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<p class=ql-align-justify><strong><em>Does anyone really want to know what caused the death of Marilyn Monroe?</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(255 77 255 1)><em> </em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(77 77 77 1)>The long afterlife of cultural and cinematic icon Marilyn Monroe has created a tragic paradox.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(77 77 77 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(77 77 77 1)>In this post-truth era Monroe has been recast as a victim of powerful men a virtual simulacrum of desire and death. The sensational narrative constantly regurgitated in media reports books and documentaries rests on a stacked deck of hearsay and outright lies. Conspiracy theories offer a</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(77 77 77 1)>simplistic yet tantalizing framing device for the abundance of information hurled at us by global mass media.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(77 77 77 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(77 77 77 1)>In an explosive takedown Gary Vitacco - Robles - author of </span><em style=color: rgba(77 77 77 1)>Icon: The Life Times and Films of Marilyn Monroe </em><span style=color: rgba(77 77 77 1)>- unpacks the falsehoods perpetuated by a rogues' gallery of shadowy opportunists. With surgical skill he separates fact from fiction probable theory from outlandish rumor. As a practicing psychotherapist the author is uniquely qualified to re-examine Monroe's lifelong struggle with mental illness and spiraling addiction to medications liberally prescribed by successive doctors.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(77 77 77 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(77 77 77 1)>In this definitive study - based upon decades of research legitimate sources the never-before-released Los Angeles District Attorney's investigation and police investigations from 1962 1975 and 1985 - the reader is presented with facts to finally learn the truth about how Monroe died and who was responsible.</span></p><p><br></p>