With each passing year, the questions become louder and more insistent: What role did John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert play in the tragic death of Marilyn Monroe?
A significant fact, according to Marilyn’s second husband, New York Yankees legend Joe DiMaggio, who forbade the brothers from attending her funeral.
“All the Kennedys were conquerors and always got their way,” he would say years later.
But perhaps not for much longer.
With each passing year, the questions become louder and more insistent: What role did John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert play in the tragic death of Marilyn Monroe?
The Kennedy brothers played a major role, according to Marilyn’s second husband, New York Yankees legend Joe DiMaggio (left), who banned the brothers from attending her funeral in 1962.
According to an explosive new book, which purports to offer evidence that Monroe argued violently with then US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in the hours before her death, it suggests he may have even drugged the actress to silence her.
Based on previously unseen notes and transcripts of their final conversations (allegedly wiretapped), ‘The Fixer’ offers a dark look into the private world and sordid ways of the Kennedy brothers and the shadowy circle of celebrities that surrounded them, which included the likes of Frank Sinatra and his friend Peter Lawford.
The authors suggest that Marilyn, 36, had threatened Robert F. Kennedy – her lover – on the day of her death, bitterly accusing him of abandoning her while she underwent an operation to abort her child.
To build their case, they turned to the investigative files of a police officer turned private detective named Fred Otash.
Known as “the ultimate Dreamland fixer,” Otash is said to have bugged Marilyn’s home in the weeks before her death.
The reason for the surveillance? The book does not clarify.
But the original tapes, if they existed, are said to have disappeared shortly after Marilyn was found dead on August 5, 1962, killed by a fatal overdose of barbiturates.
‘The Fixer’ offers a dark look at the private world and sordid habits of the Kennedy brothers and their circle.
Authors Josh Young and Manfred Westphal claim to have found the next best thing: Otash’s private notes and recordings describing what he found on his secret tapes.
The story begins on the evening of August 4, when a drunken Peter Lawford knocked on Otash’s door and announced: “I think Marilyn’s dead.”
The detective immediately set about “picking up the pieces” and sent an associate named Reed Wilson to gather evidence at Marilyn’s home. He then listened to the secret tapes.
Otash’s notes suggest that RFK had flown to Los Angeles from San Francisco that same day at the instigation of Lawford, who was also Kennedy’s brother-in-law and had called Robert to tell him he was concerned about Marilyn’s mental state.
When Kennedy first arrived at her Brentwood home, Marilyn was upset, Otash records. He reportedly notes in brutally blunt language: “He fucked her around 11 in the morning and then left.”
RFK returned later that day, this time with Lawford. But Marilyn was distraught and shouted at him “as if there was no tomorrow.”
“On the recording that Reed Wilson and I heard, there was, uh, a serious problem,” Otash says.
‘She had made some threatening statements to (RFK) that he had made a lot of commitments and promises to her.’
As Lawford and RFK tried to calm her down, Marilyn screamed, “Where were you when I had to abort your child, you fucking bastard?”
The screams grew louder until RFK or Peter “grabbed a pillow” and used it to “calm her down on the bed” until “there was no more screaming.”
“Maybe he gave her something,” the detective allegedly suggests. “Or Peter gave her something.”
Robert Kennedy is then said to have left Marilyn’s house at around 5:30 p.m. and told Lawford, “I’m out of here.”
Lawford asked Marilyn if she wanted to go out to dinner with him, to which she replied: “I’m not feeling well. I don’t feel like it. I want to go to sleep. It’s been a bad couple of days for me.”
Later that night, he called Lawford twice and repeatedly attempted to reach Robert’s brother, JFK, before calling Lawford once more and telling him, “Say goodbye to Pat. Say goodbye to the President and say goodbye to yourself because you’re a good guy.”
According to Otash’s notes, Marilyn dropped the phone (it was tapped) and was found dead hours later.
The Fixer suggests that Bobby Kennedy, her lover, may have even drugged Marilyn to shut her up.
“All the Kennedys were ladies’ men and always got their way,” DiMaggio said. In the photo, Marilyn is pictured with Bobby and JFK at the president’s 45th birthday party in 1962.
The Fixer revelations follow DailyMail.com’s exclusive serialisation of Maureen Callahan’s ‘Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed’, which revealed the ‘incestuous sexual competition’ between JFK and his brother RFK over Marilyn.
Mail columnist Callahan suggests that Marilyn fell in love with both men after meeting JFK at a Hollywood party in 1954 and then being introduced to Robert.
Callahan claims that both brothers had affairs with Marilyn, affairs that overlapped.
Even on the night she sang “Happy Birthday” to JFK at Madison Square Garden in May 1962, Marilyn had previously slept with RFK in his dressing room.
Later that night, Marilyn was captured in the only known photograph of her with the Kennedy brothers, the men who, Callahan says, bear great responsibility for her destiny.
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