President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby each engaged in simultaneous affairs with Marilyn Monroe, a brand new e book reveals.
In ‘Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Girls They Destroyed’, writer and DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan describes the crossover relationships as an ‘incestuous sexual competitors’ between the 2 males.
Marilyn first met JFK — who was already married to Jackie — in 1954 at a Hollywood get together, Callahan writes, and over the next years the actress fell in love with each the president and his brother, who was additionally married.
Marilyn Monroe sings ‘Glad Birthday’ to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Sq. Backyard, Could 19, 1962.
The one recognized image of Marilyn with each Bobby, left, and JFK, taken at a reception after her Backyard efficiency.
Marilyn’s psychiatrist was very involved by the affairs, warning ‘I attempt to assist her not be so lonely and […] become involved with very damaging individuals who will interact in some type of sadomasochistic relationship along with her.’
On Could 19, 1962, Marilyn sang ‘Glad Birthday’ to JFK in her well-known efficiency at Madison Sq. backyard.
However, Callahan reveals, simply thirty minutes earlier than she appeared on stage, she had intercourse with Bobby in her dressing room.
‘They spent quarter-hour alone collectively,’ Callahan writes.
The liaison made her late to the stage, the place she arrived ‘drunk and flush with the transgressive intercourse she’d simply had with Bobby, her costume so tight she might hardly stroll’.
Jackie Kennedy was ‘livid’ after the efficiency, which left JFK ‘slack-jawed’ within the viewers. And so, Callahan writes, Jackie gave her husband an ‘ultimatum’, telling him he might now not see Marilyn, or else ‘she would divorce him — taking the kids and costing him a second time period’.
JFK agreed and by no means slept with Marilyn once more.
Her affair with Bobby continued — with Bobby even visiting her the night time she died at her house in LA, on August 4, 1962.
‘The FBI and the CIA, Bobby and Jack found, had bugged Marilyn’s home and telephone line with out her data… Bobby wasn’t leaving with out the tape recordings,’ Callahan writes.
‘The place the f*** is it?’ Bobby demanded. However Marilyn had ‘no concept’ what he was speaking about.
On Could 19, 1962, Marilyn sang ‘Glad Birthday’ to JFK in her well-known efficiency at Madison Sq. backyard. However, Callahan reveals, simply thirty minutes earlier than she appeared on stage, she had intercourse with Bobby in her dressing room.
Bobby left empty-handed and Marilyn’s physique was discovered early the subsequent morning by her housekeeper. ‘She was face-down on her mattress, nude, along with her telephone nonetheless in her hand,’ Callahan writes.
‘Former senior FBI agent James Doyle later admitted that the Bureau had been ordered to take away sure telephone information [from Marilyn’s home],’ she provides. ‘Recovered within the Nineteen Eighties, Marilyn’s logs confirmed she’d known as Bobby’s office eight occasions between June twenty fifth and thirtieth… Reviews recommend she’d had an abortion on July 20, and that the child could have been Bobby’s.’
Marilyn’s second husband Joe DiMaggio banned each Kennedy brothers from Marilyn’s funeral.
‘I all the time knew who killed her, however I did not wish to begin a revolution on this nation,’ DiMaggio reportedly mentioned years later. ‘She informed me somebody would do her in, however I saved quiet.
‘The whole thing of Kennedys have been lady-killers, and so they all the time obtained away with it. They’re going to be getting away with it 100 years from now.’
Callahan additionally reveals that, in 1985, ABC Information deliberate to air a particular documentary in regards to the JFK and Bobby’s potential involvement in Marilyn’s demise, but it surely was canceled simply hours earlier than the printed was due.
The community’s then-president Roone Arledge, who was ‘a longtime good friend of Ethel Kennedy [Bobby’s wife]’, defended his choice saying the particular was ‘gossip-column stuff’ and ‘doesn’t dwell as much as its billing’.
