36 IN TOUCH AUGUST26, 2019
“T he mysterious
details of
Marilyn’s last
day have fueled
speculation for
half a century,”
says Monroe
expert Danforth
Prince.
MURDER?
Marilyn MonroeÕs Death
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still one of the most famouswomen in the world.
And her massive allurehasonlygrown because of
“speculation as to how she died,” says celebrity bi-
ographer Mark Bego. “Was she so depressed that she took her
own life? Or was it a murder? Was it a cover-up? Was the presi-
dent involved? What exactly happened?”
Now the mystery appears to have been solved. Though her
tragic death from a deadly cocktail of pills at age 36 was ruled
a “probable suicide,” a new investigation into Norma Jeane
Mortenson’s journey from troubled foster child to global icon
paints a very different picture. The 12-part podcast Killing
Marilyn (premiering on Aug. 19) uses experts, eyewitness tes-
timony, police reports and newly released FBI files to uncover
what really happened to Marilyn the night of Aug. 4, 1962 —
and why her killer was never brought to justice. “What fol-
lowed in the wake of her death,” says Monroe expert Danforth
Prince, “has morphed into a web of myths, lies and mendacities
more contradictory than any murder in Hollywood history.”
WHAT DID SHE KNOW?
Marilyn was keeping a lot of secrets. Experts say child-
hood psychological trauma led her to seek out intimate
relationships with powerful — and dangerous — men,
including President John F. Kennedy, his brother
Bobby, singer Frank Sinatra and mobster Sam
Giancana. She wrote down their pillow talk
in her journal, says Fabulous Gabriel, au-
thor of Marilyn Monroe: The Lost Diary,
which “would have been very incriminat-
ing for high-level people.”
Many of them had motive to silence
Marilyn — and someone got away with
it. “It’s just a big cover-up,” says private
investigator Becky Altringer. “I think
Marilyn made a threat, and that threat
cost her her life.” ◼
A new investigation
uncovers the truth about
what really happenedto
the Hollywood icon
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