Today in History: Marilyn Monroe found dead

AP via Chicago Tribune ^ | 8/5/25 | AP

[DallasBiff]

Today is Tuesday, Aug. 5, the 217th day of 2025. There are 148 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On Aug. 5, 1962, Marilyn Monroe, 36, was found dead in her Los Angeles home; her death was ruled a probable suicide from “acute barbiturate poisoning.”

[DallasBiff]

One of the first American icons. Youngins now on FR will not understand, and there were the rumors of the Kennedy brothers about her demise.

RIP

[combat_boots]

Correction. Murdered. She received a hot shot. The Kennedys.

[Jim W N]

Seems that the fickle finger of fate may point to the Kennedys as the direct cause of her death.

[Red Badger]

She was considered the beauty of her time.

She was a size 12, IIRC..............

[SunkenCiv]

Yup. She was stabbed to death. /rimshot

[iamgalt]

Dead women tell no tales.

[SunkenCiv]

The rest of the 'Marilyn Monroe' keyword, sorted:

• Marilyn Monroe in The Marx Brothers Love Happy 1949 #shorts #grouchomarx #comedy #slapstick [05/11/2025]
• Hollywood icon reveals she saw filthy bedroom encounter between Kennedys and Marilyn Monroe on JFK's birthday [11/02/2024]
• Marilyn Monroe's former LA home declared historic cultural monument, stopping demolition [06/27/2024]
• Anna Strasberg, Who Inherited Marilyn Monroe's Estate, Dies...She was married to the blonde bombshell's legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg. [01/09/2024]
• Why Frank Sinatra Believed Marilyn Monroe Was Murdered: A New Book Reveals [11/20/2023]
• Marilyn Sang Up A Legend For JFK At A DEMOCRATIC PARTY Fundraiser In MAY 1962. Two And A Half Months Later She Died. [08/04/2023]
• Marilyn Monroe: Her Deeply Tragic Freedom Which So Many Of Us Love [05/31/2023]
• Marilyn Monroe Declassified [05/10/2023]
• Marilyn Monroe statue causes uproar in Palm Springs, California [03/01/2023]
• Channeling Joe DiMaggio's Lasting Love For Marilyn Monroe To Praise Beautiful Australian Women For Freedom [11/25/2022]
• Marilyn Monroe Biography [08/04/2022]
• Beautiful Aussie Freedom Protestors Heroes JFK And Marilyn Monroe - What Does She Need To Know [06/11/2022]
• Marilyn Monroe And Tom Ewell In "The 7 Year Itch" - "Chopsticks" (1955) [12/03/2020]
• Beautiful Pics of Marilyn Monroe On The Beach Taken By Sam Shaw In 1957 [01/15/2020]
• 'Godfather' actor claims he knows who killed Marilyn Monroe [03/03/2019]
• Marilyn Monroe died August 5, 1962 - 56 years ago today. (vanity thread) [08/05/2018]
• Marilyn Monroe statue showing icon's butt draws ire after being placed near Connecticut church [06/08/2018]
• Hugh Hefner Will Be Buried Next to Marilyn Monroe, Playboy's First Cover Star [09/28/2017]
• Did UFOs cause Marilyn Monroe's death? Documentary claims proof [05/24/2017]
• JFK & Marilyn's Unborn Baby: Secret Abortion (Kennedy ordered termination during 1960 convention) [03/03/2017]
• Marilyn Monroe Or Albert Einstein? Optical Illusion Can Tell If You Need Glasses Or Not [09/16/2016]
• ARTHUR MILLER -- COMMUNIST [10/19/2015]
• Virtual Marilyn (Marilyn Monroe comes alive in cyberspace with virtual stickers) [07/15/2015]
• Valley Village Home Where Marilyn Monroe Lived Bulldozed Amid Preservation Effort [06/17/2015]
• Geraldo: ABC Fired Me for $200 Donation, Why Not the Same for Stephanopoulos? [05/15/2015]
• Madonna Compares Herself to Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Sparks Outrage on Instagram [01/02/2015]
• Merry Christmas from VM2 - Virtual Marilyn [12/24/2014]
• Marilyn Monroe Estate Sued Over Threats to 'Virtual Marilyn' Character (Exclusive) [10/02/2014]
• 19 Pictures That Will Make You Think Differently About Marilyn Monroe [06/06/2014]
• EXCLUSIVE - 'She seduced him in a creaky French elevator': Bombshell book reveals Jackie O's [05/28/2014]
• Jackie Kennedy 'had an affair with ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev & so did Bobby Kennedy', new book... [01/15/2014]
• Revealed: Marilyn called Jackie to confess JFK affair [08/05/2013]
• Did Bobby Kennedy Kill Marilyn Monroe? [07/08/2013]
• Fascinating old photos [05/01/2013]
• Woman Time Travels Into Iconic Scenes [04/24/2013]
• FBI Finally Releases "Communist" Marilyn Monroe's Unredacted Files [12/28/2012]
• Happy Birthday, Mr. President (JFK would be 95, today) [05/29/2012]
• British pair arrested in U.S. on terror charges over Twitter jokes [01/30/2012]
• Marilyn Monroe 'an experienced and confident cook' [11/12/2010]
• Previously unseen photographs show how smitten Marilyn Monroe was with Joe DiMaggio [09/25/2010]
• Marilyn Monroe chest X-rays auctioned for $45,000 [06/29/2010]
• Rare photo shows Marilyn Monroe with JFK, RFK [06/01/2010]
• Marilyn Monroe's birthday is today - her Bible, a ring, and rare photo with JFK now for sale [06/01/2010]
• Auction features Marilyn Monroe X-rays [04/13/2010]
• Film of Marilyn Monroe 'smoking marijuana' made public [12/02/2009]
• Some like it pot: lost home movie shows Marilyn Monroe smoking joint [12/02/2009]
• Art. Ambition. Poppyseed Cake. [11/23/2009]
• Marilyn Monroe crypt auction fails again [11/03/2009]
• Monroe 'burial plot' up for sale [08/17/2009]
• Widow sells Husband's Tomb above Marilyn Monroe (Too Expensive?) [08/17/2009]
• Secret Service: JFK Met Marilyn Monroe at Justice Dept. for Sex [08/05/2009]
• Marilyn Monroe's 'Wonderbra' expected to fetch £2,000 at auction [07/17/2009]
• Unpublished photos of Marilyn Monroe surface [06/02/2009]
• By the book: the low-down on how Nicolas Sarkozy wooed Carla Bruni (be Marilyn Monroe to my JFK?) [02/11/2009]
• Deal reached over Marylin Monroe photos [01/14/2009]
• Mariliyn Monroe sex film sells for £750,000 [04/14/2008]
• (Vanity) Political Limerick 3-18-2007 [03/18/2007]
• Movie trivia question (a total and complete vanity) [11/02/2006]
• Top 10 Democrat Sex Scandals in Congress [10/04/2006]
• REPORTING FOR BOOTY: Lohan plans "Marilynesque" troop visit with Hillary [08/08/2006]
• (Keith) Andes, leading man to Marilyn Monroe, dies at 85 [11/27/2005]
• The movie "Some Like It Hot" is airing right now on channel 13 (PBS) in New York [11/19/2005]
• New Details of Marilyn Monroe's Life and Death [11/13/2005]
• New Chapter in the Mystery of Marilyn: Her Own Words? [08/06/2005]
• Marilyn Monroe Tapes [08/06/2005]
• August 5, 1962: MARILYN MONROE IS FOUND DEAD [08/05/2005]
• Sculpture of Women's Legs Spread in Front of Main Street in NC Town [05/11/2005]
• Larry Buchanan [Obituary] [12/29/2004]
• KENNEDY'S SECRET DEVOTION: IS IT TRUE HE WENT TO CONFESSION THAT DAY IN DALLAS? [11/22/2003]
• Marilyn was mine: Jerry Lewis [07/25/2003]
• JFK & Mimi: Why it matters [05/17/2003]
• Calling all Freepers - Need Pictures of Marion 'Mimi' Beardsley Fahnestock [05/16/2003]
• The church lady? You must be kidding! (JFK Intern) [05/16/2003]
• Joe DiMaggio died convinced JFK had Monroe killed [02/10/2003]

[SunkenCiv]

Marilyn Monroe: The Biography
Donald Spoto
752 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13122.Marilyn_Monroe
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/marilyn-monroe-the-biography_donald-spoto/264479/

[PGR88]

When I was young in the 1970s and 1980s, the MSM/Democrat Kennedy cult was so strong that nothing but Soviet-style hagiography was allowed to be said about Joseph Sr. and his children.

Then I recall seeing, maybe 10 years ago, a show on PBS (of all places!) which discussed JFK’s drug use, his womanizing, and the fact he and RFK probably shared Marilyn Monroe.

I realized that by then, anyone protecting the Kennedy cult 50 years ago was dead. The truth will always come out.

[Reily]

There’s still plenty of Kennedy worshipers on this site.

[dfwgator]

And young Reginald Dwight, thought to himself, “Someday I’m gonna make a lot of money off of this.”

[DFG]

“Her mother was emotionally unstable and frequently confined to an asylum, so Norma Jeane was reared by a succession of foster parents and in an orphanage.”

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/august-5/marilyn-monroe-is-found-dead

[gymbeau]

“ And young Reginald Dwight, thought to himself, “Someday I’m gonna make a lot of money off of this.” “

To be fair, Bernie “Toots” Taupin wrote the lyrics.

[DFG]

Reginald Dwight/Bernie Taupin later took advantage of Princess Diana’s death to make more money off the same song.

[Liz]

Marilyn and the kennedys.

[broken_clock]

Netflix did a fictionalized portrayal of Marilyn Monroe called “Blonde”. It was so bleak and depressing I stopped watching it.

[rx]

This talk about the date of her being found is all tendentious Illuminati ritual coding.

Though found on the 217th day of the year, we may be assured, and it has generally been recorded that she actually expired on the 216th day, August 4th. 6x6x6 = 216

The soi-disant enlightened ones love to have their special call-outs be strengthened by 3s. (6 x 3)

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother) was said to have been born on 4th August 1900. Barry Soetoro's birthday was falsely documented to be August 4, even though he was noted by a friend of Stanley Ann Dunham (the falsely-documented mother) to be sitting up on Dunham's floor playing in the fall of 1961. (IOW, Barry's birth must have actually occurred in or before the spring of 1961.)

Meghan Markle's birthday is said to be August 4th. Louis Armstrong died on August 4th.

[IndispensableDestiny]

She was a size 12, IIRC..............

At a time when sizes 5, 7, and 9 were considered petit and there was no size 0.

[Red Badger]

This was before the ‘Twiggy’ Phenomenon...........

[tumblindice]

“John seems obsessed by dead blondes.” Keith Richards

Norma Jean was schwacked.