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    Marilyn Monroe was a famous American actress and sex symbol in the 1950s. She struggled with mental illness throughout her life, including anxiety, depression, and substance abuse, which were influenced by family history of mental illness. Monroe married three times and had relationships with famous men like Joe DiMaggio and the Kennedy brothers. In 1962, at age 36, she died alone in her home from a drug overdose, though the exact circumstances of her death remain mysterious and controversial.

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    Marilyn Monroe was a famous American actress and sex symbol in the 1950s. She struggled with mental illness throughout her life, including anxiety, depression, and substance abuse, which were influenced by family history of mental illness. Monroe married three times and had relationships with famous men like Joe DiMaggio and the Kennedy brothers. In 1962, at age 36, she died alone in her home from a drug overdose, though the exact circumstances of her death remain mysterious and controversial.

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    Marilyn Monroe was a famous American actress and sex symbol in the 1950s. She struggled with mental illness throughout her life, including anxiety, depression, and substance abuse, which were influenced by family history of mental illness. Monroe married three times and had relationships with famous men like Joe DiMaggio and the Kennedy brothers. In 1962, at age 36, she died alone in her home from a drug overdose, though the exact circumstances of her death remain mysterious and controversial.

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    Marilyn Monroe

    Marilyn was a famous American singer, actress and model. She became one of the most iconic figures
    and is remembered for her winsome embodiment of the Hollywood sex symbol and her tragic personal
    and professional struggles within the film industry.

    Monroe married three times in her life. Her first husband was James Dougherty who was a police
    detective in Los Angeles. Her second marriage was to Joe DiMaggio who was a professional American
    baseball player. Her third and final marriage was to Arthur Miller, an American playwriter.

    Through Marilyns life, there was a constant history of mental illness, her mother, Gladys Barker, lived
    with schizophrenia. This was hard for Monroe as she would constantly look for love outside of her
    mother. Her mother had a nervous breakdown when she gave birth to her, this resulted in her growing
    up in a lot of foster homes. Her grandmother, Della Monroe, suffered with postpartum depression and
    institutionalized metal illness. And her grandfather, Tilford Marion, died to suicide.

    She had a desire to be rich and famous, this obviously came true just like she wanted. However, it
    wasn’t just the fame she had to cope with, she had to deal with her own personal trauma. Plagued with
    anxiety and depression, this then meant the young star turned to substance abuse just to cope.

    Marilyn starred in a lot of films in her life. In all she did 21 films and only a few starred her and of those
    only “Millionaire,” “Some Like It Hot,” “Itch” and “Bus Stop” were b.o. clicks. Other films in which she
    did roles were “A Ticket To Tomahawk” in 1949, “All About Eve” in 1950, “As Young As You Feel,” “Let’s
    Make It Legal,” “Love Nest” and “Clash By Night” in 1951; “Don’t Bother To Knock,” “O. Henry’s Full
    House,” “We’re Not Married,” “Monkey Business,” “Niagara” and “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” in 1952;
    “River Of No Return” in 1953, “There’s No Business Like Show Business” in 1954, “The Prince And The
    Showgirl” in 1956, “Let’s Make Love” and “The Misfits” in 1960.

    In 1949-1950, she shared an apartment with her acting coach, Natasha Lytess, and one day Marilyn
    expressed she was hearing voices outside of her door, this then caused Lytess to be concerned for her
    mental health. One night she came home to see that Marilyn was passed out with a pale face and her
    mouth was full of sleeping pills. Monroe claims she didn’t try to comit suicide, but Lytess believed
    otherwise.

    By 1961, Monroe started to develop depression. She was under the constant care of her psychiatrist, Dr.
    Ralph Greenson. Eventually, her bad habits of substance abuse started to get involved with her work.
    Then in 1962 it all happened. Marilyn, at the age of 36, was found dead in her Brentwood home. She
    was found dead Saturday, August 5th. They believe she died on the 4th. There were no suicide notes
    found in her home. Around 3:25 am, her housekeeper, Mrs. Eunice Murray, then noticed Monroe’s light
    was still on and went to check on her but didn’t hear any responses. She called Greenson who came
    over and broke the window to find Monroe’s dead body. She had a phone receiver in her hand and was
    lying face down without any clothes on. By her side was an empty pill bottle that had held 50 capsules of
    Nembutal, a drug often used as a sleeping pill. It was discovered that the prescription of the sleeping
    pills were given to her two or three days before her death. She died of a “barbiturate overdose” but
    authorities ruled it as a possible murder. When it was released to the world, the world went silent.

    At her funeral, 8th August 1962, lots of people attended. The likes of married actors, Elizabeth Taylor,
    and Richard Burton and her close companion, John F. Kennedy. One of her ex-lovers also came to her
    funeral, Joe DiMaggio. At the Los Angeles funeral, DiMaggio was inconsolable, weeping uncontrollably,
    leaning over Monroe’s casket, kissing her on the lips and whispering: “I love you, I love you.” The grief-
    stricken baseball star made a repeat order for flowers to be sent to her grave: “Six fresh long-stemmed
    red roses, three times a week … forever.”

    There are a lot of conspiracy theories surrounding Monroe’s death, and a lot of these theories involve
    the Kennedy family. A lot of the theories state that she was having affairs with some men from the
    Kennedy family, such as JFK himself. Monroe naturally positioned herself as a powerful woman that men
    of power needed by their side. This then links to the possibility of a murder as some thought she knew
    too much, and Robert Kennedy had her killed. Some say the CIA were behind it, that her doctors
    covered it up as an “accidental overdose” and some say it was a staged overdose. Another fascinating
    conspiracy that circulated was that the American government killed her, as she was going to leak
    information about UFO’s.

    As we know that she suffered with terrible mental illness, behind her perfect, happy smile, there was a
    lot of suffering. The truth behind Marilyns death will forever be a mystery to the world.

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