Why was Marilyn Monroe killed? The strange death of Marilyn Monroe. Hello from Don

In August 1962, on the night of the 4th to the 5th, America was shocked by the sensational and at the same time tragic news: the country's actress and most magnificent woman, Marilyn Monroe, was found dead in her mansion. What actually happened? What led to Monroe's death? Everyone asked these questions in those days.

As it was officially announced, the incident was an unintentional suicide as a result of improper use of anti-anxiety drugs prescribed by a doctor. But just a week later, articles appeared in the press in which there were attempts to talk about different versions of the death of a star.

The first (official) version of the death of Marilyn Monroe is drugs. As you know, the actress was subject to the deepest depressions. Every day she visited a psychoanalyst who recommended her strong antidepressants and sleeping pills. Monroe's addiction to drugs developed during her youth, around the age of 18. The girl constantly experimented with them: in the morning she took stimulants, and at night she took sleeping pills, often in huge doses and along with her favorite champagne. This medication was, in fact, drug addiction. Famous actor Ted Jordan, one of the star's many lovers, recalled that Marilyn considered pills to be "her best friends" without which she could neither sleep nor work.

Monroe was terrified of repeating the fate of her grandmother and mother, who ended their lives in a psychiatric clinic. In 1958, signs of schizophrenia were found in Marilyn, and therefore she had to undergo a more detailed examination in a psychiatric clinic. Sometimes she completely “disconnected” from life, being late for shooting for a whole week, very often she forgot the text of the role and, not surprisingly, she could make a mistake on that ill-fated day in taking medication, accidentally exceeding their dosage.

The second version was suicide. People of art, as a rule, vulnerable and unbalanced, have done "this" more than once. Marilyn was probably no exception, especially since she tried to commit suicide even in her younger years. While still just a girl, Marilyn once tried to poison herself with gas, and another time she swallowed sleeping pills. She made another suicide attempt after the death of one of her first lovers and producers, Joni Hyde.

Another version of Monroe's death is a murder commissioned by the mafia. According to CIA records, under whose supervision the Monroe villa was, the day before her death, the actress met with one of her influential ex-lovers, Frank Sinatra, who at that time was the right hand of Sam Giancana, the leader of the American mafia. This gave rise to rumors about the possible involvement of organized crime in the death of a movie star.

As many believe, the assassination could have been commissioned by Kennedy. In 1964, writer Frank Capell blamed the death of actress Robert Kennedy. According to James Haspiel, he personally heard wiretapping tapes proving that Kennedy strangled Monroe with a pillow.

The publicity of the stormy romance of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the United States, with Marilyn Monroe could destroy his political career. After breaking up with John in May 1962, Monroe was unwilling to put up with a breakup. Drowning the pain with drugs, in despair, she wrote pathetic letters to Kennedy, constantly annoyed him with phone calls and threats of exposure in the press. The actress wrote down the details of their meetings and conversations in her diary, which was her main trump card in this matter.

The president's younger brother, Robert Kennedy, was delegated by the family to console his abandoned mistress, but he himself fell into her arms. These relationships developed rapidly. The actress admitted that she loves Robert and that he even promised to marry her. When Robert tried to quit the game in order to stop Marilyn's self-destruction, it was already too late. Strong arguments in favor of the tacit version that appeared almost immediately after the sad events about the involvement of the Kennedy brothers in the death of the actress surfaced from the archives of the FBI and the CIA only in 1986.

According to many testimonies, on August 4, Robert Kennedy flew to Los Angeles for a final showdown with Monroe, where a terrible scene played out in the actress's house. According to an eyewitness, Monroe promised to call a press conference to let the world know how she was treated by John and Robert Kennedy. Angry, Robert demanded to be left alone with his brother. The quarrel ended with a hysterical fit of the actress, and the next morning she was found dead.

Another version is a psychoanalyst's mistake. Marilyn Monroe's personal psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson, who became a very close person for her, was sure that the actress needed to widely use medications for treatment while simultaneously correcting the emotional sphere.

According to one of the most prominent biographers of Marilyn Monroe, Donald Spoto, "his technique was disastrous for the patient": instead of stimulating the patient to gain independence, he did everything the other way around, as a result of which, "completely subordinated Monroe's actions and desires to his will", being confident in that he will be able to "make her do whatever she wants."

The psychoanalyst forbade the actress to meet with ex-husband, Joe DiMaggio, imposed restrictions on communication with friends who cared about the actress. According to Spoto, in 1962, Ralph Greenson spread false rumors that Marilyn had schizophrenia. In addition, there is a therapist’s report, drawn up a few months before the actress’s death, about bruises under her eyes and a broken nose, which confirms that Ralph Greenson even beat his patient.

The Hollywood star saw that the psychoanalyst was alienating her from her friends and understood that she needed to part with him.

The life and secrets of the death of famous people. Marilyn Monroe

"Famous people are divided into two categories: some humanity does not want to forget, others - can not."
(Vladislav Grzeszczyk)

History is full of secrets, and it cannot be perceived only by the dry articles of encyclopedias and textbooks. It is to this conclusion that everyone who comes into contact with its mysteries, found literally at every step, comes. And is it not thanks to solving such riddles that history becomes alive - like the people who created it, and did not only create it with their lives?

American sex symbol Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe (Monroe)- real name Norma Jean Baker Mortenson (Mortenson) - was born June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles.
Who was her father is not established, she bore the name of a Norwegian immigrant who died in an accident in 1929. Later, Marilyn denied that Mortenson was her father, and, filling out various kinds of official papers, in the column "Father's name" she wrote: "Unknown." And the mother of the actress, Gladys, spent almost all the years of her daughter's life in a psychiatric hospital. Suffered from mental illness and grandfather, and grandmother Marilyn on the maternal side.

For all the time of a not very joyful childhood, little Norma had about ten foster parents, and for two years she even lived in an orphanage. She did not have a father, and her mother, a strange and unbalanced woman, considered that she would not be able to raise her daughter on her own, and gave her at the age of two weeks to a foster family. Where the girl lived for 7 years, only occasionally visited by her mother. After 7 years, Gladys took her daughter back, but not for long. Soon she had a mental breakdown, during which she threw herself at someone with a knife, and she was sent to a psychiatric hospital. Norma spent the rest of her childhood in an orphanage and several foster families, where they tried to rape her twice when she was not yet 12: the first time by her stepfather, and the second time by her cousin. The consequence of this was, according to one version, frigidity and distrust of men.

About sex, she said: “Personally, I don’t care about sex and sexual problems more than cleaning shoes,” “If I ever understand why people are so interested in sex, I’ll be very lucky.” Until the age of 19, Marilyn tried to commit suicide twice. Once she turned on the gas, the second time she swallowed sleeping pills. A difficult childhood largely determined the tragic fate of the movie star. The hardships and suffering she endured, combined with bad heredity, became the main causes of her mental imbalance.



Marilyn's first independent victory was getting rid of congenital stuttering. It escalated after orphanage: the girl could not pronounce without hesitation and two words. She corrected her defect for three years. And for 16 years, without the help of speech therapists, she got rid of stuttering.

The first time Marilyn got married at the age of 16, in the 42nd year, after which she left school and settled with her husband, Jim Dougherty. It was more of a forced measure than a whim, since she was afraid to get into trouble again. Orphanage. foster family She was going to move, but they did not want to take her with them. Therefore, early marriage was immediately approved. A year after the wedding, Jim went to serve in the Navy, and Norma Jean went to work at an aircraft factory.

In the fall, a team of directors and photographers came to the plant to make a photo essay about the contribution of American women to the fight against Nazism. Photographer David Conover spotted Norma Jean and asked her to pose for a series of shots for $5 an hour. She agreed. Thus began her stellar career. Soon she left the factory and began working as a fashion model. Returning from the war, Jim did not like this and he gave Norma an ultimatum: either a career or a family. But she had ambitions, she wanted to act in films and at that time she found out that the producers prefer unmarried actresses. The fate of this marriage was sealed. She later said: "I always knew that I became famous not because of my talent or beauty, but only because I never completely belonged to anyone or anything."

Twenty-year-old Marilyn was not classically beautiful, and behind the radiant smile in the pictures for magazines, postcards and calendars, there was a sadness that had settled in her since childhood, a bunch of complexes and a tendency to severe depression. Later, one of her close critics will write: "Not being loved at 25, or 35, or 45 is tolerable if you were loved at 5 years old. To say that Marilyn was bypassed with tenderness in childhood is to say very little." Marilyn herself recalled: “No one ever called me daughter. Nobody ever hugged me. No one has ever kissed me...” and “When a little girl feels lost and alone, feels that no one needs her, she can’t forget it all her life.”
In August 1946, she received an offer to sign a contract at the 20th Century Fox film studio, where she was hired as an extra. At the studio, she was offered the names Carol Lind, Claire Norman, Marilyn Miller, but in the end settled on the name under which she later became famous - Marilyn Monroe. The surname Monroe belonged to her grandmother. "The Greatest Blonde of All Time" was born with brown hair. She became blonde around the same time that she changed her name to a pseudonym. It cannot be said that the career of the actress was cloudless. She had to actively make her way to the cinematic Olympus in various ways - to make contacts, often to start fleeting novels.

Suddenly, the film company terminated the contract with Marilyn, and she was again on the street. But she did not lose heart and continued to persistently engage in self-education and sports, earning a living by posing. She was paid $50 an hour for this job. At that time, photographing nude models was equated with pornography, and such an activity was considered illegal for film actresses. However, for Monroe, then barely making ends meet, that $50 was a lot of money.

When Marilyn was already twenty-two years old, luck smiled at her again, this time at the Columbia Pictures studio.

In the cheap picture "Chorus Girls" Marilyn had to sing, dance, talk. It was her first full-length film role. To achieve success, she had to work hard and learn a lot. During this period, Marilyn began a stormy and lengthy romance with Fred Karger, who was in charge of the musical part of the film company and actually taught the new actress to sing. It was perhaps the largest real love in her life, the memories of which she kept until the end of her days. After parting with Fred, Marilyn not only found herself alone again, but also lost her job. But, fortunately, the black stripe did not last long.

Soon Marilyn again received an invitation to shoot from the XX Century Fox studio and signed a new contract with her. This time she got a small role in the western Asphalt Jungle. The real actress Marilyn helped to become Johnny Hyde, a specialist in "untwisting" the stars. Having become a producer and lover of Marilyn, he cared for her very much, so he unexpected death was a very hard blow for her. The future celebrity was left alone again. But her path to the Hollywood Olympus has already begun.

The main roles she played in the films "Monkey Tricks", "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "How to Marry a Millionaire" captivated the audience. She became the most popular actress in the United States.
By the end of 1951, she was receiving 2-3 thousand letters from fans a week.



In the movie "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" she had a memorable number where she sings "Diamonds are a girl's best friend" in a pink dress. She worked on this role as if it were her last role in life.

In 1952, Marilyn secretly married a former literary critic, her longtime lover Bob Sletzer. To formalize the "secret" marriage, the future spouses left for Mexico. But as soon as they returned, the owner of the film studio found out about everything and demanded that the marriage be terminated immediately. Three days later, the boss's demand was met.
On June 26, 1953, Marilyn and Jane Russell wrote their names and left hand and footprints on the Avenue of Stars at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood. During the week, all major newspapers wrote about this event.

In January 1954, Marilyn remarried, this time to famed baseball player Joe DiMaggio. This event coincided with another loss of work: Marilyn was fired for not appearing on the set. The marriage took place on January 14, 1954. On their honeymoon, the newlyweds went to Japan, where DiMaggio had business interests. Unfortunately, the couple almost immediately began to quarrel. Joe was very jealous and often dissolved his hands, so after nine months their marriage broke up.

In March 1954, Monroe received the Best Actress of 1953 award for her roles in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire.
On January 7, 1955, Marilyn announced the creation of her own corporation, Marilyn Monroe Productions, in which she was president and majority owner. Milton Green attracts dozens of journalists and potential investors to Frank Delaney's home for MARILYN MONROE PRODUCTION (MMP). Marilyn appeared all in white, announced her new company. "I'm tired of playing sex bombs, I want to play other roles. I'm an actress, not a machine."
Back in 1950, Marilyn met playwright Arthur Miller, but then they broke up and met again in 1955. By that time he was divorced, and from previous marriage he had two children. In the summer of 1956 they got married. This marriage was the longest, but not the happiest: they lived together for four and a half years and divorced on January 20, 1961. Later it became known that Arthur, a few weeks after the wedding, made an entry in his diary where he said: “It seems to me that she Small child, I hate her!". Marilyn saw this recording and was shocked, after which there was a quarrel. In her later opinion, Arthur "was a good writer but not very a good husband».

Marilyn always wanted to have children, both with Joe and Arthur she tried to have a child, but she did not succeed - health problems, a number of abortions (13 according to unconfirmed reports) and excessive addiction to drugs and alcohol affected. From Arthur, she became pregnant during the filming of the film "Some Like It Hot" ("Only Girls in Jazz"), but the pregnancy turned out to be ectopic and ended in a miscarriage. From such a shock, Marilyn falls into a long depression, drinks a lot and continues to take medication randomly. in a coma.

In the first months of 1958, she began to drink even more, gaining 9 kg. Marilyn began to wear baggy dresses in which she did not look very good. In the spring, she decided to return to Hollywood. It was then that Billy Wilder sent her a draft of the script for "Only Girls in Jazz", where she plays one of the main roles. Shooting began on July 8, Marilyn was very tiring to work on the film. But the film was a huge success, and her performance was noted as excellent.

On May 13, 1959, Marilyn receives an award - a statue of David Donatello (Italian "Oscar") for her role in the film "The Prince and the Dancer". Fox Studios appoints the actress to be the ambassador of American culture.
On September 19, representatives of the film industry held a reception in honor of Nikita Khrushchev, who traveled all over America. Marilyn was asked to get up from the table and greet him. She later said proudly, "He looked at me the way a man looks at a woman, he just looked."
In 1961, Marilyn's health deteriorated and it was no longer a secret to the public that she was using drugs. After a large number of negative reviews from critics and viewers about the two recent films with her participation, and also as a result of her divorce from Miller, she has a nervous breakdown and is placed in the Payne-Whiteney Psychiatric Clinic, where she is forcibly kept for some time in a cramped room, as a result of which she actually developed claustrophobia. These kinds of problems are ancestral curse. Her mother and grandmother are also different time were in psychiatric institutions.

On May 19, 1961, at Madison Square, Marilyn sang "Happy Birthday Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy, whom she met before his presidency, in the 51st year. There were rumors of their romance, as well as an affair with his brother Robert Kennedy. But there is no substantial evidence for this (the famous photo of Kennedy hugging Monroe is known to be a fake with two actors).

1962, Monroe had another drug overdose. Joe DiMaggio came to her rescue again. They decided to remarry and set the date for August 8, 1962.
On June 1, Marilyn celebrated her 36th birthday.

In late June-early July, the actress starred in two photo shoots: for Vogue magazine. She looked amazing at 36.

On Wednesday, August 1, the actress received a call from Evelyn Moriati, Marilyn's friend and understudy, who said that the filming of Something's Got to Happen would begin in October, and that her salary would increase by 2.5 times. Evelyn recalled: "Marilyn was in good mood. We talked about the script, everything." Marilyn had the prospect of filming in The Jean Harlow Story, her future was painted with bright colors.

The actress decides to fire her housekeeper, who considered it normal to get into other people's affairs (for example, she read Marilyn's mail). On Saturday, August 4, Eunice was supposed to last time appear at the actress's house. Marilyn's press secretary, Pat Newcomb, recalls how the actress said several times that she was going to leave her therapist. On Thursday, Marilyn invited friends over for champagne and caviar. She was happy, full of optimism, humor and health. She woke up rested the next day, perhaps because she hadn't taken sleeping pills. She nevertheless met with her psychotherapist, Greenson prescribed her a new sleeping pill - Nembutal. The rest of the day she was engaged in matters of marriage and work. Eunice said that Marilyn was happy during this time.

Pictured left: Eunice Murray (Marilyn's housekeeper).

Last day in Monroe's life

Early on the morning of August 4, around 8 am, Eunice Murray (Marilyn's housekeeper) came to take care of the flowers. Around 10:00 a photographer drove up to the house, who took pictures of Monroe, it was necessary to discuss the publication of these photos in magazines. "Marilyn seemed to have no worries," he later recalled. After meeting with the photographer, Marilyn called friends, made an appointment with a massage therapist for Sunday.

From 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm (with a break from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm), Marilyn was at home with her therapist, Dr. Ralph Greenson. Around 2:00 pm, Joe DiMaggio's son called (at that time he was 20 years old, he served in the Navy).
Marilyn later asked Eunice to take her to the home of Peter Lawford (one of President Kennedy's relatives). Then she went to the beach. On the beach, it was noticeable that the actress was under the influence of drugs, she could hardly keep her balance.

At 4:30 pm, Marilyn and Eunice returned home.
Around 17:00, Peter Lawford called, invited the actress to his place. He was planning a party, but Marilyn refused. At this time, Greenson was waiting for a call from Hyman Engelberg, who was supposed to come to inject Marilyn with sleeping pills, as was often the case.
At 7:15 p.m., he left, leaving Marilyn with Eunice. Joe's son called again, he recalled that Marilyn was happy, you could hear from her voice that she was pleased with something.

At 7:45 pm, Peter Lawford called, hoping that Marilyn would accept his invitation. He knew from her voice that she was unhappy, she was muttering something in a hoarse voice. He tried to make out what she was saying, what was happening to her. She took a breath and said, "Say goodbye to Pat, say goodbye to the president, you good guy". And she hung up.

Peter tried to call back, but it was busy. He wanted to go to the actress's house, but he was told: “Don't do it! You are a confidant of the president. If you go, you will see her drunk, and tomorrow morning you will be in all the newspapers with a scandalous headline. He asked a friend to call Eunice to check on Marilyn. She called back, said Marilyn was doing well. In fact, she did not go to the actress's house.

When Peter heard that Marilyn was all right, he did not calm down. He called Joe Naar, who lived near Monroe's home. Peter asked him to go to the actress's house. Around 11:00 pm, Joe got dressed and was about to go, but the bell stopped him. Peter's friend called and told him not to go anywhere, that everything was fine with Marilyn, he had already called her housekeeper.
At 5:00, Marilyn's agent Pat Ncomb called: “There has been a tragedy. Marilyn took a large dose of medication." "Is she all right?" asked Pat. "No, she's dead."

Marilyn Monroe died on the night of August 5, 1962 in Brentwood, California at the age of 36 from a lethal dose of sleeping pills. There are five versions of the cause of her death: a murder committed by the secret services on the orders of the Kennedy brothers in order to avoid publicity of their sexual relations; murder committed by the mafia; drug overdose; suicide; the tragic mistake of psychoanalyst actress Ralph Greenson, who ordered the patient to take chloral hydrate shortly after she took Nembutal. What was the true reason is still unknown.

There is a hypothesis that in her famous leather-bound diary, Marilyn documented the details of her intimate relationship with the Kennedy brothers and other lovers, in particular, recorded what they said in bed. Thus, the diary was a serious compromising evidence. According to an eyewitness, Monroe's stylist, who accompanied her on trips, on the day of her death, the actress visited the house of Frank Sinatra, with whom she also had a short-term affair. There, she met a mafioso who collaborated with the CIA - Sam Giancana. He urged Monroe to hand over the diary. But she did not agree, and she was eliminated for fear of blackmail or publicity. And the diary disappeared from her house without a trace.

According to the official version, death was due to taking an excessive dose. medicines. But such a conclusion does not explain many of the contradictions and inconsistencies revealed during further investigation into the circumstances of the death of the actress.
There is also the truth of the version that Marilyn died of a drug overdose or committed suicide. But here is a photograph of the actress, taken a few hours before her death. It looks like she's not going to die...
The corpse of Monroe is taken out of her house.... The problem is that each of the versions can be proven to one degree or another, but finally and irrevocably - none.

I don’t want to end on such a sad note ... For us, Marilyn Monroe will remain so ....

Death of Marilyn Monroe

It has been 50 years since that tragic day.

A sex symbol during her lifetime, after her death she completely became a cult figure. Several hundred books have been written about her life and dozens of films have been shot, artists and manufacturers of everything in the world replicate her image, and the "cult of Marilyn" finds more and more followers.

An inimitable diva - she is the absolute embodiment of the American dream, and her life is still the same, beloved by millions, the story of Cinderella: a girl from a poor family in an instant turned into a successful Hollywood star. Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, receiving the name Norma Jean at baptism. She most likely never knew her real father. Her mother - Gladys Monroe, married Mortenson - had a rather confusing personal life. In 1945, Norma Jean began working as a fashion model. In 1946, she began acting in films, dyed her hair blonde and took the pseudonym Marilyn Monroe. At the very beginning of her career in 1952, Marilyn turned from a budding actress into a tabloid "star" when a scandal erupted due to the appearance of nude photos of her in one of the calendars. This Marilyn came out with dignity, she did not deny that she posed for a photo: "I was poor and I needed money."

In the movies, Marilyn often exploited the image of a narrow-minded, naive blonde, who stuck to her later in life. Nevertheless, the actors and directors who worked with her noted her outstanding talent. Laurence Olivier, with whom she starred in The Prince and the Showgirl, said of Monroe: "She's a brilliant comedian, which to me means she's a very gifted actress." Jane Russell, with whom they co-starred in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, described Monroe as "a very shy and sweet woman who was much smarter than people thought she was."

Monroe's last day

Early on the morning of August 4, around 8 am, Eunice Murray (Marilyn's housekeeper) came to take care of the flowers.

Around 10:00 a.m., a photographer drove up to the house, who took pictures of Monroe by the pool during the filming of the movie "Something's Got to Happen." He came to discuss the publication of these photos in magazines. “Marilyn seemed to have no worries,” he later recalled.

After meeting with the photographer, Marilyn called friends, made an appointment with a massage therapist for Sunday.

From 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm (with a break from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm), Marilyn was at home with her therapist, Dr. Ralph Greenson. Around 2:00 pm, Joe DiMaggio's son called (at that time he was 20 years old, he served in the Navy).

Marilyn later asked Eunice to take her to the home of Peter Lawford (one of President Kennedy's relatives). Then she went to the beach. On the beach, it was noticeable that the actress was under the influence of drugs, she could hardly keep her balance.

At 16:30 Marilyn and Eunice returned home. Son Joe called again, Eunice answered that Marilyn was not at home, she was busy with the doctor.

Around 17:00, Peter Lawford called, invited the actress to his place. He was planning a party, but Marilyn refused. At this time, Greenson was waiting for a call from Hyman Engelberg, who was supposed to come to inject Marilyn with sleeping pills, as was often the case.

At 7:15 p.m., he left, leaving Marilyn with Eunice. Joe's son called again, he recalled that Marilyn was happy, you could hear from her voice that she was pleased with something.

At 7:45 pm, Peter Lawford called, hoping that Marilyn would accept his invitation. He knew from her voice that she was unhappy, she was muttering something in a hoarse voice. He tried to make out what she was saying, what was happening to her. She took a breath and said, "Say goodbye to Pat, say goodbye to the president, you're a good guy." And she hung up.

Peter tried to call back, but it was busy. He wanted to go to the actress's house, but he was told: “Don't do it! You are a confidant of the president. If you go, you will see her drunk, and tomorrow morning you will be in all the newspapers with a scandalous headline. He asked a friend to call Eunice to check on Marilyn. She called back, said Marilyn was doing well. In fact, she did not go to the actress's house.

When Peter heard that Marilyn was all right, he did not calm down. He called Joe Naar, who lived near Monroe's home. Peter asked him to go to the actress's house. Around 11:00 pm, Joe got dressed and was about to go, but the bell stopped him. Peter's friend called and told him not to go anywhere, that everything was fine with Marilyn, he had already called her housekeeper.

At 5:00, Marilyn's agent Pat Ncomb called: “There has been a tragedy. Marilyn took a large dose of medication." "Is she all right?" asked Pat. "No, she's dead."

August 5, 1962 Marilyn Monroe has been found dead at her home in Brentwood. The first version of death was an overdose drugs. Then - the use of a huge dose of pills prescribed by a doctor, with the aim of suicide. Later, other versions of the death of the actress began to appear, the main of which is murder. Some wrote that the reason for the murder of Marilyn was ties with the mafia. Others that she was killed because of an affair with Robert Kennedy, who did not want to leave his wife for her. There were also rumors that she had an affair with John F. Kennedy.

There is another intersted version. According to the revelations of a former KGB agent,

Marilyn Monroe was allegedly in contact with the Soviet secret services. According to the statements of the former agent of the Soviet secret services Lyudmila Temnova, in 1960, Marilyn allegedly came to Russia under the code name Masha at the invitation of her friend, a KGB agent, whom she met in the United States. Perhaps there was a conflict of interests between the two countries waging the Cold War ....

It is authentically known about 3 husbands of Marilyn Monroe:
Jim Dougherty; Joe DiMaggio; Arthur Miller.

Jim Dougherty
When Norma Jean turned 16, her guardian, Grace Atkinson McKee, is about to move to another city with her family. But they do not want to take Norma with them - the girl has become a burden for the already poor family, so they marry her to Jim Dagherty. He was 20 years old, he looked after Norma and worked in a funeral home. The marriage took place on June 19, 1942. Norma dropped out of school and moved in with Jim. A year after the wedding, he joined the merchant marine, and Norma Jean went to work at an aircraft factory. After a while, she leaves the factory to start a modeling career. On Christmas Eve 1945, Dagherty declared that she had to choose one thing: shoot for magazines or be his wife. Then Norma Jean managed to get away from a direct answer and Dagherty again went to sea. There he received another message from her, which contained all the necessary papers for a divorce. This marriage lasted 4 years - on September 13, 1946, the Nevada court granted them a divorce. They never met again. Subsequently, Marilyn characterized this marriage as a "mistake of youth."

Joe DiMaggio
Although Marilyn Monroe and baseball star Joe DiMaggio had long been rumored to be dating, in September 1952, DiMaggio and Marilyn told the press that they had no joint plans for the future. And already in January 1954 they were married. From the very beginning, DiMaggio did not like that Marilyn flaunted her body, and shooting the legendary frame of the film "The Seven Year Itch" caused him a fit of anger. DiMaggio was unusually jealous, sometimes it came to assault. In October 1954, Marilyn announced that she and Joe were going to divorce. Although this marriage lasted only 9 months, Di Magdo helped Marilyn all his life. He came to her during a deep depression due to a divorce from Arthur Miller. It was he who rescued Marilyn from the psychiatric hospital "Payne-Whiteney". He subsequently arranged for her funeral. Despite the divorce and the third marriage that followed some time later, Marilyn Joe DiMaggio supported his ex-wife throughout his life. And after her death, Joe sent roses to her grave several times a week for 20 years.

Arthur Miller
Marilyn met playwright Arthur Miller a few days after a failed suicide attempt caused by the death of Johnny Hyde. Miller was married and had two children. "He captivated me because he was smart. He has a smarter mind than any of the men I have ever known. He understands my desire for self-improvement," Marilyn said of Miller. They met in 1950 in Hollywood. Marilyn and Arthur Miller did not see each other for a long time and met again only in 1955. They met in secret for a year. In early 1956, Miller divorced his first wife. In the same year, Arthur Miller's Communist Party membership hearing was held, as a result of which he was sentenced to prison for one year, but after an appeal, he was acquitted. Marilyn, not afraid to ruin her career, supported him in every possible way. Soon Arthur announced plans to marry Marilyn. The marriage took place in the summer of 1956. Two days later they played a Jewish wedding, because. The Millers were Jews. Their marriage lasted four and a half years and was the longest of all Marilyn Monroe's marriages. More than once, Marilyn called Arthur "her life." On January 20, 1961, they divorced. The official reason was "dissimilarity of characters".
For Miller, their relationship became a heavy burden: for all four years life together he didn't write a line. And Marilyn continued to act in films and make a career.
After their divorce, Arthur wrote a play especially for Marilyn "...". According to her, the last completed film with M. Monroe - "The Misfits" was shot.

Marilyn's fourth marriage
There is a version that Marilyn Monroe was married to Robert Sletzer for several days.
According to Sletzer himself, they got married in Mexico City, after which they went to a hotel, and a few days later returned to Los Angeles, after tearing up their marriage certificate. Marilyn and Bob agreed that their marriage would be a "joke".
Despite this, throughout his life, Robert remained one of the few whom Marilyn could trust, they often called up. A few days before her death, Marilyn showed Sletzer the famous red diary.
After the authorities officially announced Monroe's suicide, Robert began a personal investigation into the death of the star. For 10 whole years he spent it personally, and then another 10 together with a well-known private detective.
Only thanks to Robert Sletzer, the official version of Marilyn's suicide was called into question and the public started talking about the murder.

All her life, Marilyn Monroe dreamed of having children. But a strong desire to be a star and act in films made this dream impossible. Yes, and there were health problems - more than 30 abortions made themselves felt.
During her first marriage, Marilyn was bored sitting at home alone and wanted to have a baby, but Dougherty was against it. Then the situation changed, already Dagherty persuaded Norma to have children. It happened when Norma Jean quit her job at an aircraft factory and started shooting for magazines. This time she refused, saying that she was afraid to spoil the figure.
In 1957, during her marriage to Arthur Miller, Marilyn became pregnant. The feeling that she would get the family she had been looking for all her life inspired her, she was happy next to her beloved man in anticipation of a mother. But the pregnancy turned out to be ectopic and ended in a miscarriage. From such a shock, Marilyn falls into a long depression, drinks a lot and continues to take medication randomly. From an overdose falls into a coma.
While working on the painting Some Like It Hot, Marilyn became pregnant again and was admitted to the Lebanese Cedars Clinic. Perhaps because of the hard work on the film, Marilyn has another miscarriage during the winter.
Once Marilyn told her Amy's friend Green, that at the age of 15 she gave birth to a child who was given to an orphanage. Whether this is true or Marilyn's fantasy is unknown.
But in January 2000, a man named Joseph F. Kennedy showed up in New York, claiming to be the son of former president USA John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. He demanded to return to him all movable and immovable property that remained after the death of the actress. When asked where he had been all this time, he said that immediately after the death of Marilyn Monroe on August 5, 62, he was kidnapped by unknown people. However, he has no recollection of his childhood as he "was in a serious car accident and suffers from memory loss". Most likely, this is another fraud in order to take over Marilyn's large capital, because according to experts, her fortune after her death increases annually by $ 5,000,000.

After Marilyn's death, her fans still have films, wonderful photographs of perhaps the most beautiful woman, and her quotes, which ladies of any age take into service:

I never tan - I like being a solid blonde

Although I appear on calendars, I am not distinguished by punctuality.

I am most definitely a woman, and that makes me happy.

A husband is a person who always forgets your birthday and never misses an opportunity to tell you your age.

I was not used to being happy and therefore did not consider happiness to be something obligatory for me.

Love and work are the only worthwhile things in life. Work is a kind of love.

A career is a wonderful thing, but it cannot warm anyone on a cold night.

Men have sincere respect for everything that is boring.

Husbands are usually good in bed when cheating on their wives.

If I'm a little lucky, someday I'll find out why people are so tormented by the problems of sex. I personally care about them no more than cleaning shoes.

A sex symbol is just a thing, and I hate being a thing. But if it's to be a symbol, it's better to be a symbol of sex than anything else.

I agree to live in a world ruled by men, as long as I can be a woman in this world.

Hollywood is a place where you get paid a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know this because I have rejected the first repeatedly and held out my hand for fifty cents.

We women only have two weapons... Mascara and tears, but we can't use both at the same time...

When hard days come, I think: it would be nice to become a cleaning lady to take out the inner pain.

The beauty of the body is a natural gift, it cannot be destroyed or despised.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved.

I don't get offended when people say I'm stupid - I know I'm not.

To be late means to make sure that you are expected. And they're just waiting for you. Make sure you are irreplaceable.

A smart girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she's left.

The dream of millions cannot belong to one.

Men, because of my image of a sex symbol, created by them and myself, expect too much of me - they expect bells to ring and whistles to blow. But my anatomy is no different from that of any other woman. I don't live up to expectations.

We, beautiful women, are obliged to appear stupid so as not to disturb men.

Children, especially girls, should always be told that they are beautiful and that everyone loves them. If I have a daughter, I will always tell her that she is beautiful, I will comb her hair and I will not leave her alone for a minute.

I'm late all the time. People think it's out of arrogance. And in fact - quite the opposite. I know a bunch of people who could very well be on time, but only to do nothing and sit and retell their lives or some other nonsense. What are you waiting for?

It's not great to know yourself that well or think you do - you have to flatter yourself a little to get through and overcome the falls.

Dogs have never bitten me. Only people.

A strong man does not need to assert himself at the expense of a woman who had the weakness to love him. He already has a place to show his strength.

People have a habit of looking at me like I'm a mirror and not a person. They don't see me, they see their own lustful thoughts, and then they put on a white mask and call me lustful.

All my life I belonged only to the viewer. Not because I was great, but because no one else needed me.

I have often thought that to be loved is to be desired. Now I think that to be loved means to throw another into dust, to have complete power over him.

I never abandoned someone I believed in.

I don’t know who invented heels, but all the women of the world owe a lot to him.

A good kiss is worth another.

There are no women who do not love perfume, there are women who have not found their scent ...

Female attractiveness is only strong when it is natural and spontaneous.

Run away if you want to be loved.

Give a woman a pair of stilettos and she will conquer the world.

Money can not buy happiness. And in shopping.

Humor is always the gallows' humor, and if necessary, you will learn the hangman's humor, life is too important a thing to be taken seriously.

Two things should be beautiful in a girl - this is a look and lips, because with a look she can fall in love, and with her lips she can prove that she loves.

I don't mind jokes, but I don't want to be like one of them.

And I have a real blonde. Noved blonde does not become just like that, by nature.

They called me “sex-blonde”, “sex-bomb”… I know one thing: beauty and femininity have no age, and these qualities cannot be created. Women's charms cannot be produced industrially, as anyone would not like. I mean true beauty. She is engendered by femininity.

I never deceived anyone. But I let people be fooled. They didn't try very hard to find out who I really was. But it was easy to invent me. And I'm ready to argue with them. They love me like I've never been. And when they discover this, they will accuse me of cheating.

In Hollywood, a girl's talent is less important than her hair. You are judged by how you look, not by who you really are.

But just remember, some come and go. And those who stay with you, no matter what, are your true friends. Take care of them.

It's better to be absolutely funny than absolutely boring.

Always believe in yourself, because if you don't believe, then who else will?

When something comes to an end, there comes some relief. All the points are set, and you can breathe a sigh of relief - you did it.

A wise girl knows her limits. A smart girl knows she doesn't have them.

Sex is part of nature. I walk with nature.

What do I wear to bed? Chanel No. 5, of course.

I like to wear smart clothes, or stay naked. Something in between is not for me.

I'm just a little girl in big world who is trying to find her love.

The one thing that you want most in life, as a rule, cannot be bought with money.

I love food as long as it tastes good.

Every girl should never forget that she doesn't need those who don't need her.

Marilyn Monroe. The life and death of the sex symbol of America Prokofieva Elena Vladimirovna

Chapter 15 "SHE ALWAYS SAID THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DIE YOUNG"

"SHE ALWAYS SAID THAT I WOULD LIKE TO DIE YOUNG"

Why did Marilyn Monroe die? Why is she, beautiful, desirable, the most famous blonde in Hollywood, and even in the whole world! - died suddenly at the age of thirty-six, without suffering from any diseases that threatened to be fatal?

The cause of death - an overdose of sedatives - became known immediately.

But was it random?

If not, what was it - suicide or murder?

And if suicide, then why?

And if murder, then who?

All these questions still haunt millions of Marilyn fans and dozens of writers.

Initially, the version of suicide was the most popular. In the end, Marilyn's career faltered, and everyone knew about it. She suffered from depression and drug addiction, and many knew about it. Accidental overdose - not as interesting and dramatic as suicide ... Therefore - the version of suicide was popular.

Until it was replaced by a more popular version of murder.

The main suspects at various times appeared: communists, mafiosi, John F. Kennedy (of course, not himself, but agents acting on his orders), Robert Kennedy (perhaps even himself, with his own hand!), Dr. Ralph Greenson (as by chance, so and deliberately), Eunice Murray's au pair (both accidentally and deliberately).

On August 5, 1962, at 4:25 a.m., a telephone rang at the West Los Angeles Police Station. Sergeant Jack Clemmons accepted the challenge.

"Marilyn Monroe is dead. She committed suicide."

Ralph Greenson called the police.

10 minutes after the call, Jack Clemmons arrived at 12305 Fifth Helen Drive. In the bedroom he saw a fair-haired young woman: naked, only slightly covered by a sheet, she was lying face down, and really was dead, and really - it was Marilyn Monroe. The sergeant, who at first suggested a prank, was shocked: in fact, by accepting the challenge, he stepped into history.

There were two doctors in the bedroom: Greenson and Dr. Hyman Engelberg. Also in the house was Eunice Murray. Eunice fiddled with washing machine when it was her turn to testify ... And, in fact, she had to rely on her testimony, because she discovered the body of Marilyn.

Eunice stated that she found the body at midnight. And immediately called the doctors. When the sergeant asked why the police hadn't been called for so long, Greenson said, "We doctors had to have permission from the film studio's press bureau before anyone could be notified." It wasn't true, but it explained why, before the police, they had notified Arthur Jacobs as the studio's representative and Milton Radin as the actress' lawyer: both of them were also in the house.

Later, Eunice changed the testimony so that it became more coherent, and explained the difference from the original version by the stress in which she was during the interrogation.

Allegedly, in fact, she woke up at three in the morning, went to check how Marilyn was feeling, was alarmed when she saw the light under the door, but the door was locked, the actress did not answer the knock and call ... Eunice called Dr. Greenson (or Greenson called her, in the testimony also differs on this), and the doctor, worried about what was happening, ordered her to look into the bedroom through the window. To do this, Eunice had to take a poker, break the glass, push the thick curtains ... And she saw Marilyn - frighteningly still. She reported this to Greenson. He arrived, broke the window, climbed into the bedroom, then unlocked the door and let Eunice in with the words: "She's dead. We lost her." Further, at 3:50, Greenson called Engelberg. He arrived, the doctors pronounced death together and called the police.

As possible cause death, they pointed to an empty vial of a sedative: Nembutal. The medicine was prescribed by Dr. Engelberg shortly before Marilyn's death. And if she took all the pills at once, she would inevitably die. The first version of the cause of death was an overdose of Nembutal with the intent of suicide.

More and more police officers arrived at Marilyn's house. They searched the bedroom for the farewell letter usually left by suicides. Didn't find anything similar.

At eight in the morning, the body of the actress was sent to the city morgue.

There, she ended up in the hands of Forensic Surgeon and Los Angeles County Coroner Theodore Carfi and Deputy Court Surgeon, Dr. Thomas Noguchi.

Noguchi, who moved to the United States from Japan, will eventually become the most famous pathologist in the country, it is he who will open the tormented bodies of the victims of the "family" of the maniac Charles Manson and Robert Kennedy, who was shot during his own election campaign. But it was Marilyn Monroe who was his first famous "patient". He understood that the whole world was waiting for the results of the autopsy.

Removal of the body of Marilyn Monroe from the house where she died

Removal of the body of Marilyn Monroe from the house where she died

The autopsy was attended by John Miner, Deputy Attorney for the District of Los Angeles.

Marilyn's body was first studied under a magnifying glass - in literally every millimeter! - then washed and studied again. No traces of violence were found. Only a bruise on her thigh from a few days ago, but Marilyn, when she overused sedatives, was awkward and hit furniture. Before proceeding with the autopsy, Noguchi looked for traces of injections. They were not - contrary to the speculations of sensation hunters that appeared after. Only after making sure of this, the pathologist took a scalpel and made the first incision.

Marilyn did not eat dinner, trying to keep her figure, so her stomach was almost empty. And the version with a large amount of Nembutal, taken one-time, was immediately refuted: the tablets would not have had time to completely dissolve. Meanwhile, chief toxicologist R. J. Abernathy, having examined the contents of the stomach and tissue internal organs actresses, stated that the most a large number of barbiturates have been found in the liver. The concentration was lethal. But when taken orally, the tablets would not have had time to begin to be absorbed in the liver!

The answer to how the lethal dose of the sedative got into Marilyn's body was obtained by examining the actress's intestines. Most of the surface of the colon was, according to the report, "considerable hyperemia and a bluish discoloration". This indicated the introduction of a sedative rectally. Most likely, it was chloral hydrate: a fast-acting sleeping pill.

“We had to find out the reasons for such an unusual, unnatural coloration of the colon,” Miner wrote. “Noguchi and I were convinced that this strong dose of medicine was introduced into Marilyn’s body by infusion with an enema.”

The pathologist Dr. Abrams confirmed this version: “I have never seen anything like this during an autopsy. Something strange was happening with the large intestine of this woman. And speaking of suicide, I honestly find it very difficult to imagine that a patient who wants to a dose of barbiturates or even sedatives, will fool himself with the preparation of a solution, and then he will make himself an enema with this solution!On top of everything else, it is not known how much liquid will be needed, and there is no guarantee that the body will not expel the solution before it is absorbed. Look, if a person wants to be poisoned by barbiturates, he just swallows powders or tablets and drinks them down with water!As for the Nembutal suppositories (which are sometimes mistakenly considered the cause of the death of the actress), they would only go into the anus to a depth of ten centimeters; however in the case of Marilyn sigmoid colon, passing much higher, was completely painted. Thus, the drug that caused death was indeed introduced into the body through an enema. At this point, it should be recalled that Marilyn used to give herself enemas for many years "for hygiene reasons or in order to lose weight." These are the words of Dr. Miner, but the fashion designers who worked for the actress like William Travilla and Jean Louis have long known about this method. continued: "To a large extent, it was on her part following the fleeting fashion that reigned then among actresses" ... "

However, all these conclusions were made not in 1962, but in 1982, during the retrial of the death of Marilyn Monroe, when all the documents were raised and the witnesses were re-interrogated!

Eunice Murray left Marilyn's house on August 6, after drying the bedding she had washed on the night of her death and instructing her nephew to replace the broken windows.

On the same day, Joe DiMaggio applied for a final death certificate. This was not yet a conclusion on the cause of death, but the autopsy was completed and Marilyn could be buried.

Joe was going to handle the funeral. He received official permission to do so from Marilyn's half-sister, Bernice Miracle. Joe considered himself Marilyn's husband: he was once and wanted to be again. Marilyn seemed to be planning to marry him again, too. They even set a wedding date: August 8th. However, Marilyn was not too sure of her intentions regarding Joe: either she was looking forward to his arrival and planning a reception on the occasion of their second wedding, or she fell into gloom and believed that they should remain friends. But during a more thorough search of her bedroom, a folded piece of paper was found in the actress's phone book, on which she apparently began a letter to DiMaggio, but for some reason did not finish and did not send: "Dear Joe! If only I could make you happy , I would do the most important and most difficult thing - that is, make one person infinitely happy. Your happiness is my happiness. " She didn't send because she wasn't sure what she was saying? Or because something distracted her, and then she decided to tell Joe everything in person?

Now it didn't matter to Marilyn. And for Joe, in fact, too. There was only one thing he could do for her now: give her a decent burial.

Joe knew that Marilyn was afraid to lie in the ground, so he bought a niche in the crypt for her. He chose the coffin, ordering to upholster it with champagne-colored velvet from the inside: the color that the deceased was especially fond of. DiMaggio supervised all the preparations from Malibu. On August 7, he called makeup artist Alan Snyder, who had worked with Marilyn during the filming of Some Like It Hot. And he said it was time to fulfill the promise...

Donald Spoto wrote:

"Ten years earlier, on the threshold of his great career, Marilyn asked her friend Alan Snyder to come to her hospital before she was discharged from there: she wanted to look as beautiful as possible in front of people and in front of cameras. For fifteen years, no one better than this man understood the fears and peculiarities of the nature of the actress, no one showed greater patience and loyalty in using their own talents for her good.

Whitey," Marilyn said, referring to him using his pet nickname as the make-up artist combed and styled her hair, highlighting it in places and changing the hue in other places, "you have to promise me one thing.

Anything, Marilyn.

Promise me that if anything happens to me... then, I beg you, don't let anyone else touch my face. Promise to make me look good before you leave for good.

Of course, - he said, teasing the actress. "Bring me only your body while you're still warm, and I'll turn you into a god."

Marilyn gave Alan Snyder gold medal with the words "While I'm still warm! Marilyn" engraved on it.

Going to the morgue, Alan Snyder put this medal in his pocket. Along with him went Margaret Plecher, assistant dresser and his future wife. She chose as the last outfit of the actress a closed green dress from Pucci, which Marilyn recent times especially loved, and chiffon scarf.

Make-up artist had a difficult job. First, after death, she lay prone, so that the blood that the stopped heart stopped pumping, under the influence of gravity, descended into the lower sections, forming dark spots under the skin, the so-called post-mortem hypostasis: a natural and irreversible process. In addition, during an autopsy of the brain, soft tissues are separated from the bones of the skull to the eye sockets, and although they are returned after they are returned, the face looks as if “rumpled”. Photos of Marilyn lying in the morgue after the autopsy were sold to the yellow press, published, and it was they who became one of the reasons for the persistence of the legend of violent death: dark spots were mistaken for lifetime bruises, and her face seemed to have been beaten.

Alan Snyder worked for hours to make Marilyn beautiful again.

The actress's hair, already exhausted by styling and coloring, was now so tangled that it was not possible to comb it and style it. Margaret Plecher went to pick up the wig Marilyn wore in The Misfits. When the actress was dressed, it turned out that death (as well as a thorough autopsy) made changes to the lines of her body: it looked completely flat. Margaret Plecher later recalled that at that moment she thought: "Oh God, Marilyn and without a breast! She would have died." And then she burst into tears, realizing that - yes, Marilyn died ... To return her body to an attractive shape, Alan and Margaret tore the pillow and stuffed two plastic bags with artificial fluff. Then for a long time they attached this impromptu chest under the fabric of the dress, draped it with folds of a scarf.

DiMaggio at this time was already heading to Los Angeles.

Only when Marilyn, dressed and carefully made up, was laid in a coffin, Joe DiMaggio came to say goodbye to his beloved. He spent the whole night near the coffin. Alan Snyder, who came in early in the morning to touch up his makeup, claimed that Joe held Marilyn's hand and spoke to her.

DiMaggio did not want Marilyn's funeral to turn into a mass event. He did not want to see representatives of film companies, reporters and photographers. None of those who made Marilyn suffer. 30 closest friends were present. No one from the Kennedy family honored the funeral with a presence. Jim Dougherty remarried and refused to come, saying he was busy at work. Arthur Miller and his second wife were expecting a child soon, and the writer also refused to say goodbye to Marilyn, saying: "I can't stand this funeral circus." For obvious reasons, Marilyn's mother was not present at the funeral either.

At the farewell ceremony in the chapel at funeral home fragments of Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony and Marilyn's favorite song - "Beyond the Rainbow" from the film "The Wizard of Oz" were heard.

The pastor's speech was very touching and filled with reverence for the deceased actress, and began with paraphrased biblical words: "Oh, how terrible and wonderful she was created by the Almighty!"

Lee Strasberg said: "We knew her as a warm-hearted person, impulsive, timid and lonely, impressionable and afraid of rejection, but always full of curiosity about life and striving to fulfill her desires. Her dream of great talent was not a mirage."

Joe cried the whole ceremony. By the end, the tears turned into sobs. He was the last to say goodbye to Marilyn. He put a bouquet of twelve red roses into her hands, kissed her on the lips and said: "I love you, my dearest, I love you."

After the coffin lid was lowered, forever hiding Marilyn from the world.

Joe led the funeral procession from the chapel to the crypt, where a niche for the coffin had already been prepared and a marble plaque on which was attached a tablet with the inscription:

MARILYN MONROE

1926–1962

Burial place of Marilyn Monroe

Burial place of Marilyn Monroe

Joe watched as the coffin was pushed into the niche, as the marble slab was cemented with mortar. Only then did he leave the cemetery, followed by all the others. A few hours later, reporters, newsreel operators, fans of the actress were admitted to Westwood Village. But before that, bouquets and wreaths were delivered to the crypt from friends, acquaintances and, possibly, from the lifetime enemies of the actress. Each member of the Miller family had a separate bouquet. Each bouquet and wreath was signed, with the exception of one, anonymous, which, however, was accompanied by a card with a sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

I love you so much? I love without measure.

To the depths of the soul, to all its heights,

To transcendent sensual beauties,

To the depths of being, to the ideal sphere.

To the needs of the ordinary, to the very first,

Like the sun and a candle, simple worries,

I love like the truth - the root of all freedoms,

And, like a prayer, the heart of pure faith.

I love with all my tart passion

Unfulfilled hopes, all childish thirst;

I love the love of all my saints,

Who left me, and every breath.

And death will come, I believe, and from there

I will love you even more.

(Translated by Valery Savin)

It is still unknown who displayed such exquisite sentimentality.

Joe DiMaggio never married. He did not give interviews about his relationship with Marilyn, but sent two red roses to her grave every two weeks. He died of lung cancer on March 8, 1999. They claim that it last words were: "At last I will see Marilyn." Most likely, this is a beautiful legend. Those dying of lung cancer are rarely able to speak before they die. However, roses still appear on Marilyn's grave: the Divine Marilyn Monroe Admirers Foundation has paid for regular delivery for a hundred years.

Gladys never learned of her daughter's death. She died at a private clinic in Florida on March 11, 1984. Perhaps she did not even realize how big a star Norma Jean was.

Robert Francis Kennedy was mortally wounded in Los Angeles during his campaign on June 5, 1968. He died a day later.

People who knew Marilyn left this world. People who were rumored to be involved in the mystery of her death could no longer protest the accusations. And the more time passed since the death of the star, the easier it became to compose versions ...

Marilyn died, but more legends formed around her death than her lifetime actions ever gave rise to.

The suicide version of the actress was in the lead until it became clear: it is possible, but unlikely. At that moment, Marilyn was not unhappy, hopeless. She said: "The future stretches out before me, and I can't wait for it." Perhaps it was bravado, but even taking into account all the internal and external problems that tormented her, she had nothing to despair enough to end her life ...

An accidental overdose looked more plausible (especially before the data on the rectal method of injecting a lethal dose of barbiturates into the actress's body was published), it looked very instructive, but not spicy enough.

Therefore, journalists and fans seized on the rumors about the murder with excitement ... And they still cannot part with them.

In order to consider all versions in all their many variations, a separate book would be needed. And not small. We have a different format, and the purpose of the book is different. Therefore, we will consider only the main versions and their refutation.

Version one: Marilyn Monroe was killed by communists, agents of the Kremlin. This version appeared due to the fact that Marilyn was the wife of Arthur Miller, who was suspected of sympathizing with the communists, and the actress herself once said: “But the communists are for the people, right? ..” - and she was not forgotten.

So, Marilyn contacted the Communists, was initiated into some of their secrets, became dangerous, and the Kremlin agents came to the house on Helen Drive and killed the actress: either by forcing her to drink a huge amount of pills, or by injecting barbiturates.

Against the lethal injection option, not only in the "communist" version, but also in principle, the pathologist Thomas Noguchi actively protested: to inject such a dose of barbiturates, a very voluminous syringe would be needed, and the injection would leave a solid hematoma on the body, which is simply impossible not to notice.

But maybe the cunning communists injected the actress with barbiturates, and some unknown poison?

However, this version quickly became obsolete.

There was a version according to which Marilyn Monroe was killed by mafia agents. Allegedly, she was the mistress of one of the prominent mafioso: they named the names of Johnny Roselli, Bugsy Segal and Sam Giancana. And in the end, "dangerous liaisons" ended in the death of the actress. But actor Alex D'Arcy, who has known Marilyn since they starred in How to Marry a Millionaire together and was close friends with Los Angeles mob boss Roselli, said: never had an affair with any of these men. In principle, there was no connection between Marilyn and the gang!

And then, the version of the connection of the "golden goddess of Hollywood" with the vulgar mafiosi seemed unattractive to the public.

What a difference - the Kennedy brothers! One is the youngest and most charming president in US history, the other is a charismatic personality, a talented politician ...

Versions according to which John and (or) Robert Kennedy were the perpetrators of the death of Marilyn Monroe turned out to be the most successful among all others. They are still very tenacious to this day, are being discussed to this day, overgrown with new details and variations. At the same time, in various variations, both John and Robert, or both of them, could be the killers.

According to the version according to which Marilyn was only John's mistress, but a long-term mistress, since the time when he was a congressman, she was repeatedly pregnant by him, had abortions, and finally rebelled: she decided to keep her last child... For which she was killed.

Variation of this version: Marilyn was forced to have an abortion, after which she decided to give a press conference and talk about her connection with the president. Kennedy was forced to send assassins to her, who either forced the actress to take a lethal dose of pills, or gave her a lethal injection. And Nogushi was forced to "not notice" the traces, because the order to recognize the death of Marilyn Monroe as the result of an overdose was "lowered from above."

According to another variation, Marilyn was so eager to get John to divorce Jacqueline and marry her that the president was again forced to send assassins to her.

There is a political variation: Marilyn was an attorney for many of the president's political secrets, and everything he told was written down in a mysterious diary in a red cover, which disappeared from her house after her death, a locked secretary was broken during the search ...

And a ufological variation: among the secrets that the president generously shared with his beloved was "Secret Area 51", that is, a military base in Nevada, where the alien ship that crashed in 1947 was allegedly hidden. Marilyn found out about the aliens - and she had to be eliminated. Either the military, or the aliens themselves.

Some fans of this variation went even further: Marilyn did not die, but was abducted by aliens, the authorities were forced to plant the body of another woman ... After all, in the photographs from the morgue, the actress does not look like herself, so why not?

It is even strange that none of the fans have yet suggested that Marilyn was kidnapped by fairies. After all, they are known to steal beautiful women, and instead of them they throw up twins created from swamp driftwood and completely unviable. The body usually turns back into a snag a few days after the funeral ...

However, Americans believe in aliens more than fairies.

And even more so - more believe in the guilt of Robert Kennedy.

Allegedly, Marilyn demanded that he divorce his wife, Ethel, threatened him with exposure, a scandal, promised to tell reporters about everything ... As a result, Robert killed her with his own hand: he strangled her with a pillow. Less radical variations of the same version: Robert's bodyguards gave Marilyn a lethal injection. Pathologist Noguchi didn't find a puncture mark? I searched badly ... But what about the traces of rectal administration of the drug, found during the autopsy? Well, quite recently, journalists Jay Margolis and Richard Baskin announced that they figured out exactly how they killed Marilyn: in the presence of Robert Kennedy, two of his bodyguards first injected the actress with sleeping pills in the armpit (supposedly that’s why the mark on the body was not found), and then - gave her an enema with an already lethal dose of barbiturates. It would be funny if it were not about the death of a very real person, a beautiful young and talented woman ... And about slander against another person, who, by the way, also died very young, a loving family man and a fighter for civil rights.

If Marilyn spent at least one night with John F. Kennedy, then only rumors connected her with Robert. And yet Robert is the most blamed. The reason is that at the time of the first accusations, his name was not yet surrounded by a halo of political martyrdom, like the name of John, and he was not president, and presidents in the United States in the old days were still treated with respect.

For the first time, the version that Marilyn Monroe was killed and Robert Kennedy was involved in this was expressed by Frank A. Capell, who hated communists and blacks. And also - all the Kennedys for the fact that they fought badly against the communists and let blacks into educational establishments. He published the anti-communist newspaper Herald of Freedom. And in 1964 he published the book " strange death Marilyn Monroe". In the book, he described his version of the romance between Robert and Marilyn. And the finale, when Robert, dreaming of bringing the communists to power, kills his mistress, who can ruin his political career with her confessions. It is interesting that the source of information about how it happened investigation into the death of the actress, was the police sergeant Jack Clemmons, who was the first to arrive on a call to her house.

FBI Director John Edgar Hoover, who harbored a dislike for Kennedy and was collecting a detailed dossier on Robert, learned of the forthcoming publication of the book from his agents and sent him a letter with a warning: "In the book you will find information about your alleged friendship with Miss Monroe. Mr. Capell stated his intention to show in his book that you had a trusting relationship with Miss Monroe and that you were in Monroe's house at the time of her death." Robert Kennedy did not respond to the letter. It is not known how, in principle, he treated these gossip ...

A year later, Kopell and Clemmons stood trial for defamation against Senator Thomas X. Kachel, a Republican who supported the 1964 civil rights bill. They were found guilty and Clemmons was fired from the police force.

However, the legend that Marilyn Monroe was assassinated by Robert Kennedy turned out to be tenacious.

Nothing else was published on this subject during Robert's lifetime. But some time after his death, the theme of the novel with Marilyn returned. The recipients of the actress's phone calls were made public, and it turned out that shortly before her death, she repeatedly called Robert ... But the conversations did not last long. And, as people close to Robert testified, the topic of conversation was problems in the relationship between Marilyn and the film studio.

“Throughout my acquaintance with Robert Kennedy,” said Edwin Gutman, “it never occurred to me that the prosecutor had an affair with Marilyn, and even more so with some other woman. Ethel was the woman of his life, and he did not show interest in no one else, except for normal secular-public contacts in public places. That summer, Marilyn did call Kennedy several times at his office in Washington. Bobby was a good listener, and he was interested in the actress's questions, her life, and even her troubles and But on the merits, me, Bobby and Angie (Novello, Kennedy's secretary) took these calls as something funny, a kind of humor - and certainly not something that is whispered in the corners or kept secret. to a friend something like: "Oh, again she with these questions of hers. "But their conversations were always short. Robert did not belong to the category of people who talk for a long time on unimportant topics. But for him to have an affair? Honestly, this is not at all didn't suit his character.

Of course, friends and party comrades-in-arms could defend Robert and lie for his sake, for the sake of his blessed memory, for the sake of his wife and children ... And yet, Robert could not physically be present at the death of Marilyn and physically participate in it.

On August 3, along with his wife and four children, Robert went to stay at the ranch of his friend John Bates, located one hundred and thirty kilometers south of San Francisco and five hundred and sixty kilometers north of Los Angeles, high in the Santa Cruz Mountains. FBI agents were watching the president's brother, so there are records of every episode that happened during the Kennedy family's visit to the Bates family: horseback riding, dinners, playing American football, attending mass ... Robert simply did not have the opportunity to make time for it. to travel to Los Angeles to meet with Marilyn and direct her elimination. He could not fly out and return on a private plane: the ranch was located so that it was impossible to land a plane there.

The theory that Marilyn's killer was her psychotherapist, Ralph Greenson, was highly innovative and daring, and gained immense popularity. This version also has two variations. First, Dr. Greenson did not know that Marilyn was taking barbiturates, which he prescribed to her, without coordinating his actions with him, Dr. Engelberg, and when the famous patient in again fell into hysterics due to insomnia, gave her an enema with chloral hydrate, and the combination of drugs turned out to be fatal. Second, Dr. Greenson was in love with Marilyn, or simply had some kind of spiritual addiction to his patient, he knew that she wanted to get rid of his obsessive tutelage and marry Joe DiMaggio, and deliberately killed her by giving a sedative enema with excessive amounts of chloral hydrate.

Another version adjoins this version: the killer was Eunice Murray. Dr. Greenson could instruct her to conduct an intimate procedure and give an enema to the actress. And she may have used more chloral hydrate than necessary. Either by accident or on purpose. Intentionally - because Marilyn fired her shortly before her death. And, although Eunice returned to her house, she understood that she did not have long to share her life with a movie star. However, some of the supporters of this version believe that Eunice Murray acted strictly on the orders of Greenson, and was only a performer, albeit perfectly aware: a murder is being committed.

Mrs. Murray, by the way, is perfect for the role of a murderer: she lied too much and changed her testimony too often. Almost everything she said immediately after Marilyn's death turned out to be a lie. She couldn't see the light under Marilyn's door: the thick white carpet on the floor for a long time didn’t close at all, didn’t let even a ray of light seep through ... And the door could not be locked: Marilyn never locked the door. And Eunice could not break the window and part the curtains with a poker! Marilyn's room, who hated bright morning light, had only one giant curtain that couldn't be moved.

Also, Eunice washed the sheets. Who will do the laundry soon after discovering the corpse? Is that the one who has something to hide.

Dead Marilyn lay on clean, dry sheets. But, dying after a chloral hydrate enema, she would inevitably relax, and the sheets would be soiled.

Dr. Greenson very diligently pointed to the empty bottle of nimbutal. Eunice Murray washed and dried the sheets.

Perhaps both of them considered themselves guilty. And, panicking, they tried to hide their guilt.

Perhaps Marilyn's death was a tragic accident, indeed - just an overdose, but it was not the actress herself who overdid it with sedatives, but her psychotherapist or her companion, or both of them ...

There is something else strange about Marilyn's death.

Her last two phone calls.

On August 4 at approximately 7:15 p.m., she received a call from Joe DiMaggio Jr. They chatted merrily, in particular, the young man informed the actress that he had broken off his engagement to a girl who did not like Marilyn. Monroe was lively, reacted cheerfully: DiMaggio Jr. could not believe when he found out about her death, and even more so - he could not believe that she had committed suicide ...

At 19.45. Marilyn called Peter Lawford. And a completely different woman spoke to him. She mumbled something hoarsely, could not concentrate in any way to react to the purpose of his call - an invitation to a party. At the end of the conversation, Marilyn said: "Say goodbye to Pat, say goodbye to the president and say goodbye to yourself, because you are a good guy." And then, after another couple of minutes of mumbling, she hung up. Lawford called back. It was busy. He called again and again. Finally, he called the telephone exchange: "When I asked the telephone operator to interrupt the conversation going on there, she told me that either the receiver was off the plug, or the phone was damaged."

Peter became even more alarmed, called several friends, tried to go to Marilyn to find out what was happening to her, but he was dissuaded: after all, he is the son-in-law of the president, and what if the actress has an overdose and will have to call the doctors, he will be involved in an ugly story ... In the end, Lawford insisted that they call Marilyn's lawyer, Milton Radin, who called Mrs. Murray. Later, Radin said: "... about four minutes, until she returned and said:" She feels good. "But I got the impression that this woman did not leave the premises at all." And Eunice wailed in her book called "If Only": "If only Radin had told me that someone called him, concerned about the state of Marilyn ..." But what would she do if Radin told her?

What even happened that night at Marilyn Monroe's house?

It's time to come to terms with the fact that we will never know for sure.

In one of his recent interviews Marilyn stated that the money she receives for her roles is not important to her. She just wants to shine like a true star.

Shining was what she did best.

To shine - she still manages to do this.

Just watch any of her films, look at photos of Marilyn: she still shines. Decades have not dimmed her light, have not devalued her beauty and talent. Marilyn is still the most famous blonde - not only in Hollywood, but throughout the world. Marilyn is still a star whose distant light attracts all eyes.

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Exactly 55 years ago, on August 5, 1962, the most famous sex symbol of the 20th century, Marilyn Monroe, died. Until now, her sudden death at the age of 36, at the peak of her career, is one of the biggest mysteries of the last century. Long years the whole world was sure that the sexy blonde committed suicide, but 2 years ago, the revelations of Norman Hodges, the ex-CIA agent who killed Monroe, got into the network. So where is the truth?

Marilyn's body was discovered on August 5, 1962, naked, with a handset in her hand. Arriving psychoanalyst Greenson and therapist Engelberg established - poisoning with barbiturates. Suicide - everyone decided, writing it off as an accidental drug overdose due to depression. But 53 years later, CIA special agent Normand Hodges admitted that he killed the actress on the orders of the leadership. The reason for this was Marilyn's friendship with the communists - she could transmit important data.

Despite her frivolous image, Monroe stood up for world peace, the friendship of peoples - this was the beginning of the actress's love for the ideals of communism. In 2006, the Associated Press news agency published the FBI archive, in which a denunciation of the television personality was found. It follows from the document that Monroe is a communist, her husband Arthur Miller is the leader of the Monroe Communist Party, which provides finance for the subversive activities of bohemian communists. Monroe's commitment to communism is also evidenced by her patronage of Ella Fitzgerald.


And at the end of 2015, a terminally ill retired special agent made a sensational confession - on the orders of the CIA, he killed Monroe. Normand Hodges admitted that he entered the diva's bedroom on August 5 and gave her a lethal injection of a barbiturate and a sedative. He did it for America, his boss, Jimmy Hayworth, told him she must die. On account of Hodges, there are 37 more stars of various sizes, among which Monroe was the only woman.


After Hodges confessed, the FBI took over, but no evidence could be found. Soon the applicant himself died, and the case was “hushed up”.

Meanwhile, there are many more versions of Monroe's death. One of them is the fatal passion of the blonde and President John F. Kennedy. In 1961, a stormy romance began between them, but it turned into a painful passion for the beauty. She began to threaten the president with exposure, and he instructed his brother Robert to distract her. It was he who last saw Monroe on August 4 at night, and (perhaps) their quarrel escalated into a scandal and subsequent murder.


Another possible culprit is her psychoanalyst Ralph Grison. He worked with many stars, but his therapy was questioned. Instead of helping, he drugged Monroe with drugs that made her hysterical. He took care of the diva in every possible way, and in the end she realized that they needed to stop communicating. Before his death, they talked for six whole hours, and many are sure that he drove her to suicide.


Another guess - Monroe could be removed by the American "mafia". One of Marilyn's lovers was Frank Sinatra, who was associated with the US underworld. The CIA recorded that the day before her death, she met with a former lover.


Either way, it's all just speculation. It is still unknown why Monroe was naked, why there were a lot of pill vials next to her, but there was no water, and who she tried to call on that fateful night.