New York Post

Stone-cold tomb move

Ryan ‘hijacks’ Farrah

- By DANA KENNEDY

The name of late, hot-headed actor Ryan O’Neal has now been added to Farrah Fawcett’s tombstone (right) at a celebrityh­eavy cemetery in Los Angeles — which she never wanted, friends say.

“It’s a travesty,” said Craig Nevius, Farrah’s friend and the producer of the 2005 reality TV show “Chasing Farrah,” as well as the 2009 documentar­y about her fight with cancer, “Farrah’s Story.”

“Farrah wanted to be cremated, first of all. She was very specific about that. She didn’t want to be a tourist attraction. She didn’t want to be buried and she didn’t want to be buried with Ryan. If she saw this, she’d pick up something heavy and throw it at Ryan,” Nevius told The Post.

Several of Fawcett’s friends say O’Neal, who died of congestive heart failure in December at 82, manipulate­d her in the last months of her life, as she was dying from cancer, in order to bask posthumous­ly in her glow for all eternity as tourists come to gawk.

Fawcett’s large tombstone in Westwood Village Memorial Park had been oddly left blank, except for her name at the top, since her death from anal cancer at 62 in 2009.

Even stranger, Fawcett’s birth date and day of death were not added until her on-and-off lover’s name and his birth and death dates were carved late last month.

“It was like he was the more important one and in fact the opposite is true,” Nevius said. “It may have been a great love story at the beginning and he could certainly be charming but the monster always came out. This is all about him making the world think she belonged to him and that it was a love story like the movie.”

Fawcett’s former personal assistant Mike Pingel and her friend, actress Michelle Lintel, told The Post they were angry and heartsick after seeing the grave with O’Neal’s name on it.

“It was all about what Ryan wanted, not Farrah,” said Pingel, who remembered the “Charlie’s Angels” star as a “terrific boss and a terrific friend.”

“Farrah’s great love was [her son] Redmond, not Ryan. Her mother was cremated and she told me she wanted that, too. She wanted peace, not to be in a celebrity cemetery.”

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