• August 13, 2012
• Vol. 78
• No. 7

The Company She Kept

By J.I. BAKER

Did She Take Her Own Life or Was It Homicide? Fifty Years Later, a Look at the Enduring Mystery of Marilyn Monroe's Death

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From PEOPLE Magazine

THE KENNEDY BROTHERS The only known photo of Monroe with Jack (right) and Bobby was taken after her breathy rendition of "Happy Birthday Mr. President" in May '62.

SINATRA AND HIS GANG Days before her death, Monroe (with Sinatra in '60) spent a boozy weekend at his Cal-Neva Lodge on Lake Tahoe. Fellow guest Peter Lawford may have warned her then to stop trying to reach Jack and Bobby.

THE MOBSTER Sam Giancana was rumored to have had Monroe photographed while being sexually humiliated at Cal-Neva in order to blackmail her.

• Contributors:
• With additional reporting by K.C. Baker,
• Elizabeth McNeil.