(July 28, 1973 - February 16, 1982) (divorced)
"They were the perfect Hollywood mating of the ‘70s, the personification of the Right Fluff, Lee Majors was TV’s Six Million Dollar Man, Farrah Fawcett-Majors was Charlie’s Angel’s No. 1 Angel and when the question of children came up, Lee would quip: “We already have bids from people who would like the pick of the litter.” But it was not to be, indeed, last summer when a tearful Fawcett announced a “trial separation” from Majors; it shocked everyone but her de-hyphenated husband. “It sounds funny to say, “mourned Lee shortly thereafter, “but if you have ever loved something, you know that sometimes you just have to set it free- no matter how much it hurts.” But Majors, 40 – and the world – was not prepared for the deepest hurt. That came in the fall, when Farrah, 32, a once devout Catholic, fell into the arms of Majors’ longtime bounder buddy Ryan O’Neal, 38.
The triangle began to form last September in Toronto, where Lee was preparing to shoot The Last Chase, a Canadian thriller. He was still bravely and coyly introducing himself as the man who “used to be the Majors at the end Farrah Fawcett,” when he bumped into his old friend then styling himself “Tatum’s Dad.” O’Neal was visiting his daughter, who was on location for another film. He happily teamed with Majors for a rerun of the sort of carousing they used to do in their bachelor days of the ‘60s when Ryan was in ABC’s Peyton Place and Lee in The Big Valley. “I thought we were once again quite close,” recalls Lee, and he gladly promised to oversee the 16-year old Tatum when Daddy had to leave town. “I told Ryan not to worry – I’d take her out to dinner, phone her and look after her,” in return Lee extracted a reciprocal promise that O’Neal would check on Farrah when he got back to L.A. “I thought she might be lonely and could use the same kind of companionship,” Majors heard himself say.
How right he was. Ryan, Hollywood’s most insatiable womanizer, has been seen in the company of more glamorous women than Warren Beatty or Louis Vuitton. The list that Farrah soon joined included, among many others, Ursula Andress, Bianca Jagger, Barbara Steissand and Diana Ross. Yet Majors was naively surprised by the outcome of posting a wolf to guard what he thought was still his henhouse. “They got all serious and I couldn’t believe it,” Lee marvels. “Ryan really made a play for her. I called him and asked him to lay off a bit. “I can’t,” he told me, “I really love her.” So I said, “Okay, buddy, if that’s the way you feel.” I haven’t spoken with him since."