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Robert Wagner, who turns 95 today, February 10 2025, is probably as well known for his famous and tragic marriage to actress Natalie Wood as he is for his body of work, which includes the TV shows It Takes a Thief and Hart to Hart. But while famous ladies man Wagner has been linked to everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to Barbara Stanwyck, he’s actually been married to his current wife for 35 years. Do you know who she is?
Robert Wagner’s many loves
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Though Wagner’s most famous marriage was to Wood, he’s actually been married four times — though in fairness, two of those marriages were to Wood. He and the West Side Story star met in 1956. They married the following year, when Wagner was 27 and Wood was 19. However, their first union wasn’t long — they announced their split in 1961, and divorced in 1962.
Very soon after this divorce from Wood, Wagner married actress Marion Marshall in 1963. Wagner became stepfather to her two songs from a previous marriage, and they had a daughter, Kate, who was born in 1964. This marriage was also not long for this world — Wagner and Marshall split in 1970, the same year Wagner became engaged to Tina Sinatra (daughter of Frank and sister of Nancy). He and Marshall formally divorced in 1971.
After two years engaged to Tina Sinatra, Wagner and Wood rekindled their relationship, and remarried in 1972. He became stepfather to her daughter from a previous marriage, Natasha (now known as Natasha Gregson-Wagner), and the pair had another daughter, Courtney, in 1974.
Wagner and Wood’s second marriage ended on November 29, 1981, when Wood drowned mysteriously in the water beside a yacht she, Wagner, and actor Christopher Walken were staying on. After recent re-examinations, the case remains formally unsolved.
In 1982, Wagner began dating former Bond Girl Jill St. John, who he had known since the 1950s, and had acting previously appeared together in a film, 1967’s Banning.
Wagner and St. John in 1967. Courtesy Everett Collection.
Unlike his other relationships, Wagner and St. John took is slow, dating eight years before tying the knot in 1990 — the fourth marriage for both.
In a 2002 interview with Larry King, Wagner spoke of St. John as someone whose presence helped him heal from the loss of Wood: “Jill St. John came into my life … she had her hand under my arm, you know?”
In a joint 1987 interview on the British talk show Wogan, St. John praised Wagner as “a fine-looking man with a fine mind and … best of all, a good heart.”
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Wagner and St. John appeared in more than a dozen films and TV shows together, including episodes of Hart to Hart. Though they are both now retired and not frequently in the public eye, they are still sometimes spotted out and about together, most recently a year ago at Wagner’s 94th birthday party.