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ROBERT WAGNER - WAGNER BOOK REVEALS HE 'PLOTTED TO KILL BEATTY'
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WAGNER BOOK REVEALS HE 'PLOTTED TO KILL BEATTY'
Actor ROBERT WAGNER considered killing love rival WARREN BEATTY after losing girlfriend NATALIE WOOD to the legendary lothario, he reportedly reveals in a new autobiography.
Wood and Beatty began a romance while shooting 1961 movie Splendor in the Grass together, leaving Wagner heartbroken and distraught.
According to reports, the actor confesses hatching a plan to murder Beatty in his new book Pieces of My Heart.
A publishing source tells the National Enquirer, "Wagner was ready to kill Beatty. He describes hanging around his house with a gun, hoping he would walk out so he could take a shot.
"Wracked with despair, Wagner started drinking heavily and considered suicide. He wondered if he couldn't kill Beatty, maybe he should kill himself. But an old friend pulled him out of his desolation and got him into analysis."
Wagner won Wood back, but she died in 1981 after disappearing from the actor's yacht off the California coast.
The book, due to go on sale next month (Sep08), also lifts the lid on Wagner's many love affairs, including romances with Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck and Yvonne De Carlo.
14 August 2008 19:20
Tags: Robert Wagner - Warren Beatty - Natalie Wood
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posted on 16/08/2008 14:50
Wagner is putting some serious spin on what really happened. He's got his timing
all wrong and with this version he is contradicting his late wife Natalie's own story!
It's no secret that Natalie and Beatty did not even like each other during the making
of "Splendor in the grass". That fact is already in many books by and about Elia Kazan,
Natalie Wood and Beatty. At the time that the Wood-Wagner marriage broke up, Beatty
was in Europe with his fiancee Joan Collins making a movie with Vivien Leigh. Splendor
was released almost a year after it was in the can and during their promotional
tour in late 1961/early 1962, so AFTER Wood and Wagner separated, Natalie and Warren
became an item. She even called Beatty her "life saver" because she felt so horrible
after what Wagner had put her through. Everybody around Natalie at that time, including
some good friends from within the industry as well as her sister, were very happy
with the way Beatty restored Wood's self esteem after it had been broken down by
Wagner. I think Wagner may be trying to whitewash himself before he kicks the bucket!
