NEW YORK (AFP) — Oscar-winning actress Tatum O'Neal has been arrested in New York on suspicion of trying to buy crack cocaine, The New York Daily News reported Monday.
According to the newspaper, police said the 44-year-old Hollywood star was arrested as she was handing money to a street dealer three blocks from where she lives in Manhattan Island.
When officers searched her, they allegedly found two bags of drugs -- one with crack, one with regular cocaine -- and an unused crack pipe, the report said.
O'Neal, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at age 10 for her role in "Paper Moon," was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, according to the report.
She was married to tennis star John McEnroe, but the couple divorced in 1992.
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