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“ON MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1962, WHEN GEORGE ERENGIS, A 20TH Century-Fox security guard reported for work—as he later revealed—“I went into Marilyn’s dressing room on the Fox lot and it had been cleared out. Nothing, not a trace of her had been left. I was shocked. She had earned that studio a fortune but they didn’t waste any time trying to erase her memory.” All her personal effects had been removed, apparently during the night, probably because someone feared there might be something incriminating there that could link her to the Kennedys.”
― Larry Jordan, Silenced: New Evidence In the Mysterious Deaths Of Marilyn Monroe & Dorothy Kilgallen

“James Patterson is a writer of fiction who is like a factory churning out title after title. His 2025 book on Marilyn is billed as a “true crime story.” Huge swaths of invented dialog and numerous fake scenes prove otherwise. Egregiously, the book promulgates the lies of fraudsters like Bob Slatzer and Jeanne Carmen. Despite packing it with obscure details that will impress readers, Patterson and his co-author Imogen Edwards-Jones have indiscriminately swept into their manuscript many false statements. Such as MM was “taking 20 Nembutals a day, downing the capsules with vodka or Champagne;” J. Edgar Hoover’s “suspicion that she is a Communist is confirmed;” there was “a trail of white pills scattered on the carpet” of her bedroom and “15 bottles of...knockout drops.” The authors use a quote from a manuscript by Ben Hecht, which has Marilyn supposedly saying, “Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.” But MM had her lawyer threaten Hecht if his manuscript—which was “not accurate...not true”—wasn’t withdrawn. Patterson, who is reportedly worth $800 million, will get his massive book sales, but at the expense of Marilyn’s reputation.”
― Larry Jordan, Silenced: New Evidence In the Mysterious Deaths Of Marilyn Monroe & Dorothy Kilgallen

“MARILYN MONROE WAS A TOP-BILLED ACTRESS FOR A DECADE, AND her films had grossed $200 million by the time of her death—the equivalent of over $2 billion in 2025 dollars.”
― Larry Jordan, Silenced: New Evidence In the Mysterious Deaths Of Marilyn Monroe & Dorothy Kilgallen

“Everyone is related, and everything is connected.”
― Larry Jordan