And they confirm that Marilyn Monroe killing. “I think he was treading in very dangerous waters. He had incredible relationships with President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Sinatra And mafia figures. They told her things and she was aware of them. “He had some very dangerous information.”
He says so James Pattersonauthor The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe: A True Crime Filma book that has been in bookstores since December and reconstructs the legendary Hollywood star’s final weeks.
This is the story that still gets people talking, Even after 63 years After Monroe’s body was found in her four-bedroom home in Brentwood, with pills on the counter and an empty bottle of Nembutal on the floor. He died at the age of 36 years. It remains one of popular culture’s most enduring fascinations and has become an indispensable epic in these conspiracy-ridden times.
The last days of Marilyn Monroe It was co-written with the British Imogen Edwards Jones It adds to the endless narrative explorations about the late born actress Norma Jeane Mortenson. Among the latest stories surrounding his character are two Netflix projects from 2022: blondstarring in a psychological drama Ana de Armasadapted from the novel of the same name by the writer Joyce Carol Ottand Marilyn Monroe’s Secret: The Unheard Tapesa documentary that expands the book Gods to Anthony Summersfrom 1985.
Does the world really need another project about Marilyn Monroe? Professional media is asking this out loud Hollywood Reporter. Don’t we already know all about his turbulent life’s journey and the machinations surrounding his untimely end?
“A lot of people don’t know the story,” says Patterson, an author known for his suspense novels. “There were many things I didn’t know: the 11 houses he passed through or the truth about it I stuttered a little when I was a kid.“I didn’t know much about the death scene, and that the autopsy wasn’t as complete as it could have been,” he says One investigator was convinced the scene was staged. The key is that a lot of people know a little about it, but not a lot.”
On August 5, 1962, the actress was found dead in her bed. The phone was near his hand: Who should I call? The official version ruled suicide. But there are doubts: the role of the Kennedy family, and the loneliness of the previous night. The latest gesture of love from her ex-husband Joe DiMaggio.
In contrast to all this is the suicide thesis, which is the constant and never-changing fact that revolves around the use of barbiturates. The book does not rewrite the legal case Death, rather, seeks to reopen the file in the field of the story and raises (again) the question about the “dangerous relationships” that could have surrounded it.
Forensic toxicology reports said Monroe’s body contained eight milligrams, per hundred milliliters, of chloral hydrate. Synthetic compound with sedative, hypnotic and anticonvulsant properties Which was used at the time to treat insomnia in the short term.
The experts ruled out A Accidental death due to overdoseBecause the drugs found in Marilyn’s body were several times higher than the lethal limit. All of this led, in the absence of other key evidence, to classify his cause of death as “Possible suicide”.
Several of Patterson’s novels have been adapted for film and television, including… Kisses that kill (Kissing girls), championship Morgan Freeman. In his documentary field, Patterson began 2017 with Filthy richa prophetic story about her Jeffrey Epsteinwhich became the basis of a Netflix documentary in 2020. “I knew it was a great story,” he says of the businessman accused of sexually assaulting powerful clients, a case that has recently also affected the president. Donald Trump.
Although it is sold as Real crimeMunro’s book contains an explanation and is publicly defined as a “work of fiction.” That is, a combination of documentation, imagined scenes and dialogue.