AP Uses Celebrity Impersonator’s Words as ‘News’ in Natalie Wood Death Story

-By Warner Todd Huston

Oooopsie. An Associated Press reporter was bamboozled by a celebrity impersonator in its recent story on the re-opening of the investigation into the 1981 death of actress Natalie Wood. The reporter included in his story of the death investigation some quotes from an impersonator of actor Christopher Walken heard on a Washington D.C. sports-talk radio show.

Actress Natalie Wood disappeared from a boat in Isthmus Cove, near Catalina Island in 1981. On the boat was Wood’s husband, actor Robert Wagner, as well as actor Christopher Walken. Apparently Wagner and Woods were engaged in verbal bouts, at the very least, when night fell. Woods disappeared from the boat that night and her body was found later that next day…

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