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JUST weeks before her death, Marilyn sang a sultry Happy Birthday to US President John F Kennedy.
It’s been said she had an affair with both him and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
In 1964, author Frank Capell claimed Bobby was a communist spy and had the actress killed to protect his career, believing she might expose their affair.
Police officer Jack Clemmons, the first on the scene of her death, backed him up saying the setting looked staged and housekeeper Eunice Murray was oddly doing laundry.
But there was little evidence to support their claims, said to be politically motivated.
In 1975, journalist Anthony Scaduto claimed Monroe kept a little red book of incriminating information and was bumped off.
Wire-tapper Bernard Spindel also sensationally claimed to have bugged Monroe’s house and listened to an argument between Bobby and Marilyn that night during which there was a loud bang.
His tapes, seized by authorities in 1966, were said to reveal nothing suspicious and destroyed.
In the 1970s journalist Norman Mailer wrote a biography of Monroe suggesting she might have been killed with involvement from the FBI or CIA, who wanted to put pressure on the Kennedys.
He later retracted his claims, saying her death was probably accidental suicide.
But other writers came to a similar conclusion, including author Matthew Smith who claimed the CIA knew about Monroe and Kennedy’s affair and killed her to get revenge for the Kennedys’ handling of the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961.
Private detective Milo Speriglio published a book in the 1980s claiming Monroe had been murdered in a plot by shady union boss Jimmy Hoffa and Chicago mobster Sam Giancana.
He said a coroner’s employee found bruises on her body not mentioned in the autopsy report.
A complex theory put forward by journalist Anthony Summers was that Bobby Kennedy wanted to end his affair with Monroe,