It would be another two decades before the man who still commands a standing ovation when he enters a room would finally admit to his infidelities. He didn’t have to answer to Cavett - or anyone, for that matter. “Have you found this true?”ĭouglas thumped in anger, “An actor is supposed to immerse himself in the role!”Īt the time, Douglas - who turns 100 years old on Friday - was the biggest star on the planet, with a range that blew away audiences, whether he was wielding a sword against the Romans as “Spartacus” or crying in anguish as Vincent van Gogh in “Lust for Life.” “Alfred Hitchcock said in an interview once that it’s very hard for the romance on screen not to carry over into the private lives of the actors,” Cavett said coyly. This was the common practice in 1950s and Natalie was taught to play the game. I thought I heard Natalie and my mom talking heatedly in undertones.” “I was asleep in the backseat and I just remembered it was not a happy ride home. “We drove her up to the Chateau Marmont and my mother and I sat in the cars for hours, to the point where I went to sleep, and that was the interview where Natalie was raped,” Lana told a team of investigative journalists lead by the podcast series’ host, Dylan Howard. In Touch- In a world exclusive, Natalie’s sister Lana breaks her long-held silence on what she recalled occurred on that terrible day when her beloved sibling was only 16 years old Friends said she would “shudder” every time she heard Douglas’s name.įrom Natalie Wood’s sister Lana Wood – Natalie was raped by a powerful Hollywood figure during an “interview” that went on “for hours” inside the famed Chateau Marmont Hotel, the tragic actress’ sister claims in a shocking new interview. Natalie was traumatized by the assault and spent years in therapy. He later admitted that he had been a womanizer and an alcoholic but he’s never confessed to rape.
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Her mother discouraged her from filing a complaint because she worried it would hurt her movie career.Īt the time Kirk Douglas was one of the most powerful stars in Hollywood. The rape was so violent that Natalie started bleeding and had to go the hospital. When it was over he told her “If you tell anyone it will be the last thing you do.”. Then he threw her down on the bed and brutally raped her. When she got to the room Kirk gave Natalie a drink and told her he liked “young girls”. Her mother drove her to the hotel and waited in the car. Then in the Spring of 1954 Kirk Douglas invited Natalie to his room at theChateau Marmont for an audition. She costarred with Bette Davis in The Star and with in Joan Blondell in The Blue Veil. It was a hit and she became a popular child actress. At age nine she was cast as a cynical little girl in Miracle On 34th Street.
Natalie was born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko on July 20, 1938, in San Francisco, California. Her Russian mother moved them to Hollywood determined to make Natalie famous. Although she never went to the police she told several friends that her rapist was actor Kirk Douglas. When she was fifteen years old Natalie was raped by an older actor. Unfortunately the beautiful actress was also the victim of a horrific sexual assault.
Natalie Wood was a child star who went on to have a very successful adult career. in Gawker brought up these same accusations Don’t confuse the man on the screen with the real Kirk Douglas.Īs you will read below, even Robert Downey Jr. His story is fascinating and he should be studied – not celebrated. The story is reposted here along with his other conquests. TLATOH has verified this with several sources. His life should be studied not celebrated
We posted these stories, while he was alive for years. We did not wait until his death to report this. While his film career is being remembered, TLATOH will not celebrate his life as a hero, as he was NOT. Kirk Douglas passed away yesterday at 103. Then you can sit back and be a lady.” ~ Natalie “You get tough in this business, until you get big enough to hire people to get tough for you.