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RE: Natalie Wood??? Age 15-16??? Yeah another great Hollywood pedophile abuser bites the dust.

There is no recorded instance of Natalie Wood accusing Douglas of committing this act. She never even said she was raped by anyone.

If there was, I’d like you to show it to me — AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT, like the starlets who accused Harvey Weinstein.

This is putting words in the mouth of someone who died 30+ years ago.

The story has its roots in a Gawker piece, in which a guy claiming to be Robert Downey Jr. was posting the story all over message boards a few years ago, claiming he heard it from Wood’s daughter. Of course, the fact that the guy, who also doxxed Wood’s daughter and gave out her home phone, turned out not be Downey and was a fraud isn’t getting mentioned. SEE HERE:

http://gawker.com/5893793/did-robert-downey-jr-really-just-accuse-kirk-douglas-of-a-brutal-rape

Prior to that, the only instance of the story was a tabloid book, in which the author said he heard it from anonymous family members that Wood was raped by an actor, but no one was identified. Instead, vague clues were given (he has a famous son, etc), but the writer would not go on record and name anyone. Other than that, it’s on a handful of gossip blogs.

So this is the basis we’re going to destroy people now? It’s not even a matter of “believe all women>” Now, it’s believe all unsourced rumors, third-hand gossip or blind items, regardless of whether an accusation was ever even made on record by a victim.

A quick scan of twitter shows hundreds of posts, claiming Douglas is “a known rapist” and other such outlandish hyperbole. Uninformed people on social media forming a lynch mob (many think it’s a fact that Wood is on record with the claim, I HAVE NOT READ SUCH CLAIMS) should not be the basis of reporting as “fact.” Few, if any, are taking issue with the claims.