The Real Marilyn Monroe: Debunking the Myths and Revealing Intimate New Details of Her Life and Death

"This book is unlike any other you have read on Marilyn Monroe. Scrupulously researched and superbly well written by a longtime, award-winning investigative print and broadcast journalist whose work has been widely praised and quoted by big media and respected authors worldwide, THE REAL MARILYN MONROE rewrites the history of the iconic actress. Example: Despite the official LA coroner's "Suicide Investigation team" concluding that Marilyn "was not an addict...had no physical dependency on drugs, her intake could be considered light to medium and she was certainly not mentally unbalanced," the storyline that has been perpetuated to this day by unscrupulous myth makers and copycat authors is that Marilyn was mentally ill and a habitual abuser of prescription drugs and alcohol. Granted, she had her troubles, but the caricature of her being so dysfunctional was a gross exaggeration. This was a savvy woman who surmounted many obstacles to become "the movies' Mona Lisa." In stunning photographs and taped interviews near the end of her life she proved she was still luminescent, articulate and intelligent beyond expectation. In a similar vein, author Jordan systematically destroys a mountain of lies about Monroe that have unfairly slandered her legacy. Tapping recently declassified government documents, personal files, unpublished written recollections by some of MM's intimate friends, first-hand interviews, and previously unavailable sources, Jordan paints a much different picture of Marilyn. He convincingly proves that so many things people thought were true about MM's life and death were gross fabrications and part of a disinformation campaign designed to discredit her and hide what really happened to her. He probes the backgrounds of those with whom Monroe came in contact and reveals shocking new info about them"--