Ryan O’Neal’s daughter, Tatum O’Neal, has revealed that the home her late father as soon as shared with actress Farrah Fawcett has burned down within the horrific LA fires that ravaged by town.
“It’s the saddest ever so sad I could cry,” the Oscar winner, 61, wrote on Threads Saturday. “My father’s house is gone Malibu gone.”
Tatum, who starred reverse her father within the hit 1973 movie “Paper Moon,” later responded to a thread in regards to the fireplace harm.
“Gone gone gone gone. It’s so scary. I am so freaking sad,” she added in a follow-up publish in regards to the house.
Injury to the Hollywood star’s house comes simply two years after he died from congestive coronary heart failure at age 82 in Dec. 2023.
Fawcett, for her half, died at age 62 following a battle with most cancers in 2009.
Whereas the pair by no means tied the knot throughout their prolonged on-again, off-again relationship, which kickstarted in 1979, they lived collectively within the plush beachfront house for a few years.
Following Ryan’s dying, sources advised The Put up that the actor left behind a $30 million property.
The property included the $5 million Malibu beachfront house, which boasted 2,344 sq. ft, that he purchased in 1976 for simply $151,000, in addition to an Andy Warhol portrait of Fawcett he fought to maintain.
Tatum’s relationship together with her late father was not at all times smooth-sailing.
The actress was estranged from Ryan for about 20 years earlier than reconciling after Fawcett’s dying.
She then co-starred together with her father in a brutally frank 2011 actuality present referred to as “Ryan and Tatum: The O’Neals” on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN community.
In her scathing 2005 memoir, “A Paper Life,” Tatum eviscerated her father partly, claiming he had been abusive to her, Farrah and others — however she additionally made it clear that she at all times beloved him.
Tatum had a stroke following a drug overdose in 2020 however reunited together with her father twice after that, together with visiting him in Malibu for his birthday in April 2023.
The late actor’s house is simply one of many tens of hundreds that has been diminished to rubble following the still-raging Los Angeles wildfires.
As of Monday morning, the dying toll has risen to 24 folks with no less than 16 nonetheless lacking, in keeping with an replace from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner Sunday night.
Nearly all of the victims — 16 — had been killed within the Eaton Hearth, whereas eight had been killed by the Palisades Hearth — the 2 largest of the fires devouring the county.
With the brand new dying toll, the Eaton Hearth is now the fifth-deadliest wildfire in California’s historical past.
About 150,000 folks in Los Angeles County remained below evacuation orders Sunday and greater than 700 residents are taking refuge in 9 shelters, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna mentioned.
