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Monday, August 21, 2006

Twilight of the Sex Goddess: Speculation

I saw that what she looked like was not what she really was, and what was going oninside her was not what was going on outside, and that always means there may besomething to work with. In Marilyn's case, the reactions were phenomenal. She can callup emotionally what is required for a scene. Her range is infinite.--Lee Strasberg

She is a brilliant comedienne, which to me means she also is an extremely skilledactress.--Sir Laurence Olivier

I know people who say 'Hollywood broke her heart,' and all that, but I don't believe it.She was very observant and tough minded and appealing, but she adored and trusted thewrong people. She was very courageous--you know the book Twelve Against the Gods?Marilyn was like that, she had to challenge the gods at every turn.--George Cukor

I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really counton. Fame will go by, and so long. I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it

was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.--MarilynMonroe.

I became interested in Marilyn Monroe about a year ago after coming across somethingthat struck me as utterly daft, yet intriguing, in its own special way. Granted, in the pastyear I came across some pretty wacky stories about her. In one, J. Edgar Hoover had her killed because she was a vampire about to lead an invasion of the undead. There arewomen who claim to be the reincarnation of the late starlet, but that would seemimpossible if the story about the CIA faking her death, and spiriting her away to Australiahas any merit. I also found an article in The Weekly World News stating that she was acommunist agent.

“What?” you ask. “You read The Weekly World News? Don’t you know none of thesmurfing #$@! they published is true?”

Actually, TWWN is arguably the most brilliant satire of tabloid journalism anywhere,replete with ribald headlines, badly Photoshopped pics, and punny groaners. The humor is more adult than Mad , and unlike The Onion, TWWN doesn’t laugh at its own jokes.Last fall, however, something reminded me of the old saying about truth spoken in jest:

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Monroe’s declassified FBI file.

The FBI spent a good deal of its gray matter tracking Monroe, especially during the years1955-1956, and again in 1962. The Bureau's documents in toto depict her as a Hollywoodsubversive, the type hunted down and skewered before the House Un-American

Activities Committee (HUAC). Although the Bureau might have incorrectly pegged her as a communist, her conduct, her viewpoints, and her associates would give one pause towonder.

Monroe’s political ideology was markedly leftist, with passionate concerns over mattersof civil rights, the burgeoning youth culture, feminism, poverty, and especially theenvironment. That in and of itself has never been a crime in the US, even though the FBIand HUAC often treated it as such. One FBI memo, marked “SM-C [security matter— communist],” and dated March 6, 1962, stated:

[Blacked out] informants advised Marilyn Monroe attended a luncheon at the residenceof Peter Lawford with President Kennedy. Informants characterized Monroe’s views as positively and concisely leftist.

During the height of the Cold War, any prominent leftist fell under suspicion as a potential fifth columnist. Unlike many celebs, however, Monroe had ties to a number of actual American Communist Party members. Dr. Hyman Engelberg joined the LosAngeles chapter of the ACP somewhere around 1931. In 1933, during his internship atCedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood, he met Dr. Romeo Greenschpoon, who later changed his name to Ralph Greenson. Engleberg inducted Greenson into the party, and both were fairly active in it according to LACP archives. While chairing the party’s Arts,Sciences and Professions Committee in the 1940s, Greenson met Frederick VanderbiltField, a disinherited descendent of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt. Field fundedThe People’s Educational Center, which taught Marxism and communist ideology to newrecruits.

In a secret memo dated August 16, 1955, the FBI reported (and then later confirmed astrue) rumors that Monroe had applied for a visa to the Soviet Union. Earlier, in April of that year, Monroe’s name came up again in connection to a sex-slavery ring operating outof Mexican California. This prompted the Bureau to investigate further. A confidentialmemo dated April 27, 1956 reported on the formation of Marilyn Monroe Productions,Incorporated, and noted Monroe listed as President of the company. Her vice-president,Milton Greene, attracted much suspicion. The FBI referred to him as a communist, and tothe other officers of MMP--Maurice Bauman, Irvin Stein and Sam Greengold--as

communist sympathizers.

Much of the Bureau’s concerns came from her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller .Like many leftists who flirted with Marxism, Miller came to reject Stalinism, thusmaking him a poor candidate for recruitment into the NKVD. Nevertheless, HUACultimately subpoenaed his testimony in Washington, and cited him for contempt of Congress (later reversed on appeal) for not ratting people out. The FBI, however, stillregarded Miller as a communist.

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Miller first bumped into Monroe in 1951 on the soundstage of As Young as You Feel . Two days later, Elia Kazan —a “reformed” communist who, as a rumored NKVD agent,sang like a bird for HUAC—brought the two together. They corresponded over the nextfew years, but didn’t see each other again until 1955 when they had an affair (Miller was

married to stage actress Mary Slattery at the time). They married in 1956, andimmediately set out for England: he to oversee a road production of his play The

Crucible; and she to film The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier. The coupledidn’t seem to spend much time together on their trip, and that aroused FBI suspicionsthat their marriage might be some kind of cover to hide unspecified communist activity.

In his 1981 autobiography Hollywood in a Suitcase, Sammy Davis Jr. wrote that in 1956he often loaned Monroe the use of his London pad so that she could carry on a tryst withsomeone he described as:

…a good friend of mine…They met clandestinely at my house….We had to get up to allsorts of intrigues to keep the affair secret. I used to pretend we were having a party, andMarilyn would arrive and leave at different times from my pal.Some believe that the friend in question was JFK, who traveled to Europe after losing his1956 bid for the vice-presidency. Davis, however, never mentioned the identity of his pal,and according to FBI surveillance, Monroe and the future president met in 1954 butdidn’t see each other again until 1961. Then again, sneaking off for an illicit rendezvousonly weeks after marrying a boyfriend that you stole from someone else seems downrightodd. Secondly, Miller would have to wonder why Davis kept throwing parties where heinvited his wife, but not him. And if he were on the road, why would Monroe and allegedlover need the subterfuge?

After Monroe’s 1961 divorce from Miller, the SAC of the FBI’s Mexico City field officemonitored Monroe’s activities on a 1962 trip to Acapulco. Monroe arrived with SidneyGullaroff on February 19. Accompanying them was Eunice Churchill, a secretary fromthe medical office suites shared by Drs. Greenson and Engelberg, who for some reason posed as Monroe’s interior decorator. Frank Sinatra arranged her entry visa throughformer left-wing Mexican President Miguel Alemán, who had made his namerepresenting poor clients in lawsuits against large corporations.

Monroe ostensibly went to Mexico to buy furniture. But she spent most of her timehanging out with members of the American Communist Group in Mexico (ACGM), aloose group of US and Mexican leftists. A sudden romance with ACGM member JoseBolaňos blossomed. Neither Dr. Greenson nor the AGCM approved of their affair, and

each pressured the participants to cool their urges.

But the most interesting part of her last Mexican holiday had to do with theaforementioned Frederick Vanderbilt Field, who ostensibly met Monroe at a reception for Princess Antonia De Braganza of Portugal on February 25, 1962. They subsequently met privately, according to a heavily redacted FBI memo dated March 3, 1962. As a longtimecommunist, Field both supported and befriended Fidel Castro. If Monroe knew statesecrets, and shared them with Field, then the Cuban leader would hear them clearly, and

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so would Nikita Khruschev, both of whom might be interested to know that the AmericanPresident could be compromised by his affair with the most celebrated actress in history.

Although the memos concerning the Mexico trip were penned during late-February andearly-March, they came to the director’s attention on July 13, 1962. One might speculate

that Hoover fumed over getting this information late, especially since he had alreadycommitted agency resources trying to prove that she and her ex-husband were communistspies. One could really go out on a limb and speculate that if she intimated to DorothyKilgallen that she would be willing to tell all of the state secrets she knew on August 6,Hoover might have been relieved by her death on August 4-5, especially if those secretshad to do with his relationship to organized crime.

But here’s the nut of it: Monroe spent a lot of her spare time with communists, and a lotof her spare and working time with anti-communists. Could it be that the AGCMobjected to her relationship with Bolanos because they suspected her of being theKennedys' agent? Could Dr. Greenson have objected to the relationship because news of

her new love might have exposed him?

The Kennedys had numerous contacts with Monroe after she returned from Mexico, mostof them at Peter Lawford’s beach house. She tried to reach RFK at least nine times inWashington during her last week of life, but only after RFK had called her (via Pat Newcomb) at her house that Saturday, perhaps in a vain effort to warn her about the Cal- Neva setup. If JFK wanted a back channel to confer privately with Castro, away from theears of a CIA that he didn’t trust, Monroe might have been the perfect woman for the job.Her leftist bonafides were a matter of record. She entered Mexico under false pretenses,and she conferred privately with a man known to be Castro’s friend.

Of course, the above is speculation. Yet some regard this as fact. In his 1964 book TheStrange Death of Marilyn Monroe, right-wing journalist Frank Capell alleged that Dr.Greenson, acting on orders from both the Kennedys and Krushev, murdered Marilyn inorder to keep her from exposing JFK and RFK as communist agents. Capell reliedheavily on the interviews with paramedic James Hall, who told him that Monroe wascoming out of a comatose stupor when Greenson injected her breast with an unknowndrug that sent her back into a coma.

As Marilyn might say, “Kooky, huh?”

Of course, no one could verify that Hall was ever a paramedic, let alone that he answeredthe call. Furthermore, his statement contradicts that of Ken Hunter, a real paramedic whosaid that he transported a comatose Monroe to Santa Monica Hospital at approximately12:00. Given the fact that somebody had moved her body and erased signs of obviousstruggle, coupled with the fact that no needle marks were found on her bosom, Hunter’sclaim would seem to have more merit than Hall’s. Furthermore, like many of the JohnBirch Society, Capell’s claims that the Kennedys were communist stemmed more fromthe President’s pro-civil rights stance, and his reining in of the CIA than from any actualevidence. Consequently, I would post Capell’s theory as a 100-1 shot.

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At the same time, it’s clear that someone alerted Capell to Monroe’s putative communist past, even though, most likely, she was never a communist. But Capell’s book on her hitone nail on the head: there was far more about Norma Jeane Mortensen than met the eye.

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Saturday, August 19, 2006

Twilight of the Sex Goddess: Going to the Moll

Due to reader observation (see comments), I edited this post on August 21, 2006. Thechanged passage will appear in red.

As the name of her dog would indicate, the path of Marilyn Monroe’s life frequentlycrossed that of organized crime. Although never stipulated or proven, her ex-husband JoeDiMaggio Sr. was rumored to have had Mafia connections, specifically with Frank Sinatra and Sam “Momo” Giancana, both of whom were former beaus of Monroe.Monroe’s friends included some of Sinatra’s closest professional associates, a groupcollectively known as ‘The Rat Pack.’ She was also personally acquainted with kingpinJohnny Rosselli. A week before she died, Marilyn had a particularly frightful encounter with the mob.

The Mafia Killed Marilyn Monroe

Argument for: In 1961, Robert Kennedy began a Justice Department investigation of thethirty top Mafia dons in the US. Sam Giancana’s name headed the list.

According to legend, Giancana conspired to rig the 1960 presidential election withformer Irish crime boss Joseph Kennedy Sr., father of candidate JFK. So RFK’simmediate commitment to bringing him in, and JFK’s lack of commitment tooverthrowing Fidel Castro after the Bay of Pigs invasion really outraged him. The fact

that JFK cut off all ties with Frank Sinatra and Judith Exner (a mutual mistress of JFK and Giancana) proved to the mafia don that the President meant to betray him.

In August of 1962, Robert Kennedy focused on the upcoming Jimmy Hoffa hearingsscheduled for October. Hoffa’s ties to the Mafia could prove particularly dicey for manyinvolved. RFK had been itching to take down the mob since he first became AttorneyGeneral, and he probably saw Hoffa as a means by which to expose La Cosa Nostra.Exposing the Mafia would have meant exposing FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, who not onlydenied that the organization existed, but deliberately drew Bureau resources away fromorganized crime investigation (e.g. in 1962, only two NYC field agents were dedicated toorganized crime--today, 250 are on the case).

In their 1992 book Double Cross: The Explosive, Inside Story of the Mobster Who

Controlled America, Chuck Giancana and the younger Sam Giancana (respectively theelder Giancana’s kid brother and godson) alleged that Momo and Rosselli planned to stopthe Kennedys by framing them for the murder of Marilyn Monroe. Out of all the targetsto choose from JFK’s famous harem, Monroe was the best suited. She was close to andfamiliar with Mafia figures. Her fame would ensure blinding outrage from the public if they thought the Kennedys had murdered her. Best of all, Hoover might help them cover

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up the crime. During July 1962, Hoover became obsessed with her for reasons that will become clear in the next post. Suffice it to say that he might have been relieved if shewere no longer an issue.

Sinatra flew Monroe up to the Cal-Neva Lodge on Christina, his private jet, July 28,

1962. He then ordered the plane to turn around and pick up Peter Lawford at SantaMonica Airport the same day. Sinatra owned Cal-Neva. His silent partner, the elder Giancana, also appeared at the lodge that weekend, as did Johnny Rosselli (Sinatra losthis license for the Cal-Neva once this became known—Nevada prohibited gangsters fromowning casino/resorts). Sinatra came as well, ostensibly to talk about What a Way to Go, a film he and Marilyn planned to make in 1963. Dean Martin was performing there thatweekend, giving Monroe a desired opportunity to talk about the shooting schedule of Something’s Got to Give.

While some sources claim that Joe DiMaggio Sr. simply happened to show up, and thathe and Marilyn had a good time, other sources closer to Monroe had severe misgivings

about the weekend. DiMaggio’s presence there hasn’t really been explained, but somesuggest that Sinatra lured him there somehow. Giancana and Rosselli seem as thoughthey wanted the Yankee Clipper around for the weekend, but they deliberately keptDiMaggio and Monroe apart. For Monroe, the brief time she spent with him became theonly highlight of the trip that was otherwise a stay at a house of horrors. DiMaggio,immediately realizing what the mobsters had in store for Marilyn, became so infuriatedthat he never spoke to Sinatra, Giancana or Rosselli for the remainder of his life.

Shortly after she arrived, Monroe received a visit from Momo Giancana, who took her away to a lengthy meeting with Sinatra, and Rosselli, among others. FBI Special AgentBill Roemer, in charge of electronic surveillance of Giancana in 1962, claimed that hemonitored a discussion of this meeting in Chicago weeks after Monroe’s death.According to him, the mobsters bragged about drugging Monroe and gang raping her.What else might have occurred at this meeting would be anyone’s guess.

Upon returning to LA on July 30, a visibly upset Monroe told her acting coach, PaulaStrasberg, that she feared the Mafia. According to the younger Giancana’s version, theweekend at Cal-Neva was actually a setup to attempt an alternate plan for destroying theKennedys, one that wouldn't require Monroe’s death. If she could implicate the Kennedys by exposing her past affair with JFK, alleging an affair with RFK, and dropping a coupleof state secrets (presumably because of her dalliance with the brothers), then perhaps thatwould be sufficient.

For whatever reason, the mobsters allegedly carried out the hit through mob enforcer Felix “Milwaukee Phil” Alderisio. Alderisio, according to the Giancanas, had to findsome way to lure RFK to the house on 12305 North Helena in order to set him up.Monroe’s numerous calls, and finally the gossip column penned by Dorothy Kilgallenapparently persuaded Kennedy to drop by and “reason with her,” on August 4, 1962 atapproximately 11:00pm--the same time reported by Norman Jeffries. Meanwhile,Alderisio and his henchmen waited outside her bedroom window for Kennedy to leave,









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which he did around midnight. Once they had Monroe alone, the hitmen broke in throughthe window, drugged her into submission with an injection of chloral hydrate, and thenadministered the Nembutal-laced suppository that killed her. Nembutal suppositorieswere reportedly Alderisio’s weapon of choice when exterminating celebrities for many of them took the drug.

Unfortunately for the mob, Peter Lawford’s concerns about Monroe led him to discover the death before police could be notified. He and Pat Newcomb, both identified at thescene shortly after midnight by paramedic James Hall, sanitized Monroe’s house,meticulously removing all the incriminating evidence pointing to RFK before having Dr.Greenson call West Los Angeles police at 4:25am.

Argument against: The Giancanas’ account explains many of the facts if Monroe’s deathin a manner consistent with the physical evidence. In addition to the rectal discoloration,and the absence of residue in her stomach mouth and digestive tract, the Giancanas offer

a plausible explanation for a piece of evidence that many tended to gloss over. Monroe's bedroom window had been broken into. Dr. Greenson, perhaps not knowing what tomake of it at the time, claimed that he broke into the window because the door waslocked. Yet, Sgt. Clemmons found no lock on the bedroom door.

On the other hand, the Giancanas also made a number of statements that wereinconsistent with the forensic evidence, and claims that conflict with those of other witnesses. First of all, if the alleged killers began the hit after 12:00 midnight on August5, then paramedics would not have found Monroe in a state of advanced rigor mortis at5:00am. Secondly, if the killers injected her with chloral hydrate (the same chemical usedin Mickey Finns) to knock her out, that would have taken some time. Furthermore, onewould have to wonder where they might have injected her, since Dr. Thomas Noguchifound no needle punctures during the autopsy.

As for witness statements, no one can place RFK at the Monroe house as late as 12:00midnight, not even Jeffries who claimed that he came back to the house between 11:15-11:30pm on August 4 to find Monroe in a comatose state. There is also a problem in thatMonroe put down her telephone receiver when talking to her boyfriend Jose Bolanos at10:00pm, and never put it back on the hook. And her publicist Arthur Jacobs receivednews of her death at 10:30pm, a finding that more firmly jibes with the actual time of death.

Odds that the Mafia killed Marilyn Monroe: The Giancana’s version of Monroe’s deathcame from the stories they received directly from those who claimed to have participatedin it. Thus, they heard the accounts years after the fact. Naturally, some details mighthave been embellished, forgotten, and distorted by the claimants over a period of time.Further memory erosion might have occurred on the part of authors, who only wroteabout the story years after those involved were safely dead and buried (Alderisio died in1971, Roselli in 1976, and the elder Sam Giancana was murdered in 1975, shortly before



his scheduled testimony in front of the Church Committee) The Giancanas might havealso added in some external gossip and speculation by such Monroe biographers asRobert Slatzer and Anthony Summrers in order to spice up their account in a way thatwould seem more credible now than they would have in 1962.

Milo Speriglio, a private detective who independently investigated Monroe’s death, published his findings in a 1982 book titled Marilyn Monroe: Murder Cover-Up, whichcame to the same basic conclusion that the Mafia had murdered Monroe to frame theKennedys. The difference was that his account squared much more neatly with forensicand witness evidence. Later on, he teamed with Adela Gregory, another PI, to write a1992 book titled Crypt 33: The Saga of Marilyn Monroe--The Final Word . The authorsadded additional evidence that Alderisio killed Monroe on behalf of Rosselli andGiancana, but added that the mobsters had her silenced not to frame the Kennedys but toappease them. Whether the Kennedy brothers specifically requested the favor, or if theMafia took it upon themselves to put the President and Attorney General into their debt,one thing is for certain: the Kennedy’s didn’t appear the least bit grateful.

What has also become clear over the years is that someone killed Monroe (because of thevirtual impossibility of pill residue absence) and that someone covered it up (because of the refusal to allow Dr. Noguchi to conduct further and necessary toxicological tests, and because of the theft of stomach contents and internal organs immediately after theautopsy). Consequently, I strongly agree with former LA County Deputy DistrictAttorney John Miner’s recommendation that authorities give her case further consideration.

Rosselli and Giancana, whether working on the Kennedys’ behalf or their own, hadthreatened an increasingly independent Monroe one week before her death. Theycertainly had motive to kill her. Alderisio had experience concocting celebrity deaths,although perhaps he outsmarted himself by leaving open the question of suicide or accident. Out of the Kennedys, Dr. Greenson and the Mafia, the last choice is the mostlogical one. For that reason, I list their odds of doing away with Marilyn at even money.

There is another suspect in the death of Marilyn Monroe. The theory, first voiced in

1965, alleged a far whackier rationale for her demise. While a longshot at best, this

particular hypothesis addresses some intringuing, but verifiable aspects of Monroe’s

life, and offers a deeper understanding of who she was.

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Twilight of the Sex Goddess: Deadly Kennedys

In the interest of disclosure, I must admit to approaching the following with a certain bias. I will attempt to keep my prejudices out of this. However, if you feel that my esteem

for, and personal memories of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (the account of which you can read at the sister site, 23rd Mandalation) have led me astray, then by allmeans voice that concern.

The Murder of Marilyn Monroe by John and Robert Kennedy

Argument for: Phone records show that Monroe made at least nine attempts to reachRobert Kennedy at the Justice Department during her last week of life. (She also calledfrom a nearby payphone after suspecting that someone had tapped her line.) She voicedher outrage over RFK’s non-response to columnist Dorothy Kilgallen. The CIA, FBI and

the US Air Force all knew about the Kilgallen interview because of the wiretap transcriptdated August 3, 1962.

The timing of Monroe’s threatened press conference couldn’t have been more deadly tothe Kennedys. In mid-July, three of JFK’s close friends, Milton Gould, John Loeb, andSamuel Roseman, controlled the 20th Century Fox board of directors. They fired Monroefrom the shoot of Something’s Got to Give over the protestations of her co-star, DeanMartin. The termination could have effectively ruined her career. Several weeks earlier,on June 25, studio executive Peter Levathes received an order to renegotiate Monroe’scontract. Levathes understood that Robert Kennedy had directed the order throughRoseman, Gould and Loeb. Simply put, the Kennedy’s had control of Marilyn’s career.

Nevertheless, Monroe had one ally on the board, Darryl Zanuck. In a July 25th meeting,Zanuck took control of the board and forced Roseman, Loeb and Gould into resignation.Zanuck then reinstated Monroe, who now had complete freedom from the Kennedy’s interms of her work. She also had the freedom to say anything about them.

Monroe clearly knew state secrets. She had only spoken of several with Kilgallen, but it’squite possible that she didn’t reveal everything. She also knew about the extramaritalaffairs of both Kennedy brothers. Revelations of sexual dalliance could jeopardize JFK’sre-election bid, and seriously damage RFK’s political future. Worse yet, because thesource of the state secrets were most likely those two, and since nothing has yet surfacedto indicate that Monroe was authorized to receive classified information, the Kennedyscould have faced possible criminal sanctions for treason, a capital offense.

Although RFK was allegedly in the Bay area of California throughout the entirety of August 4, 1962, eight different sources place him in or around Los Angeles from noon tothe following morning: 20th Century Fox publicist Frank Neill, who claimed to have seenRFK exit a helicopter near Stage Fourteen of the studio complex; Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty and LAPD Intelligence officer Darryl Gates, whose investigation found that

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RFK had checked into the Beverly Hills Hilton; Eunice Murray, Monroe’s housekeeper; Norman Jeffries, Murray’s son-in-law, who was putting in a new kitchen floor; SidneyGullaroff, Monroe’s hairdresser, who said that the starlet told him about RFK’s earlier visit during their final telephone conversation; Fred Otash, who had allegedly buggedMonroe’s house on behalf of unknown clients; an unnamed government source who

contacted Monroe biographer Anthony Summers about the Otash tapes; and ElizabethPollard, Monroe’s neighbor.

Murray and Jeffries agreed that RFK came twice that day: once with Peter Lawford at3:00pm, and again with unknown men at 10:00pm. Pollard clamed to have seen Kennedyat approximately 3:00 and 8:00. Jeffries said that he and Murray returned after watchingKennedy and company leave the premises at about 10:30pm. They subsequently found acomatose Monroe in the guest house moments after Kennedy's departure.

Nobody suspects that Kennedy had the wherewithal to actually administer any Nembutalto Monroe in a violent manner, but instead ordered the accompanying men to do it. Since

Murray and Jeffries saw no one else come, or enter, it would appear that RFK orderedMonroe’s death.

Argument against: Despite witness claims, no one can prove that Robert Kennedyactually came to the house at 12305 North Helena Drive on August 4, 1962 or any other date. Even if Kennedy made an appearance in LA that day, no one can reliably place himat Monroe’s house at the time of her death. From a distance, Neill and Pollard both sawsomeone, who resembled RFK, in motion. Murray denied seeing RFK at all, until 1985, but then quickly recanted the statement. Likewise, Gullaroff refused to say that RFK hadvisited that day until 1995. Yorty and Gates claimed that RFK was in LA because hisname appeared on a hotel register, not because anyone had actually seen him. Yet, even if someone were to report at this late date that they had, they still couldn’t place theAttorney General at Monroe’s house.

The most believable witness placing RFK at the house that night, Jeffries, reported hisstory for the first time in 1993, some thirty-one years after the event. Although Jeffrieswas definitely in the house at noon, Murray did not mention his presence there afterward.In a 2003 interview, Jeffries, at that time terminally ill and wheelchair-bound, explainedthat he “was in the vicinity of the house” during the time in question. He went on to saythat Kennedy and Lawford came back a third time to move the body from the guest houseto the bedroom, where they “cleaned up” any evidence implicating them. Jeffries did notsay this in 1993, however, and one would have to wonder why Kennedy and companywouldn’t simply take her back to the bedroom, and “clean up” when they were all there at10:00pm. After all, if Jeffries were correct, Kennedy couldn’t look any less culpable at3:00am than at 10:00pm. Even more interesting, no one from the police, the press or theFBI spoke to Jeffries until Summers approached him in 1993. Although Jeffries toldSummers that he and Murray went to the house next door, the next-door neighbors didn’trecall seeing him.



In other words, Jeffries had thirty-one years to tell this story. He didn’t offer it toinvestigators when Los Angeles County reopened the case in 1982. He changed his position over the course of time. Most importantly, he contradicted himself to implicateRobert Kennedy. No one claiming to be a paramedic on the case saw him there either.

The $100,000 dollars actress Veronica Hamel spent to remove the bugging devices inMonroe’s former house came from somewhere, and Otash was quite a suitable source.Surely, if Otash said that he heard Kennedy enter that afternoon, he would have knownfrom the surveillance. But since these tapes have never surfaced, we only have the PI’sword as to the content of those tapes. And Otash’s word wasn’t worth much.

In 1961, Otash hinted in his advertisements that he had the endorsement of the FBI.Although not entirely accurate, the ad essentially told the truth. A detailed 1959 FBImemo gave a comprehensive overview of Otash’s career as an FBI informant from as far back as 1955. Otash had become well known in Hollywood as a shakedown artist. A1961 memo specifically stated that Confidential Magazine employed Otash to “dig up

dirt” on Lawford and RFK in April of that year. Another FBI memo, dated April 23, 1965disclosed that Otash had investigated Monroe in 1954 at the behest of Frank Sinatra andJoe DiMaggio Sr., the latter to see if his then-wife had been sleeping around on him.

The FBI had also investigated him for illegal electronic surveillance in 1957. In a 1959 background check, the Bureau also found that he had three prior criminal convictions for doping horses, breaking and entering, and planting evidence. He also had numerousMafia connections. If you’re thinking these things would have killed the FBI’s faith inhim as an informant/operator, then think something else. The Bureau continued to utilizehis services until 1979.

In trying to dig up dirt for Confidential , Otash probably heard rumors about JFK’s affair with Monroe, but not RFK’s. The rumors about the JFK-MM affair had begun to swirl asearly as 1956. Yet, according to the FBI’s surveillance of both Kennedy and Monroe,they met in 1954, and didn’t meet again until 1961. Although the FBI’s observationstrongly implied an affair between JFK and Monroe, nothing indicated that she had hadan affair with Robert Kennedy. In fact, no one in 1962 had placed RFK with Monroe.The first hints of a liaison between the two began during the 1970s.

In his 1974 book The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe, Richard Slatzer wasthe first to mention an affair between Robert Kennedy and Monroe. He claimed that atnoon on August 4, 1962, Monroe fired her press secretary, Pat Newcomb, after findingout that she was a Kennedy spy. Yet, Newcomb refused to leave because she insisted onwaiting for a call from Robert Kennedy. Slatzer said that he knew this because he was atthe house by 12:30pm. Yet, no one placed Slatzer there that day, and even Wolfe andother authors citing him as proof of RFK’s complicity admit that his claim of being theredid not check out. Furthermore, no one close to Monroe had ever heard of Slatzer until he published his book. Despite Slatzer’s claim that the starlet married him, Bernice,Monroe’s sister, had never heard of him either, and Slatzer could not produce a marriagelicense or anything else to show that the nuptials had taken place.

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The other reports of Robert Kennedy’s involvement begin in 1985 with Murray’stemporary disclosure. The legend has since grown to suggest that Robert, not John, wasMarilyn Monroe’s major love interest. But no one said this in 1962. In fact, Monroe’smasseuse said the star told him she had no sexual interest in Robert, only in John. Peter

Lawford only mentioned her obsession with John, not Robert.

For one simple reason, the years-after-the-fact placement of Kennedy at Monroe’s houseindicates that someone else murdered Monroe: J. Edgar Hoover, Jimmy Hoffa, and theMafia hated the Kennedys’ guts. Hoffa’s ties with the Mafia were well known, as wereHoover’s. The FBI chief’s gambling addiction indebted him to Mafioso Johnny Rosselli,according to former FBI Special Agent William Turner . Whether the Mafia or the FBI bugged Monroe’s house, the other would have known about it. If the Mafia knew aboutit, then Hoffa knew about it. Had Robert Kennedy actually appeared on those tapes, evenif he’s innocently there to talk about the weather, the FBI, Hoffa, and the Mafia couldhave used the tapes as leverage against the Kennedy brothers.

Yet, if Hoover, the mob, or Hoffa had leverage against Kennedy, they apparently optednot to use it. Hoffa’s trial for embezzling from the Teamster’s pension fund began promptly in October of 1962. After a mistrial due to jury tampering, a second trial foundHoffa guilty in 1964, and sentenced him to eight years in prison. In September 1963,Robert Kennedy began the Joseph Valachi hearings, which exposed the Mafia to thegreatest extent in US history. Hoover, who for many years publicly denied that the Mafiaeven existed, looked mighty small as the former Genovese wiseguy named names on livenational television, outlined protocols and procedures, and gave an in depth look at howthe mob operated around the globe.

In short, all three of these parties were severely damaged by one Robert Kennedy. Yet,Summers, Wolfe and others would have us believe that Hoffa, the Mafia and/or the FBIhad the means to blackmail Kennedy into backing down, but refused to defendthemselves.

Odds that the Kennedy brothers killed Monroe: Despite the fact that only taintedevidence implicates John and Robert Kennedy in Monroe killing, the possibility remainsthat others may have killed her on their behalf. For that reason, I’m listing this as a 20-1shot.

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Sunday, August 13, 2006

Twilight of the Sex Goddess: Two Theories

Forgive the delay. I intended to put this post up Friday night. My computer monitor had other plans, however. It conked out completely Thursday, and I wasn't able to

replace it until yesterday.

As our friend Schaumi pointed out, there are three distinct theories on how MarilynMonroe died: (1) she committed suicide; (2) her death came about accidentally; or (3)someone murdered her. Of that last theory, the suspects include the Kennedys, the Mafia,the Teamsters Union, and the CIA. Since 1962 another group emerged as a possiblesuspect.

Suicide

Argument for: Drs. Curphey and Noguchi had good reason to suspect suicide. Monroehad a history of suicide attempts. She also had a Nembutal addiction. Furthermore, shefaced workplace pressures from her movie Something’s Got to Give. Her 1957miscarriage had a devastating effect on her. On top of that, her alleged boyfriends, JohnKennedy and his brother Robert, had recently spurned her. Murray’s supposedconversation with Monroe about oxygen would suggest that she had planned on makinganother suicide attempt that night. After all, if she were to down a handful of Nembutaltablets, she would have also wanted someone to revive her. And she recalled that paramedics gave her oxygen on the previous attempts.

More troubling to her general psyche was the fact that her father abandoned her. Shenever knew his identity. Her mother, Gladys, had dropped plausible hints that her father was none other than actor Clark Gable. For years, Monroe entertained the notion that themegastar might be her dad. The previous year, however, Gable suffered a fatal heartattack after filming a movie with Monroe titled The Misfits. Rumors swirled inHollywood circles that Marilyn’s constant lateness to the set, her inability to remember her lines, and overall unprofessional conduct contributed to Gable’s stress and subsequentdeath. The gossip drove her into despair.

Argument against: While if left to her own doing Monroe might have eventually doneherself in, the forensic evidence seriously challenges the notion that she actually did. If she had taken pills during her telephone calls that night, as some suicide adherents believe, there would have been some residual traces found in her mouth, stomach or digestive tract. The only way she could have committed suicide would have been to haveadministered an enema to herself--highly unlikely since she would have to have preparedit, inserted it, and disposed of it (so well that investigators could not find it) beforelapsing into a coma. It’s even more unlikely that she would have administered an enemawhen she had fifty freshly prescribed Nembutal pills on hand, as she did.

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Although Dr. Noguchi said that he had seen overdose cases where no traces of drugswere found in the victim's stomach or digestive tract, he conceded that such was veryrare. That was his reason for ordering additional toxicology work. Toxicologist Dr.Robert Cravey, in his seminal 1972 study, found undigested drugs in the stomach of

every overdose victim who had orally taken a high concentration of lethal substances.

More important, however, is the question of whether or not Monroe felt particularlysuicidal that night. Abundant evidence exists to show that this was not the case. True, Foxinitially fired her after being late one too many times on the set of Something’s Got to

Give, but she was triumphantly reinstated a couple of weeks later. She had been incontact with Joe DiMaggio that week, and seemed hopeful about a possiblereconciliation. She had planned a press conference for August 6. While Lawford,Bolanos, Gullaroff, and Joe DiMaggio Jr. said that her speech was sluggish at times, shedidn’t sound the least bit depressed to them. Bolanos’s take is extremely interesting inthat one would hardly expect someone to commit suicide mid-sentence during a

telephone conversation.

Odds for the suicide verdict: Not very likely. A 100-1 shot at best.

Accident

Argument for: The concentration of Nembutal in Monroe’s bloodstream was extremelyhigh, but the amount in her liver quadrupled that. The amount in her liver could only havecome about through Monroe’s deliberate consumption of pills. Since Dr. HymanEngelberg had refilled her Nembutal prescription the day before, she would have hadample opportunity to metabolize a number of pills had she taken them the night before.They would still have been in her system, but there would not be any trace of them in her digestive tract.

According to Dr. Noguchi, she had eighty micrograms of chloral hydrate in her system.Thirty micrograms would be enough to make you sick. One hundred micrograms wouldkill you.

Dr. Greenson might have administered an enema of chloral hydrate the night of Monroe’sdeath for two reasons: (1) to help her sleep without the use of Nembutal, and (2) to slowdown the metabolism of Nembutal. Dr. Greenson might not have known that Monroe hadalready metabolized a large dose of Nembutal. Furthermore, he might have assumed thatDr. Engelberg might have also prescribed chloral hydrate. As Monroe’s sister BerniceBaker Miracle stated in her 1994 biography of Marilyn, Engelberg and Greensoncooperated closely in their treatments of the starlet. Moreover, both physicians agreedthat they had to wean her off of Nembutal. If they had been off in their communicationthat day, then the two doctors might have unwittingly set the stage for a lethal druginteraction.

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Argument against: One would have to question why a doctor with only one patient wouldso cavalierly apply an extremely high dosage of chloral hydrate to said patient, despiteknowing the potentially lethal interaction it could have with a drug he already knew shehad taken. Furthermore, Monroe, like many pill-popping celebs, had considerableknowledge of pharmacology. It’s doubtful that she would allow Greenson to administer

an enema without at least telling him she had already taken a lot of Nembutal in the pasttwenty-four hours.

Most important, neither the chloral hydrate alone nor in combination with Nembutalcaused Monroe’s death, Her death was specifically caused by Nembutal poisoning. SinceGreenson and Engelberg were trying to wean her off of Nembutal, they would morelikely have administered chloral hydrate, not more Nembutal.

Even more sinister, the evidence that could have cleared Drs. Engelberg and Greenson of negligence—stomach contents, smear material and internal organs—convenientlydisappeared after the autopsy, according to Deputy District Attorney John Miner’s

investigation. Were this nothing more than an accidental overdose, one that involved no powerful elites in showbiz, organized crime or politics (assuming a disparity among thesethree things), the Medical Examiner’s office (or any other investigative body) wouldostensibly have little motive for hiding such things, especially to protect a couple of Hollywood docs.

Odds of the accident verdict: Not very good, but certainly better than the suicidehypothesis. We’ll tout this as a 25-1 shot.

So what’s with the betting odds? Perhaps they’re my way of telling you that the smart

money is on the third remaining possibility: murder. The question is, by whom?



Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Twilight of the Sex Goddess: The Contradictions

Marilyn Monroe, that is. Not The Almighty Heidi.

One thing that marks the death of Marilyn Monroe as bizarre is the conflicting stories of witnesses about what they did, what they knew, and what they discovered the night of her death. But that’s not all they dispute. They dispute many of the other facets of the

timeline presented in the previous post. Before arguing on behalf of one conclusion or another, I’d like to present the competing and contradictory eyewitness accounts of her last week.

The Official Story

The version of events presented by housekeeper Eunice Murray (left),Monroe’s personal physician Dr. Hyman Engleberg and her psychiatrist, Dr. RalphGreenson are generally regarded as the official one.

Monroe had become despondent over a romantic breakup (presumably with RobertKennedy), and his refusal to return her phone calls. She also stressed over the delays in

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the filming of her next movie Something’s Got to Give. She had become somewhat paranoid about her associates, accusing them of being either Kennedy plants or Mafiaspies.

Murray said that she went to bed around 10:00pm on the night of August 4, 1962. She

passed by Monroe’s bedroom at 3:00am the following morning, and saw the lights onunder the crack between the door and the floor. She tried to open the door, but it waslocked. Fearing the worst, she called both Dr. Engleberg and Dr. Greenson. Greensonforced entry through her bedroom window and found Monroe stretched out nude on the bed with the telephone in her hand. Both he and Engleberg examined her, but quicklyrealized that she had died. They called the police at 4:25am.

Because of her history of suicide attempts, the strain of her filming schedule, and theamount of Nembutal in her system (enough to kill ten people), Los Angels CountyMedical Examiner Dr. Theodore Curphey ruled her death a suicide.

Norman Jeffries and James Hall’s Version

Jeffries, Murray’s son-in-law, had been installing a new kitchen floor at Monroe’s placethat week. He drove Murray, who had spent the previous night at her own apartment, to

the house. They arrived at 8:00am on August 4, 1962. Monroe came into the kitchen briefly for a glass of grapefruit juice at about 8:30, met with a representative of Playboy

at 9:30am, then went back to bed before being aroused awake for good by Newcomb at12:00am

At about 1:00, Murray asked for his help in moving her belongings because Monroe had just fired her. Murray called Dr. Greenson immediately. According to Jeffries, however,Greenson didn’t arrive until 4:30pm. Jeffries also said that Robert Kennedy and Peter



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Lawford arrived around 3:00pm. Lawford told them to get lost while he and Kennedyspoke to Monroe privately. The attorney general and his brother-in-law left around4:00pm.

At. 9:45 pm, Kennedy returned with two men in tow. The Attorney General ordered him

and Maurray to leave the premises. They then went to the house next door to stay, andreturned at 10:30pm. They heard Monroe’s poodle Maf (short for Mafia—the dog was a present from Frank Sinatra) barking near the guest cottage, where they found Monroeunconscious, but still alive, so they called paramedics.

Newcomb and Lawford arrived before the ambulance came. Paramedics James Hall andMurray Liebowitz claimed that they saw Newcomb and Lawford at the scene. Momentsafter they got there, Dr. Greenson pulled up. Thirty minutes later Dr. Engleberg joinedthem. Hall tried to inject a shot of adrenaline directly into Monroe’s heart, but struck a ribinstead. Monroe began to revive on her own, however. At that point, according to Hall,Greenson injected her breast with an unknown drug (perhaps chloral hydrate, which

slows the metabolism of Nembutal). She died shortly thereafter. Hall and Jeffries thenmoved the body to the bedroom, while an unnamed plainclothes West Los Angeles Policedetective instructed them on how to make the death look like a suicide.

Peter Lawford’s Version

Despite their recent falling out, Sinatra loaned Lawford (left) his private jet to fly out to Cal-Neva Lodge the previous weekend. According to him, hespent time there with Joe DiMaggio Sr. and Monroe. He and Monroe returned together onSinatra’s plane.

Lawford said he didn’t have much contact with her the following week. After eatingdinner with Newcomb and Joe Naar at his house, he called Monroe at about 7:45 to inviteher over for a party. She said she didn’t feel like coming, and cryptically added, “Saygoodbye to the President….You’re a nice guy.”

The cryptic remark didn’t sit well with Lawford, so he called his manager and friend MiltEbbens for advice. Ebbens told him not to go to Monroe’s house if she were suicidal because that would look bad for his brothers-in-law were he to find her dead. Ebbens

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instead called Monroe’s attorney Milton Rudin, who then called the house at 8:30.Murray answered, and went to check on Monroe, who said she felt fine.

Still, Lawford worried. He called again around 10:30pm, but both telephone lines were busy. So he called Naar, who had left the party early, and asked him to check on Monroe.

Before Naar had a chance to leave, he received another call from Milton Rudin tellinghim that a trip to Monroe’s house “wouldn’t be necessary.”

In 1982, Lawford gave reporters what he thought would be a deathbed interview (heactually passed away two years later). He denied that Monroe had had an affair witheither John Kennedy or Robert Kennedy. He further insisted that he did not visit Monroeon August 4, 1962.

Ken Hunter’s Version

Paramedic Ken Hunter said that he responded to a call at 12305 North Helena Driveshortly after 12:00 midnight on August 5, 1962. He found Monroe in her bed comatose, but still alive. He and his partner transported her to Santa Monica Hospital where shedied shortly after her arrival.

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Elizabeth Pollard’s Version

Pollard claimed to have seen Robert Kennedy enter Monroe’s house at 3:00pm on August4, 1962. While playing cards with several friends later that evening, she saw him returnwith two other men just as the sun had set (approximately 8:00pm PDT). According toher, one man carried a bag similar to the kind that doctors use.

Jose Bolanos’s Version

Bolanos and Monroe both claimed to have met in February 1962 in Acapulco (Mexico).They fell in love, and met twice after that: once in New York, and again in Los Angeles,where he accompanied her to the Golden Globes Awards show. According to him, thetwo planned to marry sometime in 1963.

Bolanos called her at 9:30pm on the night of August 4, 1962, and told him a number of secrets that he described as “shocking.” About twenty minutes into their conversation,she told him that someone was at the door. She put down the phone, but never returned.

Fred Otash’s Version

During her final week of life, Monroe allegedly met with private investigator Fred Otashto ask for his help in bugging her house. Ostensibly, she wanted to see if she could lureRobert Kennedy there so that she could blackmail him. Otash didn’t tell her, however,that he had already done the actual bugging of her house and wiretapping of her telephone with help from Jimmy Hoffa associate Bernie Spindel. A chain of unknownclients paid him for the job, so Otash never knew for sure the actual identity of his client.


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Nevertheless, he speculated that either the Mafia, Hoffa, or both wanted to blackmail theKennedys.

While monitoring the house on August 4, Otash recorded a heated argument betweenMonroe and Robert Kennedy at approximately 3:30pm. “Where is it?” Kennedy

thundered repeatedly, as the clacking of closet hangers, and the opening of drawersloomed in the background. Intermittently, the voice of a second man appeared, but thevolume of his voice was too soft to make out actual words.

Sam Giancana (lesser)’s Version

In his book Double Cross: The Explosive, Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America (co-written by Chuck Giancana, the elder Sam's little brother), Giancana saidthat his godfather Sam put out a hit on Monroe. The purpose was to blackmail RobertKennedy by tying him romantically to Monroe, and then leaving evidence that wouldimplicate him in her murder. Working with a fellow mobster, Johnny Rosselli, they beganto set up the wet job during Monroe’s stay at the Cal-Neva Lodge. They hired a professional hitman, “Milwaukee” Phil Alderisio, who boasted to the younger Giancanasthat he and his “boys” had given Marilyn a “poisoned suppository.”

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Robert Slatzer’s Version

Slatzer (pictured left with Monroe) claimed to have been aclose friend of Marilyn’s since 1945. He also claimed that he married her in 1952. Duringthe week of her death, she allegedly showed him her diary, which detailed her affairswith President John Kennedy and his brother Robert. On the day of her death, he said hewent to Monroe’s house, where Murray served them hamburgers for lunch. As they ate,

Monroe fired Pat Newcomb, who refused to leave.

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Sunday, August 06, 2006

Twilight of the Sex Goddess: Timeline of Stipulated Events

Cyberpal Reflextions used to scold me for not posting timelines in complicated stories, soI thought I would try it this time. Below are the stipulated events surrounding MarilynMonroe's death.

July 30-31, 1962: The Cal-Neva Lodge; Tahoe, NV

Frank Sinatra urges Monroe to take time off at the Cal-Neva Lodge. While there, she bumps into her ex-husband, the Joe DiMaggio Sr. Although the couple has a fun timetogether, they strongly suspect that John and Robert Kennedy had set them up to meet viaSinatra.

August 3, 1962

Dorothy Kilgallen publishes a newspaper column referring to Monroe’s affair with JohnKennedy.Dr. Hyman Engelberg refills Monroe’s Nembutal prescription.

Pat Newcomb, Monroe's press agent sleeps over at Monroe's house that night.

August 4, 1962, 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, Brentwood, CA

12:00 noon —Newcomb wakens Marilyn.

12:20pm (approximately) —Monroe comes downstairs to the kitchen where EuniceMurray is preparing lunch. Monroe takes a seat at the table, and asks, “Have we got anyoxygen?”

“No,” replies Murray.

“Hmm,” says Monroe, before rising and heading back upstairs.

12:30pm —Murray calls Dr. Ralph Greenson to report the conversation about oxygen.

1:00pm (approximately) —Dr. Greenson arrives at Monroe’s house. He spends the nextfew hours talking to Monroe.

5:45 (approximately) —After Monroe berates her, Newcomb leaves at the suggestion of Dr. Greenson.

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7:00pm —Dr. Greenson leaves

7:15pm —Monroe takes a telephone call from Joe DiMaggio, Jr. She discusses theweekend she spent with his father, and counsels her ex-stepson on his love life.

7:45pm —Monroe receives a call from Peter Lawford, who first invites her to a party athis house later that evening, but then voices concerns about her slurred speech.

8:30pm —Monroe receives a call from Sidney Gularoff. She boasts that she knows manydangerous secrets about the Kennedys.

9:30pm —Monroe receives a call from Jose Bolanos. She tells him secrets that thefilmmaker never discloses.

10:30pm —Arthur Jacobs receives a call informing him that Monroe is dead.

September 5, 1962

3:30am (approximately) —Murray telephones Dr. Greenson to tell him that Monroe isdead. He rushes over.

4:25am —Sgt. Jack Clemmons receives the report of Monroe’s death.

5:00am —Paramedics arrive at the house at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive. They note that the body is in an advance state of rigor mortis, thus indicating that the death had to haveoccurred between 9:30pm-11:30pm the night before.

Afternoon —Murray packs up her things and moves out of the house. Within days, shetours Europe after, in her words, “coming into some money.”

August 13, 1962; Medical Examiner’s Office, Los Angeles County

Dr. Thomas Noguchi, who had performed the autopsy on Monroe, completes her MedicalExaminer’s Summary Report. Among other things, he finds: (1) the decedent is in factMarilyn Monroe; (2) she died from Nembutal poisoning; (3) the concentration of Nembutal in her liver quadrupled the amount in her bloodstream; (4) a “star-shapeddiscoloration” encircling her rectum; (6) no indication of needle marks; and (5) no Nembutal pills or residue in her mouth, stomach or digestive tract.

Because of the high amount of Nembutal in her blood and liver, Noguchi prepares tissuesamples for a laboratory to conduct further toxicology testing until his superior, Dr.Theodore Curphey, informs him that "it won't be necessary."

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Deputy District Attorney John Miner, who had witnessed the autopsy, prepares for ahomicide case.

1982

Los Angeles County reopens the investigation of the Monroe case. Miner, now a privateattorney, tells investigators that Dr. Greenson’s tapes of Monroe indicate that she never did suffer from depression.

In a US television interview, Bolanos stated that during their final conversation, Monroegave him secret information, “that would shock the whole world.”

Dr. Noguchi is fired as Chief Medical Examiner of Los Angeles County, ostensibly for taking tissue samples home to study. Although a mild transgression, the media vilifies the pathologist, and paints him as ghoulish, depraved, and mentally unstable.

c. 1988

After purchasing the house at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, Veronica Hamel discovers1960s-era bugging equipment throughout the house. She and her husband pay $100,000to remove it.

August 5, 2005

The Los Angeles Times publishes an interview with John Miner, in which the former prosecutor stated his belief that Monroe’s death was due to murder.

You'll notice that there's a big gap between what happened at approximately 10:00pm

on the night of August 4th, 1962 and 3:30am on the morning of August 5th. A number

of different witnesses gave wildly contradictory accounts of what went on during that

time. We will outline those differences in the next post.



Twilight of the Sex Goddess: Playbill

Marilyn Monroe’s premature demise has all the makings of a first-rate murder mystery:glamour, sex, a web of romantic entanglements among the rich and famous, intrigue, and

deception. So here, at The X-Spot, we will present this particular story more in terms of adrama.

Settings

12305 Fifth Helena Drive; Brentwood, CAThe Cal-Neva Lodge; Tahoe, NVSanta Monica Hospital; Santa Monica, CA

Personae Dramatis

Marilyn Monroe —Decedent: Arguably the most celebrated star in the history of film.

"Milwaukee" Phil Alderisio--Mafioso, associate of the elder Sam Giancana and JohnnyRoselli.

Jose Bolanos —Screenwriter and film director, Marilyn Monroe’s boyfriend

Sgt. Jack Clemmons —Officer, West Los Angeles Police Department

Dr. Theodore Curphey —Chief Medical Examiner, Los Angeles County

Joe DiMaggio, Jr. —Son of Joe DiMaggio, Sr. and Marilyn Monroe’s ex-stepson

Joe DiMaggio, Sr. —Father of Joe DiMaggio, Jr., Marilyn Monroe’s ex-husband, and possibly her boyfriend at the time of her death

Milt Ebbens —Friend of Peter Lawford and Milton Rudin

Dr. Hyman Engleberg MD —Marilyn Monroe’s personal physician

Sam Giancana (elder) —Mafia Don and godfather of Sam Giancana

Sam Giancana (lesser) —Author and godson of Sam Giancana

Dr. Ralph Greenson MD —Marilyn Monroe’s psychiatrist and friend of Eunice Murray

Sidney Gullaroff —Marilyn Monroe’s friend and hairdresser



Veronica Hamel —Actress, future resident of 12305 Fifth Helena Drive; Brentwood, CA

Jimmy Hoffa —Former Teamsters President, an enemy of the Kennedy brothers

J. Edgar Hoover —FBI chief in 1962

Ken Hunter —Paramedic

Arthur Jacobs--Marilyn Monroe's publicist, Pat Newcomb's boss.

Norman Jeffries —Son-in-law of Eunice Murray.

John Kennedy —US President, ex-boyfriend of Marilyn Monroe, brother of RobertKennedy, brother in-law of Peter Lawford, and friend of Dorothy Kilgallen

Robert Kennedy —US Attorney General, ex-boyfriend of Marilyn Monroe, brother-in-law of Peter Lawford, and brother of John Kennedy

Dorothy Kilgallen —Gossip columnist, friend of Marilyn Monroe and John Kennedy

Peter Lawford--Actor, friend of Marilyn Monroe, Milt Ebbens, Joe Naar, Frank Sinatra,and brother-in-law of John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy

John Miner--Deputy District Attorney, Los Angeles County

Eunice Murray —Mother-in-law of Norman Jeffries, friend of Dr. Ralph Greenson, andMarilyn Monroe’s housekeeper/maid.

Joe Naar —Friend of Peter Lawford, neighbor of Marilyn Monroe

Pat Newcomb —Marilyn Monroe’s press agent

Dr. Thomas Noguchi —Deputy Medical Examiner, Los Angeles County

Elizabeth Pollard —Marilyn Monroe’s neighbor

Johnny Roselli--Mafioso, and associate of Sam Giancana and Phil Aldersio, friend and benefactor of J. Edgar Hoover.

Milton Rudin —Friend of Milt Ebbens and Marilyn Monroe’s attorney

Frank Sinatra —Actor, pop star, and according to daughter Tina Sinatra, a CIA agentand Mafioso; ex-boyfriend of Marilyn Monroe, friend of John Kennedy, the elder SamGiancana and Peter Lawford; ex-friend of Dorothy Kilgallen



Anthony Spilotro--Mafia hitman

Sam Yorty —Mayor of Los Angeles and acquaintance of the Kennedy brothers



Thursday, August 03, 2006

This Dish Was Served Cold

The blonde in this photograph has become so iconic that she

needs neither introduction nor explanation. Her onscreen persona electrified audienceswith its contradictory elements of naivite and connivance. Although I found her adorablein such movies as Some Like it Hot and The Seven Year Itch, I cannot really say that I’m afan of the blonde. I am, however, a huge fan of the brunette standing beside her.

Dorothy Kilgallen, the brunette, reigned as queen of Hollywood and Broadway gossip in1962. She wrote a regular column for The New York Journal-American, and a bestsellingtrue crimes book, Murder One. She also co-hosted a show with her husband, RichardKollmar , and frequently appeared as a celebrity panelist on the game show What’s My

Line. She wasn’t your garden-variety gossip, however. Brilliant, resourceful, andcharming, she had a knack for hard investigative reporting. She had developed a number

of sources in US and British intel, and frequently covered political stories with the sameease and élan usually found in her celebrity dish.

As only fate could spin it, the friendship between Monroe and Kilgallen would forever link the two women together in the annals of conspiracy theory. In addition to sharing ahistory, the two had other things in common. They both died suddenly, in their own beds,under questionable circumstances. They also shared a mutual friend who happened to bePresident of the United States. Yet the thing that binds them together in history is a singleinterview that could very well have sealed the fates of both women.

Sometime in the early 1990s, a rather spurious-looking document—specifically a memo,

dated August 3, 1962, summarizing the transcripts of a wiretap on Monroe’s telephone-- began to circulate among conspiracy buffs and ufologists. It appeared legitimate in everyrespect. The dating format and other stylistic elements were consistent with other CIAmemos of that time. The signature on the bottom matched that of the purported signer,then-CIA Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counterintelligence James JesusAngleton. Many, however, found it simply too difficult to believe that a document suchas this would have actually come from the CIA, and if it did would have never seen thelight of day.






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Figure 1. Purported CIA Memo regarding Monroe/Kilgallen wiretapped

converation (August 3, 1962)

In doing research for an upcoming book on the death of Marilyn Monroe, Dr. DonaldBurleson (PhD, English literature) filed a series of Freedom of Information Act suits tosee if he could confirm the veracity of the document. When the CIA denied his request,he appealed on the basis of the questionable document. Normally, when a plaintiff appeals on the basis of a forged document, the CIA denies the appeal. But in Burleson’scase, the Agency accepted, in effect giving every indication that the document was in fact

an actual CIA memo.

The memo summarized a telephone interview between Kilgallen and Monroe, in whichthe blonde bombshell ranted about the recent inattention of two of her boyfriends,President John Kennedy, and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Monroe toldKilgallen that she had scheduled a press conference for August 6, 1962, in which shewould “tell all.”

Apparently, Monroe knew a lot about very secret things, among them secret military bases in Cuba, the joint Mafia-CIA efforts to assassinate Fidel Castro, and, of course, her own affair with both the President and the Attorney General. But as you can see in the

memo’s header, the reference is to the “Moon Dust Project,” a secret United States Air Force UFO investigation. The first item specifically states, “One such [illegible word]mentions the visit by the President at a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting thingsfrom outer space.”

Monroe could very well have had every intention of calling off the press conference hadthe Kennedy brothers returned like prodigal sons to her boudoir. She had hinted at theaffair and mentioned the press conference at a number of celebrity parties in the Los

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