{"id":5091,"date":"2013-11-21T11:53:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T18:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5091"},"modified":"2013-11-24T12:14:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T19:14:26","slug":"warhols-missing-farrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/21\/warhols-missing-farrah\/","title":{"rendered":"Warhol’s Missing Farrah"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The case of Farrah Fawcett\u2019s Warhol portrait: Call Charlie\u2019s Angels<\/h1>\n

BY MARIA RECIO<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014 Farrah Fawcett, iconic beauty. Ryan O\u2019Neal, leading man. Andy Warhol, enfant terrible.<\/p>\n

What could be missing from this 1970s soap opera?<\/p>\n

It turns out that a very valuable Warhol painting of Fawcett allegedly is missing \u2013 and very much at the center of a tabloid-frenzied drama involving all three, even though Fawcett and Warhol are deceased.<\/p>\n

Who owns the 1980 portrait of Fawcett by Warhol, done in his signature silk-screen pop art style, showing her with bright green eyes, eye makeup and red, red lips? O\u2019Neal, her partner for many years, has it and says it\u2019s his, but no less than the University of Texas Board of Regents is suing him, saying it\u2019s missing from her bequest to her alma mater.<\/p>\n

The drama will play out in Los Angeles Superior Court starting Wednesday, in a two-week trial with an all-star cast, including O\u2019Neal; his son with Fawcett, Redmond O\u2019Neal; celebrity Alana Stewart; and Fawcett\u2019s fellow \u201cCharlie\u2019s Angel\u201d Jaclyn Smith on the witness list.<\/p>\n

To ramp up the voltage, O\u2019Neal has a celebrity attorney, Martin Singer, described by The New York Times as \u201cguard dog to the stars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fawcett died of cancer in 2009 at age 62. She left all her artworks in her living trust to the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied before going to Hollywood in 1968 to become a model and actress.<\/p>\n

But unbeknown to the university, a painting was missing. To the school\u2019s surprise, it discovered there was not one Warhol painting of Fawcett, but two \u2013 the artist had painted nearly identical portraits at the same time \u2013 and they\u2019d been in her Los Angeles home. The tipster was Fawcett\u2019s secret Texas boyfriend. Only one of the \u201ctwin\u201d portraits made it to Austin with her extensive art collection, where it\u2019s on display at the university\u2019s Blanton Museum of Art.<\/p>\n

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