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Marilyn Monroe Was *ALLEGEDLY* Killed With A Drink


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On a hot night in August 1982 — just weeks, he says, after Lawford told him what really happened — the former policeman was the target of a mob-style assassination bid. A gunman on a motorcycle pulled up alongside his unmarked car and opened fire with a semi-automatic pistol.

Rothmiller was hit in the back and side, and suffered spinal damage which he barely survived.

Four years earlier, aged 27, he was the youngest detective in the city’s Organised Crime Intelligence Division [OCID]. With six years’ experience on the force, he was assigned to desk duties in the department’s information trove nicknamed Fort Davis — a bomb-proof labyrinth of filing cabinets in a downtown building with no windows.

Tens of thousands of files were held there: rumour, fact, supposition and gossip on everyone from crime bosses to politicians, actors to rock stars, newspaper reporters to television presenters. Much of the information was unrelated to any crimes — it was simply background on anyone who had ever crossed the path of the OCID. Their sole job was to collect potentially embarrassing intelligence that might later be used as leverage in criminal investigations.

Intrigued, Rothmiller began to browse the files of famous names. Discovering the filing system code, Rothmiller opened the ‘K’ cabinet and plucked out Jack Kennedy’s folder. This, he saw, was cross-referenced with Marilyn’s file as well as many others, including mob bosses. There were 40 or 50 linked cards, each referencing dozens of bulging files.

Following the threads led him to singer and film star Frank Sinatra, and other members of the Rat Pack, such as Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr. Some were marked Cfs, for Confidential Files. Officially, these papers didn’t exist.

Rothmiller could not make photocopies. His method was to make notes where possible, and to write up his discoveries as soon as he could.

In one confidential file, he found a copy of a document marked ‘Marilyn Monroe’s diary’. Its existence had long been rumoured. Marilyn made no secret of the fact she kept a diary, her ‘little red book’. But as far as showbiz historians knew, it was never found after her death.

According to Rothmiller, the truth was different. The LAPD had a copy — and probably the original too.

Rothmiller turned to the final entries. On August 3, 1962, the day before she died, Marilyn wrote: ‘Peter said Robert will come tomorrow. I don’t know if he will.’

Peter was Lawford, her go-between with the Kennedys. Robert was Bobby, JFK’s brother.

Leafing through the pages, Rothmiller saw Marilyn regarded Bobby Kennedy as something much more than a casual boyfriend. He was married with seven children, and was named America’s Father of the Year in 1962, but the star appeared to believe that he was prepared to leave his wife, Ethel, and marry her.

‘Bobby is gentle,’ she wrote. ‘He listens to me. He’s nicer than John... Bobby says he loves me and wants to marry me. I love him. John hasn’t called. Bobby called.’

A week before her death, Marilyn made an ominous entry in her diary: ‘Frank invited me to the lodge. He said it will be fun. He said never to mention Sam at the lodge. He’s Mafia.’

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I don't think it's possible to know how many of these stories are true. There seems to be a cottage industry in Hollywood that survives by churning rumours and outright lies. Still, be interesting to get in to the archives of the Organised Crime Intelligence Division.

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Yeah, people like to theorize and make up shit about who "killed her".

The truth is that she was taking the kind of heavy-duty barbituates and other pills that are no longer prescribed today because they're too dangerous, and taking them with alcohol. She probably just took one pill too many.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/marilyn-monroe-and-the-prescription-drugs-that-killed-her

I've also read that she was taking two psych meds that can cause fatal arrythmias if taken together and that nobody knew that in 1962, but it all comes down to the same things. She probably died from taking legal prescription drugs, given to her by her shitty psychiatrist.

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It would have been quite quirky if she was given the Mickey Finn treatment by Mickey Cohen - an L.A. gangster who she knew.

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