Marilyn Monroe - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 6/1/26
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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George Noory and author Steve Ubaney explore the life and death of movie icon Marilyn Monroe on what would have been her 100th birthday, her alleged affairs with both John and Robert Kennedy, the circumstances around the discovery of her body the night she died and if the mafia could have wanted her killed.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on IHeart Radio. |
| 0:09.3 | And welcome back, George Norrie, along with Steve Eubaney. |
| 0:12.0 | Steve, so we're told that Peter Lafford, the actor, who was President John F. Kennedy's brother-in-law, made the introduction of Marilyn Monroe to JFK. Do you think that's true? |
| 0:23.9 | Sure, absolutely. They first met back in the 1950s at a party they were having. And, you know, at that point in time, this was leave it to Beaver era. Who didn't want to meet Merrill Monroe? Right. And if you're the president, why not use it to meet her? |
| 0:38.6 | Right. |
| 0:38.9 | I mean, you've got the power. |
| 0:39.9 | You've got the position. |
| 0:41.5 | So Peter Lafford was his connection or her connection to both the president and the mob. |
| 0:49.8 | Because JFK was pretty steeped in the mob. |
| 0:53.1 | So she was hanging around with some power players. |
| 0:58.2 | Was she involved with JFK before he became the president? |
| 1:03.0 | No, I don't believe so. |
| 1:04.4 | After the fact. |
| 1:05.8 | You know, I mean, obviously I wasn't there. You weren't there. Nobody was there. |
| 1:09.0 | But, I mean, based on everything that we have in |
| 1:11.8 | front of us, no, that happened afterwards. And we have something in her psyche. You know, she was |
| 1:16.9 | unwanted when she is a child. Her formative years were a mess. She was an unwanted girl. She was an |
| 1:24.5 | abandoned child, basically. So she had this in her head that she wanted to be around the most powerful people she could be around so she could feel secure. |
| 1:34.1 | And she felt that security and the gangsters that she was around and having affairs with and, you know, her situation with JFK. |
| 1:43.6 | The mob loved her because she could get anything she wanted from anyone she wanted it from any time she wanted it. |
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