The publication reveals the dalliances of Robert Wagner, who was her husband, with other men. He also reviews sad facts about his adolescence and youth
Natalie Wood's melancholy expression at the end of 'Splendour in the Grass' is as remembered as her fateful death. Let's go back to November 1981: the Hollywood star drowned when he fell from a yacht off the coast of Catalina Island. On the same boat were her husband, Robert Wagner, and fellow actor Christopher Walken. Since then, the speculations, rumors and theories about the involvement of her husband have been innumerable.
Just this week, the publication of 'Natalie Wood: The Complete Biography' has once again shed some light on the darkness that surrounds much of the star's life. The most surprising fact within its pages also has to do with Wagner. According to the book, the actress woke up with a start one night at her Beverly Hills mansion. Going downstairs, she discovered her husband to be in the arms of the butler, David Cavendish. That incident would cause, according to this work, the first divorce between the couple, who reconciled a decade later. The book also affects the of Wagner, who is now 90 years old, as one of the main reasons for the quarrels between the couple.
Beyond this new book, which also narrates the relationships that the young Natalie had with Sinatra at the age of 15 (he was 38 at the time) or how she was forced to sleep with Nicholas Ray, who directed her in 'Rebel Without a Cause' ', the judicial cause of the death of the actress was reopened just two years ago. Nearly forty years after her death, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department named Robert Wagner a "person of interest" in the investigation, which reopened old wounds that had already seemed closed. "We know that he was the last person who was with her," they have said.
It is not very common for Wagner to talk about the subject, although he already did so in an autobiography published in 2008. In it he reviewed his love affair with the actress and claimed that he had gone out on deck to moor a poorly secured dinghy. . When he was trying to fix it, he reportedly tripped and fell down a ramp. At the time she died, Natalie Wood lived in decent semi-forgetfulness.
Her death caused many to wonder if her addictions and addictions had had something to do with the alleged accident.
Imagine the scene. November 29, 1981, in a beautiful lake in Santa Catalina (California). It's pitch black and the movie star gets off her yacht, the Splendor, to take a dip. She never goes back up, as she drowns.
The next day she finds her body and the other crew members of the boat, including her husband, Robert Wagner, the actor Christopher Walken or the captain, Dennis Davern, are shocked. The first investigation determines that it is an accident, since it was raining that night, the water was freezing and the protagonist of 'West Side Story' had drunk too much to withstand those conditions. What really happened? It seems that not even the latest book about her life can reveal a truth that, due to the passing of time, fewer and fewer people know.
