Grave Injustice To Natalie: Her Final Resting Place Is A Disgrace
March 12 2019, Updated 6:13 p.m. ET
Natalie Wood's grave is a disgrace — and her widower, Robert Wagner, is to blame! RadarOnline.com has obtained exclusive photos of her final resting place showing the barren plot that is purposely left without any adornments. Click through the gallery to see the shameful way the actress is remembered.
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The West Side Story beauty was buried at the famed Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles, where such celebrities as Dean Martin, Eva Gabor and Jack Lemmon are also laid to rest.
Natalie Wood’s gravestone at Westwood Village Cemetery in Los Angeles
But Wagner, 86, asked the facility to keep her grave clear of flowers and mementos left by fans, according to author Marti Rulli.
There were even flowers thrown in a trash can!
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If the cemetery doesn't cooperate with Wagner's orders, he's threatened to remove her body!
Natalie Wood’s gravestone at Westwood Village Cemetery in Los Angeles
"Natalie's grave always looks abandoned and unkempt," Rulli told RadarOnline.com, who wrote about the actress' mysterious 1981 drowning death in her book, Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour.
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Adding insult to injury, Wagner also ordered the facility to remove a bench near Natalie's grave where visitors could sit and spend time near their loved ones, said Rulli.
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On July 21, the day after Wood would have turned 78, a fan visited the grave, and saw roses and "Happy Birthday" balloons left by other fans had been tossed into a nearby garbage can.
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Wood's original cause of death, "accidental drowning," was changed in 2011 to "drowning and other undetermined factors" due to bruises on her body.
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The yacht “Splendour” was pictured today (Fri) moored in a harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii – just a day after investigators reopened the case into the mysterious death of Natalie Wood.
As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Dennis Davern, skipper of Wagner's yacht Splendour, has said Wagner "deserves to be arrested" for Wood's death. But Wagner has refused to cooperate in the reopened criminal investigation.
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Rulli told RadarOnline.com: "Robert Wagner does not want his late wife remembered, and must like it when it appears no one cares about her. He wants Natalie to be forgotten!"
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