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Ryan O'Neal died in December 2023 — over 20 years after revealing that he had leukemia

The Love Story actor's cause of death was listed as congestive heart failure

He died 14 years after his late partner, actress Farrah Fawcett, died of anal cancer

Ryan O'Neal rose to fame for his role in Love Story . But it was his own love story that fans will never forget.

The Oscar-nominated actor's long-time romance with actress Farrah Fawcett began in 1979. Though they never married — and broke up for nearly five years at one point — they stayed by each other's side in sickness and in health.

Both O'Neal and Fawcett were diagnosed with different forms of cancer. His chronic myelogenous leukemia brought them back together in 2001, and he was there for Fawcett when the actre

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