See Glamorous '70s Icon Jill St. John Now At 81 - Best Life

You can’t talk about the hip Hollywood crowd of the 1970s without talking about ultra-glam actor Jill St. John. Although she began acting as a child and started to see success through various roles in the ’60s, it really wasn’t until 1971 that she became a legitimate sex symbol after playing Tiffany Case in Diamonds Are Forever, making history as the first-ever American Bond girl. St. John had many high-profile relationships before settling down and is in the orbit of a major Hollywood scandal, even though the parts she played from the ’80s on have been few and far between. Read on to learn more about the now 81-year-old star’s life today.

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She continued acting for a while but is all but retired now.

St. John and Wagner have been happily together since 1982, but before that, St. John was linked to the likes of Jack Nicholson, Frank Sinatra, Tom Selleck, and Roman Polanski, among other big names. She’s been married three other times: to Neil Dubin from 1957 to 1958; to Lance Reventlow, an heir to the F.W. Woolworth estate, from 1960 to 1963; and to singer Jack Jones from 1967 to 1969.

When she married Wagner in 1990, they had been an item for eight years and had known each other for even longer. Even as St. John slowed down her acting career, the couple still found ways to work together, including in an early ’00s production of the play Love Letters in San Francisco.

“There’s a shorthand between us because we really do love each other,” St. John said to SF Gate of doing the play with her husband. “The reality of that makes the performance all the more believable. And because we know each other so well, we are able to get some values out of it that are very particular to us.”

Wagner and St. John mainly reside in Aspen, Colorado. Though they don’t have any children together, St. John is stepmother to Wagner’s daughter, Courtney, from his marriage to the late Natalie Wood; Katie, his daughter ex-wife Marion Marshall; and Natasha, Wood’s daughter from her previous marriage to Richard Gregson.

She’s been in a long-time feud with Wood’s sister, Lana.