Robert Wagner is honoring his late wife, Natalie Wood, 44 years after her death.
The 95-year-old actor posted an emotional Instagram tribute Saturday to mark Wood’s anniversary death, sharing a black-and-white photo of the couple at the 1973 Academy Awards.
“Thinking of Nat today. Her warmth, beauty, and love remain with us through our children and grandchildren,” Wagner wrote.
“Forever missed, forever cherished. More than love,” he added, tagging their daughter Courtney Wagner, 51, Wood’s daughter Natasha Wagner, 55, and Wagner’s daughter Katie Wagner, 61.
Wood drowned in 1981 at the age of 43 during a boating trip to Catalina Island in California.
Wagner, actor Christopher Walken and Wood’s longtime yacht’s captain, Dennis Davern, were also onboard the boat at the time.
Wood was married to Wagner from 1957 until their divorce in 1962, but they reconciled and got remarried in 1972.
Wood’s death was initially ruled an accident, but her death certificate was amended in 2012 to change her cause of death from drowning to “drowning and other undetermined factors.”
In 2018, Wagner was named a person of interest in Wood’s death after police reclassified the case as “suspicious” due to witnesses claiming Wood had been arguing with Wagner at the edge of their boat before she disappeared. Wagner was cleared of involvementin 2022.
One year earlier, Wood’s sister, Lana Wood, told The Post she thought the “Austin Powers” actor played a role in Wood’s death.
“I don’t believe it was premeditated,” Lana saidin 2021. “But that doesn’t mean I don’t think he did it: Of course he did!”
Lana also claimed that none of Wagner’s or Walken’s explanations about the incident “rang true” to her because.
Wagner, for his part, has adamantly denied he was responsible for Wood’s death over the years.
In his 2016 memoir, “I Loved Her in the Movies: Memories of Hollywood’s Legendary Actresses,” Wagner said that he “thought my life was over” after Wood’s passing.
“Luckily I had the help of a great many people who loved her and who loved me as well,” he wrote. “I thought I would never get up, you know? My children helped me heal. And my friends were so supportive. And slowly I was able to get up. I got on my feet but it was very, very difficult and a sad time.”
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