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Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson) was an American actress, model, and singer, who during her troubled life, became of sex symbol of the 1950s and later immortalized as an icon of Gold Age Hollywood.

Biography[]

In 1955, Marilyn Monroe attended Nite Owl's key to the city ceremony in New York City along with her husband Joe DiMaggio.

On May 19th, 1962, Monroe sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy at a party held at Madison Square Garden to celebrate his 45th birthday. During the performance, she gazed intimately at the President. Following her performance, Kennedy introduces her to Adrian Veidt while she exchanged similar glances to JFK's brother, Robert.[1] Veidt then suspects that Monroe and the Kennedy brothers were having some kind of sexual affair.

Monroe obtained a prescription for Nembutal, which she fills at Crolsins Pharmacy under the name "Janet Smith".[2]

Murder and Staged Suicide[]

While Eddie Blake was visiting the Kennedy family at their Cap Cod home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, first lady Jackie Kennedy asks Blake in private to dispose of Marilyn Monroe (whom she refers to only as "that drug-addled Peroxide whore"), deeming Monroe a national security risk due her cavorting with Chicago Outfit gangster and CIA asset Sam Giancana, as well as her personal contempt for Monroe's sexual affair with her husband.[2]

On August 5th, 1962, Monroe has sex with Eddie Blake at her home in Brentwood, California. Blake then killed her afterwards and staged her death as a drug overdose by having her hold a bottle of Nembutal. He then kissed her naked buttocks and left as Dion DiMucci's "The Wanderer" plays on the radio.[2]

Monroe's death is later officially ruled as a probable suicide by the authorities. Upon reading about her passing, Veidt speculated that she may have been killed to tie up loose ends for the Kennedys.[1]

Trivia[]

  • Monroe-subwaygrate

    The famous photoshoot of the real-life Marilyn Monroe on a New York City subway grate in Billy Wilder's 1955 romantic comedy The Seven Year Itch.

    “Janet Smith” is never mentioned by name, however, she is an obvious reference to Marilyn Monroe, in both her alleged relationship to the Kennedys and her death by barbiturate overdose. Her name is revealed in a close-up to the bottle of Nembutal she is holding.
  • Marilyn Monroe's address is revealed to be 1280 Surrey Square, Los Angeles.[2]
  • The portrayal of Marilyn Monroe's death as being a political assassination is most likely inspired by the numerous conspiracy theories that emerged following her suicide in 1962[3], as alleged in several published works such as Frank A. Capell's 1964 book The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe and Norman Mailer's controversial photo-essay Marilyn: A Biography from 1973. Similar to the events depicted in Before Watchmen: Comedian, many of these theories claim Monroe was murdered by the FBI/CIA (and not on the orders of Jackie Kennedy as shown in the comic), supposedly in retaliation for her long-rumored affair[4] with members of the Kennedy family as well as the failure of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion most of which have since been debunked[5].

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