{"id":58421,"date":"2025-12-02T14:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58421\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:25:21","slug":"author-james-patterson-makes-bombshell-claim-about-marilyn-monroes-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58421\/","title":{"rendered":"Author James Patterson makes bombshell claim about Marilyn Monroe&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author James Patterson believes<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/25\/mystery-around-marilyn-monroes-death-revealed-in-netflix-doc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Marilyn Monroe\u00a0was murdered<\/a>, and says the famous actress was \u201ctreading in very dangerous waters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patterson made the revelation during an interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/james-patterson-interview-marilyn-monroe-book-1236429541\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>\u00a0ahead of the release of\u00a0his new book, \u201cThe Last Days of Marilyn Monroe: A True Crime Thriller.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had these incredible <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/02\/entertainment\/shirley-maclaine-marilyn-monroe-had-both-kennedy-brothers-in-bed-on-same-night\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">relationships with President Kennedy, and with Robert Kennedy<\/a>, and with Sinatra, and with Mafia figures. They told her stuff, and she kept track of it. She had information that was kind of dangerous,\u201d Patterson told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>The acclaimed author says, \u201cA lot of people don\u2019t know the story\u201d about Monroe, commenting \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of stuff I didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patterson said most people don\u2019t know too much about Monroe\u2019s death, like comments from one of the detectives assigned to her death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 11 foster homes. The fact that she had a pretty bad stutter when she was a kid,\u201d Patterson said. \u201cI didn\u2019t know much about the death scene, about the autopsy not being as complete as it should have been, that one of the detectives was convinced the scene was staged. The key is, a lot of people know about her a bit, but not that much. You\u2019d be surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Author James Patterson theorized that actress Marilyn Monroe could have been murdered in the 1960s. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Monroe and Tom Ewell in a scene from \u201cThe Seven Year Itch.\u201d Bettmann Archive<\/p>\n<p>Patterson\u2019s new book \u201cThe Last Days of Marilyn Monroe: A True Crime Thriller\u201d is a fictional look at the end of Monroe\u2019s life. Corbis via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles police\u00a0determined Monroe\u2019s Aug. 5, 1962 death was a probable suicide \u201ccaused by a self-administered overdose of sedative drugs,\u201d according to\u00a0History.com.<\/p>\n<p>The book bills itself as a \u201ctrue crime thriller,\u201d but includes a disclaimer saying it\u2019s \u201ca\u00a0work of fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Author James Patterson claimed Marilyn Monroe was murdered. FilmMagic<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, she was just a monster of a star, and she kind of threw it away,\u201d Patterson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Author James Patterson believes\u00a0Marilyn Monroe\u00a0was murdered, and says the famous actress was \u201ctreading in very dangerous waters.\u201d Patterson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2878,1214,394,157,2689,8455,9,11,10,31526],"class_list":{"0":"post-58421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-celebrity-deaths","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-james-patterson","13":"tag-marilyn-monroe","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-news","17":"tag-novels"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}