The Murder of Marilyn Monroe (42 page)

(LEIB, SYLVIA. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 25 APRIL 2012: “The carwash is still there and fully in business . . .”)

(ANNA, an employee of the LA County Assessor—Property Ownership. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 31 OCTOBER 2013: Via a phone call, Anna told Margolis as for the car wash located at 11166 Venice Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232, that there was one recording date in the files listed in the year 1967 under “HLW CORP.” When queried regarding the other car wash on 3131 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90019, Anna told Margolis there was one recording date on file listed as September 6, 1991, under the name “MAP BUSINESS GROUP, INC.” The entity number is C1697224 and the current owner is Moon Chong Kang. Interestingly, September 6, 1991, was the date when Pico Car Wash was recorded. Curiously, a little more than six months later
The Marilyn Files
(1991) was released to VHS on March 11, 1992, and
The Marilyn Files
TV documentary aired on August 12, 1992.)

(WATKINS, JOHN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 12 DECEMBER 2013: “HLW Corporation is not owned by Sylvia Siegel and HLW Corporation wasn’t listed as the owner of the car wash . . .”)

(Complaint No. R4-2002-0032, Administrative Civil Liability for Violation of California Water Code, in the matter of: Mr. Kazuho Nishida and HLW Corporation: “HLW Corporation has owned the property at 11166 Venice Boulevard, in Culver City . . .”)

(LEIB, SYLVIA. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 25 APRIL 2012: “Harry was born in 1913 and died at fifty-one years old . . .”)

(LEIB, SYLVIA. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 11 MARCH 2012: “Murray was in the service and was in two wars . . .”)

(LEIB, SYLVIA. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 25 APRIL 2012: “I married Murray on October 5, 1968 . . .”)

(VILLALOBOS, EDGARDO. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 14 JANUARY 2013: “Murray bought car washes, two of them that I know . . .”)

(VILLALOBOS, EDGARDO. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 27 APRIL 2012: “Dick Williams was an ambulance driver . . .”)

(VILLALOBOS, EDGARDO. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 14 JANUARY 2013: “The one in West LA they said was Murray’s, too . . .”)

(LEIB, SYLVIA. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 25 APRIL 2012: “All the people that worked on the ambulance with Murray came to the car wash . . .”)

(LEIB, SYLVIA. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 25 APRIL 2012: “The only thing that upsets me about the whole thing is that the Kennedys would get away with this . . .”)

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(
Say Goodbye to the President
documentary, 1985: Former Mayor Sam Yorty recalled, “Chief Parker told me confidentially that Bobby Kennedy was supposed to be north of Los Angeles . . .”)

(WOLFE 1998, pp. 51–52: “In the process of his investigation, however, [Chief of Detectives] Thad Brown discovered something startling—the Attorney General
had
been in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 4. Thad’s brother, detective Finis Brown, related [to Anthony Summers], ‘I talked to contacts who had seen Kennedy and Lawford at the Beverly Hilton Hotel the day she took the overdose.’”)

(FRANKLIN 2002, pp. 108–113: Detective Franklin pulled over Peter Lawford, Bobby Kennedy, and Dr. Ralph Greenson all in the same car at 12:10 a.m. on August 5, 1962.)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, pp. 445–448)

(
The Death of Marilyn Monroe
documentary, n.d. Beverly Hills police officer Lynn Franklin said, “Just as I approached Olympic Boulevard, a Lincoln Continental went through the intersection eastbound heading for Downtown Los Angeles at roughly 80 miles per hour. So I threw on the red light and went in pursuit. When I pulled the car over, the only one who I recognized immediately was Peter Lawford. And in the backseat, once I shined the light back there, I recognized Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General.”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 463: Wolfe incorrectly stated that the car Lawford was driving was a black Mercedes. As Detective Franklin has always stated, it was a Lincoln Continental.)

(HEYMANN, C. DAVID. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 13 JULY 2010: Heymann was surprised when told that Lawford, Kennedy, and Greenson were pulled over in the same car by Detective Lynn Franklin.)

(FRANKLIN 2002, p. 109: “The significant thing that might be related to the hit attack on me . . .”)

(FRANKLIN 2002, p. 111: “I’m not trying to cover the case here, but for my money, she was murdered and Robert Kennedy at least knew about it, maybe ordered the killing . . .”)

(ROTHMILLER, MIKE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 26 SEPTEMBER 2010)

(NAAR, JOSEPH. INTERVIEW WITH JAMES SPADA. 31 AUGUST 1988: “Peter wouldn’t dare go over there. He made sure it was me . . .”)

(NAAR, JOSEPH. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 22 JULY 1992)

(NAAR, JOSEPH. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 2 SEPTEMBER 2010: “He is so full of shit. That is the most insane thing I have ever heard. I’ve
never
heard that one. Bobby was in the back seat? Peter was driving? . . . If you’re the highest decorated officer, you don’t need that kind of publicity . . . People like Warren Beatty think I know exactly what happened. That I’m covering it up . . .”)

(SLATZER 1975, pp. 238–239: Sgt. Jack Clemmons relayed, “I heard that Marilyn and Bobby Kennedy were having an affair. But a friend of mine, who had been in the movie industry . . . said it was going around that Bobby Kennedy had Marilyn done away with, and he said, ‘I’ll tell you one thing, everybody in the business believes it.’”)

(FRANKLIN 2002, p. 127: “At a Beverly Wilshire Hotel Chamber of Commerce Breakfast, Chief B.L. Cork presents Det. Lynn Franklin the CHA Award. The highest Honor ever bestowed upon a Beverly Hills Cop.”)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, p. 446: Detective Franklin related that Peter “appeared drunk, terrified, and coming apart at the seams.”)

(SCHWARZ 2009, p. 624: Otash recalled that Peter “looked like hell, trembling in the manner of a junkie going through cold turkey withdrawal.”)

(SPADA 1991, p. 328: Milt Ebbins said, “I spoke to Peter at his house at one-thirty that night . . .”)

(EBBINS, MILTON. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 6 AUGUST 1992: “Peter was getting drunker by the minute . . . He’d be coughing then be silent.”)

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(
Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder
documentary, 1988: Abe Landau’s “Grand Central Station” account in which the narrator mentioned a “mysterious midnight traffic jam in front of Marilyn’s house the night she died.”)

(FRANKLIN 2002, pp. 111–112: Detective Lynn Franklin, through correspondence with Fred Otash and James Hall, placed Sgt. Marvin Iannone and Peter Lawford on the scene at 11:45 p.m. and Fred Otash agreed that at this time an ambulance was present.)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, pp. 447–448: At 12:10 a.m. on August 5, 1962, Detective Lynn Franklin pulls over Peter Lawford for speeding with Kennedy and Greenson in tow.)

(
The Marilyn Files
documentary, 1991: As Greenson injected Marilyn in the heart, James Hall observed, “At about this time, two men came in. The one man [Sergeant Marvin Iannone] was wearing a Los Angeles police officer’s uniform . . . The guy in the civilian clothes went up to Patricia Newcomb, put his arm around her and calmed her right down . . . Subsequently, I’ve identified him, too and that was Peter Lawford.”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 77: “The officer went into the main house before returning to sign Hall’s EPA call slip. Hall later identified the hysterical woman as Pat Newcomb, the man in the jumpsuit as Peter Lawford, the doctor as Ralph Greenson, and the police officer as Sgt. Marvin Iannone.”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 64: “Before departing, Captain James Hamilton promoted Marvin Iannone to lieutenant and transferred him to the downtown office of the Intelligence Division.”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 61: “Iannone was known to work for Hamilton in Intelligence, and whenever the President or the Attorney General visited the Lawfords’ . . .”)

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(BUCHTHAL AND COMMENT 2010, p. 213: While at Payne Whitney in New York, Marilyn wrote to Ralph Greenson on February 2, 1961, “Someone when I mentioned his name you used to frown with your moustache and look up at the ceiling . . . He has been (secretly) a very tender friend . . . It was sort of a fling on the wing . . . but he is very unselfish in bed. From Yves I have heard nothing . . .”)

(GREENSON, HILDI. INTERVIEW WITH CATHY GRIFFIN. 4 JUNE 1991: “It’s just ludicrous . . .”)

(HEYMANN 1998, p. 322)

(LAWFORD, PETER. INTERVIEW WITH C. DAVID HEYMANN. 1983. Transcript located at the State University of New York at Stony Brook: “I suppose the most surprising revelation in Marilyn’s own tapes was the fact that not only did Marilyn have an affair with both Kennedys, she was also sleeping with Dr. Greenson, who appeared to be deeply in love with her . . .”)

(HEYMANN 1998, p. 322: Peter Lawford said, “I also got hold of portions of the [Mafia-Teamster] tapes, and heard what seemed to be sounds of their lovemaking . . .”)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: Ralph Greenson relayed, “I always had a weak spot in my heart to rescue damsels in distress . . .”)

(LEAMING 1998, p. 391: Greenson and “damsels in distress.”)

(GILMORE 2007, p. 198: “Like a jealous lover, Greenson manipulated Marilyn’s thinking and her choices . . .”)

(GILMORE 2007, p. 198: Ralph Roberts relayed, “He was having her get rid of the people who loved her and were devoted to her . . .”)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: GREENSON, JOAN. UNTITLED 90-PAGE MARILYN MONROE MANUSCRIPT, pp. 23–25, 29–30, 32: “Why was it that no matter what she did she was striking? . . .” The complete work is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

(STRAIT, RAYMOND. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 18 NOVEMBER 2010: “Women like that who are very lonesome and feel like they’ve been abandoned . . .”)

(JAFFE 2004, p. 171: Greenson said to a candidate in training, “There is the problem of a change in motivation that happens when, for example, the patient develops an acute sexual transference . . .”)

(FARBER AND GREEN 1993, p. 109: Accounts of Drs. Leo Rangell and Melvin Mandel.)

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(LAWFORD, PETER. INTERVIEW WITH C. DAVID HEYMANN. 1983. Transcript located at the State University of New York at Stony Brook: “I suppose the most surprising revelation in Marilyn’s own tapes was the fact that not only did Marilyn have an affair with both Kennedys, she was also sleeping with Dr. Greenson, who appeared to be deeply in love with her . . .”)

(HEYMANN 1998, p. 322: Peter Lawford said, “I also got hold of portions of the [Mafia-Teamster] tapes, and heard what seemed to be sounds of their lovemaking . . .”)

(SPOTO 1993, p. 658: “The only five-week summer vacation [Greenson] took from 1959 to his death in 1979 was in 1962. With no other woman patient was he so involved, and the language of this passage is virtually a copy of his descriptions of MM in his August 20 letter to Marianne Kris.”)

(GREENSON 1964, pp. 202–203: “Sometimes all that is necessary is time . . .” The complete work is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA.)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 254: “Dr. Greenson listened to Marilyn’s ‘venomous resentment’ toward Arthur Miller. She claimed her husband was ‘cold and unresponsive’ to her problems, attracted to other women, and dominated by his mother. She accused Miller of neglecting his father and not being ‘nice’ to his children.”)

(GREENSON 1964, pp. 203–206: “The above incident occurred during the fourth month of her analysis with me . . .” The complete work is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA.)

(SUGARMAN 2000, pp. 279–282: In a paper entitled, “Countertransference,” Greenson wrote, “Countertransference . . . is an inappropriate reaction of the therapist to his patient . . .”)

(GREENSON 1967, p. 171: “Transference is the experiencing of feelings, drives, attitudes, fantasies, and defenses toward a person in the present,” often the analyst, “which do not befit that person but are a repetition of reactions originating in regard to significant persons of early childhood, unconsciously displaced onto figures in the present.”)

(GREENSON 1967, p. 155: “All people have transference reactions; the analytic situation only facilitates their development and utilizes them for interpretation and reconstruction . . . The two outstanding characteristics are: it is a repetition and it is inappropriate.”)

(GREENSON 1967, pp. 52, 172: “Most psychoanalysts, however, are of the opinion that narcissistically fixated patients [as Greenson termed Monroe] require deviations from the standard psychoanalytic procedure.”)

(GREENSON 1967, pp. 173–174, 184: “People who are essentially narcissistic will not be able to maintain a consistently analyzable transference relationship. Their relationship to the therapist will abound with fusions of self and object images, primitive forerunners of identification.”)

(GREENSON 1967, p. 343: “borderline cases” and “their propensity for intractable transference reactions.”)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: Greenson wrote to Dr. Kris on August 20, 1962, “If I behaved in a way which hurt her she reacted as though it was the end of the world . . .” The complete letter is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)