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Natalie Wood has been dead for 44 years, but her legacy lives on in her daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner, whose new fragrance line L’Amour Mēre is inspired by her legendary late mother. The 54-year-old, who was just 11 when Natalie died due to an “accidental drowning” on November 29, 1981, at age 43, has put her daughter, Clover, 13, front and center as the face of the new line. While Clover may be the star, Natasha features alongside her daughter in the campaign, with the duo posing for some stunning new photos by Jonathan Ressler.

“I think it’s just my way of connecting my daughter to my mom,” Natasha told People. In one photo, Natasha and Clover sweetly embrace in matching black and white dresses that boast voluminous tulle mesh skirts, and the similarities between the mother and daughter duo and Natalie, who passed her dark hair and facial features down to her daughter, are uncanny.

Natasha was inspired by her mother’s signature gardenia scent when she created her fragrance line, Natalie, in 2016. “I’ve always searched for beauty. I love the idea of bottling a memory,” she explained. Almost 10 years later, Natasha is relaunching the line with three scents, according to People. “Natalie, the original Gardenia; the rose-based scent, C-Love (“If you add the ‘R’ to C-love, it’s Clover,” she said), and Lyublyu, (“That means love in Russian, which is inspired by my grandmother – who always said ‘I love you’ in Russian.”)

Natasha admitted that Clover, whom she shares with her husband Barry Watson, has become more curious about her grandmother as she’s grown up. “She’s curious about my mom’s level of fame,” Natasha admitted. “She’s aware of young people that are famous and she’ll say, ‘How famous was she?’ Like Justin and Hailey Bieber or something?”

Natasha added that Clover has recently seen her grandmother’s famous 1961 film Splendor in the Grass, in which she starred alongside Warren Beatty, about the doomed love affair of two high school sweethearts. “That’s a pretty intense film, so she’s intrigued by the emotional spectrum of her performances,” Natasha said. “Clover is a very sensitive person. And I think she has that example in her grandma, being vulnerable but also such force.”

Clover is named after her grandmother’s character in the 1965 film Inside Daisy Clover, in which Natalie starred opposite the late Robert Redford, who was a relatively unknown actor at the time. Natasha rarely spoke about her mother but began opening up more when she launched her fragrance line in 2016, followed in 2020 with a documentary, What Remains Behind, and a memoir, More Than Love: An Intimate Portrait of My Mother, Natalie Wood. 

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“I have more of a mission because it’s not just about having a famous mom, it’s also about survival of grief and what that looks like,” she previously told People. “And I have a bit of a story to tell around it because I am not a victim of it. I’ve gotten through it. I feel this real responsibility to share her, and I just want to help Clover understand who she was too.”

Paula Deen is back in the spotlight over a decade after courting major controversy and losing all of her major contracts and shows. The cookbook author, restaurateur and Food Network star’s reputation seemingly plummeted overnight after being sued by an employee at her brother’s restaurant for racial and sexual discrimination, and then admitting in her deposition that she did in fact use a racial slur (specifically, the N-word). Since then, she’s kept a much lower profile while continuing her work in the restaurant and TV space.

Now, at 78, the TV chef is the star of Billy Corben’s new documentary, Canceled: The Paula Deen Story, which provides her own take on what allegedly happened concerning the lawsuit, how she feels her reputation has been “tainted” in the past decade, and how she and her family members have been living and working in the 12 years since.

Thoroughly involved in every process from start to finish, and featured in the documentary as well, are her two sons, Jamie and Bobby Deen. The pair have been by their mother’s side from the very beginning, born to her first husband Jimmy Deen, who she married when she was just 18. Read on to learn more about Jamie and Bobby’s lives in the spotlight, and where they stand on Canceled now…

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Jamie Deen [far left]

In 1996, Jamie partnered with Paula and Bobby to open their restaurant The Lady & Sons in Savannah, Georgia. The restaurant was a success, eventually becoming what propelled the family to nationwide fame, followed by cookbooks and a deal with the Food Network that began in 1999. Jamie featured often on his mom’s shows Paula’s Home Cooking and Paula’s Party, although not as prominently as his brother.

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The Lady & Sons closed in July 2025, but Jamie remains a business partner with his mom and brother. He co-authored four cookbooks with Bobby, and he now lives in Savannah, Georgia with his wife Brooke and their three children. He also participated in Canceled, telling The Hollywood Reporter: “I’m here for Mom. That’s it. Mom feels like this is an opportunity, and my prayer is she will get what she needs from this.”

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Bobby Deen, 55

Bobby Deen more prominently assumed the spotlight compared to his older brother. While he found fame in the same avenues, as a business partner for The Lady & Sons and his mom’s Food Network shows, he also was instrumental in branching out with their own shows like Road Tasted. He’s also helmed shows of his own like Not My Mama’s Meals, Holiday Baking Championship, Spring Baking Championship and Junk Food Flip.

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He wrote his own cookbook, From Mama’s Table to Mine, which was a bestseller, and made his feature film debut in the 2017 project In Search of Liberty. In 2013, he married his wife Claudia Lovera, and they welcomed triplets in 2019. Speaking with THR, Bobby was less keen about the documentary, saying: “It just felt like a lot of time had passed. I didn’t see the reason to go back and over it and rehash it. Because we had survived it. As a family, we had survived it. Our business had survived it.”