Official Irish Marilyn Monroe Fanclub.

Marilyn & Elvis had a relationship.

There is no physical proof that Marilyn and Elvis Presley ever met. There MAY have been a very brief meeting between the two as Joe Esposito, Elvis’ “right-hand man recalled, “At Paramount Studios one time, him and I were walking to the dressing room and she was walking towards us at the same time and that’s when he met her. It was just a small, nice little conversation. He gave her a hug and all that stuff… Probably for about 3 minutes, and that was it.”

Marilyn was slovenly / dirty.

Of the many women who worked for Marilyn over the years, Lena Pepitone is the most controversial. Her claims included that Marilyn suffered with IBS, smelled, was an alcoholic, never bathed and that she pined for Joe DiMaggio during her marriage to Arthur Miller. Almost everyone to have known Marilyn said she spent hours bathing, washed her face up to 15 times a day and that she said she washed her hair 5 times a week. She may have had off days but these claims seem to be BS.

Marilyn was the first woman to create her own production company.

This claim is staggering purely for the fact there is so much evidence to the contrary!! Marilyn establishing her own production company was an achievement, no doubt, but it seems to have been created more for tax purposes than any great business move. Marilyn Monroe Productions was very much modelled after Rita Hayworth’s production company, The Beckworth Corporation – incidentally, Johnny Hyde helped Hayworth set this up and he is well known as being the agent to help Marilyn in her rise to fame!

Marilyn was a victim of the “Casting Couch”

Rumours have abounded for years that Marilyn was a victim of the Casting Couch. If you look at her career this really doesn’t seem to be true. Her rise to fame took approximately 7 years. She was by no means an overnight success. Marilyn was first signed by 20th Century Fox, dropped, picked up by Columbia, dropped after a run in with the studio head, Harry Cohn. A short time later she was signed by Fox again. Although it’s said that studio head Darryl Zanuck didn’t like her, her fan mail was such that he couldn’t deny her popularity and he kept putting her in movies.

Marilyn really was a dumb blonde.

While Marilyn played a “dumb” blonde in a few of her movies, that was far from the truth in her day to day life! If anything, her success playing these roles proves what a good actress she was.

Marilyn was a voracious reader an art-lover with an insatiable desire to learn more. She had a collection of over 400 books at the time of her death, she wrote poetry and painted. She does not seem to have been the materialistic character she portrayed in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes or How To Marry A Millionaire. In fact, she even had very few pieces of real jewellery!

Marilyn’s body went missing for hours after her death.

This one is a doozy that seems to have originated on TikTok – Here is a brief timeline of movements after her death:

Cops arrive at 4:25am 5th Aug. Body remains in house until Westwood Village Mortuary workers arrive at 5.25am to take her body to morgue. They arrive back there at 6-6:25am. At 7:45am Coroner leaves office to collecther body & bring back there for autopsy. They arrive back to office at 9am. Autopsy began at 10:30am. Marilyn’s body remained there until the next morning Aug 6th. Tests were run that morning and then Inez Melson (her business manager) claimed body & brought it back to Westwood. While back in Westwood, Joe DiMaggio sat with her almost the entire time until she was interred. There was no 6hr period where her body was missing and she was not SA’d at any stage.