Robert Wagner normally spends his time with wife Jill St John in Colorado.
But on Sunday evening the 89-year-old Hart To Hart actor was spotted leaving Mr Chow in Beverly Hills with his 78-year-old Bond girl wife. who is best known for 1971’s Diamonds Are Forever.
This comes on the heels of a wave of fresh accusations that the former matinee idol was involved with his wife Natalie Wood’s suspicious death in 1981 while on a yacht off the coast of Catalina, California.
Back in town: Robert Wagner normally spends his time in Colorado. But on Sunday evening the 89-year-old Hart To Hart actor was spotted leaving Mr Chow in Beverly Hills
Robert wore a plaid shirt with an ascot around his neck and an orange sweater tied around his shoulders as well as dark slacks and sneakers.
Jill -who was also in 1960’s The Lost World – had on a red shirt with a black tie as well as a black jacket, slacks and shoes.
Robert wed Jill in 1990 after dating for several years.
Jill and Natalie were close friends and even made guest appearances on Robert’s show Hart To Hart alongside his TV wife Stefanie Powers, now 76.
Wood, who hated water and did not swim well, drowned mysteriously on November 28, 1981, after arguing with Wagner on board their boat.
He had company: Also with The Towering Inferno actor was Jill St John, his wife since 1990
They had been boating near the island of Catalina with Christopher Walken, Wood’s co-star who was one of Wagner’s friends.
In October 2018 the boat captain who has alleged that Wagner killed Wood after fighting on board a yacht has claimed Wagner held him captive under the watch of bodyguards for a year after the actress’s mysterious death.
During an installment of the podcast Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death Of Natalie Wood?, boat captain Dennis Davern made his most recent accusation against Wagner, who he says took him into a room the minute he got to his home.
Her look: Jill -who was also in 1960’s The Lost World – had on a red shirt with a black tie as well as a black jacket
In the loop: Robert wed Jill in 1990 after dating for several years. Jill and Natalie were close friends and even made guest appearances on Robert’s show Hart To Hart alongside his TV wife Stefanie Powers. Seen in 1988
‘The morning I got to Robert Wagner’s house from being picked up at the Long Beach Harbor there were a lot of people at the house and I was taken right up to Robert Wagner’s bedroom where his lawyer Paul Ziffren was.
‘They told me directly face to face, this is going to be our story, this is what we’re going to say.
‘The story was that when Natalie went missing that she must have gone outside her state room because the dinghy was banging against the hull of the boat and she couldn’t sleep so she tried to retie the dinghy, and she must have slipped and fell in the water,’ Davern said. Ziffren died in 1991.
Dapper guy: Robert wore a plaid shirt with an ascot around his neck and an orange sweater tied around his shoulders as well as dark slacks and sneakers
He said was forced to stay in Wagner’s home in a locked bedroom. He did not specify how long he was kept in the room but he said that it came to a stop with Wagner presenting him a check for $6,000 to ‘buy an apartment’.
‘I believe I only got out of that house a few times. I mean I was starting to really feel claustrophobic.
‘At night time, when I would go to my room, if I felt like I wanted to go downstairs or maybe just move around, I really couldn’t because the first time I put my hand on the doorknob of the bedroom that I was in, it was like a magnetic, like a magnetic lock.
‘It wouldn’t allow me to open the door,’ he said.
Her family have long suspected that Wagner hit her and either pushed her into the water in a rage or caused her death in another way.
Robert has always maintained that she went off in a dinghy on her own accord and never returned.
Troubling: In 1981 his wife Natalie Wood was found dead on Catalina Island after drowning. Robert has long been linked to her death but denied any wrongdoing
Movie man: Wagner has starred in dozens of films such as Stopover Tokyo in 1957, The Pink Panther in 1963 and Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery in 1997
He has not responded to DailyMail.com’s repeated requests for responses to the allegations made by Davern and Wood’s sister over the last several months.
Lana Wood, Natalie’s sister, has claimed in the past that he does not want to be interviewed because he says he cannot rely on his memory.
He also did not respond when he was named a person of interest by the LAPD last year.
In addition to the new remarks, Davern previously told how Wagner ‘stopped’ him from going looking for Wood when she vanished from the boat.
‘I saw the dinghy was missing and fired up the engines to start searching,’ he told the podcast.
‘But RJ [Wagner] said “no, no, let’s not do that. Let’s just stay, let’s have another bottle of wine,”‘ he said.
Iconic: Robert and Natalie were married twice: from 1957 until 1962 and then again from 1972 until her death in 1981. Seen in 1980
When Wood was pulled from the water in her night dress the next day, she also had a an injury to her head.
In other episodes of the podcast, a witness called Marilyn Wayne claimed to have heard a woman crying for 20 minutes near where Wood died on the night she drowned.
‘Well, my son had a digital watch that we had just given him. so that’s how we kept the time, minute by minute,’ she recalled.
‘And I was up on the deck and heard a woman yelling, “Help me, somebody please help me, I’m drowning!”’
So close: They were a power couple in Hollywood as he had starred in movies such as Prince Valiant and she had made hits like West Side Story. Seen in 1976
Wayne said she told her boyfriend, John, to try to reach Harbor Patrol, which he was not able to do. All the while, she said she continued asking her son for the time.
‘So we had a minute-by-minute history of the time frame and the yelling went on from 5 after 11 until 11.25 and then it stopped,’ Wayne recalled.
Wood’s sister Lana also said in a recent episode: ‘I think that things got out of hand. I know Natalie can verbally push, and Natalie was a very by-the-rule person… She did not put up with a great deal that she felt was harmful to her.
Wagner’s biggest hit was the TV series Hart To Hart with Powers. The show aired from 1979 until 1984
‘I think it escalated to a point where she was either struck or pushed. I don’t believe that it was planned.
‘I don’t believe in any of those bizarre stories, but I do know she would not have ended up somewhere where she would completely never ever go in a million years or certainly not go out not dressed.
‘There’s just too much that doesn’t add up to who Natalie is.’
The broken wine bottle she was referring to was discovered on the boat the day after Natalie vanished.
According to Davern’s version of events, Wagner smashed it in a jealous rage because he had been watching Walken and his wife flirt and get along.
The group had earlier gone for dinner on the island of Catalina where Davern claimed Wagner became angry at the sight of his wife and Walken getting along at the bar.
Back on the Splendour, the rage grew and eventually resulted in an angry fight between Wagner and Wood in their room, Davern said. Walken was in his own room at the time, he claimed.
Lana believes the argument was down to her sister’s desire to return to work after having the couple’s children.
They stayed close too: After Hart To Hart was canceled they did several Hart To Hart TV movies; seen here in 1994 at the 51st Annual Golden Globe Awards
She thinks Natalie was ‘done’ with their marriage and ready to ask for a divorce.
‘The continual fights; the sudden push that she wanted towards her career; her feeling that the kids were old enough and had been given enough of a basis where she could go off to work.
‘There’s jealousy involved. It’s particularly difficult for a man who has a wife who’s doing better,’ she said.
Dismissing her former brother-in-law’s claims that Natalie ventured off into the water by herself, she explained that she would not have dreamed of it because she could not swim and was terrified of drowning.
‘She was terrified of water going all the way back to when I was a kid and Natalie was a teen and my mother would continually tell the story of the gypsy who told my mother’s fortune in China who said that she would have a world-famous daughter and that somebody would die by drowning.
‘It further terrified Natalie, who wasn’t exactly fond of the water as it was. My mother never learned to swim either.
‘Natalie never learned to swim,’ she said.
