Actor Ryan O'Neal won a legal dispute about the portrait of former lover, actress Farrah Fawcett by Andy Warhol. Picture he tried to sue the University of Texas, which Farrah bequeathed his collection of art

ANDY WARHOL Portrait of Farrah Fawcett
Source : dawn.com

Hollywood actor Ryan O'Neal , star of the cult film "Love Story" , won a court case about a portrait of former lover , actress Farrah Fawcett , Andy Warhol . Actress Farrah Fawcett died of cancer in 2009 at age 62 . Own art collection she bequeathed his alma mater - the University of Texas . Among the most valuable works of Fawcett meeting two of her portrait of Warhol silkscreen created by Polaroids in 1980. When the University came into the right to inheritance, the one Warhol portrait were missing . His search took a private detective , but soon portrait found by itself on a wall in the home of Ryan O ' Nile : he hit the shot while filming a reality show about the actor and his daughter Tatum . Naturally , University O'Neal filed for court , but the defendant has enough arguments to convince the jury in their legal right to own portrait .

Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett have been together for 18 years. That O'Neill introduced Farrah with Andy Warhol , with whom he was friends long before the novel with Fawcett . According to the actor , Warhol created two portraits of Terah one for her and one for O'Neill. That one of the portraits really belonged O'Neill confirmed a few close friends Farrah - for example, her chiropractor . The hitch was that at the time of death of the actress in the 2009 portrait of O'Neill was in her apartment , where O'Neal and took him to his house ( in the opinion of counsel the University of Texas , it was akin to theft ) . At trial, the actor explained by the fact that he asked Farrah store at this portrait . The couple broke up in late 1990 after infidelity O'Neill. His new mistress did not want to see in the house Fawcett portrait , so O'Neill turned to Farrah asking to take a picture for storage. Apparently, an insult to the former satellite prevented Fawcett mention of this fact in the will - of O'Neill there are no words. Nevertheless, the court recognized the portrait of his property. Actor vowed that he would not sell it , and give them a common inherited from Fawcett 's son Redmond . Parties differ in the assessment of screen printing. According to the lawyers of the University , "Portrait of Farrah Fawcett " is worth at least $ 12 million ( previously called the sum of 30 million ) . O'Neal appreciates his much more modest - within a million dollars .

Prepared by Mary Onuchina , AI

Sources : dawn.com , bbc.co.uk , freep.com , artinvestment.ru