Things You Might Not Know About Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was very lonely, even though she put on a happy face.
Her mentally ill mother tried to kill her, so Marilyn grew up in a series of foster homes.
She was married before she turned 16 and dropped out of high school.
She never knew her father.
Marilyn divorced several times.
She desperately wanted a baby, but each time she tried she miscarried.
She was good friends with Judy Garland.

People thought she was a dumb blonde, but she was not.
She was deeply intellectual and an avid reader.
She had hundreds of books lining the shelves in her home, such as James Joyce's Ulysses.
At the time of her death, Monroe was reading two novels, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Leo Rosten's Captain Newman MD.
She was an avid supporter of the civil rights movement.
Monroe helped songstress Ella Fitzgerald break into the Los Angeles music scene. 

Because of segregation laws still in place in 1955, black people were not allowed in nightclubs, so Monroe demanded that Fitzgerald be allowed to perform.

She  promised the management of a popular L.A. nightclub that if Fitzgerald could sing there, she would ensure publicity and a packed crowd by sitting in the front row every night for a week.

She was being monitored by the FBI.

Because of the political views of her and her husband, the FBI closely monitored them, thinking that they might have been communists.

The complete files are available now, though huge parts are blacked out. 

The original, untouched copies of the Monroe files no longer exist.

During renovations by the new owner to Marilyn's house after she died, discovered elaborate wiretapping and a telephone tapping system.

She was in love with Bobby Kennedy.

Monroe was rumored to have been involved with both JFK and Bobby.A alledged letter was sent to Monroe by Kennedy's younger sister, Jean Kennedy Smith.

 "Understand that you and Bobby are the new item!" she wrote. "We all think you should come with him when he comes back East!"

The FBI was investigating the suspected relationship between Bobby and Monroe with J. Edgar Hoover at the helm.

He was particularly determined to find anything scandalous.

A lot of evidence surrounding her death was destroyed or missing.

A lot of forensic evidence related to her death went missing.
One of the suspicious things was, that Marilyn's half sister reported that Marilyn's manager was burning some of her papers.

Many witness accounts of the night she died were contradictory.

The coroner and first responders had some doubts that her death was a suicide.

A fresh bruise was on Monroe's hip and when her  stomach was examined there were no traces of the dye that coated the Nembutal capsules that claimed her life. 

The coroner later admitted that he should have tested her internal organs instead of just performing toxicology tests on the blood and liver.

Weeks after he performed the autopsy the coroner asked the lab to test her other organs but they had already been destroyed.

The first officer to the scene thought something was off.
He thought it was staged and looked a little too neat and was nothing to drink in the room and no empty containers.

Did Bobby Kennedy have something to do with her death?

An FBI file suggests that Bobby Kennedy was aware of a plan to"induce" the starlet's suicide.
Page 2 of the FBI document describes wiretap evidence of Robert Kennedy inquiring to Peter Lawford “Is Marilyn dead yet?”
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She was an amazing cook.

After her death, many recipes were found in her home.
She planned on writing a cookbook one day.
Cooking experts deemed those recipes as wonderful and that they seemed to come from a confident cook.

She was a poet.

Monroe's personal papers were published in 2010.

They show her frustration at dealing with day-to-day life and the people around her. 

"I can't really stand Human beings sometimes — I know they all have their problems as I have mine — but I'm really too tired for it. Trying to understand, making allowances, seeing certain things that just weary me."

Another entry reads,

 "all this thought and writing has made my hands tremble but I just want to keep pouring it out until that great pot in the mind is, though not emptied, relieved."

Did you know that Marilyn Monroe died her hair from brunette to blonde?

Marilyn Monroe's life and death