Actor Ryan O'Neal was arrested at his Malibu, California home and booked on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and negligent discharge of a firearm after a fight with his son Griffin O'Neal on Saturday night. O'Neal, 65, fired at least one shot during the altercation.
The LAPD reports that Griffin "was assaulted by his father during a family dispute."
Ryan was booked at the Lost Hills Sheriff's Station and released at 5:30 am on Saturday after posting $50,000 bail. Sheriff's sources tell entertainment website Tmz.com that a 22-year-old female friend of Griffin's was "inadvertently" injured at the scene and transported to a local hospital. Authorities would not confirm that the injury was a result of the gunshot.
Griffin, 42, the son of Ryan and Joanna Moore, has had a troubled life. He spent 18 days in jail for failing to perform community service ordered by a judge who found him guilty of reckless boating in a 1986 accident that killed the son of film director Francis Ford Coppola. He also pleaded no contest to a drunken driving charge in 1989 and in 1992 agreed to spend one year in a live-in drug rehabilitation program after pleading no contest to charges he shot at his estranged girlfriend's unoccupied car.
The latest incident occurred just one day after the family received the news that actress Farrah Fawcett, who was the longtime girlfriend of Ryan and the mother of Griffin's half-brother Redmond, was cancer free after a battle with anal cancer.
