User:Tiax22x/sandbox

Death of Marilyn Monroe

In his 1993 biography of Monroe, Donald Spoto disputed the previous conspiracy theories but alleged that Monroe's death was an accidental overdose staged as a suicide.[77]According to him, her doctors Greenson (psychiatrist) and Engelberg (personal physician) had been trying to stop her abuse of Nembutal. In order to monitor her drug use, they had agreed to never prescribe her anything without first consulting with each other.[78] Monroe was able to persuade Engelberg to break his promise by lying to him that Greenson had agreed to it. She took several Nembutals on August 4, but did not tell this to Greenson, who prescribed her a chloral hydrate enema; the combination of these two drugs killed her.[78] Afraid of the consequences, the doctors and Monroe's housekeeper then staged the death as a suicide.[78]

Spoto argued that Monroe could not have been suicidal because she had reached a new agreement with 20th Century Fox and because she was allegedly going to remarry Joe DiMaggio.[78] He based his theory of her death on alleged discrepancies in the police statements given by Monroe's housekeeper and doctors, a claim made by Monroe's publicist Arthur P. Jacobs's wife that he had been alerted of the death already at 10:30 pm, as well as on claims made by prosecutor John Miner, who was involved in the official investigation. Miner had alleged that her autopsy revealed signs more consistent with an enema than oral ingestion.[78]

In 2011, author Jay Margolis published the book, Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder. In the book, Margolis salvaged eighteen interviews previously used in Donald Spoto’s Marilyn Monroe: The Biography due to most of the interviewees now being deceased. Also, Margolis conducted over twenty interviews with Marilyn’s friends and other individuals that were in contact with her during her last year of life. Although he reused Spoto's interviews, Margolis claimed that he had vital information regarding Marilyn’s last moments that had not been previously used by any other author. The interviews gave further information regarding her death, though none of which could be used as evidence. Unlike Spoto, Margolis was adamant that Marilyn didn’t have an accidental overdose, but in fact was murdered.