Farrah’s Law backed by STOParazzi, proponent of Rihanna’s Law, is now also backing which will make it much easier to prosecute individuals who leak and buy the stolen private medical information.
Hollywood,CA (Advertiser Talk) 30-Jul-2009 — STOParazzi, proponent of Rihanna’s Law, is now also backing Farrah’s Law which will make it much easier to prosecute individuals who leak and buy stolen private medical information. Leaking private crime victim photos, such as in Rihanna’s case, is bad enough, but what happened to Farrah Fawcett is an absolute outrage and something must be done immediately. Farrah’s private medical information was outright SOLD to the tabloids by a UCLA Medical Center employee.
Farrah Fawcett said in a recent interview, “I’m holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer that may not be very clear to me now, that I will do.” Farrah expressed her indignation over UCLA Medical Center employees leaking her private medical information to the tabloid press, namely The National Enquirer. Perhaps the enactment of Farrah’s Law, legislation making it illegal for medical staff, or others who may have access, to leak private medical information to the media, whether they are paid for that information or not, will be something good to come out of the anguish Farrah has had to endure. “As in Rihanna’s Law, the issue is the distribution of illegally obtained PRIVATE information, to the press, not the exchange of money. Even if law enforcement is unable to prove money changed hands, that should make it no less of a crime. The detrimental effects of these leaks are the same whether the information is sold or given away for free. The monetary aspect of it would be an additional criminal charge,” states Terry Ahern, President of STOParazzi, and (Stoparazzi.com.) Farrah’s Law, inspired by Farrah’s horrific ordeal of betrayal by her own medical care providers, is currently in the works. To support her cause Farrahslaw.com is an online petition people can sign to show their support. It shines a bright light on the dire need for reform in this area of privacy protection not only for celebrities and public figures, but for all individuals. Medical records are something no unauthorized person should have access to, especially not the press.
I’m holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer that may not be very clear to me now, that I will do. Seems there are areas that should be off limits Ironically the employee guilty of selling the stolen medical information, has since died of cancer. It was found the hospital staff member’s husband was paid $4600.00 for information Farrah’s cancer had returned. “Seems there are areas that should be off limits,” stated Farrah in CNN interview. Worrying about the press getting a hold of her medical records and publishing her condition to the world before she can share it with her family is something a person fighting cancer should not have to even worry about. Recovery should be her only concern at this moment but instead she has had to spend the past months battling anxiety and frustration over stories printed by tabloids who should have never been able to obtain the information let alone print the stolen private information.
To show support for Farrah’s Law and help make what she endured into a positive legacy, go to http://www.FarrahsLaw.com (FarrahsLaw) and sign the online petition.
To think there has to be such a law says what kind of society we live in today.Poor Farrah what she had to endure while fighting cancer.
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Listen up guys, Ryan O'Neal gave an interview with Leslie Bennetts for September's Vanity Fair. It seems as he's done some soul searching and he seems to being quite candid about his time with Farrah and his children. here's an excerpt of the interview. Check your local newsstands as it should be there now, they usually put the next months issues out early. And Annoymous I wouldn't gloat so fast about your loyalty to Mr. O'Neal and Alana. It seems he admits to almost everything that has been discussed on this board and THEN some. I think Texboy was right or whoever said Farrah stayed because of Redmond. It's a shame. That's why she never married Ryan. She should have stayed with Lee Majors:
ReplyDeleteVanity Fair has split September covers - Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett - and the explosive Fawcett article by Leslie Bennetts offers a remarkable, on-the-record example of the father-daughter dynamic between Farrah's on-off lover Ryan O'Neal and his daughter Tatum (who he calls a bitch), as well as insight into his relationship with Farrah.
O'Neal spoke to Bennetts and characterized himself as "a hopeless father." He offered the below example from Farrah's funeral as a reason why:
"I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blonde woman comes up and embraces me," Ryan told me. "I said to her, 'You have a drink on you? You have a car?' She said, 'Daddy, it's me--Tatum!' I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it's my daughter. It's so sick."
"That's our relationship in a nutshell," Tatum said when I asked her about it. "You make of it what you will." She sighed. "It had been a few years since we'd seen each other, and he was always a ladies' man, a bon vivant."
Ryan also talks about the demise of his relationship with Farrah in 1998, when the pair initially split. He cites Farrah's menopause and talks about subsequently bedding a much-younger woman.
The whole article is not online, but the issue is on newsstands Wednesday in New York and LA, and a few more remarkable excerpts are here on Vanity Fair's website.
The magazine's press release on the article is below, and he says he regrets some of his children and son Griffin says his father gave him cocaine at age 11:
NEW YORK, N.Y.--Ryan O'Neal speaks extensively with Vanity Fair contributing editor Leslie Bennetts about his relationship with Farrah Fawcett, and his family struggles, both before and after her death, and tells Bennetts he is full of regrets, saying, "I wish I could do it over with [Fawcett]. I would have been much kinder, more understanding, more mature. I'd lose some of the savagery. I don't know how she got cancer; maybe some of it was me. She wouldn't even have a diet soda!"
2nd Part of Article:
ReplyDeleteBennetts reports that one of the reasons for their split, according to O'Neal, was that Fawcett "was going through some kind of change.... I didn't have a change of life; I was always a jerk. But they're hard work, these divas; I was sick of it, and I was unappreciated." He says he felt that Fawcett didn't like him very much, "so I excused myself, and I was lucky enough to meet this young girl. She was more a daughter to me than a lover, and my own daughter had flown the coop, so here was this replacement." Despite their split, they eventually managed to come back together when O'Neal was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia in 2001 (it has since been controlled with the drug Gleevec). "I talked to her every day," O'Neal says. "We pulled apart, but we never popped loose."
O'Neal tells Bennetts that six weeks before her death Fawcett asked him, "Am I going to make it?," and he said, "Sure, baby--and if you don't, I'll go with you," to which Fawcett replied, "Stop the Gleevec." He didn't give up his medication, Bennetts writes, but was at Fawcett's bedside when she passed away.
According to O'Neal, Fawcett's apparent softness was deceptive, and she "had a stubborn streak of pride and righteousness," he says. They would fight about "anything and everything," and they "started fighting about [their son] Redmond by the time he was three," he tells Bennetts.
O'Neal calls Fawcett "provincial in many ways," and tells Bennetts that he thinks she may have preferred "a picket-fence kind of life, cooking and doing her art," rather than the strain of Hollywood. Aging was hard for her, he says. "In my mind, if I say, 'You're beautiful,' that should be enough. But she was very high-maintenance. She took a long time getting ready to go anywhere, and that started to drive me nuts. We were late to see the president of the United States, and she was his dinner partner! So we were an hour late for Ronald Reagan."
Griffin O'Neal is suspicious of his father's newfound devotion to Fawcett, telling Bennetts, "All those crocodile tears!... My dad's only goal was to make sure he would be in the will. It was so disgustingly transparent as soon as he found out she was terminal. I consider him a vulture presiding over a carcass. Ryan thought he was going to get everything." When asked about Griffin's charge that Ryan was trying to get Fawcett's money, the elder O'Neal says, "I hate him! He knows I have money. I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate, more than I deserve."
O'Neal is brutal on the subject of his parenting and his children, telling Bennetts, "I'm a hopeless father. I don't know why. I don't think I was supposed to be a father. Just look around at my work--they're either in jail or they should be." He doesn't talk to any of his kids except for Redmond, whom he visits in jail. "I was in touch with them for years, and I was a mess," he says of the others. "I'm not in touch with them now, and I've never been happier." When asked if he's sorry he had children, he nods, Bennetts reports. "A couple of them I would take back," he says.
End of article:
ReplyDeleteO'Neal tells Bennetts that he didn't recognize his daughter, Tatum, at Fawcett's funeral. "I had just put the casket in the hearse and was watching it drive away," he says, "when a beautiful blonde woman comes up and embraces me. I said to her, 'You have a drink on you? You have a car?' She said, 'Daddy, it's me--Tatum!' I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it's my daughter. It's so sick."
When Bennetts asks Tatum about the exchange, she replies, "That's our relationship in a nutshell.... You make of it what you will." She sighed. "It had been a few years since we'd seen each other, and he was always a ladies' man, a bon vivant."
O'Neal fumes when asked about Tatum's autobiography, saying "She wrote a book--bitch! How dare she throw our laundry in the street for money!... She didn't call after Farrah's show. She'll have to explain that."
Tatum tells Bennetts that her father "has every right to be angry about the book; no parent wants to hear their kid saying shitty things about them... But what I wrote in the book was true. I've got a battle with drugs, but I'm a strong, independent person, and I fight for myself, and my father and I butt heads. When I was 16 years old, he and Farrah moved in together, and after that I saw my dad periodically, and that took a long time for me to get over. Would I do that to my kids? No, but I don't think Farrah was responsible for that. I truly thought Farrah was inspirational and beautiful and kind. Anyway, it's past; I've moved on. I'm older now, and I forgive him."
O'Neal claims Griffin has sold salacious information about the family to the tabloids, a charge that Griffin denies--"Absolutely not! Not one thing!," Griffin tells Bennetts. "My father is afraid of me because I know the truth," Griffin says. "That's the part that absolutely scares him to death." Griffin suggests that the family's problems might have something to do with the fact that Ryan plied his children with drugs--"My father gave me cocaine when I was 11 and insisted I take it," he tells Bennetts--and was prone to uncontrollable rages. "He was violent all the way through my upbringing," says Griffin. "He was a very abusive, narcissistic psychopath. He gets so mad he can't control anything he's doing."
The September issue of Vanity Fair hits newsstands in New York and Los Angeles August 5 and nationally August 11.
After reading this little bit, I am convinced there was a reason that Farrah was taken. There is some healing that Ryan needs to do with his children and he better start now. It will be hard but Ryan take the 1st step and asked God to help you in your redemption of yourself. With God on your side you have nothing to fear and you will feel more at peace if you have a good relationship with your children. Take that step or your life will be worthless.
ReplyDeleteIt is all coming out now. I believe Mr. O'Neawl is having an ephiany regaridng Farrah. Here is what else he said and we've said on this blog or at least wondered.
ReplyDeleteI belive he's being very honest. I believe he does miss Farrah and is hurting. I think what would make him feel better is to reconcile with his children. He has to see this and he has to act on this.
O'NEAL FEARS LOVE SPLIT CAUSED FAWCETT'S CANCER. RYAN O'NEAL fears he was to blame for his late partner FARRAH FAWCETT's cancer battle, because he's convinced the years of pain he put her through contributed to her developing the disease. The actor dated the Charlie's Angels star on and off for two decades before they split in 1998. They subsequently reconnected in 2001 after O'Neal was diagnosed with leukaemia, and he remained by Fawcett's side throughout her struggle with anal cancer up until her death in June (09).
O'Neal opens up about his long relationship with the actress in a new Vanity Fair interview, in which he confesses to leaving Fawcett in 1998 for a younger woman - because the actress was going through the menopause.
But O'Neal regrets causing Fawcett so much pain and wishes he could turn back time to "do it over". ...He tells the magazine, "I would have been much kinder, more understanding, more mature. I'd lose some of the savagery. I don't know how she got cancer; maybe some of it was me."
Wow. This is an amazing turn around in just a short time. I am hoping the O'Neals make it for all of their sakes, including Redmonds. Perhaps Farrah is working on the other side now for the benefit of the family.
ReplyDeleteHere's a quote by Ms. Fawcett:
ReplyDeleteTwo of her favorite thoughts are: "Every day is a good day. Just some days are better." And, one that she signed in the Rizzoli art book I just received from her: "Life is sweetened by risk." Farrah Fawcett, living legend, live on, live long, live well. We love you.
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ReplyDeleteThank you so much for thr review.
It is sad that Ryan was not quoted on the good points in Farrah's life.
I feel he added the FLIRT WITH A BLOND "TATUM"
To beat her to the chase in telling it her way. LIKE I SAID TO FOF TATUM DID NOT SET WITH HIM IN THE CHURCH- What a shame. I had no part in the filth that was posted here, none. I am back only after seeing where Greg Lott ripped Farrah off in the new BLOG. DEAR GOD , What is wrong with people.
Farrah has one possible decent man left who would have give her a picket fence- LEE MAJORS.
I am stunned at todays events, blogs -
T-BOY
HEY TEXBOY! I am so glad you are back, hope the otehrs come back as well. What is this about Lott? THis seems so crazy. I have to read it first then I'll post! Are you on another blog about Ms. Fawcett? If there is some other place we can post, as this doesn't seem to stable now, I can't figure out what's going on. Don't want to lose touch though.
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