Warhol’s Farrah portrait found on ex-lover’s wall

The Hollywood actor Ryan O'Neal could be in trouble after a missing Andy Warhol portrait of his former lover Farrah Fawcett, the iconic star of Charlie's Angels, was spotted hanging above his bed in a reality TV show.
 
When Fawcett died two years ago, she left her entire art collection to the University of Texas where she had studied in the 1960s.

But university officials were unable to find the 1980 Warhol print, valued at $30m, which had been hanging in her home in Farrah's Story, the documentary she made about her battle with cancer in 2009.

Despite hiring a private investigator, the university could not recover the missing work.

Then, last weekend, the portrait turned up on TV again - this time on the Oprah Winfrey Network's new reality show Ryan & Tatum: the O'Neals, which stars the actor and his estranged daughter. The portrait could be seen clearly hanging on the bedroom wall of the actor's Malibu home.  
 
O'Neal (pictured above with Fawcett) now seems likely to face an investigation over the portrait, which the University of Texas suspected he had taken after Tatum O'Neal mentioned it in her recent memoir, Found: A Daughter's Journey Home.  "There are pictures of us and the rest of the family [along with] Andy Warhol's portrait of Farrah," she wrote.
 
Craig Nevius, a close friend and former business partner of Fawcett who had been helping the University of Texas find the work, said that he was sure O'Neal would eventually be caught out. "I told the university, 'Be patient and wait, because this man is so arrogant, he's going to show it.'" ·