A Hard-Nosed Investigation Into Hollywood's Most Enduring Mystery
For thirty-five years, it has been a riddle which has gripped the world.
Part love story, part tragedy, it has all the elements of a Hollywood
blockbuster: a beautiful actress, a handsome leading man, a brooding
sidekick . . . and a moment of sickening terror with the most horrific
consequences.
When Natalie Wood--one-time America's sweethearts and star of West Side
Story, Rebel Without a Cause, and Miracle on 34th Street--was found
washed up in her nightdress in the cold waters off Catalina Island,
California, on Thanksgiving weekend 1981, it initially looked like a
freak accident.
She had been holidaying with husband Robert Wagner and film co-star
Christopher Walken on board Wagner's yacht The Splendour when somehow,
in the dead of night, she lost her footing and fell into the water.
The coroner's initial verdict: accidental drowning.
The coroner was wrong.
For the first time, the real story of Natalie's final moments can be
told--and it's every bit as monstrous as anything Hollywood
scriptwriters could dream up. Forbidden affairs, twisted lies, sex,
betrayal, murder, pay-offs, and a cover-up that continues to this day.
Internationally renowned journalist Dylan Howard has spent six years
investigating Natalie's fateful final hours--and the immediate
aftermath. After sifting through hundreds of pages of testimony,
coroners reports, police statements and private journals, as well as
amassing dozens of exclusive new interviews and witnesses, he's ready to
reveal the shocking truth about the death of Hollywood's golden girl . .
. and finally demand justice for Natalie Wood.
