Chapter One: Marilyn – A Global Icon and Tragic Heroine

She is the greatest female star Hollywood ever produced and in most people’s minds, the 20th century’s definitive sex symbol but on August 4, 1962, Marilyn Monroe’s incredible light was suddenly, shockingly, snuffed out and 57 years later, the full facts of her death remain hidden. Now learn the real story as we show how in the course of her brief time in the spotlight, Marilyn Monroe became a pawn at the center of a deadly power struggle between the President of the United States, his Attorney General brother, the highest levels of the Mafia, J Edgar Hoover’s FBI, Frank Sinatra, and America’s hidden Communist threat. The woman who had used her sexuality to hold sway over men her whole life was ultimately undone by her choice of lovers – and become little more than a puppet in their deadly schemes against one another. Care/of: Visit TakeCareOf.com and use promo code KILLING to get 25% off your first order. Away: Get $20 off a suitcase at AwayTravel.com/Monroe, using promo code MONROE at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices