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 The Daily Beast.
"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.
"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.