The San Diego Union Tribune reports that Griffen, already facing possible prison time for a DUI crash in 2011, was arrested at his suburban San Diego home on New Year’s Eve on suspicion of misdemeanor domestic battery.

According to the Tribune, a family member called San Diego County sheriff’s deputies to his Ramona home to report someone was drinking excessively. Upon their arrival, police arrested O’Neal for aggressive behavior toward his wife.

He’s being held at San Diego Central Jail on $10,000 bail.

Griffen’s domestic battery arrest comes just days before he is due in court to face sentencing in a separate case in which he drove under the influence of drugs in August, causing a head-on collision that injured another motorist.

While toxicology tests revealed O’Neal had amphetamines, cocaine, marijuana and Xanax in his blood at the time of the 2011 crash, Griffen’s attorneys said the one-time B-actor had been on some of the drugs as treatment for his degenerative bone disease and that he was en route to help his brother Redmond, who himself had just been arrested with heroin in his car.

Griffin O’Neal faces anywhere from probation to four years in prison for the DUI crash. It remains unclear if his recent arrest will delay or otherwise affect his sentencing.

via LA Times

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Ryan O’Neal admits to a doubly shocking faux pas in September’s issue of Vanity Fair.

At length, O’Neal discusses why he doesn’t believe he should have been a father. He describes the incident with Tatum at Farrah’s funeral:

“I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blonde woman comes up and embraces me,” Ryan told me. “I said to her, ‘You have a drink on you? You have a car?’ She said, ‘Daddy, it’s me—Tatum!’ I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it’s my daughter. It’s so sick.”

“That’s our relationship in a nutshell,” Tatum said when I asked her about it. “You make of it what you will.” She sighed. “It had been a few years since we’d seen each other, and he was always a ladies’ man, a bon vivant.”

Maintaining contact with only one of his several children (Redmond, his son with Farrah), O’Neal says he’s “never been happier.

“A couple of them I would take back.

“I don’t think I was supposed to be a father,” said the actor, who had Tatum, 45, and Griffin, 44, with first wife Joanna Moore; son Patrick, 42, with actress Leigh Taylor-Young; and son Redmond, 24, with Fawcett.

“Just look around at my work — they’re either in jail or they should be,” O’Neal said.

The Vanity Fair piece, entitled Beautiful People, Ugly Choices, is one of two VF covers for September. Farrah again is sharing the spotlight with Michael Jackson, who is the subject of the other September cover hitting newstands this week.

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Actress Farrah Fawcett has died after a long fight with anal cancer at the age of 62.

Fawcett first shot to fame in 1976 playing the role of Jill Munroe in the TV series Charlie’s Angels. After Charlie’s Angels, Fawcett moved on to become a critically acclaimed actress, appearing in a number of highly regarded television movies including The Burning Bed, Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story, Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story and Margaret Bourke-White.

Although critically acclaimed, Fawcett never managed to land a major award, despite three Emmy nominations and six Golden Globe Award nominations.

Originally married to Lee Majors, in 1982 Fawcett started a relationship with actor Ryan O’Neal, a love that despite never resulting in marriage, saw the pair stay together until the very end. A report earlier this week stated that the pair were to marry, although it’s not clear at this stage whether they managed to tie the knot before the end.

Fawcett was first diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006, but went into remission after treatment. Sadly the cancer returned in May 2007, and Fawcett has been seeking treatment, including chemotherapy and embryonic stem-cell treatments since that time.

She is survived her partner Ryan O’Neal, and their son Redmond O’Neal.

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David O’Neal has hit back at all the drug rumors after his arrest and has claimed (through his attorney) that the drugs found in his home were not his. Sigh:

“Those were not Ryan’s drugs, he doesn’t use drugs, and has nothing to do with them. It’s a dangerous assumption for deputies to have arrested Ryan just because he was in proximity to the drugs.”

After presenting his statement, David’s attorney did not explain how the methamphetamines appeared in Ryan’s bedroom, but he did promise that he “will be fully vindicated.”

What about son Redmond, who was arrested at the same time? I guess it’s embarrassing to go there right now, or he’s too busy dealing with the consequences of a potentially royal f-up. Redmond did talk to X17 a tad, but mostly to tell people to leave him alone.

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