American Author James Patterson Claims Marilyn Monroe Was Murdered
According to the CinemaDrame News Agency, James Patterson, the American author, has claimed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that Marilyn Monroe was murdered. Ahead of the release of his book The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe: A True Crime Thriller, he says the star of Some Like It Hot and The Seven Year Itch “had entered dangerous territory.”
Patterson says: “She had unparalleled relationships with President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Sinatra, and with mafia figures. Things had been said, and she had followed the trail. She had information that was dangerous.” He adds: “Many people don’t know the real story. There are a lot of things I don’t know either.”
The author says that people lack knowledge about Monroe’s death and the statements of detectives who investigated the case: “She was raised in 11 foster homes. The fact that she had a stutter as a child. I didn’t know much about the death scene, about an autopsy that wasn’t sufficiently thorough, and the fact that one of the detectives concluded it had been staged.”
On August 5, 1962, the Los Angeles Police Department ruled Monroe’s death a suicide caused by a “self-administered overdose of sedative drugs.” Patterson’s book has been described as a “true crime thriller,” but the author says parts of it are “fictionalized”: “She was a gigantic star, and in some way, she was squandered.”
