Robert Wagner lied about not being able to be buried next to Natalie Wood, according to insiders — and has even cruelly ordered that his dead wife’s grave be stripped of flowers and tributes left by fans! The National ENQUIRER has learned that the earth was still fresh on Natalie’s grave at Westwood Village Memorial Park in L.A. when Wagner sold the three adjoining plots she’d bought for family members. “Natalie purchased four plots and was buried in one of them,” Marti Rulli — author of the book “Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour” — told The ENQUIRER. “[Robert] lied in his book and said there was a mix-up at the cemetery!”
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“He said he lost the paperwork for the plots,” claims Rulli, adding that Wagner sold the plots
“not long after Natalie’s death. He made a pretty penny off the sale.” The actor even admitted that the Westwood Cemetery staffers doubted his story. “I distinctly remember buying a double plot, but the cemetery contended that I didn’t,” he wrote in his memoir, “Pieces of My Heart.”
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The former “Hart to Hart” star also claimed the funeral home came up with a solution to reunite them for eternity — but Wagner brushed off the offer. “Years later,” he wrote,
“they offered to exhume Natalie and move her to another spot where we could be buried together, but I didn’t want to do that.”
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Instead, Wagner bought a family plot that’s 900 miles away in Aspen, Colo., where he’ll be laid to rest alongside third wife
Jill St. John. As The ENQUIRER reported in 2016, Wagner ordered the cemetery to remove a bench near Natalie’s grave and asked the facility to keep her final resting place clear of anything left by fans.
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The grave revelations follow the disclosure of a number of discoveries heard in
“Fatal Voyage.” The critically acclaimed audio documentary wraps up years of dogged investigative reporting by a team of journalists led by host
Dylan Howard — examining Natalie’s final moments, and providing chilling new evidence suggesting what really happened on
the night she disappeared from the couple’s yacht!
“He said he lost the paperwork for the plots,” claims Rulli, adding that Wagner sold the plots
“not long after Natalie’s death. He made a pretty penny off the sale.” The actor even admitted that the Westwood Cemetery staffers doubted his story. “I distinctly remember buying a double plot, but the cemetery contended that I didn’t,” he wrote in his memoir, “Pieces of My Heart.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
The former “Hart to Hart” star also claimed the funeral home came up with a solution to reunite them for eternity — but Wagner brushed off the offer. “Years later,” he wrote,
“they offered to exhume Natalie and move her to another spot where we could be buried together, but I didn’t want to do that.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
Instead, Wagner bought a family plot that’s 900 miles away in Aspen, Colo., where he’ll be laid to rest alongside third wife
Jill St. John. As The ENQUIRER reported in 2016, Wagner ordered the cemetery to remove a bench near Natalie’s grave and asked the facility to keep her final resting place clear of anything left by fans.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Photo credit: Getty Images
The grave revelations follow the disclosure of a number of discoveries heard in
“Fatal Voyage.” The critically acclaimed audio documentary wraps up years of dogged investigative reporting by a team of journalists led by host
Dylan Howard — examining Natalie’s final moments, and providing chilling new evidence suggesting what really happened on
the night she disappeared from the couple’s yacht!Photo credit: Getty Images
