Los Angeles  - Farrah Fawcett was laid to rest Tuesday at a private funeral for family and friends in Los Angeles.

The former star of the 1970s TV show Charlie's Angels died Thursday after a three-year battle with cancer.

She is survived by her son, Redmond O'Neal, 24, who is in jail on drug charges but was released temporarily to attend the funeral. O'Neal's father, Ryan O'Neal, 68, who was Fawcett's life partner since the early 1980s, was among the mourners who arrived at the cathedral, followed by a hearse carrying Fawcett's coffin, accompanied by 10 motorcycle officers.

The public and media were kept away from the service, but hundreds of fans watched from across the street.

Fawcett, born in 1947 in Corpus Christi, Texas, shot to fame when she posed in 1976 for a pin-up poster wearing a one-piece bathing suit and her million-dollar smile.

At the same time, she started her role as a sexy and daring detective in the series Charlie's Angels, and she immediately became one of the best known superstars in America. The pin-up went on to become the top-selling poster in history, selling an estimated 12 million copies. Fawcett quit Charlie's Angels at the height of its success, and her later movies included The Burning Bed, Logan's Run, The Cannonball Run and the Robert Altman-directed Dr T and the Women.

She was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006 and chronicled her fight with the deadly disease in the documentary Farrah's Story, which was screened on US television just weeks before her death. (dpa)