Ryan O’Neal, Oscar nominated star of Love Story and Peyton Place, handed away on December 8, 2023, on the age of 82. And although he’s greatest identified for his work on-camera, he had a full household life behind the scenes. Throughout three relationships — two marriages and one epic romance with actress Farrah Fawcett –he welcomed 4 youngsters. By the point he handed on the age of 82, he’d additionally develop into a grandfather to 5.
Right here’s the whole lot to find out about his 4 youngsters, together with Oscar-winning former little one actress Tatum O’Neal.
Tatum O’Neal
Ryan welcomed his first little one, Tatum, on November 5, 1963, with ex-wife, actress Joanna Moore. Although Joanna and Ryan separated in 1966 and divorce in 1967, Tatum and her dad have been destined for father-daughter greatness. They’d go on to co-star in Paper Moon, a Nice Despair Period movie a few con artist and a younger woman, in 1974. On the age of simply 10, Tatum would develop into the youngest actress ever to win an Academy Award for Finest Supporting Actress that yr. Her father acquired a nomination, as properly.
However over time, their relationship soured amid Tatum’s reported battle with dependancy. In 2011, Ryan and Tatum starred in OWN actuality collection Ryan and Tatum: The O’Neals. She realized on the time that she wanted to reconcile with him.
“How would I really feel if my father have been to, say, get sick or die even? Would I be OK? And I spotted that I wouldn’t be OK,” she stated in a clip of the present, per CNN. “So I knew I wanted to make an effort, as a result of what’s your life with out your loved ones? What’s your life and not using a father?”
The estrangement reignited and dragged on. However in 2020, Tatum’s son Sean McEnroe, shared that the estrangement had ended. He shared a pic of his mother, grandfather Ryan, and his siblings, having fun with time as a household. “This is likely one of the most memorable images of my life,” he captioned the pic partially. “The final time we have been all collectively was on the 30-year Paper Moon Anniversary in 2003. I might cry tears of gratitude that everybody on this picture remains to be alive and that we have been all in a position to come collectively once more after so a few years of hardship.” He completed the emotional publish with, “if the O’Neals can reconcile, actually something is feasible.”
Tatum married tennis nice John McEnroe in 1986, and divorced him in 1994. They welcomed youngsters Sean, Kevin, and Emily throughout their marriage.
Griffin O’Neal
Joanna and Ryan welcomed their second little one, Griffin O’Neal, on October 28, 1964. Griffin adopted within the household footsteps, selecting a profession in appearing. He’s greatest identified for showing in movies together with April Idiot’s Day and The Escape Artist, amongst others.
Griffin left Los Angeles in 2007 and now lives close to the Mexico border. In a devastating 2015 interview, he pulled no punches when talking out the drama surrounding his household. “My complete household has been completely destroyed to smithereens from drug dependancy and alcoholism,” he advised PEOPLE on the time. “The frequent denominator is medication and alcohol and melancholy and it’s a unending cycle. I needed to stroll away from all of it. I’m achieved.”
Now sober, Griffin was additionally estranged from his father — Ryan was arrested in 2007 over an alleged assault on Griffin with a firearm, although the enduring actor claimed it was self-defense. “The final time I noticed my dad, he shot at me as a result of I used to be attempting to assist his son [Redmond] get sober so I haven’t talked to him in 9 years,” he advised the outlet on the time.
Patrick O’Neal
Patrick O’Neal is the one little one of Ryan and his second spouse, Leigh Taylor-Younger, whom he was married to from 1967-1974. The couple welcomed Patrick on September 14, 1967, and true to type, he additionally dabbled in appearing, showing in Die Arduous 2 and Beverly Hills, 90210, amongst others. Nonetheless, Patrick made his title primarily in sports activities broadcasting.
It was Patrick who broke the information that his well-known father had died on December 8, 2023, in a prolonged memorial throughout a trio of Instagram posts. “So, that is the hardest factor I’ve ever needed to say however right here we go,” Patrick wrote within the emotional social media assertion. “My dad handed away peacefully immediately, along with his loving workforce by his aspect supporting him and loving him as he would us.”
The proud son went on, “I appeared as much as him, and he was at all times larger than life. Once I was born in 1967, my dad was already a TV star on Peyton Place. That’s the place he met my mother, Leigh Taylor-Younger, and about 9 months later (give or take a date evening or two), I used to be born.”
On April 20, Patrick took to Instagram once more to gush over his dad on his 82nd birthday. “Honor and a privilege to share time with my dad on his 82nd birthday,” he captioned a father and son black and white snapshot. “4/20 whoop whoop!!”
Redmond O’Neal
Redmond James Fawcett O’Neal is Ryan’s youngest little one. Charlie’s Angels icon Farrah Fawcett and Ryan welcomed him in 1985. Farrah and Ryan have been collectively from 1979-1997, then once more from 2001 till Farrah’s demise in 2009. Although little is understood about Redmond’s present state of affairs, he’s been concerned in a litany of alleged crimes, and frolicked in jail and rehab.
“He has addictions he can’t management; he goes to sleep in his meals,” Ryan advised Self-importance Truthful in a heartbreaking 2009 interview, per PEOPLE. “This isn’t a privileged man. He by no means had any cash; he by no means had a automotive; he by no means had a driver’s license. He’s by no means been out on the road for a yr, as a result of no matter he did, he acquired caught. He acquired arrested in jail with heroin in his pocket! So many arrests, the poor, silly boy! He’s not a thug; he doesn’t know easy methods to be. He’s only a sap, and he is aware of it. He’s been in rehabs all around the United States and Mexico. We’re simply grateful he doesn’t have H.I.V.”
In 2008, the father-son duo was arrested for alleged drug possession in Malibu. On the time, authorities had been wanting in on Redmond to make sure he was sticking to his probation phrases following a DUI earlier that yr.
His sister, Tatum, expressed issues about Redmond in an interview with PEOPLE. “I like him, however I’ve by no means seen a extra scary aspect of dependancy,” she advised the outlet in 2015. “He’s acquired dependancy issues so dangerous that it breaks my coronary heart. No person is aware of what to do with Redmond. From what I’ve seen, there isn’t a method he’s going to outlive.”
