Robert Wagner posted a uncommon photograph with the late Natalie Wooden’s eldest daughter, Natasha, who bears a putting resemblance to the enduring actress.
The Austin Powers star, 96, posted the photograph to Instagram in honor of Natasha’s 56th birthday on September 29. Natasha, sporting a brown bob with bangs, smiles on the digicam whereas sitting subsequent to Wagner at a restaurant.
The legendary actor additionally flashed a smile, sporting a black go well with jacket and a black shirt beneath.
“Please be a part of me in wishing my great daughter, Natasha, a really comfortable birthday,” he wrote. “Jill [Wagner’s wife] and I’m so happy with the girl you’re and the enjoyment, laughter and love you carry into our lives. We love you and want you the happiest of birthdays.
Wooden welcomed Natasha together with her ex-husband, British producer Richard Gregson, in 1970, and she or he was later legally adopted by Wagner.
Wagner and Wooden had been first married in 1957, however divorced in 1962, then obtained again collectively and remarried in 1972.
The couple shared daughter Courtney, 52, and Wagner can be father to daughter Katie, 62, from his second marriage to actress Marion Marshall.
He married actress Jill St. John in 1990, after Wooden’s dying in 1981.
Wooden died tragically at age 43 when she drowned whereas spending time with Wagner and actor Christopher Walken on Wagner’s yacht.
The “West Facet Story” star’s dying was initially dominated an accident, however his dying certificates was amended in 2012 to vary his explanation for dying from drowning to “drowning and different undetermined elements.”
Detective Ralph Hernandez declared Wagner an individual of curiosity in 2018 after interviewing witnesses who claimed the actress had argued together with her husband on board their boat earlier than disappearing.
However in Might 2022, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division cleared the actor as a part of reopening its investigation into Wooden’s dying.
“All leads within the Natalie Wooden case have been exhausted and the matter stays an open and unsolved case,” Lt. Hugo Reynaga informed Web page Six on the time.
“If extra leads emerge sooner or later that haven’t but been investigated, the case can be reassigned to a detective to analyze the brand new leads,” his assertion continued.
Wooden’s sister, Lana Wooden, informed The Publish in 2021 that she at all times believed Wagner was chargeable for Wooden’s dying.
“I don’t assume it was premeditated,” Lana mentioned. “However that does not imply I do not assume he did it. After all he did!”
Natasha was simply 11 when her mom died, however she informed the Each day Mail final month that she had assist from her organic father and stepfather throughout this vital time.
“Fortunately, I had these two males, Dad Gregson and Dad Wagner, who got here collectively and rose to the event and fully put me first,” she mirrored.
“They put me in remedy instantly and I had this similar wonderful therapist right here in Beverly Hills till I used to be 20,” she added.