What's Come Out About Marilyn Monroe's Death

Marilyn Monroe is fixed in our cultural consciousness as forever young, blonde, and beautiful because she never got the opportunity to age gracefully. At just 36 years old, Monroe was found dead in her home in Brentwood, California. This is the truth about Marilyn Monroe's death.

By the 1960s, Monroe had won over American's hearts in films like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The Seven Year Itch. Despite personal struggles, Monroe's success at the box office seemed limitless, until the morning of Sunday, August 5th, 1962.

The evening before, Monroe called her psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, complaining she couldn't sleep. She also phoned actor Peter Lawford, who was worried she sounded depressed and was slurring her words. He invited her to dinner with him and his wife, Pat, but she claimed she was too tired. She then told him, referencing then-President John F. Kennedy, according to police reports:

"Say goodbye to Pat, say goodbye to Jack, and say goodbye to yourself, because you're a nice guy."

When the housekeeper, Eunice Murray, awoke around 3 am, Monroe's bedroom light was still on, but the door was locked. When she knocked and received no answer, Murray phoned Dr. Greenson. Per the Los Angeles Times, Dr. Greenson arrived around 3:30 and used a fire poker to smash the window and enter the room. Monroe was lying face down in bed, nude and clutching the telephone receiver, with an empty bottle of Nembutal lying next to her.

But what really happened? And how did it come to this?

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Marilyn Monroe's tragic end | 0:15
The invention of Marilyn Monroe | 1:18
An unlikely marriage | 2:25
"A very, very sick girl" | 3:23
Something's Got to Give | 4:30
The autopsy raised some questions | 5:38
Her long history of depression | 6:47
Conspiracy theory #1 | 7:43
Conspiracy theory #2 | 8:20
Conspiracy theory #3 | 9:14
The 1982 inquest | 9:57
Was it an accident? | 11:03

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