Can any of us really say we have ever truly been in love until we have been accused of improperly removing a portrait valued at $10m (£6.2m) from our dead lover's home? Probably not but, then again, we're not Ryan O'Neal.
The story is this: in 1980, Andy Warhol made two silkscreen prints of Farrah Fawcett's face; one for her, the other for her then-partner O'Neal. Years passed. Fawcett and O'Neal broke up. He claims his new partner got freaked out because she didn't like having sex underneath a giant picture of his ex-girlfriend. He relented and gave the portrait to Fawcett. Then she died, and in her will left all her art to the University of Texas. But then the university saw the Warhol print in Ryan's home during an episode of his reality show, and it's suing him to get it back.
The lawsuit is sure to ask profound questions. Can a person really own art? Can depth of feeling override legal documents? Did O'Neal really have a reality show? Was it anywhere near as awful as it sounds? Lost in Showbiz awaits the answers.
