MaggieMay

Kirk Douglas!! And this one is particularly dark, so I am warning you ahead of time. Some of this is circumstantial but Kirk was, by all accounts, a very nasty guy, a notorious womanizer and a sleazebag. In his biography, Kirk himself stated that it was only after he suffered a stroke in 1996 at the age of 80, that he finally become faithful to his wife of sixty years! There are, however, a lot of dark and twisted stories floating around regarding Kirk Douglas. Stories that go well beyond a mere life of hedonistic debauchery, as he portrays it, but are down right evil. Kirk Douglas raped Natalie Wood when she was just a teenager. He invited her to his hotel room, at a point in time where he was an incredibly powerful star at the box office, a true money making machine, fav of the public and darling of the press… he was also a very sexually aggressive man, a man who could not accept the word no. He made his way through dozens of starlets, impregnating many and forcing them to undergo abortions. One of them was Natalie Wood, when she was just sixteen… and she wasn’t just raped, she was in fact attacked so brutally she had to see a doctor because of the internal damage and it almost cost her her career. Lana Wood, sister of Natalie, has promised to name the man who raped and ruined her sisters’ life but only after the perpetrator has died, as she still fears the powerful hand of Hollywood and the man’s connections being that he is a hero of Hollywood’s Golden Age… She has not yet named the one, as he is still alive… but what major Hollywood name with a shady reputation who was alive and world famous in the early 1960s when Natalie Wood was raped, is still alive today? No one, that’s who. No other star has the longevity of Spartacus. For Natalie, justice would come too late anyway; she tragically drowned at an early age, her own death under suspicious circumstances. Now for the truly horrifying part; Kirk Douglas’ involvement in the disappearance of actress Jean Spangler, a young starlet. [1]Her body never found, there was a note in her wallet that said: “Kirk: Can't wait any longer, Going to see Dr. Scott. It will work best this way wile mother is away.” Police thought the note hinted at an abortion Spangler may have been planning to have. Before Kirk Douglas was even on their radar as a suspect, he phoned the police first. And in doing so, managed to make himself a suspect. But alas, the body was never found. Jean Spangler’s mother recalled her daughter having dates with an actor by the name of Kirk, who picked her up in his car frequently, but he never visited the house and the mother never had a good look at the man. No other suspects turned up, no body, no eye witness, so Douglas walked free and ended up becoming a major star in the years that followed. The creepy thing with the whole case is that Jean Spangler bore a striking resemblance to the Black Dahlia murder two years prior, in 1947, causing quite a few people to suspect the two cases are connected and may be the work of a serial killer. Kirk Douglas, at the time a married father of two sons with a growing career, might have seen his career sink if several young women came forward with illegitimate children, abortions and rumored affairs… but they never came forward. Instead, they died. So, Kirk Douglas, alive today at age 103 and doing quite well by all accounts, might be the Hollywood star with the darkest past. Hell, he might be an actual serial killer for all we know because he can be linked to the death of at least one starlet. Of course, in those days, Hollywood was almighty and the studio fixers would have taken care of everything before any real connections could be made.