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Huffington Post – Vanity Fair has split September covers – Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett – and the explosive Fawcett article by Leslie Bennetts offers a remarkable, on-the-record example of the father-daughter dynamic between Farrah’s on-off lover Ryan O’Neal and his daughter Tatum (who he calls a bitch), as well as insight into his relationship with Farrah.O’Neal spoke to Bennetts and characterized himself as “a hopeless father.” He offered the below example from Farrah’s funeral as a reason why:

“I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blonde woman comes up and embraces me,” Ryan told me. “I said to her, ‘You have a drink on you? You have a car?’ She said, ‘Daddy, it’s me–Tatum!’ I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it’s my daughter. It’s so sick.”"That’s our relationship in a nutshell,” Tatum said when I asked her about it. “You make of it what you will.” She sighed. “It had been a few years since we’d seen each other, and he was always a ladies’ man, a bon vivant.”

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Tatum O'Neal Pictures: Tatum O'Neal Pleads Guilty to Disorderly Conduct

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“The Insider” has the latest…Tatum O’Neal has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with her arrest last month for alleged drug possession.

Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Elisa Koenderman ordered O’Neal to spend two half-day sessions in a drug treatment program and pay a $95 fee. If she complies, she will get a conditional discharge and the conviction will be erased if she stays out of trouble for one year.

The Oscar-winning actress, daughter of actor Ryan O’Neal, was arrested June 1 on suspicion of buying cocaine on a Manhattan street. She was the youngest person ever to win an Academy Award for ‘Paper Moon’ in 1973 at age 10.

O’Neal has struggled with drugs in the past but said in an interview shortly after her arrest that she had recently been sober. “Just when I was about to change that and wreck my life, the cops came and saved me.”

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