What famous actor is the ex-husband and the father of the child bore to Joanna Moore?
At age ten, Tatum O’Neal became the youngest Oscar winner in history for her performance in the film classic Paper Moon. She was hailed as a new kind of child star-sassy and precocious-for a hip, cynical age. As the sidekick to her father, the flamboyant star and man-about-town Ryan O’Neal, she became a fixture at the most glamorous Hollywood parties and counted celebrities ranging from Cher to Stanley Kubrick among her childhood friends. But behind the glittering facade of Tatum’s life lay heartbreak: abandonment, abuse, and neglect. Her alcoholic mother, the actress Joanna Moore, drifted in and out of her life. Her father, saddled with both Tatum and her brother Griffin, grew increasingly punishing and distant, especially after moving in with his longtime love, Farrah Fawcett. By her late teens, Tatum-though a working actress with ten movies to her credit-had begun a perilous slide into self-destruction. Then, just before her twenty-first birthday, Tatum met the man who would become
n 2007, Ryan O’Neal was arrested after allegedly firing a gun at his son Griffin. The two have been estranged, and now, after Farrah Fawcett’s death, Griffin O’Neal accuses his father of seeking monetary means when helping Farrah Fawcett at the end of her life. Larry King began the interview by asking Griffon about his relationship with Farrah Fawcett. Griffin stated that his mother was Joanna Moore and that though Farrah and Ryan never married, she was more of a friend than his stepmother. He described his family as being crazy and ‘not so nice’ but that when Farrah came into the picture, she was incredibly nice. Griffin was thirteen years old when Ryan and Farrah became a couple. He said that he didn’t trust her at first, because he had never met someone as nice as Farrah before. Griffin said that Farrah remained that way until her death on June 25,2009. Sources:
