Rumors that a young Natalie Wood had been raped by a much older actor ... Unfortunately, their mother was of little help.

“Suck it up” was Maria’s advice, according to “Little Sister,” much of which focuses on Natalie Wood’s death in 1981, when her body was found off Catalina Island in California. Authorities initially ...

Natalie Wood (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko (Russian ... to Russian immigrant parents Maria Stepanova (née Zudilova) and Nikolai Zacharenko. Her father was born in Vladivostok and the ...