relationship with Charlie’s Angels star Farrah Fawcett, who died in 2009 at the age of 62 from cancer. 

‘Ryan never bragged’, he added. ‘But he has bragging rights in Heaven. Especially when it comes to Farrah. Everyone had the poster, he had the real McCoy. And now they meet again.

‘Farrah and Ryan. He has missed her terribly. What an embrace that must be. Together again.’

O’Neal was known for his high-profile relationship to Ms Fawcett which lasted decades; they never wed with O’Neal once saying: ‘Farrah and I have no plans to marry – nor do we have plans to separate. Don’t fix what ain’t broken’.

They were partners from 1979 to 1997 after he stole the bubbly blonde beauty away from her husband, Lee Majors of The Six Million Dollar Man fame. 

Together they had a son named Redmond, 38, who had trouble with the law, even serving time in jail.

Their relationship was tumultuous due to Ryan’s infidelity, and their relationship ended when Ms Fawcett found him in bed with actress Leslie Stefanson. 

But, they reunited in 2001 when O’Neal was diagnosed with leukaemia, with Ms Fawcett nursing O’Neal who soon went into remission. 

But in 2006, the roles were reversed when Ms Fawcett herself was diagnosed with cancer, and O’Neal dedicated himself to taking care of her. The couple remained together until Ms Fawcett’s death in 2009. 

Following her death, O’Neal described her as his ‘forever Valentine’ telling People: ‘I loved her with all my heart. I will miss her so very, very much’. He later said ‘there was never a day’ that he ‘didn’t love her’. 

O’Neal was famed for his personal life as his films – romances with Barbra Streisand, Joan Collins, Diana Ross, Bianca Jagger, Angelica Houston, Ursula Andressalso dated Anjelica Huston. She would accuse him of abusing her in her tell-all book.

The pair met through O’Neal’s friend and Fawcett’s husband at the time Lee Majors. Fawcett was known for her time on Charlie’s Angels and O’Neal was still best known for his 1970s Oscar-nominated role in Love Story. 

The pair began a relationship with Ms Fawcett when Majors suggested Ryan take her out for the evening while he was away from home.

O’Neal recounted the moment when Majors suggested the pair have dinner in his 2012 book, Both of Us: My Life with Farrah, writing that Majors had said: ‘Why don’t you take her to dinner one night?’

Just days beforehand, he had seen Ms Fawcett after a trek up Antelo Road near Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles with Majors. He described her as ‘delightful’ and ‘full of childlike warmth’ in his book. 

O’Neal stayed for lunch and Ms Fawcett asked him to come back that evening to watch a boxing match in their home. 

‘They were saying the marriage was over, and I was saying they were terrific together,’ O’Neal later told Vanity Fair. 

It wasn’t long after this that Majors had asked O’Neal to take Ms Fawcett to dinner. 

Just a week later, he took her to a Ry Cooder concert, writing that Ms Fawcett eventually agreed to go with him, having talked it through with Majors beforehand. 

‘I let him know that Ryan asked me out. He said, ‘I told him to. But you’re not going’, he wrote. 

Majors and O’Neal’s relationship then began to break down, with Majors calling his house and hanging up, finally telling him to ‘stay away’ from his wife. 

But, O’Neal, who was previously married to actress Joanne Moore and later Leigh Taylor-Young, had fallen for Ms Fawcett, telling Vanity Fair: ‘It was a situation I’d never been in  before- committing to a woman before I’d even talked to her about it’. 

Ms Fawcett and Majors went onto divorce in 1982.  

Tributes have flooded in for O’Neal, who also had two children with his first wife. 

On Friday, his daughter Tatum O’Neal shared a statement with People reacting to the news. 

‘I feel great sorrow with my father’s passing,’ she shared. ‘He meant the world to me. I loved him very much and know he loved me too. I’ll miss him forever and I feel very lucky that we ended on such good terms.’

Barbra Streisand, who worked with O’Neal on What’s Up, Doc? and The Main Event, and Marisa Berenson on Barry Lyndon, shared a tribute to the late star on X, formerly known as Twitter, upon hearing the heartbreaking news of Ryan’s passing and shared a black and white image of the pair taken in the past.

The actress also typed, ‘So sad to hear the news of Ryan O’Neal’s passing. We made two films together, What’s Up, Doc? and The Main Event. He was funny and charming, and he will be remembered.’ 

Mia Farrow also uploaded a tribute by sharing various throwback images and penned, ‘Rest in peace dear Ryan.’ 

The two notably costarred in the series, Peyton Place. 

Sharon Stone also paid tribute with a black-and-white photo of O’Neal from his later years. 

‘It’s w deep sadness I post this. RIP Ryan O’Neal,’ she wrote, adding a heart emoji.

O’Neal was last seen being aided into his vehicle from a wheelchair by a helper in Brentwood, California on November 6, 2023. O’Neal was wheeled down the sidewalk and had two caretakers got him into the front seat of his car, lifting him from under his arm. 

O’Neal was best known for his movies in the 1970s, which included Paper Moon, costarring his daughter Tatum. 

The acclaimed film, which was directed by Ryan’s What’s Up, Doc? collaborator Peter Bogdanovich, earned the young girl the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress when she was just 10, making the budding star — who had turned nine during the production – the youngest person to ever win a competitive Oscar.

O’Neal is survived by four children: Tatum O’Neal and Griffin O’Neal with Joanna Moore, Patrick O’Neal with Leigh Taylor-Young, and Redmond James Fawcett O’Neal with Fawcett, and his five grandchildren. 

Tatum O’Neal is mourning the loss of her father, Ryan O’Neal, following this passing.

“I feel a lot of sadness about the death of my father,” Tatum, 60, said People on Friday, December 8, hours after Ryan’s death was confirmed. “He meant everything to me. I loved him very much and know he loved me too. I will miss him forever and I feel very fortunate that we ended on such good terms.

Ryan’s eldest son, Patrick O’Neal, confirmed the actor’s death earlier on Friday at the age of 82. “My father passed away peacefully today with his loving team by his side, who supported him and loved him as he would love us,” he said wrote via Instagram.

“My father Ryan O’Neal has always been my hero. I looked up to him and he was always larger than life,” Patrick continued. “When I was born in 1967, my father was already a TV star Peyton Place. There he met my mother Leigh Taylor Youngand about nine months later (a few date nights or two) I was born.

Patrick described his father as a “Hollywood legend. Full stop,” noting that the Ryan name “peaked” after he appeared in the 1970 film Love storywho “saved Paramount Studios and earned my father a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.”

Patrick said Ryan was “so skilled at his craft, worked so hard and loved to act plain and simple,” adding that he was “very intelligent,” an “avid reader” and a “magazine writer.” He concluded his message by saying that his father lived “a great life” and “never boasted” but “had bragging rights in heaven.”

He concluded the heartfelt tribute with, “I will miss you, Dad. I love you. We love you.”

Ryan, who was known for his roles in Paper moon, love story, Peyton Place, the driver and more, was the father of four children: Tatum and son Griffin O’Nealwhom he welcomed with his first wife Joanna Moore in 1963 and 1964 respectively; Patrick, 56, whom he shared with ex-wife Leigh Taylor-Young; And Redmond O’Nealwhich he welcomed in 1985 with Farrah Fawcett. (Ryan and Farrah were romantically linked for 30 years until her death in 2009.)

Throughout his life, Ryan made headlines for his ups and downs with his children. He and Griffin, 59, infamously fell out in 1983 and 2007, while he and son Redmond, 38, were arrested in 2008 for alleged drug possession. He was also often estranged from Tatum as she dealt with her own battle with addiction.

‘How would I feel if, for example, my father became ill or even died? Would I be okay? And I realized that things weren’t going to go well for me,” Tatum asked during a segment of the couple’s short-lived 2011 reality show, Ryan and Tatum: The O’Neals, according to CNN. “So I knew I had to make an effort, because what is your life without your family? What is your life without a father?”

The couple eventually reunited in September 2020, along with her three children – Kevin, 37, Sean, 36, and Emily, 32 – who she shares with her ex-husband. John McEnroe.

“This is one of the most memorable photos of my life,” says Sean wrote via Instagram at the time. “The last time we were all together was for the 30th anniversary Paper moon Anniversary in 2003. I could cry tears of gratitude that everyone in this photo is still alive and that we could all come together again after so many years of hardship. The entire West Coast is on fire, but if the O’Neal can reconcile, anything is possible.”

By Heidi Parker for Dailymail.com

Published: 4:50 PM EST, December 8, 2023 | Updated: 5:05 PM EST, December 8, 2023