Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner
The actress was only ten years old when she first saw the man who would become her great love, but also a kind of executioner.
Natalie was walking with her mother in an aisle at 20th Century Fox when she saw Wagner, then 18. "I turned to my mother and said 'I'm going to marry him,'" she confessed to People magazine in 1975.
It seems that the then-girl Natalie decreed at that moment the story that she would live with Wagner.
In 1957, when she was the teen star of the moment thanks to Rebel Without a Cause, Natalie married Robert, after a very brief courtship and a marriage proposal that included the presentation of the ring in a glass of champagne.
Natalie's career soon reached the top of the Hollywood universe. His work in Splendor in the Grass, opposite Warren Beatty, earned him his second Oscar nomination, he was part of the cast of Love without Barriers (West Side Story) and achieved a third Oscar nomination with Love with the Proper Stranger, a record for a 25-year-old actress.
But as she touched glory with her career, her marriage to Wagner was falling apart.
They divorced in 1962 and soon after began an affair with Beatty, which culminated in 1966, leaving Natalie badly hurt.
Wood rebuilt herself and in 1969 she married Richard Gregson, with whom she had her daughter Natasha. As her second marriage came to an end, Natalie had an encounter with Wagner that would change her life.
They met at a dinner in 1970. He had just separated and she was pregnant. The following year Natalie separated from her and Wagner began contacting her by phone.
After she came an invitation to her home in California and, again, romance. They married for the second time on July 16, 1972, and in 1974 they had a daughter, but fate overtook them in November 1981, when they took a yacht trip that would culminate in Natalie's death.
Until now it is a mystery how the tragedy happened, but throughout the decades several voices have pointed to Wagner as the culprit.
