As a child, she was sexually abused, passed around to various amounts of foster homes and she was placed into an orphanage. She married a former football player from Van Nuys High School, James Dougherty, before her marriages to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller. She was 16 when they tied the knot. Dougherty, who later became a detective in the LAPD, was forbidden by his second wife from going to see any of Marilyn’s films. Little did she know she would soon be working an assembly while he was gone overseas. Photographed for a poster for women during the war effort, she got the name “our postwar sex symbol”. The first cover of Playboy, Marilyn Monroe still stands as the world’s greatest sex symbol in her time, and even though she did not have
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Dr. Ralph Greenson came over the following day and quoted later in a document "felt it was possible that Marilyn Monroe had felt rejected by some of the people she had been close to". Apart from being upset that her advertiser slept too long, she seemed fine. Pat Newcombe, who had stayed the previous night at Marilyn's house, left in the early evening, so did Greenson who had a dinner date. Marilyn was upset he could not stay, and around 7:30pm, she called him while she was to tell him that her second husband's son had called him. Peter Lawford also called Marilyn, inviting her to dinner, but she rejected the phone call. Lawford later said her speech was slurred. As the dark and depressing evening for Marilyn carried on there were other phone calls, including one from Jose Belanos, who said he thought she sounded fine. According to the funeral directors, Marilyn died sometime between 9:30pm and 11:30pm. Her house cleaner, unable to raise her but seeing a light under her locked door, called the police shortly after midnight. She also phoned Ralph Greenson who, on arrival, could not break down the bedroom door. He eventually broke in through French windows and found Marilyn dead in bed. The coroner stated she had died from acute barbiturate poisoning, and it was a 'probable suicide', but there was no pill residue left in her stomach, but there were drugs in her blood stream which means the drugs had to have been injected into her. For 20 years after Marilyn’s death, Joe DiMaggio arranged to have roses sent to her crypt three times a
Dr. Ralph Greenson came over the following day and quoted later in a document "felt it was possible that Marilyn Monroe had felt rejected by some of the people she had been close to". Apart from being upset that her advertiser slept too long, she seemed fine. Pat Newcombe, who had stayed the previous night at Marilyn's house, left in the early evening, so did Greenson who had a dinner date. Marilyn was upset he could not stay, and around 7:30pm, she called him while she was to tell him that her second husband's son had called him. Peter Lawford also called Marilyn, inviting her to dinner, but she rejected the phone call. Lawford later said her speech was slurred. As the dark and depressing evening for Marilyn carried on there were other phone calls, including one from Jose Belanos, who said he thought she sounded fine. According to the funeral directors, Marilyn died sometime between 9:30pm and 11:30pm. Her house cleaner, unable to raise her but seeing a light under her locked door, called the police shortly after midnight. She also phoned Ralph Greenson who, on arrival, could not break down the bedroom door. He eventually broke in through French windows and found Marilyn dead in bed. The coroner stated she had died from acute barbiturate poisoning, and it was a 'probable suicide', but there was no pill residue left in her stomach, but there were drugs in her blood stream which means the drugs had to have been injected into her. For 20 years after Marilyn’s death, Joe DiMaggio arranged to have roses sent to her crypt three times a