RIP, Kirk Douglas

Lana Wood, who would have been around eight years old at the time of her sister's rape, told a team of investigative journalists: 'We drove her up to the Chateau Marmont and my mother and I sat in the cars for hours, to the point where I went to sleep, and that was the interview where Natalie was raped.

'I was asleep in the backseat and I just remembered it was not a happy ride home. I thought I heard Natalie and my mom talking heatedly in undertones.

'Many, many years later and there again Natalie only alluded to the fact that something bad had happened and in a way blamed my mom for being too eager for Natalie to get roles.

'I mean, it was something that Natalie went through in trying to come to terms with, you know, such a horrendous thing, particularly being that young.

'There again, it's not something that my mom would pursue because you don't want to make that big star angry.

'You don't want the studio knowing that this occurred. She would never have said anything to authorities or anyone.'