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Yahoo
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Robert Wagner Becoming a Recluse as New Details Surrounding Natalie Wood's Drowning Come to Light
Robert Wagner has turned into a recluse as more damning details about his involvement in his late wife Natalie Wood's mysterious drowning in 1981 come to light, sources say. 'There's new scrutiny on the case that could have dire consequences for him,' says an insider. But sources tell the National Enquirer that the 95-year-old Hart to Hart heartthrob is too tortured and consumed by guilt to face the truth. Robert — R.J. to his friends — has always actively interacted with fans on social media, but has been keeping a low profile in recent months. On July 4, instead of the usual friendly video chat, he just posted an old photo of himself on Instagram. An insider says the recently uncovered evidence has 'shattered him in body and spirit' and left him feeling isolated. As readers know, the West Side Story star drowned after spending a weekend on the yacht Splendour with her husband and Brainstorm costar Christopher Walken. Homicide detectives now have reason to believe that R.J. was cheating on Natalie before her death — with future wife Jill St. John. Jill, 85, maintains she didn't start dating R.J. until three months after his wife's death. The two have been married since 1990. 'I think Jill stepped into the program prior to Natalie's death,' Splendour's skipper, Dennis Davern, previously told the National Enqurier. He claimed he was kept inside R.J.'s mansion after the tragedy to keep him silenced — and that Jill was also there. 'She was at Wagner's house instantly, but I couldn't see what was going on because I was trapped in that room,' he said, adding that he could only leave when accompanied by the actor's 'thugs.' 'I think there was something else going on beside just feeling sorry for him,' Davern said of the Diamonds Are Forever star. According to the insider, 'Natalie's death is still an open, unsolved case. R.J. may have been ruled out as a person of interest, but this new revelation that detectives believe he was cheating on Natalie is damning.' 'He's been warned that the L.A. Sheriff's Department will investigate any piece of new information. And now he's scared and doesn't want to show his face.' 'The memories won't leave him alone, but he'd rather crawl into the woodwork than confront the past. He knows he doesn't have a huge amount of time left, and he's worried something will come out to damn him forever!'
Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Dad tried to kayak in Texas floods to save his young daughters, whose last texts were ‘I love you'
The Texas father of two girls who died holding hands during the catastrophic floods as he tried to kayak to them has revealed their final words. 'I love you,' the pre-teens wrote in a text. R.J. and Annie Harber spent the Fourth of July at their one-bedroom cabin in Casa Bonita near Hunt, Texas, which they've owned since 2020. Their daughters, Blair, 13, and Brooke, 11, stayed with their grandparents, Mike and Charlene Harber, in a cabin closer to the lake. R.J. told the Wall Street Journal that he was awakened by pounding rain, thunder and lightning around 3:30 a.m. on the holiday. He woke Annie after feeling floodwater in their cabin and seeing water rushing in through the door. Unable to open it, they escaped through a window with water already up to Annie's neck and fled to higher ground. They knocked on two nearby families' doors and woke them, too. R.J. borrowed a kayak, a life vest, and a flashlight to reach the cabin where his daughters and parents were staying, but a swell knocked him into a post halfway there. 'I shined a flashlight out there, and I could see it was white water, and I've kayaked enough to know that that was gonna be impossible,' R.J. told the outlet. He saw that an entire cabin had broken loose from its foundation and was lodged against the side of the cabin where his daughters and parents were staying. 'There were cars floating at me and trees floating at me. I knew if I took even one stroke further, it was gonna be a death sentence,' he said. R.J. made the heartbreaking decision to go back to Annie and the other families. All of them made it to a home on higher ground where another family let them in around 3:45 a.m., the Journal reported. When RJ checked his phone, he discovered that Brooke had texted him at 3:30 a.m. It read 'I love you.' Annie also received texts from both daughters saying 'I love you,' and their other grandfather in Michigan received one that said 'Love you' and a photo of him with the girls. The Harbers and others waited in the dark all night, hearing terrifying noises they later realized were cabins being torn from their foundations. At sunrise, R.J. returned to find most of the community's cabins destroyed, including the one where his daughter and their grandparents had stayed, which had been completely washed away. Kerr County, Texas, has become the center for disastrous floods that hit the state over the weekend. More than 100 people have died and emergency crews have done more than 400 rescues. Blair and Brooke's bodies were found about 12 miles from the cabin. According to a GoFundMe started for the girls' funeral costs, the grandparents have yet to be found. The girls' aunt, Jennifer Harber, wrote, 'They were believers, and one of their favorite classes was religion. Blair and I had a conversation about God and heaven two weeks earlier. They had their rosaries with them.' The GoFundMe has raised over $300,000, surpassing its $275,000 goal. R.J. told the Journal that the family frequently visited their cabin to kayak, fish and play. 'Unfortunately, all those great memories are now a bad memory,' he said.
San Francisco Chronicle
20-06-2025
- Business
- San Francisco Chronicle
Supreme court widens court options for vaping companies pushing back against FDA rules
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sided with e-cigarette companies on Friday in a ruling making it easier to sue over Food and Drug Administration decisions blocking their products from the multibillion-dollar vaping market. The 7-2 opinion comes as companies push back against a yearslong federal regulatory crackdown on electronic cigarettes. It's expected to give the companies more control over which judges hear lawsuits filed against the agency. The justices went the other way on vaping in an April decision, siding with the FDA in a ruling upholding a sweeping block on most sweet-flavored vapes instituted after a spike in youth vaping. The current case was filed by R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co., which had sold a line of popular berry and menthol-flavored vaping products before the agency started regulating the market under the Tobacco Control Act in 2016. The agency refused to authorize the company's Vuse Alto products, an order that 'sounded the death knell for a significant portion of the e-cigarette market,' Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in the majority opinion. The company is based in North Carolina and typically would have been limited to challenging the FDA in a court there or in the agency's home base of Washington. Instead, it joined forces with Texas businesses that sell the products and sued there. The conservative 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the lawsuit to go forward, finding that anyone whose business is hurt by the FDA decision can sue. The agency appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that R.J. Reynolds was trying to find a court friendly to its arguments, a practice often called 'judge shopping." The justices, though, found that the law does allow other businesses affected by the FDA decisions, like e-cigarette sellers, to sue in their home states. In a dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, said she would have sided with the agency and limited where the cases can be filed. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids called the majority decision disappointing, saying it would allow manufacturers to 'judge shop,' though it said the companies will still have to contend with the Supreme Court's April decision. Attorney Ryan Watson, who represented R.J. Reynolds, said that the court recognized that agency decisions can have devastating downstream effects on retailers and other businesses, and the decision 'ensures that the courthouse doors are not closed' to them.
