Personal Life
Her marriage, at age 30, was to Richard Smedley, with whom she had a daughter Evan, born on August 11, 1974; Lana and Smedley divorced in 1975. In the 1980s, Lana had a long-term relationship with actor Alan Feinstein.
Wood was romantically involved with actors Warren Beatty, Ryan O'Neal, Alain Delon, and Sean Connery. She talks about these relationships in detail in her autobiography.
On November 29, 1981, Natalie Wood drowned near Catalina Island under peculiar circumstances. Lana has said: “The person I loved more than anybody else, with the sole exception of my own daughter, is dead. I cry for her often. I expect I always will." Later, their mother Maria, who had Alzheimer's disease, moved in with Lana. Maria Gurdin died on January 6, 1998. Lana wrote a book about her experience with Maria, which was not published.
In 1984, Wood published her tell-all Natalie: A Memoir by Her Sister (ISBN 0399129030), in which she states that Natalie's widower Robert Wagner broke off contact with her just after Natalie had died. Lana cooperated with author Suzanne Finstad on a 2002 biography of Natalie, titled Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood (ISBN 0609809571).
Wood has three grandchildren: Nicholas (b. 1998), Daphne (b. 2000), and Max (b. 2002). She currently lives in Thousand Oaks, California.
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