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How ice-cold Sinatra sent Marilyn away to die.
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In an intimate new book, J Randy Taraborrelli speaks to the people who were closest to Marilyn Monroe to shed new light on the Hollywood icon. Here, he reveals the true extent of her insecurities, illnesses and addictions and what led to her tragic death on August 5, 1962, aged just 36...On April10, 1962 - 17 days after her weekend tryst with President John F. Kennedy - Marilyn Monroe was due to have a meeting with Henry Weinstein, the screenwriter of her new film, Something's Got To Give.
What Weinstein didn't know was she was fixated by the President, who had rejected her. She had been devastated by his casual dismissal of her as 'not First Lady material' during their stolen weekend at Bing Crosby's house in Palm Springs, and she was distressed by his refusal to take any of her many phone calls.
The day before, at Fox Studios for make-up and costume tests, she had looked absolutely beautiful and performed quite well for many hours. However, for her follow-up meeting with Weinstein, she was late. That wasn't surprising. But when he telephoned her to find out when she might be arriving, he was alarmed to find that there was no answer.
After repeated attempts, she finally picked up the phone. 'Oh, I'm just fine ...' she told him. But her voice was slurred and she seemed to be drifting in and out of consciousness.
Alarmed, Weinstein called psychiatrist Dr Ralph Greenson, who had been treating Marilyn for what he believed was borderline paranoid schizophrenia, and the two rushed to her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles. There they found her in bed, in a drug-induced coma.
'She was almost naked,' Weinstein recalled. 'And she was almost dead, as far as I could see. Somehow, Dr Greenson revived her. I was so shaken, I couldn't get over it.
He kept coming over to me and saying "Don't worry, she'll be fine." It was as if he'd seen this so many times, he was not alarmed. But for me, it was traumatic.'
Later, it was determined that Marilyn had taken what could have amounted to a deadly combination of Nembutal, Demerol, chloral hydrate and Librium.
'Immediately afterward, I tried to get Fox to delay the movie,' said Weinstein. 'I said "Look, this girl is in no shape to make a movie. She has severe mental problems."
The studio said "No. The movie goes on. If we had stopped production of a film every time Marilyn Monroe had a crisis, we would never have gotten a single movie out of her." I don't think I ever got over the shock of finding her that way. You don't get past something like that easily. I spent hours trying to understand what had gone so wrong.'
One source who was close to Marilyn at that time, and who asked for anonymity rather than risk the possibility of retaliation from any member of the Kennedy family, summed it up this way: 'JFK. That's what was wrong. She'd just been jilted by the President of the United States. It was Kennedy. That's why. Kennedy.'
Just four months later, another overdose proved fatal. Was her rejection by the President to blame? Partly. But Marilyn's background of mental illness and drug addiction meant that she was always going to self-destruct.
That she died from an overdose of drugs has never been in doubt. The conspiracy rumours are over whether she chose to take them, or whether she was murdered to cover up her links with the Kennedys.
But her use of drugs began early, her overdoses frequent - and her doctors made the drugs readily available.
Dailymail.co.uk.
In an intimate new book, J Randy Taraborrelli speaks to the people who were closest to Marilyn Monroe to shed new light on the Hollywood icon. Here, he reveals the true extent of her insecurities, illnesses and addictions and what led to her tragic death on August 5, 1962, aged just 36...On April10, 1962 - 17 days after her weekend tryst with President John F. Kennedy - Marilyn Monroe was due to have a meeting with Henry Weinstein, the screenwriter of her new film, Something's Got To Give.
What Weinstein didn't know was she was fixated by the President, who had rejected her. She had been devastated by his casual dismissal of her as 'not First Lady material' during their stolen weekend at Bing Crosby's house in Palm Springs, and she was distressed by his refusal to take any of her many phone calls.
The day before, at Fox Studios for make-up and costume tests, she had looked absolutely beautiful and performed quite well for many hours. However, for her follow-up meeting with Weinstein, she was late. That wasn't surprising. But when he telephoned her to find out when she might be arriving, he was alarmed to find that there was no answer.
After repeated attempts, she finally picked up the phone. 'Oh, I'm just fine ...' she told him. But her voice was slurred and she seemed to be drifting in and out of consciousness.
Alarmed, Weinstein called psychiatrist Dr Ralph Greenson, who had been treating Marilyn for what he believed was borderline paranoid schizophrenia, and the two rushed to her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles. There they found her in bed, in a drug-induced coma.
'She was almost naked,' Weinstein recalled. 'And she was almost dead, as far as I could see. Somehow, Dr Greenson revived her. I was so shaken, I couldn't get over it.
He kept coming over to me and saying "Don't worry, she'll be fine." It was as if he'd seen this so many times, he was not alarmed. But for me, it was traumatic.'
Later, it was determined that Marilyn had taken what could have amounted to a deadly combination of Nembutal, Demerol, chloral hydrate and Librium.
'Immediately afterward, I tried to get Fox to delay the movie,' said Weinstein. 'I said "Look, this girl is in no shape to make a movie. She has severe mental problems."
The studio said "No. The movie goes on. If we had stopped production of a film every time Marilyn Monroe had a crisis, we would never have gotten a single movie out of her." I don't think I ever got over the shock of finding her that way. You don't get past something like that easily. I spent hours trying to understand what had gone so wrong.'
One source who was close to Marilyn at that time, and who asked for anonymity rather than risk the possibility of retaliation from any member of the Kennedy family, summed it up this way: 'JFK. That's what was wrong. She'd just been jilted by the President of the United States. It was Kennedy. That's why. Kennedy.'
Just four months later, another overdose proved fatal. Was her rejection by the President to blame? Partly. But Marilyn's background of mental illness and drug addiction meant that she was always going to self-destruct.
That she died from an overdose of drugs has never been in doubt. The conspiracy rumours are over whether she chose to take them, or whether she was murdered to cover up her links with the Kennedys.
But her use of drugs began early, her overdoses frequent - and her doctors made the drugs readily available.
Dailymail.co.uk.
The one woman Marilyn was closest to in her life, who acted as surrogate mother when she was small, was her mother's old friend, Grace Goddard. In 1953, Grace was diagnosed with cancer - from which she would shortly die - and came to stay with Marilyn, who wanted to make sure she got the best possible care.
Although this was nine years before the overdose that killed her, Marilyn was taking a prodigious amount of sleeping pills - so many that Grace became alarmed. Marilyn couldn't sleep at night without them. Then there were the 'uppers' she was taking to stay awake in the day after what she called 'a sleeping pill hangover.'
When Grace finally confronted her about it, Marilyn told her: 'I'm very careful, Aunt Grace. I've been taking these things for at least ten years.' Grace also noticed Marilyn was drinking much more - bourbon and soda.
Moreover, Marilyn was concerned about gaining weight. Every pound mattered when wearing those skin-baring gowns. She began using colonic irrigation - basically, enemas. If she had to get into a dress that she didn't think would fit, she would endure as many enemas as it would take to squeeze into it; she could actually lose inches in just a day.
Grace could hardly believe Marilyn's lifestyle. Nor did she know the extent to which Marilyn would come to rely on her doctors to keep her supplied with drugs - none more so than Dr Greenson.
Dr Greenson is not a popular figure in Marilyn Monroe history. Born Romeo Samuel Greenschpoon in 1911 in Brooklyn, he studied medicine in Switzerland before going into practice as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Los Angeles. Most of Marilyn's friends and associates agree that he became a psychological Svengali-figure who exerted far too much control over her.
What has not been clearly stated in the past is that he had very specific opinions about Marilyn's mental problems. They met in LA in 1960, and he described her in a letter to Anna Freud as a 'borderline paranoid addictive personality.' He wrote in his letter that Marilyn exhibited 'classic signs of the paranoid addict', including a fear of abandonment.
Those suffering from this disease were prone to wanting to commit suicide, he said. It was very difficult to treat such problems in patients, let alone someone as famous as Marilyn.
He also said he was working behind the scenes to get her off some of the drugs she was taking. 'Short of searching her person every day, it is impossible to know what she is taking and when,' he wrote in a letter to Freud. 'I'm not sure how to monitor someone like her. She's very crafty.'
After Dr Greenson began to treat Marilyn more intensively, he told colleagues that she'd begun to exhibit growing signs of borderline paranoid schizophrenia, just like her mother.
Three psychiatrists interviewed for this book, who requested anonymity since all are treating patients in Los Angeles, say when they were younger, Greenson shared with them his concern about borderline paranoid schizophrenia in the case of Marilyn.
'He was very specific,' said one of the doctors. 'He felt it would get worse as she got older unless it was treated in a specific way. He also said that Marilyn knew, that she was looking into ways to treat it herself, and that he was trying to discourage that.
'He didn't want her out there medicating herself, but he suspected that this is what was going on behind his back.
'A major frustration for him was that he knew he was not the only one giving her drugs. She was such an expert doctor-shopper toward the last couple years of her life, there was no way to be sure what she was taking.'
By the time she was filming The Misfits in August 1960, Marilyn relied heavily on drugs prescribed by Greenson. She began to complain of hearing 'voices' again, so the dosages were increased. He prescribed 300milligrams of the barbiturate Nembutal; the maximum dose was supposed to be 100mg.
'I found it shocking that any doctor would prescribe that much Nembutal for insomnia,' said Rupert Allan, a publicity agent who was on set every day. 'It made her absolutely paranoid in her waking hours. She told me she always felt as if she was being followed.'
Allan recalled Marilyn splitting open capsules of another barbiturate, Seconal, and letting the drug dissolve in her mouth during breaks in filming. 'By this time she was a drug addict.'
Her make-up artist, Allan Snyder, recalled applying her make-up in the morning while she was still flat on her back in bed. 'There was no other way,' he said. 'It would take her so long to get up, we had to start with the makeup before she was out of bed.'
At the end of June 1961, Marilyn's half-sister, Berniece, came to stay with her in New York to help her recuperate after an operation to remove gallstones. Every night, Marilyn's doctor in New York (Greenson was based in LA) would call at the house to check on her.
During each visit, Marilyn would fix him a stiff drink, and he would then begin to dispense all sorts of pills.
Berniece seized the opportunity to ask him if they were really necessary. He didn't have time to answer before Marilyn said sharply: 'Yes, I do need these pilIs. I need my sleep.'
The list of drugs she was using by 1961 was staggering. She was taking the antipsychotic Thorazine for the borderline paranoid schizophrenia diagnosed by Dr Greenson, as well as the narcotic painkiller Demerol and barbiturates Phenobarbital, HMC and Amytal, along with large quantities of Nembutal, to which she was addicted, to help her sleep.
There were 15 bottles of pills on Marilyn's night table when she died. She'd also developed the alarming habit of giving herself injections. A source who was very close to her recalls the concoction was of Phenobarbital, Nembutal and Seconal.
'Marilyn referred to it as a vitamin shot,' said the source. 'Afterwards she would be gone, no longer able to function.'
Marilyn's final collapse came swiftly and was almost unbearable to watch. Frank Sinatra, with whom Marilyn had an on-off affair, invited the British actor Peter Lawford and his wife Pat to his resort, the Cal-Neva Lodge, for the weekend of July 27, 1962 - less than two weeks before she died.
The one woman Marilyn was closest to in her life, who acted as surrogate mother when she was small, was her mother's old friend, Grace Goddard. In 1953, Grace was diagnosed with cancer - from which she would shortly die - and came to stay with Marilyn, who wanted to make sure she got the best possible care.
Although this was nine years before the overdose that killed her, Marilyn was taking a prodigious amount of sleeping pills - so many that Grace became alarmed. Marilyn couldn't sleep at night without them. Then there were the 'uppers' she was taking to stay awake in the day after what she called 'a sleeping pill hangover.'
When Grace finally confronted her about it, Marilyn told her: 'I'm very careful, Aunt Grace. I've been taking these things for at least ten years.' Grace also noticed Marilyn was drinking much more - bourbon and soda.
Moreover, Marilyn was concerned about gaining weight. Every pound mattered when wearing those skin-baring gowns. She began using colonic irrigation - basically, enemas. If she had to get into a dress that she didn't think would fit, she would endure as many enemas as it would take to squeeze into it; she could actually lose inches in just a day.
Grace could hardly believe Marilyn's lifestyle. Nor did she know the extent to which Marilyn would come to rely on her doctors to keep her supplied with drugs - none more so than Dr Greenson.
Dr Greenson is not a popular figure in Marilyn Monroe history. Born Romeo Samuel Greenschpoon in 1911 in Brooklyn, he studied medicine in Switzerland before going into practice as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Los Angeles. Most of Marilyn's friends and associates agree that he became a psychological Svengali-figure who exerted far too much control over her.
What has not been clearly stated in the past is that he had very specific opinions about Marilyn's mental problems. They met in LA in 1960, and he described her in a letter to Anna Freud as a 'borderline paranoid addictive personality.' He wrote in his letter that Marilyn exhibited 'classic signs of the paranoid addict', including a fear of abandonment.
Those suffering from this disease were prone to wanting to commit suicide, he said. It was very difficult to treat such problems in patients, let alone someone as famous as Marilyn.
He also said he was working behind the scenes to get her off some of the drugs she was taking. 'Short of searching her person every day, it is impossible to know what she is taking and when,' he wrote in a letter to Freud. 'I'm not sure how to monitor someone like her. She's very crafty.'
After Dr Greenson began to treat Marilyn more intensively, he told colleagues that she'd begun to exhibit growing signs of borderline paranoid schizophrenia, just like her mother.
Three psychiatrists interviewed for this book, who requested anonymity since all are treating patients in Los Angeles, say when they were younger, Greenson shared with them his concern about borderline paranoid schizophrenia in the case of Marilyn.
'He was very specific,' said one of the doctors. 'He felt it would get worse as she got older unless it was treated in a specific way. He also said that Marilyn knew, that she was looking into ways to treat it herself, and that he was trying to discourage that.
'He didn't want her out there medicating herself, but he suspected that this is what was going on behind his back.
'A major frustration for him was that he knew he was not the only one giving her drugs. She was such an expert doctor-shopper toward the last couple years of her life, there was no way to be sure what she was taking.'
By the time she was filming The Misfits in August 1960, Marilyn relied heavily on drugs prescribed by Greenson. She began to complain of hearing 'voices' again, so the dosages were increased. He prescribed 300milligrams of the barbiturate Nembutal; the maximum dose was supposed to be 100mg.
'I found it shocking that any doctor would prescribe that much Nembutal for insomnia,' said Rupert Allan, a publicity agent who was on set every day. 'It made her absolutely paranoid in her waking hours. She told me she always felt as if she was being followed.'
Allan recalled Marilyn splitting open capsules of another barbiturate, Seconal, and letting the drug dissolve in her mouth during breaks in filming. 'By this time she was a drug addict.'
Her make-up artist, Allan Snyder, recalled applying her make-up in the morning while she was still flat on her back in bed. 'There was no other way,' he said. 'It would take her so long to get up, we had to start with the makeup before she was out of bed.'
At the end of June 1961, Marilyn's half-sister, Berniece, came to stay with her in New York to help her recuperate after an operation to remove gallstones. Every night, Marilyn's doctor in New York (Greenson was based in LA) would call at the house to check on her.
During each visit, Marilyn would fix him a stiff drink, and he would then begin to dispense all sorts of pills.
Berniece seized the opportunity to ask him if they were really necessary. He didn't have time to answer before Marilyn said sharply: 'Yes, I do need these pilIs. I need my sleep.'
The list of drugs she was using by 1961 was staggering. She was taking the antipsychotic Thorazine for the borderline paranoid schizophrenia diagnosed by Dr Greenson, as well as the narcotic painkiller Demerol and barbiturates Phenobarbital, HMC and Amytal, along with large quantities of Nembutal, to which she was addicted, to help her sleep.
There were 15 bottles of pills on Marilyn's night table when she died. She'd also developed the alarming habit of giving herself injections. A source who was very close to her recalls the concoction was of Phenobarbital, Nembutal and Seconal.
'Marilyn referred to it as a vitamin shot,' said the source. 'Afterwards she would be gone, no longer able to function.'
Marilyn's final collapse came swiftly and was almost unbearable to watch. Frank Sinatra, with whom Marilyn had an on-off affair, invited the British actor Peter Lawford and his wife Pat to his resort, the Cal-Neva Lodge, for the weekend of July 27, 1962 - less than two weeks before she died.
The same source.
Marilyn said she would like to go too, and although Pat had serious misgivings, knowing Marilyn's fragile state, the three arrived together by private plane.
Joe Langford, a Sinatra security employee at Cal-Neva, recalled: 'When Frank saw Marilyn, he was pretty shocked at how depressed she was.
'As soon as he got her settled in, he got on the phone with her psychiatrist [presumably Dr Greenson] and started in on the guy. "What the hell kind of treatment are you giving her? She's a mess. Why isn't she in a sanitarium?"
'He couldn't believe how broken down she was.'
Marilyn's 'vitamin shots' alarmed them all. Langford confirmed: 'She opened her purse and pulled out those syringes. I was standing right there with Mr Sinatra and Pat Lawford.
Marilyn was very casual about it. She was looking for something else and just pulled them out and put them on the table.
'Sinatra went white, like a sheet. He said "Marilyn. Jesus Christ. What are they for?" She said "Oh, those are for my vitamin shots."
'Pat looked like she was going to faint. "Oh my God, Marilyn," she said. Then Marilyn said "It's all right Pat. I know what I'm doing."
'Marilyn finally found what she was looking for: a pin. As we all stood there with our mouths open, she opened a bottle of pills and picked one out.
'Then - and I had never seen anything like this before - she put a small hole at the end of the capsule, and swallowed it. "Gets into your bloodstream faster that way," she said. She turned back to Pat and said "See, I told you I knew what I was doing."'
Later, Marilyn collapsed in her room and was found, just in time, by Pat.
'Frank Sinatra didn't know what to think about any of it,' said his valet, George Jacobs. 'He was upset, though. He loved Marilyn, yes. But for her to maybe die at Cal-Neva while he was there? That would have been terrible.
'So he said: "Get her out of here and get her out of here now." And that was it. We had to do what he said. I mean, the woman was sick. But as compassionate as Sinatra was, he had a line and she crossed it.'
Stacy Baron, another guest staying at the lodge, recalled: 'I was in the lobby and I saw Peter Lawford on one side of her and Pat on the other side and they were practically carrying this woman out. I got a real shock. It was Marilyn Monroe.'
On Marilyn's last day alive, August 4, 1962, Dr Greenson left her home in Brentwood at about 7pm, requesting that Eunice Murray, the housekeeper he'd employed for her, spend the night there to keep an eye on his patient. Around that time, Peter Lawson called to invite Marilyn to a dinner party at his home, but she declined.
Marilyn brought a telephone into her bedroom and closed the door. It appears the rest of this last evening would be spent alone in this room.
It seems that she continued making telephone calls. Later that night, Peter Lawford called again. This time, he could sense Marilyn wasn't well. According to Peter she said: 'Say goodbye to Pat. Say goodbye to the President, and say goodbye to yourself because you're such a nice guy.'
This would seem to indicate that she was thinking about taking her life. Alarmed, Peter called Marilyn again; the line was engaged. He mentioned to his business partner, Milton Ebbins, that he was worried and wanted to go to the house, but Ebbins was afraid that Marilyn had overdosed and didn't want Peter - the President's brotherinlaw - to be the one to find her.
Ebbins called Marilyn's attorney, Mickey Rudin, who then rang the house at 9pm. He spoke to Eunice Murray, who told him that Marilyn was fine, but whether or not Eunice was able to confirm this (or even had an interest in doing so) is unknown.
The conflicting accounts of Marilyn's death occur after this time. The most often told version is based on official statements by Eunice Murray and Dr Greenson. At around 2am, Eunice called Dr Greenson, alarmed because Marilyn's door was locked. Greenson showed up five minutes later and went around to Marilyn's window.
He saw the actress on her bed, frozen and lifeless.
Breaking the glass, he let himself into the room. Once inside, he realised that she was dead, lying face down, holding her telephone in her right hand with open bottles of pills on her nightstand.
With the passing of the years, many murder theories developed. Some involve Marilyn being killed by Bobby Kennedy, or on the orders of Bobby to protect the Kennedy name.
Some implicate Peter Lawford, some the FBI, Dr Greenson, Eunice Murray, the Mafia.
Are there suspicious circumstances around Marilyn's death? Absolutely. For instance, the doctors and Murray waited almost two hours to contact the authorities. Why?
No one has ever sufficiently answered that question. More intriguingly, Eunice would later say that there was no lock on Marilyn's door. If that's the case, then the entire story of how she was found seems to fall apart.
There was very little drug residue found in Marilyn's stomach - and what was found wasn't properly analysed. Also, there was some discolouration in her lower intestine.
Do these facts support the theory that maybe she was given a lethal enema by someone?
Not really. Marilyn was a drug addict. It is a medical fact that an addict's stomach becomes accustomed to the drugs of choice and that they easily pass into the intestines. Many addicts die without a trace of pills in their stomachs.
Certainly, if she died today, with current science, there would be no mystery. So, the question remains: Suicide or murder?
If she had been a stable woman who had never overdosed in her lifetime, then, yes, one might legitimately question the circumstances of her death. However, this was a woman who had overdosed again and again - sometimes, it seemed, intentionally, sometimes maybe not.
She could have died on any number of those occasions were it not for those who found and revived her.
Perhaps the only real question about her death is whether it was intentional, or whether she hoped, on the night of August 4, that yet again someone would find Marilyn Monroe in time to save her from herself.
Marilyn said she would like to go too, and although Pat had serious misgivings, knowing Marilyn's fragile state, the three arrived together by private plane.
Joe Langford, a Sinatra security employee at Cal-Neva, recalled: 'When Frank saw Marilyn, he was pretty shocked at how depressed she was.
'As soon as he got her settled in, he got on the phone with her psychiatrist [presumably Dr Greenson] and started in on the guy. "What the hell kind of treatment are you giving her? She's a mess. Why isn't she in a sanitarium?"
'He couldn't believe how broken down she was.'
Marilyn's 'vitamin shots' alarmed them all. Langford confirmed: 'She opened her purse and pulled out those syringes. I was standing right there with Mr Sinatra and Pat Lawford.
Marilyn was very casual about it. She was looking for something else and just pulled them out and put them on the table.
'Sinatra went white, like a sheet. He said "Marilyn. Jesus Christ. What are they for?" She said "Oh, those are for my vitamin shots."
'Pat looked like she was going to faint. "Oh my God, Marilyn," she said. Then Marilyn said "It's all right Pat. I know what I'm doing."
'Marilyn finally found what she was looking for: a pin. As we all stood there with our mouths open, she opened a bottle of pills and picked one out.
'Then - and I had never seen anything like this before - she put a small hole at the end of the capsule, and swallowed it. "Gets into your bloodstream faster that way," she said. She turned back to Pat and said "See, I told you I knew what I was doing."'
Later, Marilyn collapsed in her room and was found, just in time, by Pat.
'Frank Sinatra didn't know what to think about any of it,' said his valet, George Jacobs. 'He was upset, though. He loved Marilyn, yes. But for her to maybe die at Cal-Neva while he was there? That would have been terrible.
'So he said: "Get her out of here and get her out of here now." And that was it. We had to do what he said. I mean, the woman was sick. But as compassionate as Sinatra was, he had a line and she crossed it.'
Stacy Baron, another guest staying at the lodge, recalled: 'I was in the lobby and I saw Peter Lawford on one side of her and Pat on the other side and they were practically carrying this woman out. I got a real shock. It was Marilyn Monroe.'
On Marilyn's last day alive, August 4, 1962, Dr Greenson left her home in Brentwood at about 7pm, requesting that Eunice Murray, the housekeeper he'd employed for her, spend the night there to keep an eye on his patient. Around that time, Peter Lawson called to invite Marilyn to a dinner party at his home, but she declined.
Marilyn brought a telephone into her bedroom and closed the door. It appears the rest of this last evening would be spent alone in this room.
It seems that she continued making telephone calls. Later that night, Peter Lawford called again. This time, he could sense Marilyn wasn't well. According to Peter she said: 'Say goodbye to Pat. Say goodbye to the President, and say goodbye to yourself because you're such a nice guy.'
This would seem to indicate that she was thinking about taking her life. Alarmed, Peter called Marilyn again; the line was engaged. He mentioned to his business partner, Milton Ebbins, that he was worried and wanted to go to the house, but Ebbins was afraid that Marilyn had overdosed and didn't want Peter - the President's brotherinlaw - to be the one to find her.
Ebbins called Marilyn's attorney, Mickey Rudin, who then rang the house at 9pm. He spoke to Eunice Murray, who told him that Marilyn was fine, but whether or not Eunice was able to confirm this (or even had an interest in doing so) is unknown.
The conflicting accounts of Marilyn's death occur after this time. The most often told version is based on official statements by Eunice Murray and Dr Greenson. At around 2am, Eunice called Dr Greenson, alarmed because Marilyn's door was locked. Greenson showed up five minutes later and went around to Marilyn's window.
He saw the actress on her bed, frozen and lifeless.
Breaking the glass, he let himself into the room. Once inside, he realised that she was dead, lying face down, holding her telephone in her right hand with open bottles of pills on her nightstand.
With the passing of the years, many murder theories developed. Some involve Marilyn being killed by Bobby Kennedy, or on the orders of Bobby to protect the Kennedy name.
Some implicate Peter Lawford, some the FBI, Dr Greenson, Eunice Murray, the Mafia.
Are there suspicious circumstances around Marilyn's death? Absolutely. For instance, the doctors and Murray waited almost two hours to contact the authorities. Why?
No one has ever sufficiently answered that question. More intriguingly, Eunice would later say that there was no lock on Marilyn's door. If that's the case, then the entire story of how she was found seems to fall apart.
There was very little drug residue found in Marilyn's stomach - and what was found wasn't properly analysed. Also, there was some discolouration in her lower intestine.
Do these facts support the theory that maybe she was given a lethal enema by someone?
Not really. Marilyn was a drug addict. It is a medical fact that an addict's stomach becomes accustomed to the drugs of choice and that they easily pass into the intestines. Many addicts die without a trace of pills in their stomachs.
Certainly, if she died today, with current science, there would be no mystery. So, the question remains: Suicide or murder?
If she had been a stable woman who had never overdosed in her lifetime, then, yes, one might legitimately question the circumstances of her death. However, this was a woman who had overdosed again and again - sometimes, it seemed, intentionally, sometimes maybe not.
She could have died on any number of those occasions were it not for those who found and revived her.
Perhaps the only real question about her death is whether it was intentional, or whether she hoped, on the night of August 4, that yet again someone would find Marilyn Monroe in time to save her from herself.
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