Robert Wagner resurfaced in Beverly Hills, California in a rare public appearance with his wife Jill St. John.
Wagner, 89, was seen leaving Mr. Chow restaurant with his 78 year-old wife, who is best known for her role in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever. This comes as new accusations are swirling claiming that Wagner of “Hart To Hart” fame was allegedly involved in the 1981 death of his wife Natalie Wood, who drowned after falling off their yacht off the coast of Catalina, California.
Wood’s death has long been considered suspicious as the actress was known to have a fear of water. It has also been confirmed that she died after an argument with her husband, with many saying that he was involved in her death in some way.
Back in October, the yacht’s captain Dennis Davern claimed that Wagner effectively held him hostage under the watch of bodyguards for a year after Wood’s death.
“The morning I got to Robert Wagner’s house from being picked up at the Long Beach Harbor there were a lot of people at the house and I was taken right up to Robert Wagner’s bedroom where his lawyer Paul Ziffren was,” Davern said. “They told me directly face to face, this is going to be our story, this is what we’re going to say.”
“The story was that when Natalie went missing that she must have gone outside her state room because the dinghy was banging against the hull of the boat and she couldn’t sleep so she tried to retie the dinghy, and she must have slipped and fell in the water,” he added. The captain also said that on the night of Wood’s death, Wagner “stopped” him from looking for her after she vanished from the yacht.
“I saw the dinghy was missing and fired up the engines to start searching,” Davern said. “But RJ [Wagner] said ‘no, no, let’s not do that. Let’s just stay, let’s have another bottle of wine.'”
Wood’s family has long suspected that he hit her and threw her off the boat in a fit of rage or caused her death in some other way. Wagner, meanwhile, has always denied any involvement in Wood’s death, saying that she left the yacht on the dinghy of her own accord and never came back.
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