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In the summer of 1962, Marilyn travels to Nevada with Frank Sinatra, placing her amid mobsters and dangerous rumours. Days later, she's found dead. Was her death just an accident?
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00:00There, glittering on the screen, I can see my town in its party dress, and see again, shown so vividly
00:08across the horizon.
00:10Marilyn Monroe.
00:14Her beauty and talent dazzled the world.
00:18You mix everything about Marilyn Monroe together like a cocktail.
00:21Her physical beauty, her wit, her talent for acting.
00:29Yet from her earliest days in Hollywood, to the heights of international stardom, she moved in circles dominated by powerful
00:39and sometimes ruthless men.
00:44She was pulled from pillar to post by all of them.
00:48She hated being in that position.
00:53Men whose influence reached from studio lots, to the corridors of power, including gangsters from the world of organized crime.
01:07On the surface, she seemed to have such a zest for life.
01:11As Marilyn's fame grew...
01:13Her international appeal took her from command appearances to the other side of the world.
01:18...these connections became ever more dangerous.
01:24These were people that Marilyn will have at some point or another come into contact with.
01:29Some speculate slept with.
01:31She entered into affairs with influential figures in Hollywood and Washington.
01:38Some with reported links to the underworld.
01:41She was surrounded by wolves.
01:43She needed a protector.
01:46As she reached her mid-thirties, Marilyn's world was more perilous than ever.
01:52The greatest box office favorites in motion pictures.
01:56And on the horizon, danger loomed.
02:16In July 1962, Marilyn Monroe sat down with a reporter from Life magazine to reflect on her career.
02:25One of the most glamorous actresses in Hollywood, Marilyn's life was marked by remarkable highs and a string of brilliant
02:32films that showcased her extraordinary talent and effortless comic touch.
02:38Yet her fortunes were now faltering.
02:42Her personal life had unraveled after failed marriages to baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller.
02:51Addicted to prescription drugs, she had been fired and then rehired on her latest film.
02:56Yet she spoke openly about the setbacks and struggles she had faced.
03:02What she didn't mention were the powerful men said to be circling her.
03:08From crime boss Sam Giancana to President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert.
03:15Nor did she speak of Frank Sinatra, the mob-linked entertainer who had been both lover and confidant, who was
03:22about to take her away on a glamorous weekend with his friend, the English actor Peter Lawford.
03:41Marilyn was in a very dark place because of all these things that were going on in her life.
03:48So her friends Peter and Pat Lawford took her to the Calamiva Lodge.
03:54Maybe a weekend away would be good for her.
04:01It was a very glamorous place.
04:04There were lots of little cabins.
04:06There was a sort of ballroom where you could listen to shows.
04:11And there was also, most importantly, a place where you could gamble.
04:16When Sinatra brings Marilyn to this Lake Tahoe ranch, it is ostensibly with the desire to shield her.
04:26But he is kind of bringing her into the hornet's nest.
04:31Alongside its celebrity guests, the Cal Neva Lodge is allegedly also a haunt for shadowy men from the world of
04:38organized crime.
04:45Sinatra, connected as he is to Vegas, both as an entertainer and in terms of the nightclub underworld, is good
04:52friends with Sam Giancana.
04:58Sam Giancana is one of the major figures, I think, of 20th century organized crime.
05:04He was one of the main people who ran Hollywood.
05:09As a gangster, Sam Giancana would have a lot of trouble owning a casino.
05:15So, Frank fronted for him.
05:19It is a place where people can congregate who are perhaps up to no good.
05:26The mobsters are there.
05:28Sam Giancana is there.
05:31The stories surrounding that weekend are horrific.
05:36Her drinking too much, taking too many drugs, walking around the swimming pool in a disheveled state wearing nothing but
05:45a robe.
05:47She apparently goes to sleep at night, scared that she's going to be attacked.
05:54They had underground tunnels so people could go from one cabin to another without anyone seeing them.
06:03She, unfortunately, got very inebriated and had to be taken back to her room.
06:09There's a story of she breaks down at the cocktail table and she's in tears.
06:18She's embarrassing them.
06:20That's witness, that's photograph.
06:24The man who was supposed to develop the photographs said he had a conversation with Sinatra.
06:30They looked at these photos and Sinatra and the photographer said, we need to destroy these.
06:36So the photographs don't exist.
06:40Reports later emerge that Marilyn's ex-husband, Joe DiMaggio, has learned of Marilyn's trip and has followed her to the
06:46Cal Neva Lodge.
06:52This visitor to the lodge said he watched her for a while and she was looking up and there was
06:57Joe DiMaggio looking back at her.
06:59She needed a protector and Joe DiMaggio offered that.
07:04He tries to rescue her and he's banned from arriving at the hotel.
07:10It's quite hard to work out which stories are true and which ones are not true.
07:17Whatever really happened that weekend, Marilyn reportedly flew home from the Cal Neva Lodge utterly distraught.
07:25The pilot of the plane said that when the Lawfords and Marilyn got on the plane, she was slurring her
07:33words.
07:33She was very, very awkward.
07:35He didn't know what happened but it was very sad to see.
07:40The sum total of it is that she comes back and she lands in Los Angeles looking absolutely terrible.
07:46She's barefoot, distressed, dishevelled.
07:51She's clearly had something really terrible happen to her.
07:55She comes back a completely different and utterly broken person.
08:08Emotionally shattered, Marilyn retreated to a house she had recently purchased in Los Angeles.
08:14A sanctuary she had been encouraged to create by her psychiatrist.
08:20Dr. Ralph Greenson is Marilyn Monroe's shrink.
08:26She apparently has some sort of codependent relationship with him.
08:31Dr. Greenson suggested that she put down roots which is one of the reasons why she bought a modest house
08:37in Brentwood not far from him.
08:40It was the first place she ever owned.
08:44She was fixing up the house because that had a feeling of permanence for her.
08:50She sees Greenson almost every day.
08:55He also works with this doctor called Dr. Hyman Engelberg.
08:58They are prescribing her huge amounts of drugs.
09:03Greenson also has this special injection which he injects Marilyn with,
09:08which must have some sort of speed in it because she stays up for hours and is high as a
09:13kite on it.
09:15I don't think that that was a good doctor-patient relationship.
09:20I'll quote her.
09:23If I'm generally anything, I'm generally miserable.
09:27That's a direct quote of Marilyn Monroe.
09:30It's troublesome to think of her as having her demons and she did have her demons.
09:36Hello friends.
09:37I'm going to meet the �aline.
09:39Everyone's living with his friends.
10:00I'm going to meet the priest.
10:05One of the most famous stars in Hollywood history is dead at 36.
10:12Marilyn Monroe was found dead in bed under circumstances that were in tragic contrast
10:17to her glamorous career as a comic talent.
10:32When Marilyn Monroe dies in 1962, she's only 36 years old.
10:40This is someone that everyone who went to movies thought would be making movies for many
10:45more decades.
10:47So when her death is announced, it isn't just a national story, it's a global story.
10:55By all accounts, she was home that day.
10:59She was taking several substances as was kind of the norm for her.
11:05She loved to have long phone conversations.
11:08So she often was calling people, and then she made several phone calls that day talking
11:11to various people in her life.
11:13She had a hairdresser around, one of her publicists was around, her doctor, who she was very close
11:18with and was perhaps quite an unethical person in terms of what he prescribed her.
11:24And she apparently was thinking a lot about the Kennedys and being kind of estranged from them and the fact
11:30that
11:31it was troubling her.
11:34She, according to her housekeeper, goes to bed at about 8pm.
11:38It's the last time she's seen alive.
11:41The housekeeper sees the light on it at 3am, goes to the door, the door is locked.
11:47She calls this personal doctor who comes in.
11:50He can see through the window that something's not right.
11:53One of them breaks the window and they find Marilyn lying naked, holding the receiver of
12:01a telephone, apparently having died from an overdose of sleeping pills.
12:08The coroner rules it as a barbiturate overdose, either suicide or accidental.
12:20Immediately there are conspiracy theories surrounding this death.
12:25None of it totally stacks up.
12:31An ambulance driver said that she actually made it into an ambulance and was alive, but
12:36then passed away either right before she got to the hospital or at the hospital.
12:40And due to various powers that be, was then returned to her home to look as though she
12:44died peacefully there.
12:47The ambulance driver also later said that he was paid to say that.
12:50So there are so many conflicting stories coming out that it's quite hard to know what the exact
12:55version of events was.
12:59In order to take an overdose of barbiturates, you would need water to drink the pills down
13:07with.
13:07There is no glass of water beside her bed.
13:12There is also a discrepancy between the telephone call to the doctors and the telephone call
13:18eventually to the police.
13:22There is a great long period between the two.
13:25The doctors are supposed to be called at one o'clock and eventually the police are called
13:28at three o'clock.
13:30And in that phone call, the doctors declare that Marilyn Monroe has committed suicide, which
13:37is not really their call to make.
13:40After the LAPD arrive, Eunice Murray, Marilyn's housekeeper, calls her son-in-law to come and
13:47fix the window.
13:50So he fixes the window at 5.25 in the morning, which seems a very odd thing to do, to
13:56have
13:57a handyman come and fix a window pane when this is actually a crime scene.
14:02Her body appears to be moved.
14:05They say that she's in what's known as a soldier's position with her feet together.
14:11They've rolled the body over.
14:12So the crime scene has already been messed around with.
14:16And then the level of incompetency appears to continue.
14:24The coroner was a young man who had only just started in the job.
14:28He wasn't the most experienced coroner they had.
14:32They threw away her vital organs without having them properly tested.
14:43The very next day, the phone records go missing from the exchange, which is either incompetency
14:50or it's a cover-up.
14:53You can see where the conspiracy theories begin.
15:05Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood's greatest star, is dead at the age of 36.
15:11Soon after, in 1963, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated.
15:16Around the world, disbelief was the first reaction.
15:20A moment in history that still provokes conspiracy theories, thanks to his family's dealing with
15:25organized crime.
15:30So, unfortunately, JFK was not much longer lived than Marilyn herself.
15:36The following year, he would be shot dead and assassinated in Dallas.
15:40So, there's tragedy upon tragedy here.
15:44And John John celebrates his third birthday with a soldier's farewell to his father.
15:53I think a lot of the fascination about their relationship is fueled by the fact that they both died so
15:58young and so close together.
16:02His brother, Bobby Kennedy, of course, would also be assassinated in 1968 in Los Angeles.
16:08The mob, if they didn't pull the trigger, had some very strong influence on who did pull the trigger.
16:16They murdered both Bobby Kennedy and JFK.
16:22During their lifetimes, the affair between Marilyn and John F. Kennedy was hidden from the public.
16:27Although rumors swirled amongst Hollywood insiders.
16:34There was always talk about her involvement with the Kennedys during her lifetime.
16:40At Hollywood cocktail parties, it was the talk of everyone.
16:44It was on everyone's lips.
16:46There were blind items in the newspaper, not naming names.
16:51One of them said, Marilyn Monroe is involved with someone with a very big name.
16:57Even bigger than Joe DiMaggio in his heyday.
17:00So, don't write her off as over yet.
17:03That was, like, right at the time that she died, the week that she died.
17:07That was a blind item in a column.
17:08So, it was being talked about.
17:11The assassinations of the Kennedy brothers ignite a wave of conspiracy theories.
17:16Many of them involving Marilyn.
17:19Including author Norman Mailer's claim that she was murdered by the CIA and FBI for getting too close to Robert
17:25Kennedy.
17:26It's a claim Mailer himself has since discredited.
17:30Over time, countless other theories have emerged about how and why she really died.
17:36Although a 1982 inquest confirms suicide as the cause of death.
17:42Journalists continue to probe into the events surrounding her final hours.
18:04In the 1980s, an Irish author and journalist called Anthony Summers writes a book called Goddess.
18:09And it is a collection of a series of exhaustive interviews that he's done.
18:13He's done a research that he's done with people in and around the constellation of Marilyn's life and work and
18:20romance.
18:21In the lead up to her death, trying to figure out what exactly happened that day.
18:25Tony Summers, it's easy, isn't it, after 23 years when people are not around to answer back to slur their
18:31names by innuendo.
18:33I haven't slurred anybody's name by innuendo.
18:35I set out to do a biography of Marilyn Monroe's life.
18:37It was, in a sense, perhaps the best example to date of the power of rumour in our time.
18:43It raises all kinds of questions.
18:46Did Marilyn commit suicide?
18:49Was she confused and she inadvertently took too many sleeping pills?
18:57Or did her doctors change the story of what happened about her death?
19:05Was an ambulance called after she was deceased?
19:09If that was the case, it was against California law that an ambulance cannot transport a deceased person.
19:20Was she taken to the hospital still alive, although comatose,
19:25and died at the hospital and then returned to her home to make it appear that she had died at
19:31home?
19:31The big question that's being asked about Marilyn's death is was she murdered?
19:36Anthony Summers' book explores theories and myths surrounding Marilyn's life and death,
19:41including those that implicate John F. Kennedy and his brother, Robert.
19:45There was never until now evidence that she had actually had affairs with either John Kennedy or Robert Kennedy.
19:51Now there are.
19:52It was Summers' belief, ultimately, that there was a Kennedy clean-up job on the house to remove any association
20:00that she had with them,
20:02so that there were certain things about her death that seemed mysterious,
20:07things that disappeared, but not because there was actual foul play.
20:14Given that it had enough in it to corroborate certain doubts around her story, it did sort of send people
20:20spinning.
20:21As a result of the book, the chief of police has been forced to release the partial remnants of the
20:28police files from 1962,
20:30showing Marilyn's calls to Kennedy's Justice Department.
20:33Marilyn had been ditched by JFK and Bobby Kennedy, so she is threatening to go to the newspapers.
20:45There's a story that's already leaked.
20:48A journalist writes a piece of gossip in the San Francisco Chronicle
20:53about how Bobby Kennedy is being comforted by a star of some description.
21:00So the story is beginning to leak, and Marilyn is really upset about being treated like, in quotes, a piece
21:07of meat.
21:08And both of them have had their fun, and they've decided that she is too much of a liability,
21:14so they've both ditched her.
21:17So she's threatening to have a press conference on the Monday morning.
21:21And she's unhappy enough to actually possibly go ahead with this.
21:26The stakes could not have really been higher for the brothers at this point.
21:31Bobby Kennedy was voted Father of the Year the year before.
21:34He's Catholic, he's married, he's got seven children, I think, at this point.
21:40This is not in his interest for Marilyn to tell the world about their affair.
21:46The story is that he left the Democrat conference in San Francisco,
21:53a rise by helicopter to Peter Lawford's house.
21:56Peter Lawford drives to Fifth Helena Drive,
21:59and there is supposedly this massive row between Bobby and Marilyn.
22:07Bobby Kennedy is looking for this thing which is called the Little Red Book.
22:11Supposedly, every time she's had dinner with Bobby Kennedy,
22:15Marilyn has written down the conversations that she'd had with him.
22:19They are supposed to have secrets in them.
22:21The nuclear testing in the desert, the Bay of Pigs,
22:25all these hugely important state secrets.
22:30Not for any malicious reason,
22:32it was just to prove to him that she wasn't a dumb, fluffy blonde
22:36that everyone always thought she was.
22:40Supposed on the tapes, there is the sound of coat hangers
22:43as he's slapping through her wardrobe trying to find this book,
22:47shouting at her, going,
22:48Where is it? Where is it? Where is it?
22:49And she's screaming back,
22:51I have no idea what you're talking about, leave me alone.
22:55That is where the idea that Bobby Kennedy was involved
22:59in the murder of Marilyn Monroe comes from.
23:05The alleged confrontation between Marilyn and Robert F. Kennedy
23:09is said to be caught on surveillance tape
23:12by a private investigator named Fred Otash,
23:14who has bugged Marilyn's house,
23:16possibly on behalf of the mob.
23:24One of the sources many people use is a fellow named Fred Otash,
23:29who some authors argue is one of the premier guys in espionage,
23:35tapping phones, bugging rooms,
23:38and reporting on celebrities and reporting on politicians.
23:43Fred Otash said that at various points he had worked wiretapping
23:47and trailing people for the FBI, CIA, the mafia.
23:55The dilemma with the reliability or unreliability of Otash
24:00is that there are no transcripts of the tapes he said he did.
24:04There are no recordings.
24:08He's almost ubiquitous in these stories.
24:11But how reliable is Otash?
24:14He could be fabricating much or all of what he said.
24:20Fred Otash continued to change his story throughout his life up until he died in 1992.
24:30Despite various sources linking Robert F. Kennedy to Marilyn on the day of her death,
24:34the Kennedy family has long denied such claims.
24:39Bobby Kennedy connection with Marilyn, there's one major question.
24:46He denied being in Los Angeles on the day of her death.
24:51To the day he died, his family have denied that he was there on the day of her death.
24:59The Los Angeles Police Department denied that he was there on the day of her death.
25:03Peter Loeffer said he was and he drove him there.
25:05And he certainly was with Marilyn on the day of her death.
25:09And Daryl Gates, the Chief of Police, when he wrote his autobiography in black and white,
25:13it's there in the book.
25:14We all knew Bobby Kennedy was there on the day of her death.
25:17We just didn't like to help him.
25:21So he was there.
25:22Why did he deny it?
25:23Why did they deny it?
25:25Why did they deny it?
25:26The Banshees of good taste will tell you that it's all because he would have been smeared
25:30and besmirched if it had been made clear that he was there.
25:35So it was just, it wasn't a cover-up, it was protection.
25:38But if you're covering something up, it's that protection.
25:42Where's the transparency?
25:43No transparency leads to speculation.
25:47And speculation leads to conspiracy.
25:49Conspiracy leads to 60 years of conjecture.
25:58Over the years, interest in Marilyn Monroe has grown.
26:02And conspiracies around her death continue to swirl.
26:05Many of them involving organized crime.
26:09Anthony Summers' book, Goddess, revealed many of Marilyn's previously unknown connections
26:14to major mob figures across her life.
26:18Including gangsters Johnny Roselli, Sam Giancana, and a curious episode with the notorious Mickey Cohen.
26:33Mickey Cohen is perhaps the most vicious gangster that stalks the streets of L.A.
26:40He had his fingers in a lot of different pieces of the pie, particularly sex work in brothels.
26:47And through those, he often collected information on the famous clients of those places and then could use it as
26:55blackmail.
26:58He also started a newspaper called Hollywood Nightlife.
27:02His partner in that was Frank Sinatra's manager.
27:06This newspaper magazine was really a device for blackmailing famous movie stars.
27:12Letting the world know who was gay, who was a lesbian, who was having an affair.
27:19People dreaded what stories might appear about them.
27:24Every Hollywood producer read Hollywood Nightlife to see who was being scandalized.
27:32Cohen would be very street savvy.
27:35We'd do a deal.
27:36We'd give over the negatives.
27:38We'd give over the compromising pictures.
27:40In return for cash, but also in return for favors that you, you're my friend.
27:45A bit godfather-like.
27:46You know, one day you'll do me a favor type stuff.
27:50I think he tried to blackmail Marilyn Monroe, but I don't think he succeeded in doing it.
27:56Any investigation into Marilyn's life reveals a cast of shadowy figures orbiting her world.
28:02Men with power, secrets, and agendas of their own.
28:07Together, they fuel the endless white noise of conspiracy that still surrounds her name.
28:20Another of the fantastic conspiracy theories about Marilyn Monroe's death is that she was the object of a hit that
28:29was organized by Sam Giancana, a man who utterly hated the Kennedys.
28:37The Mafia were instrumental in helping to secure the vote for Bobby's brother.
28:43There was a sense that the Kennedys had kind of betrayed them by enlisting their help and then turning around
28:50and attacking them.
28:51It is my firm belief that new laws are needed in the common battle against the rackets.
28:57According to Sam Giancana's grandson, who wrote a book called Double Cross, what he expected is that the Kennedy administration
29:08would be not too rigorous in going after organized crime.
29:13John Kennedy appoints his younger brother to be attorney general who had been going after Sam Giancana for years on
29:21a Senate committee.
29:22Is it because you got the $500?
29:24No, sir.
29:26Giancana saw that as a double cross.
29:29And another layer to that is that Giancana, we now know, worked with the CIA in this extraordinary effort with
29:38Johnny Rosselli to figure out a way to assassinate Fidel Castro.
29:45He was involved with the Kennedys in an operation called Operation Mongoose.
29:52The Kennedys were using the mob to be hitmen, in effect, and they never succeeded.
30:00Giancana, he had done what had been asked of him, and now they're paying me back by having Robert Kennedy
30:06Jr. and his Justice Department to come after me.
30:11So the theory is that he sent four hitmen to Marilyn Monroe's house, and they murdered her.
30:19There was a book written by one of his relatives saying that Sam had sent a hit squad into Marlon's
30:27home in Brentwood to wipe her out.
30:32The theories are always clever because, you know, it wasn't like, didn't go with machine guns, but they went in
30:37with a suppository, an amputile suppository, which then, you know, poisoned her, killed her, but of course vanished and no
30:44needle marks.
30:46The autopsy was done by the deputy coroner, a guy called Thomas Noguchi, which seems a very odd thing to
30:51have had the deputy doing somebody so high profile to start off with.
30:56He spends a long time trying to find an injection in her. He does a very sort of close look
31:00at her skin, finds nothing.
31:03The hope for those who promote that theory is that it will implicate the Kennedy family and the death of
31:11this icon.
31:13And those who most hope for that were people in organized crime.
31:17If they could somehow soil the Kennedy reputation, it would be just punishment for the Kennedy family.
31:26Adding even more fuel to the conspiracy theories is the fact that several of the powerful and dangerous men connected
31:34to Marilyn ultimately died in grisly circumstances.
31:41Johnny Roselli, true to Hollywood type, was found in a oil drum floating in the Biscayne Bay.
31:52He was somebody who knew about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
31:56And before he could testify to the Senate Assassinations Committee, he was lured onto a boat off the coast of
32:03Florida.
32:05He suffered from emphysema, so the guy who killed him just held his nose and covered his mouth until Johnny
32:12Roselli was asphyxiated.
32:14They wanted to put his body into an oil drum and it wouldn't fit, so they had to cut off
32:18his legs.
32:19And put his trunk and his legs in separately into an oil drum.
32:24Two fishermen found it and notified the Coast Guard.
32:29An autopsy was done and they identified the body as that of Johnny Roselli.
32:36After Giancana was called to testify in front of the Senate Committee, he was assassinated in the basement kitchen of
32:45his home in Chicago.
32:50Sam Giancana being shot, I think five times under the chin and once directly in the mouth had to do
32:57with perhaps the CIA trying to keep them quiet because they've been summoned to appear before a special Senate committee.
33:07Stories of Marilyn's connections to the highest offices in politics and to some of the most violent figures in organized
33:14crime only deepen the confusion.
33:17Which leaves us asking, what truly happened to Marilyn Monroe?
33:26She died of a barbiturate overdose, that is certainly true.
33:31There was enough barbiturates in her bloodstream to have killed, I think, about seven or eight people.
33:37She had a very high tolerance to barbiturates because she'd been taking them for a very long time.
33:43Yet she had no pill casings in her stomach during the autopsy.
33:52She was also very keen on enemas during this period.
33:57Marilyn used to have enemas all the time.
34:00An enema to make herself thin enough to get into a dress.
34:04She often would have two enemas a day in the morning and in the evening to keep her stomach entirely
34:09flat.
34:11There is a theory that Eunice Murray, who is her housekeeper, had given Marilyn a barbiturate enema that evening in
34:20order to help her go to sleep.
34:23Weirdly, Eunice Murray was leaving the next day, she'd been dismissed, so this was her last night working for Marilyn.
34:33Eunice Murray is always pictured in the background washing sheets, which seems a very odd thing to be doing if
34:40your boss has just died.
34:43With so many rumours and theories swirling, rivalries have emerged between those who believe her life was ended by dangerous
34:50gangsters,
34:52and those who believe the truth is far less sinister.
35:01I always say that Marilyn Monroe is like politics and religion.
35:05There's people on both sides and they believe so strongly, and they hate you if you disagree with them.
35:12That's how passionately they feel about it.
35:15So many people who have changed their story over the years about what happened in the order of events, that
35:21I think it is genuinely lost to time.
35:25And a lot of the records and apparent recordings and FBI files are also lost to time,
35:33which in and of itself is a cause for people to become suspicious and treat that as a part of
35:37the conspiracy.
35:39That's the thing about conspiracy theory, they are self-generating and self-sustaining that everything can become a part of
35:44the conspiracy.
35:46When in fact a lot of stuff is people changing their stories because they got older, their memory was bad,
35:51it was traumatic, and they don't remember it exactly the same way.
35:54I mean, there are a lot of reasons why you can have different versions of the story, not all of
35:59them are sinister.
36:03I think that on that night, she was in a moment of despair.
36:07She took a lot of pills.
36:11And when she felt herself starting to go under, she changed her mind.
36:18And she started dialing friends to get help.
36:23And some of her friends got a message from what they said was a fuzzy-voiced woman.
36:28Obviously, it was Marilyn Monroe.
36:30While she was trying to get help, she went under and drifted off to paradise.
36:40I do feel that if she had been saved that night,
36:46sadly, she probably would have done it a month later or two months later or five months later or two
36:51years later.
36:54There's something almost Edgar Allan Poe about the death of Marilyn Monroe.
36:59Edgar Allan Poe said,
37:00There's nothing more poetic than the death of a beautiful woman.
37:04And certainly that's part of it.
37:07You know, I could be the one who saved her.
37:10Or what direction would her career have gone in had she lived?
37:24She lay in the mortuary for a day on claim.
37:29She really didn't have any immediate family.
37:33Some of her friends felt like they weren't close enough to do it.
37:37Brief and simple rites marked the funeral of Marilyn Monroe.
37:40As former husband Joe DiMaggio lead a last tribute to the glamorous actors.
37:46Joe DiMaggio stepped up.
37:51He really truly loved her.
37:55He set up the funeral and paid for it, paid for her crib.
38:02Only 25 persons were invited to the services and no screen stars were in attendance.
38:08He didn't want any of her Hollywood friends there, like Frank Sinatra,
38:14because he felt that that contributed to her downfall, the Hollywood set.
38:24He kept it very small with just people that were close with her.
38:33Even though he's a sometimes controversial figure in her life,
38:37one thing is for sure.
38:39He loved her very deeply.
38:40And she loved him and she always turned to him in her moments of need.
38:49The final fade out to the story of the poor girl who became a movie star is written,
38:56Finis.
39:05It feels unfair.
39:07I understand him wanting privacy for her and her family,
39:11but I don't understand why your ex-husband should get the right
39:15to control your funeral rights,
39:18to control who was there.
39:21She had Hollywood friends.
39:22She's also a woman who, in spite of everyone constantly talking about the powerful men in her life,
39:27had many female friendships.
39:30It does seem profoundly unfair to her.
39:35And so indicative of that male ownership of her,
39:38her body, her life, her privacy, for someone to just decide that.
39:42Nothing to do with her wishes, I would assume.
39:44Much more to do with his own and what he wanted.
39:49Peter Lawford, a one-time friend, associate,
39:53and of course brother-in-law to the Kennedys,
39:55is also buried fairly nearby to Marilyn.
39:59The story goes that he was heartbroken by her death
40:02and his failure to successfully intervene or to save her.
40:07It does feel a little bit for me like Marilyn's died surrounded by the same wolves
40:12that hounded her in her life.
40:19Although her life was cut short, Marilyn Monroe lives on as a legendary figure.
40:26A blend of glamour, talent, and tragedy.
40:33She gives so much joy and so much entertainment to people
40:37that that's what we should really focus on.
40:41Her career, what she left behind, the good things that she did.
40:46She was a really marvelous person.
40:50All these other theories, I mean, I just don't think they were...
40:54I've never seen anything and that really convinced me.
40:58For me, right now, it's enough that she left behind
41:04such a really wonderful legacy in such a really short time.
41:10But I do think that the final story is a lot simpler than people want to make out.
41:16I know that Marilyn touches people in different ways.
41:19And if it's very important for them to believe she died one way
41:23and I believe that it happened another way, I'm fine with that.
41:30I think there's a certain point where somebody like Marilyn,
41:33and I think this is true of her in life as well as a star figure,
41:37they kind of lose some of their humanity.
41:39They become symbols to us.
41:42And now that a lot of time has passed, they're not really flesh-and-blood human beings
41:47with families and grieving loved ones.
41:51And so it becomes almost like a pub debate or a fun conversation to have.
41:57Well, what do you think really happened?
41:58It becomes kind of this parlor game for people.
42:03I think conspiracy theories thrive in the absence of certainty
42:08and in the absence of wanting to accept a certain sad reality.
42:14I think it's really tough to accept that accidents happen,
42:19that people are led astray, that they have bad friends, bad guidance,
42:24that they struggle for mental health issues.
42:29It's long been sympathetic to Marilyn, a lot of these conspiracy theories.
42:33A lot of them say, well, she was, yes, she was a mess,
42:35yes, maybe she was promiscuous, but actually she's a victim of circumstance.
42:40And they are maybe well-meaning, but none of them really tell the truth
42:44about her ambition, her complexity, her talent,
42:47because they are so invested in the tragedy.
42:50Because it's dramatic, and because it's a neat,
42:53like sort of neater trajectory for them to follow.
42:55So people are interested in that.
43:03I think Marilyn will continue to beguile audiences,
43:08because in spite of her personal troubles,
43:11mostly what you get from her on the screen,
43:14it's actually just vivacity and joy and liveliness.
43:18And it's interesting that there's so much focus on her troubles and her death,
43:23when in fact her films, particularly her musical numbers,
43:28in Judgment for Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire,
43:32and some of her comic routines and Some Like It Hot,
43:35she's just so alive on the screen.
43:37She's so vivid.
43:41And I think this idea that there is a dichotomy between this happy woman on the screen,
43:45this miserable woman off of it, it's sort of an old stereotype.
43:49I think it was much more complex than that.
43:53Ultimately, she gives a lot of joy to viewers,
43:56and I do believe I could sit a five-year-old or a 15-year-old
44:01or a 95-year-old in front of her best films,
44:04and they will find some kind of joy and some kind of happiness or humor from them.
44:20The other thing about it is that from the tantalizing things that we do know and we do hear,
44:26whether it's hearsay, rumor, gossip, or confirmed,
44:29that the LAPD was deeply corrupt,
44:31that the Mafia and Hoover and FBI were doing some deeply, deeply frightening things.
44:39And all just under the surface of the 1950s and 60s public Americana and show business
44:45that was so wholesome-looking and was so designed for wholesomeness and morality
44:49and good, clean fun and Sinatra crooning and Marilyn dancing
44:54and, you know, those beautiful kind of images of wholesome Americana.
44:57And then, just underneath, there were some really, truly diabolical things going on.
45:04And people are fascinated by that, quite understandably.
45:09People have fixated on Marilyn as somebody who may have been involved with
45:13or murdered by organized crime associates or by the mob.
45:21The fact of the matter is the Mafia was very powerful in Hollywood,
45:24particularly in the mid-century.
45:28Most stars of a certain caliber were associating with those people.
45:35And that they did have pull, and there were certain people in Hollywood you didn't mess with.
45:43Every Hollywood party liked to have its token, shady guy or gangster,
45:47because it was cool, it was glamorous.
45:48So there is this underworld just beneath the surface that's guiling to people.
45:57The reality is that they did do bad things, often things that we'll never find out about,
46:02because the nature of them is shrouded in secrecy.
46:05Marilyn Monroe, a woman whose life has been examined more closely than almost any in modern history.
46:14Yet across every timeline and testimony, one pattern persists.
46:20From her earliest days in Hollywood, to the final hours of her life,
46:26individuals connected to organized crime appear again and again in her story.
46:32The rumors continue, and the conspiracies linger, but the truth may be lost forever.
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