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Ryan O’Neal

December 22, 2013 by · Comments Off on Ryan O’Neal 

Ryan O’Neal, In actor Ryan O’Neal’s world, events don’t unfold in mundane fashion. There is usually drama — the kind that sustains reality shows and draws gossips and tabloid journalists like ants to a picnic.

The kind that makes for a helluva story.

O’Neal, you see, was on the operating table when a jury found in his favor after a three-week legal battle that also put his 30-year romance with “Charlie’s Angels” actress Farrah Fawcett on trial.

So he wasn’t in the courtroom to hear the verdict Thursday. He wasn’t there to thank the nine jurors who said he would not have to turn over his prized Andy Warhol portrait of Fawcett to her alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin.

When the big moment came for the heartthrob star of “Peyton Place” and “Love Story,” a surgeon was carving up the face that launched thousands of ’60s schoolgirl crushes.

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