Farrah Fawcett never wanted to be buried with Ryan O’Neal — and their son didn’t go to his funeral
nypost.comdied Dec. 8 of congestive heart failure. He had also battled leukemia and prostate cancer.Patrick O’Neal, 56, an LA sportscaster who had grown close to his dad in recent years, organized the service, which was attended by only about 25 people, including Patrick’s mother, actress Leigh Taylor-Young, 78, Ryan’s second wife.Griffin said he hadn’t spoken to his father in 17 years — after the two brawled at Ryan’s Malibu home in 2007.
Griffin allegedly swung a fireplace poker at his dad and Ryan took aim at him with a shotgun.Griffin also said Tatum, 60, and their half-brother Redmond, 38, currently incarcerated at a state hospital in California, were both not invited.
Griffin, who had a minor acting career decades ago, has had his own problems with drugs and brushes with the law — including a prison stint in 2011 for crashing into another car while driving drunk.
He says he is now sober.Redmond appeared in shackles at his mother’s bedside when she was dying and also went to Fawcett’s funeral in shackles.Tatum did not return a call from The Post and Redmond’s guardian, Mela Murphy, Farrah Fawcett’s former hairdresser, threatened a Post reporter with a lawsuit before saying she had no comment and hung up.Redmond, who his father once called “the poor, stupid boy” in a Vanity Fair interview is currently in lockdown at Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino, Calif., where he was sent in 2019 after being deemed mentally unfit to stand trial on attempted murder and drug charges.
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