Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner
When Natalie Wood was just ten years old, she fell deeply in love with actor Robert Wagner. Perhaps it was her smile or her huge blue eyes, but the truth is that the little girl of Russian descent dreamed of that man who years later would become her husband and one of the last people to see her alive.
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.
They met again in 1957, thanks to Rebel Without a Cause, and after a very brief courtship, the couple got married.
However, as Natalie's career took off, they soon began to drift apart, divorcing in 1962; The reasons would have been various, but especially Wagner's jealousy of Wood, who was living in the twilight of her career at that time.
Although both continued with their lives in 1970, they met again at dinner and, sharing a beautiful evening followed by other invitations, they finally married for the second time two years later.
Finally, after twists and turns, Wood Wagner seemed to stabilize as one of the most important couples in Hollywood. Handsome, millionaire, and happy. However, it all ended with a tragedy.
On the night of November 29, 1981, the body of Natalie Wood fell into the waters of the Pacific Ocean, off Los Angeles.
The couple had taken a three-day break aboard the Splendor, the luxurious yacht where they traveled accompanied by actor Christopher Walken. And after a few hours of drinking without measure and what, according to some witnesses from the scene, seemed like a quarrel between the three, Natalie disappeared.
They found her the next morning, and the investigations began that on different occasions have pointed to Robert Wagner as a "person of interest." Although the motive remains hidden to date, versions maintain that it was a jealous attack, like those that caused her first divorce.
Although this time they would not have been caused by Wood's success, but by the love triangle in which both were involved.
Joe Di Maggio, the baseball player who had Marilyn Monroe in his head until his last breath
More than 30 years had passed since the day Marylin Monroe was found dead in the bedroom of her home in Brentwood, California, on August 5, 1962. Yet every week without fail, dozens of flowers arrived at the tombstone of her
The sender? Joe DiMaggio. The man who loved her, according to the biographer of baseball player Dr. Rock Positano, more than any other. He loved her for her beauty, yes, like any other; but above all because of her sweetness, her innocence, and her perceptive intelligence. And her sudden passing left incurable pain in the athlete.
Joe and Marilyn were married in 1954 and, although the marriage lasted only nine months, once her blonde decided to separate from him because, as she argued, he exercised "mental cruelty" on her; the athlete did not stop worrying about his ex-wife.
Even though Marilyn had jumped into the next relationship and in 1961 ended with the writer Arthur Miller, Joe wanted to support her and removed her from the psychiatric clinic where she had been admitted for her "emotional fragility" to seek refuge in a training camp for her. the Yankees in Florida.
However, the relationship between the superstar and the athlete is full of extremely lurid episodes. Although, according to the athlete's biographer, everything had only one reason: the love and protection that Joe sought to provide the actress.
Finally, Marilyn's grave was left without flowers in 1999, when the baseball player died of lung cancer he suffered from. On her deathbed, Joe still carried in her mind the memory of that love of hers: "I'm finally going to be able to see Marilyn," he pronounced.
