Marilyn Monroe The Blonde Bombshell By Skyla Garza

Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926. She was an American actress and singer. The blonde bombshell was found dead in her home lying down in her bed nude in Brentwood area of Los Angeles, California. On August 5, 1962, at the age of 36. Marilyn shocked the world. Did the most famous sex symbol overdose and commit suicide due to her prescribed depression medication or did somebody hire a hit man on poor Marilyn. Since her death many, conspiracies have arisen. 

1.      Killed by the Mafia.

2.      Robert Kennedy killed Marilyn Monroe for knowing “Too Much”.

3.      Suicide.

4.       Marilyn still alive.

We are going to dive into these different conspiracies and into Marilyn’s life to see what happened.

Character Analysis

Marilyn Monroe AKA “Norma Jeane Mortenson” was known to be a very amorous woman. Also, the young woman was a very lustful and sexual woman. Monroe had an amorous relationship with Bobby and John F Kennedy. She was sexual in movies; that’s why she was getting called a famous sex symbol (HOMICIDE?). Even though Marilyn knew people thought about her in that way, she still was positive and herself. 

Marilyn was American’s most famous sex symbol. At taking on these roles in movies that made her look sexy and pretty. After some minor parts in films, including “The Asphalt Jungle” and “all about Eve”, Monroe began to make a name for herself as a “Sex symbol”. She became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950’s. Monroe’s sense of fashion was very sexual, “unforgettable looks during the 1950s an era of Peter Pan collars, poodle skirts and repressed sexuality Marilyn’s ability to spot up-and-coming designers made her a fashion visionary” (Marilyn Monroe Star, Sex Symbol, Fashion Icon). 

Monroe was also brave; she had to go through problems that some people never knew she went through, Marilyn was strong at heart; she was brave going through her divorcees and miscarriages. Marilyn always had a smile on her face even though it hurt. But she fought through the pain. Monroe was sexually abused at a young age and adult age: “She publicly disclosed the sexual abuse she experienced during her childhood and adulthood– a shocking confession, especially at the time (It was a brave, feminist act). It was a brave, feminist act. She didn’t hide during a time when our society held to the ideas that abuse rarely occurred and if it did, blamed the victim” (7 Sensational Things Marilyn Monroe Can Teach Us About Feminism).

The blonde bombshell was a beautiful young woman, a blue-eyed, blonde headed woman. She had an extreme hourglass shape. Monroe was 5’6 and 120 pounds. People clamed Marilyn was a thick woman: “Some say Marilyn Monroe was a large “Plus Sized” woman, her personal clothing items tell a different story” (Marilyn Monroe’s True Size). People thought Marilyn Monroe was fat, but she was not a fat woman. Her clothes and the sizes of her sensual clothes gave us proof that she was not a fat woman. Marilyn Monroe dress size was a size 12 but also “While these documents suggest that her weight was a constant 117-120lbs, she was actually much heavier during the late 1950s, for example, the Some Like It Hot premiere on March 29, 1959 (below).  Some have speculated she weighed close to 140lbs at this point” (Marilyn Monroe’s True Size).

Conspiracy

The first conspiracy theory suggests that Marilyn Monroe was assassinated by the Mafia. Monroes killer was either Jimmy Hoffa or Chicago's Mafia boss Sam Giancana. Monroe see to have a romantic relationship with henchman Johnny Roselli according to biographer (Darwin Porter). Sam said that Marilyn was “Threating to blow the lid off his operations” ( Porter). The boss Sam wanted the blonde bombshell to seduce powerful men that the mobster wanted to blackmail (Porter). Giancana said that “A lot of people had a lot to lose if Marilyn spoke out” he also said, “She was making a lot of dangerous statements and did not know who she was messing with” (Porter). Believes five Mafia hit men were responsible for her murder on the order of Giancana, using a washcloth drenched in chloroform, then stripping Monroe and giving her a barbiturate enema (Porter). A twist fall into place (Porter) posts it also could have been JFK or Robert Kenndy that had hired the mobster to get rid of Marilyn Monroe (4 conspiracy theories about the death of Marilyn Monroe). This conspiracy was popular also, we have all this information about the Mafia killing Marilyn but there is no evidence against the mafia and Sam Giancana that can support this conspiracy.

The second conspiracy theory suggest that Marilyn was killed by Robert Kennedy for knowing too much. Bobby Kennedy got involved in a messy affair with Marilyn in the summer of 1962 when he was sent out to Los Angeles by his brother Jack to convince the screen goddess to stop calling the President at the White House. The President was not going to divorce Jackie and marry her. But Bobby fell under her spell and slipped into the bedroom with Marilyn. 'It wasn’t Bobby’s intention, but that evening they became lovers and spent the night in our guest bedroom’, Peter Lawford later revealed. (Caroline Howe). Monroe’s death was not suicide but a murder. Bobby Kennedy to silence her as she was about to revel all the dirty Kennedy family secrets that Marilyn kept in logged in her little red diary (Howe). However, Bobby Kennedy did not act alone. He had co-conspirators in her murder his brother in law, actor Peter Lawford and Marilyn’s psychiatrist Dr. Greenson to “take care” of Marilyn (Howe). Almost immediately the affair got very heavy, and they began seeing a lot of each other Lawford said (Howe).

Marilyn shifted her attentions to Bobby and started calling the Department of Justice to get the Attorney General on the phone. She was now madly in love with Bobby, who had promised to marry her and leave Ethel, Lawford said, despite the Kennedy brothers passing her around like a football and making her feel like a piece of meat.

But when Bobby began to pull away, Marilyn threatened Bobby with a press conference where she would reveal her illicit affairs with Jack and Bobby and all the dangerous secrets she knew about the Kennedys and had written in the little red diary she kept hidden (Howe). Bobby demanded to know where the diary was. “We have to know”, he screamed at her, claim the authors. Marilyn was not going to give it up (Howe). However, we have more information about the Kennedys and her Dr. And Peter in this article (EXCLUSIVE - Bobby Kennedy ordered Marilyn Monroe's murder by lethal injection to prevent her from revealing her torrid affairs with RFK and JFK: New book sensationally claims to have finally solved the mystery surrounding her death). These accusations of the Kennedys killing Marilyn they were never accountable for Marilyn's death.

The third conspiracy theory is that Marilyn Monroe in fact did commit suicide. The police initially called it an accident, the coroner said, it was a suicide and conspiracy theorists say it was a murder. But what is the truth behind the death of Marilyn Monroe (Gina Dimuro). Monroe was recognizable even to people who never seen one of her movies (Dimuro). On august 5, 1962 at the age of 36 (Dimuro). They still were rumors and theories coming that she may have been murdered. Marilyn's housekeeper Eunice Murray slept at the movies star house in Los Angeles on the night of August 5, 1962 (Dimuro). Eunice Murray were up at 3am to still see Marilyn Monroes light on in her room and she was concerned (Dimuro). Eunice found out that Marilyn's door was locked, she called Monroe's psychiatrist Greenson to come and Dr Greenson broke that window and he climbed through (Dimuro). Dr.Greenson found hollywoods biggest star naked under the sheets and clutching the telephone (Dimuro). When Greenson was in the room he calmly called out to Eunice and said, “she appears to be dead” (Dimuro). Monroe's bedside table was contained myriad of medicine bottles (Dimuro). Dr.Hymen Engelberg pronounced her deceased then Engelberg called the police at 4:30am (Dimuro). Monroes body was taken to los angels that same day the toxicology report which came back later that night (Dimuro). Hymen said that Marilyn's blood contained a sleeping pill chloral hydrate and her liver showed presence of barbiturate Nembutal it reveals that it was a much higher than a fatal dose (Dimuro). The pills had been ingested within a short period of time (Dimuro). This conspiracy is the one everybody believes that happened that she actually committed suicide. 

The fourth conspiracy is that Marilyn Monroe is still alive. John Alexander Baker, author of Marilyn Monroe: Alive in 1984? He believes Monroe stayed at an institution for 20yrs (Jim Mitchell). Being recognized, before being released and according to the book outline baker says he picked up a hitchhiker in Nova Scotia in 1984 who he claimed to be Monroe a homeless, frighten paranoid schizophrenic (Mitchell). Marilyn told Baker that she was a former movie start and baker was taken by her resemblance to Monroe as well as a similarity to her singing (Mitchell). Did Marilyn fake her own death. However, this conspiracy remains the most less conspiracy theory of them all.

Did Marilyn Monroe commit suicide or is she still alive or did Robert Kennedy killed her or did the mafia kill her it's still a mystery about the former star. They say she committed suicide but it's hard for people to believe that she would do that. It's been 57 years since Marilyn died and all these conspiracies are going around, and pictures have surfaced the internet now. The most likely for her death is Robert Kennedy and Peter Lawford and her Dr. Marilyn shocked the world 

               

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