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(#9) The Housekeeper's Timeline Changed Frequently
Eunice Murray initially told Sgt. Jack Clemmons that she phoned Dr. Ralph Greenson around midnight. She later said she first called the doctor at 3 am. Peter Lawford, who persisted in trying to check up on Marilyn Monroe after their earlier conversation, claimed he'd been told that she died around midnight. Milton Rudin, her attorney, also said he'd been told she died around midnight, by Dr. Greenson himself.
These discrepancies in time have been interpreted as proof that Dr. Greenson and Murray staged a cover-up of the actress’s passing between midnight and when the police were finally called at 4:25 am.
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(#8) The Case Was Almost Reopened In 1982
Following the many conspiracy theories published in the 1970s, District Attorney John Van de Kamp ordered a review of the actress’s passing in 1982. It spanned 29 pages and took three-and-a-half months to prepare.
After a thorough investigation Van de Kamp found that there was no foul play in Monroe’s death, noting:
Based on the evidence available to us, it appears that her death could have been a suicide or a result of an accidental drug overdose. It is possible that while her ingestion of a lethal quantity of barbiturates was voluntary, she may have been in such a state of emotional confusion that she lacked a clearly formed purpose.
The district attorney added that no further inquiry was planned into Monroe’s demise and that reopening the case was unnecessary.
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(#6) She Went From Happy To Dying In Less Than 30 Minutes
Monroe took a phone call from Joe DiMaggio Jr. between 7:00 pm and 7:15 pm and by all accounts had a happy conversation with the 20-year-old, during which DiMaggio Jr. told her that he’d just broken up with a young woman Monroe disliked. Housekeeper Eunice Murray also later confirmed that Monroe was “happy, gay, alert - anything but depressed” during the talk.
Monroe took her last call of the night from Peter Lawford about half an hour later at 7:40 pm or 7:45 pm, during which Lawford noted she sounded slurred and barely audible.
Monroe was laughing and chatting on the telephone with Joe DiMaggio’s son, Joe Junior.
Yet - and this was one of the strangest facts of the case - not thirty minutes after this happy conversation, Marilyn Monroe was dying.
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(#4) She Left An Ominous Message Before Her Passing
Marilyn Monroe spoke to several people on the phone the night she passed. Among them was Peter Lawford, an old friend of the actress and the brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy. According to Lawford, Monroe seemed to be under the influence of drugs. He also claimed she told him: "Say goodbye to Pat, say goodbye to the president, and say goodbye to yourself, because you're a nice guy."
Lawford became extremely worried about Monroe, and phoned several people to check up on her. When he was unable to reach Dr. Ralph Greenson, Lawford called Monroe’s lawyer Milton A. Rudin, who in turn reached out to Monroe’s housekeeper, who told him that Monroe was fine.
This message, however, has further fueled conspiracy theories that perhaps John F. Kennedy and the government were somehow involved in Monroe’s demise.
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(#11) Joe DiMaggio Arranged Her Funeral
Joe DiMaggio was left devastated by Marilyn Monroe’s death. He arranged the star’s funeral as a very private ceremony with most of her prominent Hollywood friends excluded. People like Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford were deliberately not invited by DiMaggio, who believed that her Hollywood friends and acquaintances had reduced her to the state that led to her untimely demise. Only 30 of Monroe’s closest friends and relatives, including her half-sister Berniece Baker Miracle, were invited.
Monroe was buried in a green Emilio Pucci dress, and her longtime makeup artist Whitey Snyder made up her face for the last time.
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(#12) After Her Passing, Her Friends Fought Over Her Publicity Rights And Royalties
In her will, Monroe said she wanted the bulk of her estate to go to Lee Strasberg, her acting coach. Monroe instructed him to give some of her personal effects to close friends and family, as well as maintain her publicity rights and film investments. But, according to some of her friends, he never did. And when he died in 1982, his wife Anna Strasberg licensed Monroe's likeness and put her personal belongings on display.
The real problems, though, began when Anna Strasberg started selling off belongings that were supposed to go to Monroe's loved ones. Anna Strasberg made an estimated $20 million to $30 million off Monroe's legacy. Despite several lawsuits to stop this, Anna Strasberg was eventually allowed to keep Monroe's rights - and belongings - as part of her former husband's estate.
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Marilyn Monroe was found dead at her home in Los Angeles on August 5, 1962. The Los Angeles coroner ruled that the cause of her death was acute barbiturates. Many detectives, including the first officer who arrived at the death scene, believed that Marilyn Monroe was murdered. But the U.S. justice department has not filed any murder charges against anyone. The death of Marilyn Monroe became one of the controversial and famous conspiracy theories.
Although she has passed away for decades, there are still various theories about the cause of her death. Some people have found that her autopsy report is full of loopholes, but we have no way to know what the truth of her death was. The random tool lists 12 details about her death which may shock you.
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