Maria Zakharenko, had set up a meeting between teenage Natalie and the “Spartacus” star, who was in his late-30s at the time. Natalie Wood was reportedly sexually assaulted by Kirk Douglas ...

Natalie Wood was born in 1938 in San Francisco, the oldest child of Russian immigrants. A fortune teller told her mother, Maria, that she would give birth to a famous actress, and Maria did her ...

"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 ...

around the time Natalie Wood was filming "The Searchers." The meeting had been arranged by their mother, Maria Zakharenko, who thought that "many doors might be thrown open for her, with just a ...

Natalie and Lana Wood may have been eight years apart, but the sisters were both pushed into show business by their mother Maria Zakharenko, a Russian immigrant. While Natalie "loved all the ...

Born Natalie Zacharenko to Russian immigrant parents, Wood lived in the shadow of an overbearing mother, Maria Gurdin, who orchestrated the nascent star’s early life and passed her own dreams of ...

In a memoir being released on Tuesday called “Little Sister,” Lana Wood, Natalie Wood ... 1955 after Lana and their mother, Maria Zakharenko, dropped Natalie off at the Chateau Marmont ...

NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, it's been one of Hollywood's darkest rumors: A teen-age Natalie Wood was sexually assaulted by a top movie star more than twice her age when she met with him at a ...