Sylkat wrote:
Dear Popsicle, One of the BIG mysteries (to me) is 'What happened to Marilyn's money?'
She lived in that house nine months, died there, never furnished it!
Her last photo session in the living room, only three chairs were in the room, according to the photographer!
If you Google her death scene, she only had a tiny three-legged table by the bedside, most of her bedside 'stuff' was on the floor!
She never made as much as other female stars of her time; Jane Russell made over twice as much in 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'!
Elizabeth Taylor said that Marilyn followed her around incessantly at a party, making herself obvious, and she (Elizabeth) basically figured 'what the H___'.
At least three sites name other women that Marilyn was supposedly intimate with.
Sylkat
Marilyn was envious of Liz, witnessed by Marilyn's maid, written about in the book I mentioned before. Doesn't mean she wanted to have sex with her. Joe diMaggio and family said those types of things were just gossip about Marilyn. People think she's pretty so they want to think she was sex mad. In fact she barely tolerated it. That's according to people who slept with her.
Marilyn left most of her belongings and estate to the Lee Strasberg family. Lee's last wife and widow still auctions off some Marilyn belongings sometimes and of course her image and estate is worth a fortune.
I think Marilyn did not finish Helena Drive (her final home) because she was depressed.