New Details of Marilyn Monroe's Life and Death

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DiMaggio Family: Marilyn and Joe Planned to Remarry on Day That Turned Out to be Her Funeral

Nov. 4, 2005— A report in the December issue of Playboy reveals new details about the life of the legendary Marilyn Monroe and raises even more questions about her mysterious death in 1962.

Playboy contributor Lisa DePaulo talked exclusively to June DiMaggio, close friend of Monroe and niece of Monroe's ex-husband, Yankee legend Joe DiMaggio. June and other DiMaggio friends talked openly about a last-minute second wedding allegedly planned by Monroe and DiMaggio, and Monroe's last night alive.

The article also features uncensored and expanded transcripts of audio tapes of Monroe's psychotherapy sessions. The tapes, which were detailed in part by the Los Angeles Times in August, reveal for the first time, in Monroe's own words, that the actress was not suicidal at the time of her death.

"Here is a person stigmatized by the diagnosis of suicide when that is an absolutely wrong, false, erroneous diagnosis," said former L.A. County prosecutor John Miner Miner, who created the transcripts.

Miner was present at Monroe's post-mortem examination. While he does not dispute that she died of an overdose of the addictive sleep aid Nembutal, he has posed the theory it was used as part of an enema, administered by Monroe herself or by someone else while she was sedated.

DiMaggio Family: Monroe Not Alone When She Died

Members of the DiMaggio family have long believed Monroe was not alone when she died. June DiMaggio says her mother, Lee, told her she was the last person to speak to Monroe on the night of Aug. 4, 1962.

Lee, who has since died, said she was on the phone with Monroe when Monroe screamed a name and dropped the phone. Lee took that name to the grave because she feared for the safety of her family, according to June.

June said Los Angeles police came to her door at 11 p.m. the night of Monroe's death, looking for her uncle, Joe, and informing her of the actress's passing. Official reports say that Monroe's housekeeper didn't call police until 4:30 a.m. on Aug. 5.

The DiMaggio family also told DePaulo that Monroe and Joe DiMaggio had planned to remarry on the day that turned out to be her funeral. Monroe had a dress and already picked out her china dishes. DiMaggio had a ring for her and there was talk that they might adopt a child.

"If she was remarrying Joe DiMaggio, the love of her life, is she going to take her life four days before?" DePaulo asked on "Good Morning America" today

Monroe had only been living in her home for five months when she died, and DePaulo said every room was bugged, including the bathroom.

"The allegation is that the FBI and CIA bugged the house," DePaulo said. "If that's true, if that was the source of the bugs, absolutely there are tapes. Where are they?"

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I once attended a 13 week school in Dallas. Before it started we all introduced ourselves and spent maybe a minute telling a little about ourselves.

One guy who was from Dallas and not staying at the hotel with the rest of us, mentioned that he had been a friend of Jack Ruby.

A couple of days later several of us were having lunch together and we asked him about Ruby and the assasination.

It still sticks in my mind what he said. First of all, he claimed he didn't know anything more than what was public although he was in a position to have known more. He did say that he was certain in his own mind that Ruby had been ordered to kill Oswald despite a lot of stories claiming that to be impossible.