In the banks of Hollywood, among the lights that project the fame and shadows of those who were once close to reaching it, the story of ADAM FARRAR, stepbrother of the renowned actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
For years, Farrar’s life passed to the side of fame, at first as a direct influence on his younger brother and later as a Figure displaced by personal decisions and the consequences of a life marked by addiction, legal conflicts and marginalization.
Adam Star Farrar was born on October 4, 1971 in Hollywood, California, the result of marriage between Michael Anthony Farrar and Peggy Ann Farrar.
According to IMDbboth parents were part of the spiritual movement headed by the controversial Guru Yogi Bhajan, who years later would be accused of sexual abuse by multiple victims.
During Adam’s first years of life, the family resided in northern California, where his father administered a dairy.
At four years, the parents separated, and Adam’s mother He frequently transferred with theatrical groups to San Francisco.
It was on one of those trips where he met George DiCaprio, Leonardo’s father, who was also going through a separation with Irmelin Indenenbirken, mother of the actor.
Peggy and Adam moved to Los Angeles to live with George and Leonardo, who at that time had just a year. Thus began a coexistence that would mark both brothers in childhood and adolescence.
According to statements by Farrar to The Daily Mailthe relationship between the two was so close that he defined it as “Stronger than the blood bond.”
They lived together in an environment Bohemian in the Happy neighborhood, then crossed by crime and drug use.
According to Daily MailWhile Leo alternated his time between his mother’s house Irmelin, located in a few streets, and George’s house with Peggy and Adam, both children shared daily activities, from visits to museums to improvised Breakdance exhibitions in the streets, where they collected pedestrian coins. They also attended violin and piano classes respectively, riding BMX and played video games.
Adam was the first of the two to enter the world of actual. At age six, he began to audition for commercials and television programs; participated in series like Galactics 1980, Eight Is Enough And later in films such as The Victims (1981) y Pups (1999).
As Farrar said Daily Mail, His work in the industry was what aroused Leonardo’s interest, who, seeing that he could earn money and avoid traditional school, was inclined to follow the footsteps of his older brother.
According to Daily MailLeo’s career began with An advertisement of a car toy brand And he grew up to obtain his first prominent role in the series Growing Pains And then his great jump in This Boy’s Lifewhere he acted with Robert De Niro.
-While DiCaprio’s career shot Titanic In 1997, Farrar remained in the background, but even within the intimate circle of the actor.
Although DiCaprio avoided drug use, Adam no. According to himself, his problem intensified in those years, until he became a severe addiction to heroin that forced him to commit crimes to sustain his consumption.
“I was arrested five or six times by minor robberies, I stole in supermarkets to hold an addiction half a gram to a daily gram”he said in an interview published in 2016 by Daily Mail.
The consumption was the turning point that ended up moving him away from his brother. In that sense, Farrar said they never argued. “He is the greatest star in the world and I was destroyed by drugs. I was set apart from his world”He told that newspaper.
From that distancing, Adam’s situation deteriorated even more. Over the years, he accumulated arrests for substance possession, Driving without license, domestic violence and harassment.
In 2000, according to The Sunhe was accused of attempt to homicide against his then partner, although the cause did not prosper.
Then, in January 2014, he was arrested in Texas by hide his six -year -old daughterof the authorities, after their partner, Charity Moore, also out of drug -related positions.
According to Hollywood Lifethe girl was located and put to the care of her grandfather George DiCaprio and Peggy, Adam’s mother.
Since then, Farrar has lived away from his daughter, who is currently 17 years old. Your economic situation is also precarious. As reported to The Daily Mailresides in a ruined house of a poor suburb of Los Angeles and works as a television scenery painter.
In 2016, he said he had not seen his daughter for two years and that he did not believe that Leonardo had directly intervened in his loss of custody, although he argued that the last name Dicaprio influenced the judicial decision. “I don’t want anything to my brother, but I am the only brother I have. I just want to have it in my life and see my daughter.”he said.
The relationship between the two has been broken for years. Farar has tried to contact Leonardo, without success. “I left messages, but his number is disconnected. I talked to his father a few days ago and nobody knows where he is. He has left the map in recent years “he commented.
In 2014, The Daily Mail He informed that DiCaprio was “Concerned”For its whereabouts, but according to a family source cited by the same medium, that concern would have been oversized.
Meanwhile, Leonardo continued his professional rise and attended premieres such as The Wolf of Wall Street In Paris.
In 2025, Adam Farrar remains out of the public eye, with uncertain whereabouts and unrelated to his daughter or his brother.
