The Last Hours of Natalie Wood

"It was not a homicide . . . not a suicide. It was an accident.

The only important thing . . . is that . Natalie is gone. All the rest is ghoulish nonsense." Paul Ziffren, Natalie Wood's lawyer, spoke as a grieving friend about the national fascination with her death. In a matter of hours, shock turned to pity and then to conjecture. Exactly why did Natalie Wood die? When a gorgeous movie star full of wine stumbles off a quarter-million-dollar yacht in her nightgown and drowns, while her actor-husband sits oblivious with her film co-star a few yards away,...