Jackie Kennedy confronted alleged JFK about Marilyn Monroe: New Book

What exactly did Jackie Kennedy Consider JFK’s long rumored relationship with Marilyn Monroe? A new biography of the 35th President, JFK: public, private, secret have some surprising answers.

According to author J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie once said to his husband to Monroe: “This different Jack. This worries me.”

“It comes from someone who was there in the White House who heard that conversation,” Taraborrelli tells People. “It was reported to me 25 years ago, when I wrote a previous book, Jackie, Ethel and Joan. ”

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According to Taraborrelli: “She (Jackie) did not know the relationship but knew him well enough to suspect that something was going on. What is really important is her use of the language:” This is different “, which indicates she was okay with the other (women) but this one Where different.”

The conversation took place before JFK’s birthday party on May 19, 1962 at Madison Square Garden, he says. “She didn’t want anything to do with it. She had a barbecue with Auchinclosses (her mother Janet Auchincloss and stepfather, Hugh Auchincloss) rather than go because she didn’t want to support it.”

As for the long -rumored business between JFK and the star, Taraborrelli says: “I do not have enough evidence to support it,” especially in the early 1962 weekend when it has long been claimed that the president and the star both stayed at home Bing Crosby.

Taraborrelli spoke to Pat Newcomb, now 96, who was Monroe’s publicist – and a close friend – who told him that the star was not there this weekend.

“Pat said” I have read about this for 60 years and I can say that this did not happen, “says Taraborrelli from the specific meeting.” If it did not happen then, I do not know when they were together because then it was a clear shot for Madison Square Garden, where she sang congratulations on birthday Mr. President and then she was gone. ”Monroe died on August 4, 1962.

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“I, together with other writers, have said that the only thing we can really trust was that they were together in Bing Crosby’s house that weekend,” says Taraborrelli. “Now I say we can’t count on that.”

“People could sneak off,” he adds, “but as I wrote in the book, we do not have enough evidence to support that they had a deal.”

“The confusion is that Marilyn had many emotional problems,” he explains. “I wrote about them in The secret life of Marilyn MonroeThe And the problem that historians have met for generations is that Marilyn told her friends that she and JFK, and she and Bobby, had business. She told people who were close to her, who then told me writers like me. And then you realize, Marilyn was not the best narrator in her life. ”

When it comes to Jackie, he concludes, “What is interesting is that she did not know if JFK was involved with her or not. She just assumed it. What I know is after Marilyn died, Jackie was deprived of.”

He talks about a story told by a friend of Janet Rutherford Auchincloss (Jackie’s half -sister) about a conversation (Janet) and Jackie had after Marilyn’s death.

Janet, who was quite upset, said to his sister and his mother, “the world destroyed Marilyn,” he writes. But Jackie did not agree. “No, Janet,” she said. “The world did not destroy Marilyn. The world built Marilyn. It was the men in her life that destroyed Marilyn.”

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