Ryan O’Neal was one of the hottest screen actors of the 1970s, earning an Oscar nomination for the biggest tearjerker of the era, “Love Story” (1970), and pairing up with Barbra Streisand for a couple of classic screwball comedies. But as the Me decade receded into the distance, O’Neal became better known as the patriarch of a sadly dysfunctional show business family. He had several marriages and high-profile relationships, including a long-term tie with seventies sex symbol Farrah Fawcett, and he endured accusations of abuse from his estranged children, who themselves made headlines with
