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Marilyn Monroe's 'Mr. X':
Was He Robert Kennedy?
NEW YORK — (UPI)
— A veteran Broadwaycolumnist
Hollywood
says Robert F. Kennedy
was the "Mr. X" in
Marilyn Monroe's life —
a friend whom she saw
repeatedly during the
months preceding her
tragic death.
In a new book Earl
Wilson says that what
may have been Marilyn's last words were
spoken over the telephone to actor Peter
Lawford, a brotherin-law of the Kennedys
with whom they often ROBERT F. KENNEDY
stayed on visits to the
Was he Mr. X?
coast.
Fred Lawrence
Guiles, whose "Norma planes, going the Palm
Jean" may be the defin- Springs - Vegas - Lake
Tahoe route. But one did
itive biography of Mari- not say
things
lyn, said without naming about thethese
Kennedys in
names that she had a se- print."
cret lover, and that he
Wilson notes that
was in Los Angeles the Guiles'
book says Marinight she died there. lyn courted
privacy durWilson, whose column ing her last
summer
appears in The Examin"because she was iner, does not make this volved with a married
claim.
man."
Awkward Subject
"He was not in the
I n his book, "The (movie) industry; he
Show Business Nobody was an Easterner with
Knows," Wilson recalls few ties on the coast. He
the problems that beset had come West mainly
Marilyn during her last to work out the details
months — notably the of a film production of a
over-dependence on bar- lit erary property in
biturates that sent her which he had a hand and
to escape the pressures
to the hospital during
the making of her last of his work as a lawyer
and public servant . . ."
movie.
"Another subject diffi- Wilson quotes Guiles
cult and awkward to ex- as saying.
plore was Marilyn's
Hopeless Alliance
friendship with Bobby
"Possibly it was his
Kennedy (then the At- host who in Marilyn's
torney General of the view acted as buffer beUnited States)," Wilson tween them and those
forces antagonistic t o
says.
"I am convinced that their affair. She was behe should be absolved . ginning to see the hopecompletely of responsi- lessness of the alliance;
bility for any of the still, a phone call from
events connected with him would alter whatMarilyn's mysterious ever else she had
death. It would be fairly planned for the evening,
easy, now that both are and she would go to
dead, to concoct a mel- him.' "
Wilson describes this
odramatic scandal.
However, in my opinion as "a dramatic way of
saying that Peter Lawit would be unjustified
ford had a beach house
and untrue.
tat Malibu) where he
The Vegas Route
"Marilyn in her last lived with his wife Patricia. Kennedy Lawford,
year was frequently
seen — giggling under sister of John F. Kenneher black wig — board- dy and Robert F. Kenneing one of the Kennedy dy.
MARILYN MONROE
"Slurred voice"
PETER LAWFORD
Worried over condition
"They both visited the
away. Let me get in
Lawfords at their beach touch with her lawyer or
house," the columnist doctor.' " Wilson resays. "Marilyn Monroe, ports.
who was in the circle of
Psychiatrist Called
the Lawfords' friends,
Ebbins
got hold of Milalso visited them at the
ton
"Mickey"
Rudin,
beach house."
Marilyn's
attorney,
On Aug. 4, 1962, Wil- called Dr. Ralph who
Greenson says, Lawford invit- son, a Beverly Hills
psyed Marilyn a n d her chiatrist who
had been
press agent, Pat(rioia) attending her. Greenson,
Newcomb, to dinner at who had seen
his patient
the beach house. He
that
day,
said
says Marilyn accepted sure she was he was
all right,
but failed to appear.
Wilson says.
'Say Goodbye'
The doctor's opinion
"At about 8 p.m. was reported to LawLawford phoned ferd, who still wasn't
her. . . ." the columnist satisfied. Then Rudin
says. "Marilyn said she
called Eunice Murray at
was tired and wasn't Marilyn's home. (Wilson
going to be able to come describes Mrs. Murray
to dinner. From her as a psychiatric nurse;
slurred voice, Lawford Guiles says she was a
recognized that she was former interior decoraeither drunk or nearly tor whom Marilyn hired
asleep from pills. . . .
as a housekeeper" 'Say goodbye to Pat, companion at Gree nsay goodbye to the Presson's suggestion).
ident, and say goodbye
Mrs. Murray said that
to yourself, because everything
seemed to be
you're a nice guy,' all right. Marilyn
(she said). Her voice her bedroom, was in
with the
trailed off; the phone
door
locked,
b
u t the
apparently had dropped
from her hand or she light was on and her
phonograph was playhad fallen asleep."
ing.
Wilson says Lawford
That report satisfied
wanted to go to MariLawford, and he
lyn's home and make
sure she was all right, dropped the idea of
but was dissuaded by .going to Marilyn's
his manager, Milt Eb- home.
She was found dead at
bins.
"'You can't go over 3:30 a.m. the next day,
there.' " Ebbins protest- sprawled nude across
ed. 'Yon're the her bed with a hand
brother.4n-law of the
resting on one of the two
President of the United private telephones at the
State s. Your wife's bedside.