Marilyn Monroe was murdered 57 years ago, August 5, 1962
She was just thirty-six years old
Perhaps the greatest American Icon of all time, Marilyn Monroe was America's sweetheart, poster girl, cheerleader, pin up queen, singer, movie star, the object of lust, devotion, miles of newspaper and magazine print and the most imitated person of all time.
But that does not even begin to describe this blonde bombshell who dominates the world even today, five decades after her death. You see, one of these days some smart prosecutor will reopen the Marilyn Monroe death case and the truth will finally come out and don't be surprised to hear the mafia, politicians, the Hollywood Rat Pack, President Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and who knows who else dominating the news.
Yet this time it will be different. Before her enemies, those who killed her, controlled the media and film industry and made certain only their side of the story was heard. Thanks to the Internet and Marilyn's astounding popularity with Baby Boomers and their kids (the Millennial generation) when her tragic death is relived there will be overwhelming interest on the worldwide social media through the Internet.
Mainstream media, Hollywood, Madison Avenue nor politicians control the Internet this time and they sure as Hell don't control the Baby Boomers and their heirs. You see, Marilyn is alive and well in the minds of the youth and Baby Boomers of the world who grew up with her or adopted her as the role model for modern women and girls.
Don't believe me, just look at the hundreds and thousands of Marilyn products flooding the market. Most of the world was not aware that Marilyn and her image and persona have been the subject of bitter court fights that lasted until a Federal Appeals Court finally settled the issue in 2012 by stating what Marilyn stated in life, she belonged to no one but the public she tried so hard to please.
It took 50 years for the federal courts to rule on her "image and persona," and now her story can finally be told.
Still, she has always remained with us because of her unique American story. A mother who was sent to a mental health institution while her daughter was sent to foster homes and an orphanage. She never knew who was her father. She created an alter ego to help her through the loneliness.
Her alter ego would one day become a star and Marilyn spent her entire life preparing for the moment. She created the most rigid workout program and diet in existence while a teenager to prepare her physically. But through it all shone the innocence of Norma Jean who loved children, loved animals and loved to make people happy.
In time she went to work in a defense plant during World War II and was accidentally discovered by a photographer working on the assembly lines. He was trying to generate interest in the war effort by finding a poster girl and did he ever succeed. Marilyn has been America's poster girl through World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan during the last 56 years and no one has knocked her off her pedestal.
Look at the continuing interest in Marilyn. Her last dress sold at auction a couple of years ago for $5.54 million breaking the previous record from 1999 of $1.26 million paid for another Marilyn dress which was more than four times higher than the previous record. Marilyn doesn't just break records, she smashes them into oblivion.
After her discovery as a pin up model she quickly established herself in the movies and every major male star at the time wanted to be paired with her including Robert Mitchum, Clark Gable, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemon to mention just a few.
From being a homeless orphan to world famous movie starlet Marilyn was the perfect American success story. But waiting for America's Sweetheart were the predators of Hollywood and the strange combination of mafia and politicians who coveted her. She married America's favorite Yankees baseball hero but immediately realized their careers made marriage impossible yet Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn remained best friends and were planning to remarry just a couple of weeks after her death.
Two people in life befriended her, Joe DiMaggio and Milton Greene, her favorite photographer and business partner as she became the first woman in Hollywood to own her own movie production company with Milton.
Hollywood, the mafia and powerful politicians used enormous power and prestige to entrap Marilyn and failing to succeed, they killed her because she knew too much. That story is yet to surface but the time is finally right to tell Marilyn's real story, identify those who took her life to save their careers, and make her far more famous than she is already.
Can you believe someone should become so dominate in the world enduring for over 50 years and the best hasn't even been told yet? And can you believe Marilyn was just 36 years old when she was killed?
Bigger in death than life? Hardly? She had only just begun in life. Now it is time we heard her story rather than versions of all those whose agenda was not protecting Marilyn but those who made her a victim. Justice has yet to be dispensed. Then Norma Jean can finally rest.
America's number one sweetheart, movie icon and innocent victim will be coming back to finish what she started. As Norma Jean said, Marilyn Monroe belongs to no one but the people.
An avid reader and hungry for knowledge, Marilyn had a library of hundreds of books and read every minute she could spare.
Stay tuned for the rest of the story...
