LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. actor Robert Wagner says in his autobiography that his late wife, actress Natalie Wood, likely drowned trying to tie up a dinghy alongside their yacht.
A friend of the "It Takes a Thief" star says Wagner, now 78, contends in the book "Pieces of My Heart" that the 43-year-old Wood's 1981 drowning probably happened when she slipped into the water while attempting to secure the loose dinghy, The Sunday Times of London reported.