People: Mar. 1, 1982

"Marriage may be compared to a cage," wrote Montaigne. "The birds outside despair to get in and those within despair to get out." In this case, the birds managed to get out, but they squabbled over their gilded Hollywood cage. Farrah Fawcett, 35, the buttery femme fatale of television's Charlie's Angels, and her estranged husband, Actor Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Fall Guy), 41, were granted a divorce in Los Angeles owing to irreconcilable differences. There was, however, one nagging question: Who should get custody of their $2.5 million Hollywood Hills house? Majors demanded it, and Farrah's attorneys...

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