Did the Mob Murder Marilyn Monroe with an Enema?

A.J. Pike

Hollywood - Almost 65 years ago, the hottest star on the planet, legendary actress Marilyn Monroe, died in her Hollywood home of what was ruled at the time, and widely reported, as an accidental overdose. To the general public, it was a palpable story. Everyone knew The Blonde Bombshell had a drug problem. Drug problems lead to overdoses. Case closed.

But not so fast. Recently, contradictory claims from credible people are disagreeing with the official findings back in August 1962. 

In the days before her death, Marilyn Monroe’s home was allegedly bugged by mobster Sam Giancana, according to her neighbor and fellow model friend Jeanne Carmen.  Ms. Carmen related a lot of what she knew about Monroe’s death to her son Brandon.    

Sam Giancana, the notorious head of the Chicago Mob in those days, apparently was spying on the pin-up-turned-movie star in an attempt to gather information to blackmail the Kennedys, namely President John F. Kennedy (JFK) and his Attorney General brother Robert “Bobby,” Kennedy, who had set their sights on cleaning up organized crime during their time in office.

For some reason the Kennedy’s believed it wise to haul Mob Boss Giancana before a Senate Committee investigating CIA and Mafia links, and question him profusely about his mob dealings. This amounted to biting the hand that feeds you. Strong evidence for decades has allegedly pointed to Giancana and other mob chieftains, by the secret bequest of patriarch Joe Kennedy, taking an active role in nefarious voter fraud activities that pushed JFK over the top in the West Virginia and Illinois vote count. Their actions went a long way to enabling JFK to win the 1960 Presidential election. 

“The mob was listening in,” Brandon Carmen claimed. “They knew what was going on, they were just waiting for the moment when they could strike.”

“What was going on” was an open secret from inside the power halls of Washington to the power players in Hollywood - Marilyn Monroe was having affairs, at the same time, with both President John F. Kennedy and his brother Attorney General Bobby Kennedy. 

Biographer Darwin Porter, Marilyn at Rainbow’s End - Sex, Lies, Murder, and the Great Cover-up, one of Ms. Monroe’s confidantes, clearly backs up the murder theory.

“Giancana had the motive to kill her. She was threatening to blow the lid off his operations, especially in Hollywood where his gang had a lucrative loan-sharking and crooked gambling operation,” claims Mr. Porter. “She also knew about Frank Sinatra’s association with the Mob.”

Hollywood private detective Milo Speriglio claims “Giancana ordered a hit on Monroe, as a personal favor to Kennedy family patriarch Joe Kennedy.”

Bootlegger turned multi-millionaire businessman Joe Kennedy was known to deal with mobsters on a regular basis during his prohibition-era rise to prominence. He was also rather fervid about keeping his family’s reputation above board. Marilyn was becoming increasingly frustrated in her sexual and personal dealings with the two powerful Kennedy brothers. Both men were the hush-hush tabloid subjects of numerous scandals and secrets at the time. Monroe made the mistake of speaking in private circles about exposing damaging information about them and other prominent personalities.

The day before her death in August of 1962, Marilyn Monroe apparently got into a knock-down argument with Bobby Kennedy inside her Brentwood home. She had taken some prescription pills to help calm herself down. According to Jeanne Carmen, Giancana overheard the argument via the bugs he had planted, and ordered his men to do their dirty work on the iconic actress.

“Marilyn was killed by the mob on Sam Giancana’s orders,” Brandon Carmen relates the story his mom told him. “Two mob guys broke into her home that night and they basically killed her with an enema. They had a chloral hydrate enema (Mickey Finn), and that’s what killed Marilyn Monroe.”

Or as Jeanne Carmen herself put it: “Marilyn didn’t kill herself. She was murdered to keep her quiet.”

Decades after her death, the coroner who performed the autopsy on Monroe, famed L.A. Medical Examiner, Thomas Noguchi, broke his silence to admit he never agreed that the cause of her death was a suicide. He insists the autopsy was never fully and properly performed, that evidence quickly went missing, and that he was not on board with the hasty ruling of death by suicide. He was also prohibited, by his higher ups, from probing into whether the tragedy that struck down the movie star was in fact murder. 

Noguchi additionally claimed he was not allowed to further investigate how a body that was surrounded by bottles of powerful sedatives did not have any visual evidence of pills inside the stomach and small intestine. 

“The Kennedys said that they didn’t want to see her anymore,” said Jay Margolis, author of the book Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder. Margolis firmly believes the Kennedys had something to do with her death. “It’s very easy for someone to get away with that back in 1962. There was definitely a vast cover-up as it relates to Marilyn Monroe’s death…Marilyn was murdered.” 

Marilyn had actually overdosed, on at least one occasion, while she was staying at Frank Sinatra’s Rat-Pack hangout, the Lake Tahoe Lodge and Casino - the Cal Neva. 

“This is where the rich and elite used to come and this was their private playground,” said Hans Weige, Tour Director at Cal Neva. “When Marilyn was here she always stayed at Bungalow No. 3.”    

Although she was found at her Brentwood home in the early morning hours on August 4, 1962, there are claims she spent her final night alive at Sinatra’s Cal Neva. It is well-documented she came to stay at the Lodge five days before her death.  According to Monroe’s hairstylist George Masters, he had accompanied her at the Cal-Neva the night before she died. 

Marilyn reportedly spent time with Sinatra and Giancana during her stay at Cal-Neva. The two men apparently tried to persuade her one last time not to go public with her affairs with JFK and Bobby Kennedy. 

Masters claims that she flew on Sinatra’s private jet home to L.A. that morning and  was found dead in her home that night. 

“She was found without a bra on and she was known to wear a bra at all times, so that raises a lot of eyebrows, maybe it wasn’t an accident,” said Masters.  

Actor and fellow Sinatra Rat-Packer, Peter Lawford claims he was the last one to speak to Monroe on the night of her death. 

“She sounded despondent over her loss of contract with 20th Century-Fox Studios and some personal matters,” Lawford said he sensed something was wrong in his phone conversation with her. “I tried to convince her to forget about her problems and join me and my wife, Pat, for dinner that evening.”

Monroe replied that she would consider joining them. “But she never showed.” Lawford called her again to see where she was. She answered him with a slurred speech. She spoke in a despondent tone, saying that she was tired and wouldn’t be coming.  

“Then she told me, say goodbye to Pat, say goodbye to Jack (JFK) and say goodbye to yourself, because you’re a nice guy. Then the phone went silent, not as if she hung up, but had just put the receiver down - or dropped it,” Peter Lawford related.

Lawford told detectives that he has always regretted not checking in on her later in the evening. “I still blame myself for not going to her home.”

L.A. Police Commander Daryl Gates said during a press conference the following day, “The evidence showed she was stressed and she took her own life.”

Police reports and FBI files on Marilyn Monroe’s death have been lost, destroyed or blacked out. Her diary was missing from her home.