Tatum O'Neal

Today O'Neal lives in New York City, where she works hard at staying sober as she struggled throughout her life with substance abuse problems, like her mother, her father, her brother actor Griffin O'Neal, and her half-brother Redmond, whose mother is Farrah Fawcett. A further album, The Four Marys, a collection of traditional celtic folk songs, followed in 1998. The book includes the unhappily ever after story of her marriage to the tempermental tennis star McEnroe, their divorce, and their struggle with child custody. She left Ruby Blue, which sank into obscurity, and concentrated on her acting career, starring in Mamet's plays and films - first the film Homicide, then in the play Oleanna, a part written for her. Returning to music in 1994, she released the solo album The Raven, followed by New York Girls' Club. O'Neal wrote a book A Paper Life (ISBN 0060540974) in which she made allegations of child molestation and other crimes committed against her by associates of her parents and famous Hollywood stars, including Melanie Griffith, her father drug's dealer (with the complicity of her father), and that at age 12 she was kissed by a 17 year old Michael Jackson. In the mid and late 1980s she was the main element of the folk/pop band Ruby Blue, but after meeting David while acting in his play Speed the Plow, became his wife in 1991. They have three children: Kevin, Sean, and Emily. Rebecca Pidgeon is an actress, singer, songwriter and the wife of playwright David Mamet.

She went on to become the first wife of tennis superstar John McEnroe. She also played a starring role in The Bad News Bears and Little Darlings (1980). In 1974, she became the youngest person ever to receive a regular Academy Award, winning Best Supporting Actress honors for her performance in Paper Moon. He and former long-time love, Farrah Fawcett, have recently reunited after many years of separation.

Father Ryan is struggling with a form of leukemia. Tatum Beatrice O'Neal (born November 5, 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress, and the daughter of actor Ryan O'Neal and actress Joanna Moore who starred with Elvis Presley in "Follow That Dream." Moore died in 1997 of lung cancer.