Ryan O'Neal (Photo : Famouspeopleinfo.com)
Terry Southern, the scriptwriter of "Dr. Strangelove," wrote a letter to Stanley Kubrick about an incident in 1973 that he witnessed when he was a guest at the London house of rocker Mick Jagger. The incident would be considered a sex scandal even today, the kind which is passed on from smartphone to smartphone and leaked in Fappening.
Unfortunately for those involved, the letter was recently found in the archives of Southern and will be published in the Sept. 15 issue of Man of the World magazine, reports the New York Post.
Southern first congratulated Kubrick for casting actor Ryan O'Neal in "Barry Lyndon," the adaptation of the 1844 novel of William Makepace Thackeray. O'Neal was at the peak of his popularity then, having starred in the 1970s blockbuster movie "Love Story" with Ali McGraw.
He recounts meeting O'Neal and Bianca Jagger, the wife of Mick, while Ryan was "putting his stout in a most forceful manner." He walked one afternoon on the pair making love which Southern describes as "like a pair of maddened wart-hogs."
Southern adds that O'Neal was smashing Bianca against the bed's sideboard." In a 1977 People Magazine article, Bianca had admitted to having a two-year fling with the actor on an on-and-off basis. She says Mick had his own share of sex adventures, although most of them were purely for sex, but also had a few affairs.
The couple separated in 1978, while O'Neal and his second wife, Leigh Taylor-Young, divorced five years earlier in 1973. O'Neal was married before original "Charlie's Angel" Farrah Fawcett who died of cancer.
Now in their 60s, O'Neal and McGraw just starred in the national tour of LOVE LETTERS by playwright A.R. Gurney. The play is about first loves and second chances. The production, directed by Gregory Mosher, was an engagement exclusively for Florida, staged at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, reports Broadwayworld.
