O’Neal Testifies He Talks To Warhol Portrait Of Farrah Fawcett

AP) ^ | December 11, 2013 5:36 PM

[BenLurkin]

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

[Revolting cat!]

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

[PghBaldy]

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

[mylife]

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.

[mylife]

Exactly.

That would be a fair compromise.

[mylife]

Neither fair nor just

[GeronL]

lol

because a photo won’t do her memory justice?

[freedumb2003]

>>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.

[FredZarguna]

That's Funny!

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

[mylife]

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.

[FredZarguna]

What is It’s answer?

"Up the Haldol dosage."

[FredZarguna]

The problem with the picture is that the guy in it talks back.

[FredZarguna]

Oh, yeah, and he's worth $6 million all by himself.

[Sacajaweau]

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

[mylife]

The story says she did will it to the university.

[Sacajaweau]

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.

[mylife]

Well I guess he has to duke it out.

[mylife]

Verbal contracts suck.

Ask me how I know.

[fatima]

:)

[mylife]

Verbal agreements don’t hold up in court.