Marilyn Monroe aborted JFK’s love child and fell into depression over RFK days before suicide, book says
MARILYN Monroe aborted President John F. Kennedy's love child and spiraled into a depression about his brother days before her apparent suicide, an explosive book claims.
Monroe was admitted to a Hollywood hospital on July 20, 1962 under an alias, according to an excerpt of Norma Jean: The Life of Marilyn Monroe obtained by .
Monroe was found dead in her Los Angeles home on Aug. 5 of that year at the age of 36 from what cops called a "probable suicide."
Author Fred Lawrence Guiles writes that she had her last tryst with JFK three months before, and had seen Robert F. Kennedy few weeks before.
"Marilyn phoned Bobby Kennedy on Monday, July 3," the book reads, according to The Daily Beast.
"If she had indeed terminated a pregnancy, we have no way of knowing whether or not she told him.
"What we do know is that she seems to have plunged into a profound depression."
Monroe was seeing other men during that spring and summer, according to the book, but it would "be easy to assume" the aborted child was Kennedy.
She also had fairly regular contact with Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra during that time, according to Guiles.
The book recounts that she seemed "edgy" one evening in August, just days before her death.
"Bobby had taken over her emotional life within a brief two and a half months, but he may well have brought Ethel and his family West to help ease him out of this mistake," the book reads.
"Marilyn had drifted into an unrealistic view of the situation - believing that Bobby was somehow available to her.
"Now the Kennedy clan was shoving her back into her place.
"If she felt that the possibility of a really serious relationship with Bobby was being dismissed - that would certainly help explain her ill temper Friday evening."
The book noted that a document in Robert Kennedy's Justice Department file indicated he spent the weekend of Marilyn's death at a ranch in .
"It says nothing about the tragedy unfolding in Los Angeles that weekend," according to the book.
"But the document served to make it officially clear that Kennedy was far away by the time the word of the tragedy was out."
Norma Jean: The Life of Marilyn Monroe was originally published in 1969, seven years after her death. Guiles died in 2000.
The reprint became available for purchase on Tuesday.
";Marilyn Monroe remains the most provocative female legend of the twentieth century," reads a description of the book.
"What you may have known about her before was only the tip of the iceberg.
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"For twenty years, the men and women who knew Marilyn best saw what they knew suppressed because certain important people were still living, and the tenor of the times prohibited frankness.
"Instead, rumors ballooned."
Monroe starred in such films as Some Like It Hot, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The Seven-Year Itch before her tragic death.