Ryan O’Neal got “nothing” from Farrah Fawcett and shouldn’t be allowed to keep an Andy Warhol painting of the blond beauty, a lawyer said Monday.
The University of Texas wants to recover a $12 million Warhol painting of Fawcett, O’Neal’s long-time girlfriend, that the actress bequeathed to UT, her alma mater.
“He [O’Neal] can’t claim he inherited it because Farrah doesn’t mention him in the living trust,” UT lawyer David Beck told a Los Angeles jury. “She left him nothing — nothing.”
But the 72-year-old O’Neal claims Warhol gave the portrait to him.
“This the most important fact — what happened in 1980 — because that’s the agreement between Andy Warhol and Ryan O’Neal,” the actor’s lawyer, Martin Singer, said.