Paul Newman has informed his family that he wants to die at home.  The actor, who reportedly has weeks to live, has been getting his affairs in order and says he wants to spend his final weeks at home with wife Joanne Woodward and his daughters.

The Oscar-winning actor left Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York in a wheelchair on July 31 after completing chemotherapy.

“He didn’t want to die in the hospital,” said a close family friend. “Joanne and his daughters are beside themselves with grief.”

Reports that Newman was dying from lung cancer began in January when a source said he had been seeing an oncologist. Although his rep denied the 83-year-old actor was terminally ill, rumors gained steam when Martha Stewart posted photos of a gaunt-looking Newman on her blog.

According to a close family friend, the actor’s children are having a hard time accepting that their father may be dying and were angry when he gave a prized Ferrari to a friend.

Newman retired from acting in 2006 after a 50-year career that included Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Sting (1971), The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963) and Cool Hand Luke (1967).

He was nominated for ten Oscars, winning best actor for his role in The Color of Money in 1986.

UPDATE: Paul Newman Dead at 83

 

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