Kennedy's alleged affair with Marilyn Monroe, which Taraborrelli claims consisted of a weekend-long fling in March 1962. In fact, the book also details a brief but affecting phone call between Kennedy and Monroe one month after the "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" star's affair with the then-president.
In his 1997 book The Dark Side of Camelot, journalist Seymour Hersh wrote about the rumored affair between Monroe and JFK, saying the actress' "instability posed a constant threat" to the president before she mysteriously overdosed.
And his control over funeral planning meant that three key figures in Monroe's life were nowhere to be seen at the service. DiMaggio reportedly banned Frank Sinatra, John F. Kennedy and Robert “Bobby” Kennedy from attending the star's funeral.
Lawford says that in "slurred" speech Monroe told him she was "tired and would not be coming" to dinner. Then, as her voice became less audible, she told him, "Say goodbye to Pat. Say goodbye to Jack [President Kennedy]. And say goodbye to yourself, because you're a nice guy."
Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner reportedly paid a private seller $75,000 for the crypt next to the late actress. He was interred there in 2017. Monroe was both the cover and centerfold for the first Playboy issue published in 1953.
Marilyn Monroe thought JFK would marry her, book claims
Did Elvis ever date Marilyn Monroe?
Although this story of Elvis meeting up for a sordid affair with the legendary Marilyn Monroe is titivating, his closest friends denied it ever happened. Joe Esposito, a member of Elvis' entourage, the Memphis Mafia, said they only met once in June 1960. He said they met "at Paramount Studios one time".
Monroe's most infamous rumored affairs were with President John F. Kennedy and later his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Some have even suggested that her relationship with the two men played a role in her untimely death.
In the immortal words of Tracee Ellis Ross, Marilyn Monroe had a ~wheel of lovers~, aka three marriages and a bunch of boyfriends dotted in between. But like many romance matters, the relationships—and their subsequent endings—are not as black-and-white as they seem.
Grave stone of Marilyn Monroe at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, 1218 Glendon Avenue, Los Angeles, California | Library of Congress.
Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era's sexual revolution.
While Blonde takes inspiration from real events, figures, and long-held rumors from the actor's life as a jumping point to imagine what Monroe may have thought and felt, the film is by no means a biopic. Like Oates' book, it's a definite work of fiction, dabbling in the experimental and including fantastical elements.
No, Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe never met, but there is a joke I like about it. Marilyn asked Einstein, “What if we were to marry? With my looks and your brain, what wonderful children we would have.” Einstein replied, “Yes, but what if they had my looks and your brain?”
According to Biography, DiMaggio organized to have roses delivered to Monroe's Los Angeles crypt three times a week for 20 years after her death. “I'll go to my grave regretting and blaming myself for what happened to her,” DiMaggio is quoted as saying after her passing.
The "Man with an Eternal Smile?" Joe DiMaggio had purchased two crypts in Westwood Cemetery for he and his famous wife, and while divorcing in 1954 sold his to Richard Poncher. The crypt Poncher bought was located directly above that which would eventually hold the remains of Marilyn Monroe (in 1962).
After the expo, the dress will be moved to Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum on International Drive for visitors to see. Ripley's purchased the dress in 2016 at an auction for $4.8 million. The company now estimates the dress is worth more than $10 million.
Why did Marilyn Monroe look bruised when she died?
Lividity can mimic bruises. If she was found face down, or even on her side it would discolor her face. Post-mortem lividity is the pooling of the blood, caused by gravity, in the lower or dependent areas.
Iconic American actor Marilyn Monroe lived and died in the same home in Brentwood. In 2023, the home's new owner was listed as Glory of the Snow LLC. It is a company managed by Dan Lukas, who is an Emerald Lake hedge fund manager, and his wife Anne Jarmain.
Her death was officially ruled a probable suicide by the Los Angeles County coroner's office, based on information about her overdosing and being prone to mood swings and suicidal ideation.
And Marilyn=s mother, confined to a sanitarium, never learned of her daughter=s death. In fact, she seemed after some time not even to be sure who Norma Jean had been. Exiting the chapel into the sun‑drenched afternoon, mourners walked in silence behind the brand-new hearse.
