THE DARK SIDE OF OLD HOLLYWOOD
Natalie Wood
Lana Wood, the younger sister of the late West Side Story star, claims the actress was sexually assaulted as a teenager by fellow actor Kirk Douglas. In her new memoir, Little Sister, Lana alleges the attack took place at Hollywood’s famed Chateau Marmont hotel while Natalie was filming 1956 movie Searchers when the Spartacus star was in his 30s. “She looked awful. She was very dishevelled and very upset, and she and Mum started urgently whispering to each other,” Lana claims of her sister after the incident, which she says Natalie kept quiet in order to cling onto her Hollywood career. “I couldn’t really hear them or make out what they were saying. Something bad had happened to my sister, but whatever it was, I
