Buckle up because we’re diving deep into the scandalous world of Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedy brothers. So grab your popcorn and get ready for some jaw-dropping gossip.
Rumor has it that Marilyn Monroe, the iconic actress, had a steamy affair with none other than Bobby Kennedy, the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy. And to make things even more scandalous, it’s said that Marilyn and Bobby got it before she mounted the stage to serenade JFK with her infamous rendition of “Happy Birthday.”
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In ‘Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed’, author and DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan describes the crossover relationships as an ‘incestuous sexual competition’ between the two men.
Marilyn first met JFK — who was already married to Jackie — in 1954 at a Hollywood party, Callahan writes, and over the following years the actress fell in love with both the president and his brother, who was also married.
Marilyn’s psychiatrist was very concerned by the affairs, warning ‘I try to help her not be so lonely and […] get involved with very destructive people who will engage in some sort of sadomasochistic relationship with her.’
On May 19, 1962, Marilyn sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to JFK in her famous performance at Madison Square garden.
But, Callahan reveals, just thirty minutes before Marilyn appeared on stage, she had sex with Bobby in her dressing room.
‘They spent 15 minutes alone together,’ Callahan writes.
The liaison made her late to the stage, where she arrived ‘drunk and flush with the transgressive sex she’d just had with Bobby, her dress so tight she could hardly walk’.
Jackie Kennedy was ‘furious’ after the performance, which left JFK ‘slack-jawed’ in the audience. And so, Callahan writes, Jackie gave her husband an ‘ultimatum’, telling him he could no longer see Marilyn, or else ‘she would divorce him — taking the children and costing him a second term’.
JFK agreed and never slept with Marilyn again.
Her affair with Bobby continued — with Bobby even visiting her the night she died at her home in LA, on August 4, 1962.
‘The FBI and the CIA, Bobby and Jack discovered, had bugged Marilyn’s house and phone line without her knowledge… Bobby wasn’t leaving without the tape recordings,’ Callahan writes.
‘Where the f*** is it?’ Bobby demanded. But Marilyn had ‘no idea’ what he was talking about.
Bobby left empty-handed and Marilyn’s body was found early the next morning by her housekeeper. ‘She was face-down on her bed, nude, with her phone still in her hand,’ Callahan writes.
‘Former senior FBI agent James Doyle later admitted that the Bureau had been ordered to remove certain phone records [from Marilyn’s home after her death],’ she adds.
‘Recovered in the 1980s, Marilyn’s logs showed she’d called Bobby’s workplace eight times between June 25th and 30th… Reports suggest she’d had an abortion on July 20, and that the baby may have been Bobby’s.’
Marilyn’s second husband Joe DiMaggio banned both Kennedy brothers from Marilyn’s funeral.
‘I always knew who killed her, but I didn’t want to start a revolution in this country,’ DiMaggio reportedly said years later. ‘She told me someone would do her in, but I kept quiet.
‘The whole lot of Kennedys were lady-killers, and they always got away with it. They’ll be getting away with it a hundred years from now.’
Callahan also reveals that, in 1985, ABC News planned to air a special documentary about JFK and Bobby’s potential involvement in Marilyn’s death, but it was canceled just hours before the broadcast was due.
The network’s then-president Roone Arledge, who was ‘a longtime friend of Ethel Kennedy [Bobby’s wife]’, defended his decision saying the special was ‘gossip-column stuff’ and ‘does not live up to its billing’.
But hey, who are we to judge? Marilyn Monroe was a woman who lived life on her own terms, and if she wanted to spice things up with a little presidential sibling action, who were we to stand in her way?
So whether you believe the rumors or not, one thing’s for sure – Marilyn Monroe definitely knew how to keep things interesting. And hey, if you’re going to have an affair with a Kennedy, why not do it in style, right? After all, who wouldn’t want to be serenaded by Marilyn Monroe after a steamy rendezvous?
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