A new biography about Marilyn Monroe suggests that the iconic Hollywood sex symbol may have aborted a child from either then-President John F. Kennedy or his brother, Robert Kennedy, just weeks before she died of a drug overdose in her home.
Monroe is also said to have been depressed over the fact that Bobby Kennedy would not leave his wife, Ethel, for her in the days leading up to her death.
The claims were made in a new book by author Fred Lawrence Guiles titled Norma Jean: The Life of Marilyn Monroe, which is due out on Tuesday.
An excerpt of the book was published on Saturday by The Daily Beast.
A publicist who worked for Monroe’s press agent, Arthur P. Jacobs, said that on July 20, 1962, the actress was secretly admitted to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles to terminate a pregnancy.
According to Guiles’ book, Monroe was ‘three months’ removed from her last meeting with John Kennedy and ‘only a few weeks’ removed from her last date with Robert, who at the time was the US attorney general.[amazon
It is impossible to determine for certain whether Monroe was carrying a baby by one of the Kennedys since she was also seeing other men during that time as well, according to the book.
Days before her death on August 4, Monroe placed a phone call to Robert Kennedy, with whom she had reportedly grown infatuated.
‘If she had indeed terminated a pregnancy, we have no way of knowing whether or not she told him,’ the author writes.
‘What we do know is that she seems to have plunged into a profound depression.’
Monroe was so distraught emotionally that she was seeing Dr. Ralph Greenson, a psychiatrist, on a daily basis since that summer.
A few days later, Monroe went out to dinner to her favorite restaurant, La Scala, in Beverly Hills with her secretary and press agent, Pat Newcomb, and actor Peter Lawford, the Rat Pack star and brother-in-law of both JFK and RFK.
Bobby Kennedy, who had taken a trip out to California with his wife and children, was reportedly at the same dinner, according to the book.
That evening, Monroe ‘seemed edgy’ – apparently because she sensed that she was being given a cold shoulder by the attorney general.
‘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,’ Guiles writes.
‘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.’
Guiles writes that Bobby Kennedy made sure to note in a Justice Department memo that he and his family spent the weekend in Gilroy, California, and then in San Francisco.
He apparently was eager to note that he was nowhere near Los Angeles, where Monroe wound up dead that Saturday, August 4, 1962.
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