According to sources Ryan O’Neal sued a former associate of longtime partner Farrah Fawcett on Thursday, claiming the man is responsible for Texas university’s attempts to reclaim an Andy Warhol portrait of the actress.
O’Neal’s defamation lawsuit against Craig Nevis Thursday seeks more than one million dollars in damages and blames the actress former collaborator for a lawsuit filed last week by University of Texas system against O’Neal. That lawsuit seeks return of a mixed media portrait Fawcett created by Warhol that Nevius and the university claim the actress bequeathed to the school’s Austin, Texas campus.
O’Neal’s lawsuit states that the school has known for more than a year that he has the portrait that he is the rightful owner. He states Warhol gave it to him and that the two men had been friends long before the Fawcett artwork was created. O’Neal has no intention of ever parting with it during his lifetime, and upon his death he intends to bequeath it to his son and Ms. Fawcett’s only child. The lawsuit claims that there have been interviews about the portrait and the university investigated the whereabouts of the portrait. Nevius and O’Neal have sparred for decades. Nevius collaborated on a documentary of Fawcett’s fight with cancer, but sued the actor claiming he interfered in the project and removed him from it shortly before Fawcett’s death in 2009. The case was later dismissed. In a statement Nevius called the latest lawsuit an attempt to harass him in silence.
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