This Day in History: 5 August 2020
5 August 1962
58 years ago, today, Marilyn Monroe was found dead, lying on her bed, nude, with a telephone in one hand. Empty bottles of pills, that were prescribed to treat her depression, were found scattered across the room. Shortly after midnight, her maid, Eunice Murray, had noticed that Monroe's light was on, and called her psychiatrist when Marilyn remained unresponsive to her calls. After an investigation was conducted, Los Angeles police concluded that her death was caused by a self-administered overdose, and that the mode of death was most likely suicide.
When Marilyn was younger, her mother was emotionally unstable, so she was reared by a succession of foster parents and in an orphanage. She was married at 16 but was divorced a few years later. In 1944, she took up modelling, and in 1946, signed a short-term contract with 20th Century Fox. Her acting career mainly took off in the early 50s, however, and she was celebrated for her charm and roles as a sex-symbol. In recent decades, there have been a number of conspiracy theories about her death. Most of these argue that she was murdered by John or Robert Kennedy, with whom she supposedly had love affairs, as they feared she would make these affairs public. Nevertheless, decades after her death, Monroe remains a major cultural icon.
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