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Robert Wagner posted a rhapsodic Instagram message to his wife Jill St John this week in celebration of their 36th wedding anniversary.
They struck up their relationship two months after his previous wife Natalie Wood fell tragically from his yacht and drowned over Thanksgiving weekend 1981.
In 1990, eight years into their romance, Wagner and St John exchanged vows, beginning what for each of them was the fourth and longest-lasting marriage.
Wagner, 96, marked the couple's latest milestone Wednesday by posting a photo of himself planting a kiss on his 85-year-old wife's cheek.
In the caption, the Austin Powers actor gushed: '36 years of love and laughter with my beautiful Jill. Happy Anniversary, my love.'
He received a flood of well wishes in the comments, including from Mia Farrow, who wrote: 'Happy Anniversary to you both!! Sending very much love.'
Robert Wagner posted a rhapsodic Instagram message to his wife Jill St John this week in celebration of their 36th wedding anniversary; pictured 2017
They struck up their relationship two months after his previous wife Natalie Wood fell from his yacht and drowned over Thanksgiving weekend in 1981; Wood and Wagner pictured 1972
St John and Wagner were first introduced as contract players at 20th Century Fox in the 1950s, decades before their relationship turned romantic.
Their careers intersected in 1967 when they both featured in the TV film How I Spent My Summer Vacation, in the midst of Wagner's marriage to actress Marion Marshall.
While Wagner is famed for TV shows ranging from Hart to Hart to Two and a Half Men, St John is best known as the first American Bond girl via her role in Diamonds Are Forever.
In a curious foreshadowing of their future link, St John's co-stars in the 1971 James Bond film included Natalie Wood's sister Lana.
Lana and St John are said to have conducted overlapping affairs with their movie's leading man Sean Connery - the start point of a simmering decades-long feud between the two women.
Natalie Wood drowned off the California coast near Santa Catalina Island over Thanksgiving weekend 1981, having plummeted from Wagner's yacht the Splendour at night at the age of just 43.
She had been drinking aboard the vessel that evening with Wagner, Christopher Walken and their captain David Davern.
Wagner - who was married to Wood for the second time when she died - has confessed he and Walken argued fiercely about her career before the drowning.
In 1990, eight years into their romance, Wagner and St John exchanged vows, beginning what for each of them was the fourth and longest-lasting marriage; pictured 1988
Their careers had intersected in 1967 when they both featured in the TV film How I Spent My Summer Vacation, for which they are pictured in a publicity st ill
Wagner, who is pictured with Wood in 1956, was married to her for the second time when she tragically drowned in a case that has been declared cold
Wood's mysterious death occurred during a production break from her would-be comeback film Brainstorm, starring her alongside Walken.
The case was reopened in 2011 and Wagner named a person of interest in 2018, owing to discrepancies in his version of events, as well as to the fact that Wood's autopsy indicated she had fresh bruises on her arms and upper body.
Although the case was declared cold in 2022, meaning Wagner was officially cleared, conspiracy theories have continued to examine him to this day.
Wagner adopted Wood's daughter Natasha Gregson, who took his surname to become Gregson Wagner and still lovingly refers to him as 'Daddy Wagner.'
Lana Wood on the other hand has had a fraught equation with Wagner, even crashing a 2016 event honoring St John in order to demand that he speak to police amid the reopened investigation into Natalie Wood's drowning, according to Radar Online.
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