Robert Wagner Pays Tribute to Natalie Wood on Anniversary of Mysterious Death

Actor Robert Wagner posted a tribute to his late wife, actress Natalie Wood, on Saturday, the 44th anniversary of her untimely death. “Thinking of Nat today,” Wagner wrote on Instagram. ”Her warmth, beauty, and love remain with us through our children and grandchildren. Forever missed, forever cherished. More than love.” Wagner share a photo of the couple at the 1973 Academy Awards, and tagged the couple’s children: Wagner and Wood’s daughter Courtney, Wood’s daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner and Wagner’s daughter Katie. Wood died in 1981 at the age of 43 in a drowning accident near Catalina Island. Wagner, who first married Wood in 1957 before the pair divorced in 1962 and later remarried in 1972, was present at the time of his wife’s death, as were fellow actor Christopher Walken and the boat’s captain. The conflicting witness statements provided led the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to list Wood’s cause of death as “drowning and other undetermined factors.” Wagner was later named as a person of interest in her death after the case was reopened in 2011 and her death was reclassified as suspicious in 2018, though he has never been charged.