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O’Neal Testifies He Talks To Warhol Portrait Of Farrah Fawcett
AP) ^ | December 11, 2013 5:36 PM

Posted on 12/11/2013 7:15:47 PM PST by BenLurkin

The University of Texas at Austin is suing O’Neal to try to gain possession of the portrait. Fawcett left all her artwork to the school and it claims O’Neal improperly took it from her condo days after her death.

The Oscar-nominated actor took the stand for the second time in the trial to assert his ownership of the portrait and why it’s important for him to keep it.

“I talk to it,” O’Neal said. “I talk to her. It’s her presence. Her presence in my life. In her son’s life.”

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To: Revolting cat!

Well...there is the matter of her will. Courts tend to give great deference to a person’s testamentary instructions.


41 posted on 12/11/2013 8:08:38 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

True, but no art works are created for museums or universities (unless explicitly ordered by such.)


42 posted on 12/11/2013 8:10:31 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: GeronL

He misses her so much, the painting worth millions is needed for purely sentimental reasons...


43 posted on 12/11/2013 8:11:14 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: real saxophonist

As one FReeper put it earlier, the university should just delay possession until after Ryan dies.

She gave the painting to the University.

We all know that the courts are neither nor just.

They simply apply the law, whether it be good or bad.


44 posted on 12/11/2013 8:11:48 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: real saxophonist

Exactly.

That would be a fair compromise.


45 posted on 12/11/2013 8:13:09 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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Neither fair nor just


46 posted on 12/11/2013 8:16:30 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: PghBaldy

lol

because a photo won’t do her memory justice?


47 posted on 12/11/2013 8:19:41 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: real saxophonist

>>Visiting a grave seems normal, but talking to a painting, I don’t know. Of course, I’m talking about loss of parents, which again is ‘normal’, where loss of a wife or husband or ‘life partner’, or child for that matter, is not.<<

Either way, they are real life symbols that enable our connection. We imbue and impart meaning to these symbols that help us in this way.

It strikes me the University is being pig-headed.

If I was arbitrating this I would simply grant ownership to the University but custody to O’Neal until his death.

Having worked for several Colleges and installed and built giving systems, I can assure you that assets are booked for the long haul.


48 posted on 12/11/2013 8:22:56 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
That's Funny!

I have this one hanging in my house, and when I talk to it, all he ever says is "Huh?"

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49 posted on 12/11/2013 8:23:57 PM PST by FredZarguna (Have wun gill ravel treads the mard of rocan. kan ight ithout warmor in a lavage sand.)
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To: freedumb2003

I still yak out loud to pictures of my Pop, but I never tried to swindle a legal owner of a pic out of 10 million.


50 posted on 12/11/2013 8:25:16 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: logitech
What is It’s answer?

"Up the Haldol dosage."

51 posted on 12/11/2013 8:26:17 PM PST by FredZarguna (Have wun gill ravel treads the mard of rocan. kan ight ithout warmor in a lavage sand.)
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To: GeronL; PghBaldy
The problem with the picture is that the guy in it talks back.


52 posted on 12/11/2013 8:35:49 PM PST by FredZarguna (Have wun gill ravel treads the mard of rocan. kan ight ithout warmor in a lavage sand.)
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To: FredZarguna; GeronL; PghBaldy
Oh, yeah, and he's worth $6 million all by himself.
53 posted on 12/11/2013 8:36:47 PM PST by FredZarguna (Have wun gill ravel treads the mard of rocan. kan ight ithout warmor in a lavage sand.)
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To: mylife

I do not believe that she gave THAT piece to the museum. And he commissioned the works to start with.


54 posted on 12/11/2013 8:36:51 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

The story says she did will it to the university.


55 posted on 12/11/2013 8:39:33 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mylife

That’s what the case is about....whether it was actually hers to will. There are witnesses that say “she said” it was his. Unless there was an actual inventory attached to the will, that testimony will hold a lot of weight.


56 posted on 12/11/2013 8:46:07 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Well I guess he has to duke it out.


57 posted on 12/11/2013 8:48:56 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Verbal contracts suck.

Ask me how I know.


58 posted on 12/11/2013 8:52:21 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: FredZarguna

:)


59 posted on 12/11/2013 8:53:10 PM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Sacajaweau

Verbal agreements don’t hold up in court.


60 posted on 12/11/2013 8:54:46 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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