"She's gone. She now belongs to the ages," longtime boyfriend Ryan O'Neal told People. "She's now with her mother and sister and her God. I loved her with all my heart. I will miss her so very, very much. She was in and out of consciousness. I talked to her all through the night. I told her how very much I loved her. She's in a better place now." Ryan, who recently proposed to Farrah but never got to marry her, friend Alana Stewart, friend and hairdresser Mela Murphy and doctor Lawrence Piro were at Farrah's side when she passed away at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, CA. Said Ryan,

"She was with her team when she passed ... Her eyes were open, but she didn't say anything. But you could see in her eyes that she recognized us." Her only son, 24-year-old Redmond O'Neal, is behind bars on drug-related charges. Farrah got her big break starring as one-third of an all-girls crime fighting trio in 1976's Charlie's Angels, but she's probably best known for her sexy swimsuit poster that hung on millions of teenage boys' walls, as well as her infamous feathered hairdo. She left the show after one season and went on to win critical acclaim, and an Emmy nomination, for playing an abused wife in the 1984 TV movie The Burning Bed. In 2006 she was diagnosed with anal cancer, and recorded her struggle with the disease for a documentary, Farrah's Story, which aired on NBC May 15th. The network announced yesterday that they will be airing a follow-up at a future date.