30 Jun 2009

Private funeral for Fawcett in Los Angeles

11:40 am on 30 June 2009

Actress Farrah Fawcett, who died last week after a long battle with cancer, is to have a private funeral on Tuesday.

Her family said on Monday that the ceremony would take place in downtown Los Angeles at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. It will be closed to the public and media.

A judge is expected to allow her son Redmond, 24, to attend the funeral. He is in jail on drug-related charges.

Fawcett, 62, died on Thursday from anal cancer. Her battle against the disease, which was first announced in 2006, was made into a documentary, Farrah's Story, which NBC television said it would re-air on Friday night.

She was famous in the 1970s - 1980s after her role in Charlie's Angels and an appearance on a famous poster wearing a red swimsuit that becoame her defining image.