No, Natalie Wood's Drowning Wasn't Accidental

No, Natalie Wood's Drowning Wasn't Accidental
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n 1981, big screen legend Natalie Wood went missing from the yacht she shared with her husband, Robert Wagner—only to be found approximately six hours later, floating facedown in the Pacific Ocean. In 2000, Sam Kashner revisited the tragedy for Vanity Fair, detailing the ambiguities that have prompted decades of speculation about whether Wood’s drowning was really an accident. The next year Suzanne Finstad released Natasha, the definitive biography of Wood, which shed even more light on the night Wood died. In 2011, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officially reopened its investigation into Wood’s death.

Now, nearly 20 years later, Finstad is rereleasing her book as Natalie Wood: The Complete Biography, an even more comprehensive volume that includes new details Finstad has learned about Wood’s death since her book’s first edition—details that, according to the author, show even more conclusively that Wood didn’t drown by chance. Below, the author reveals her most explosive findings—and explains why now, more than ever, she believes Wagner played a role in the fall that killed Natalie Wood.

As I was writing the last chapters of Natasha (the title of the first edition of this book), 20 years after Natalie Wood’s death, I felt a sense of urgency to get the pages into print. For more than four years, I had been the keeper of Natalie Wood’s deepest, darkest secrets—her crippling fears, harrowing superstitions, terrible incidents from her past that few knew of. Natalie never disclosed her history of trauma, except through her fragile vulnerability and in her tender, old- soul eyes.

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