In July 2018, Wood’s sister Lana said during a 12-part podcast about her sister’s life that her sister was sexually assaulted as a teen and that the attack had occurred inside the Chateau Marmont during an audition and went on “for hours”. According to professor Cynthia Lucia, who studied the attack claim, Wood’s rape was brutal and violent.In the 2021 memoir Little Sister: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood, Lana Wood alleged Douglas was her sister’s assailant.