Tatum Beatrice O’Neal was born on 5 November 1963, in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an author and actress, best known for being the youngest person to ever win an Academy Award in a competitive category. Many others also know her for being Michael Jackson’s first girlfriend. Her various exploits in acting have led to where her net worth is today.
How rich is Tatum O’Neal? As of early-2016, sources inform us of a net worth that is at $500,000, mostly acquired through a relatively successful career in acting. She spent a good portion of her youth acting in films and television. She also made an autobiography that helped increase her wealth.
Tatum O’Neal Net Worth $500,000
Tatum is the daughter of actors Ryan O’Neal and Joanna Moore. Despite her parents divorcing three years after she was born, Tatum still became very involved with acting and even starred with her father in her first film, “Paper Moons”, filmed when she was nine years old, with her performance as the child con artist Addie Loggins earning her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the youngest person to ever achieve such an award. She was also awarded the Golden Globe for New Star of the Year – Actress. Her net worth was well set.
O’Neal then continued her success starring in other productions like “The Bad News Bears”, “Nickelodeon”, and “International Velvet” alongside Anthony Hopkins. During the 1980s she was also seen in “Little Darlings”, “Circle of Two”, and the “Faerie Tale Theatre” episode entitled “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”.
After her multiple appearances, Tatum appear less in films, and only had five roles in the next 15 years. By the year 2000, she had started to focus more on television, and made appearances in series like “Sex and the City”, “Law and Order: Criminal Intent”, and “Rescue Me”. She also appeared in “Dancing with the Stars” during 2006, and in the television drama “Wicked Wicked Games”.
Aside from film and television, Tatum also worked on her autobiography which revealed some surprising details about her life. It tells about how she was molested by her father’s drug dealer, and how she was abused by her father both physically and emotionally. She even spoke about her heroin addiction, which derailed her career. The claims in the book were denied by her father, stating that most of them were lies that were only meant to produce sales. In 2011, Tatum wrote and released a set of memoirs called “Found: A Daughter’s Journey Home”.
As for her personal life, it is known that she dated Michael Jackson in the 1970s as the relationship was widely covered by the media. By 1984, it was discovered that O’Neal was in a relationship with tennis player John McEnroe, and the couple married two years later. They have three children, but separated in 1992 and divorced two years later. In 2011, Tatum reformed and repaired the broken relationship she had with her father and it was shown in a short lived series on the Oprah Winfrey Network. She’s also stated that she dates women, but doesn’t identify with a gender trope.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (1973), Golden Globe for New Star of the Year (1973)
Nominations
San Diego Film Festival Award for Best Actress (2002)
Movies
“Paper Moons” (1973), “The Bad News Bears” (1976), “Nickelodeon”, “International Velvet” (1978), "Little Darlings" (1980), “Circle of Two” (1980), “Faerie Tale Theatre” (1984), “Sex and the City”, "Law and Order",
She was 11 years old, the same age as her character, Amanda Whurlizer, when The Bad News Bears (1976) was filmed.
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Was the 74th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Paper Moon (1973) at The 46th Annual Academy Awards (1974) on April 2, 1974.
Release of her autobiography, "A Paper Life". [2004]
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Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 27, a daughter Emily Katherine McEnroe on May 10, 1991. Child's father is her ex-husband, John McEnroe.
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Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 23, a son Sean Timothy McEnroe on September 23, 1987. Child's father is her ex-husband, John McEnroe.
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Gave birth to her 1st child at age 22, a son Kevin John McEnroe on May 23, 1986. Child's father is her ex-husband, John McEnroe.
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Her former friend Michael Jackson and her father's longtime partner Farrah Fawcett died on the same day, June 25th 2009.
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Was the second choice to play Violet in Pretty Baby (1978), along with Jodie Foster. However, neither Foster nor O'Neal were among the finalists; Brooke Shields won the part.
Was scheduled to appear as host on NBC's Saturday Night Live (1975) for the November 27, 1976 episode, but she was replaced at the last minute by Jodie Foster.
Disapproved of her father Ryan O'Neal's relationship with Ursula Andress so much so that she would speak about it to the tabloids even though she was just a child.
Her mother, Joanna Moore died on November 22, 1997 of lung cancer.
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One of a very few performers to win an Oscar for their debut performance.
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Was cast as Blythe Hunter in Wicked Wicked Games (2006) when original choice, Sean Young, was fired following apparent clashes with the show's producers.
According to her autobiography "A Paper Life", she was not named after her paternal grandmother as was widely rumored for years but actually named after jazz pianist Art Tatum.
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She was named Female Star of the Year by the National Association of Theater Owners in 1976
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Her memoirs "A Paper Life" debuted at #4 on the New York Times Bestseller List.
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Recently published her memoirs, "A Paper Life", that exposes her troubled childhood, long battles with her father and Farrah Fawcett, her sexual encounters with Melanie Griffith, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Prince Albert of Monaco, her explosive union with John McEnroe and the bitter custody suit over her three children with the tennis great. [2004]
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Michael Jackson claimed she was his first girlfriend and by all accounts his first big love. Tatum denies this in her autobiography, saying all that happened was that he briefly kissed her without permission when she was 12 and he was 17.
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Highest paid child star in history when she made The Bad News Bears (1976) in 1976.
$500,000
