Hasn’t Marilyn Monroe‘s legacy had enough controversy this year??
26.04.2022 - 01:47 / nypost.com
her supposed lover — then-U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy — at her Brentwood, Calif., estate., Marilyn Monroe’s nude, lifeless body was reportedly found by her housekeeper.
As the story goes, the glamorous star was surrounded by several bottles of sleeping pills and, an hour or so later, the police arrived on the scene.But some say that’s not quite how it happened.“No, she wasn’t [dead at home],” says ambulance company owner Walter Schaefer in the new Netflix documentary “The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes,” out Wednesday. One of his former drivers, Ken Hunter, had been dispatched to Monroe’s home on the night of her death. And Schaefer says that the silver screen superstar was comatose, but alive, when Hunter picked her up and began transporting her to an emergency room in Santa Monica.
And writer John Sherlock claims that Monroe’s last psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, told him, years after Monroe’s death, that she was alive at home and was being transported by ambulance to Saint John’s Health Center when she died en route. “She died in the ambulance,” Sherlock says in the documentary.
“Then they took her back to the house. [Greenson] told me he was in the ambulance.”Monroe’s beautiful and glamorous appeal are indisputable. But, six decades after her tragic passing, the circumstances around her passing remain clouded in contradictions and conspiracies.
Hasn’t Marilyn Monroe‘s legacy had enough controversy this year??
Vulture about the “Blonde” rating, the less surprised he seemed.“I thought we’d colored inside the lines,” Dominik said at first. “But I think if you’ve got a bunch of men and women in a boardroom talking about sexual behavior, maybe the men are going to be worried about what the women think. It’s just a weird time.
Zack Sharf Much hoopla has been over the NC-17 rating assigned to “Blonde,” the upcoming Marilyn Monroe drama that casts Ana de Armas as the Hollywood icon. The film’s director Andrew Dominik has defended the rating, arguing that “the NC-17 version of the Marilyn Monroe story” is what viewers want, although that doesn’t mean he was always expecting the restrictive NC-17. Dominik told Vulture that he thought he was playing in the R-rated sandbox when he was making the film.“I was surprised.
Marilyn Monroe historian and collector Scott Fortner has claimed that Ripley’s Believe It or Not gifted Kim Kardashian a “fake” piece of Monroe’s hair. On 2 May, the reality star arrived at the Met Gala in a gown previously worn by Monroe in 1962 when she serenaded John F Kennedy on his 45th birthday. The outfit choice was made possible with the help of Ripley’s Believe It or Not, who had loaned Kardashian the dress for the occasion.
Kim Kardashian‘s prized one-of-a-kind possession — a supposed lock of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe‘s hair — may not be so one-of-a-kind after all! Or at least it may not actually be that of Monroe. But then whose hair is it?!?!
Kim Kardashian has revealed that she changed into a second dress worn by Marilyn Monroe after this year’s Met Gala. On Monday 2 May, Kardashian arrived on the red carpet steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a sheer beige floor-length glittering gown previously worn by Monroe in 1962 when she serenaded President John F Kennedy on his 45th birthday.
Kim Kardashian channeled Marilyn Monroe — again! The 41-year-old reality star took to Instagram on Friday to reveal that, after wearing one of the late actress' gowns to the Met Gala, she changed into another one of Monroe's iconic looks.«To top off my night after The Met, I had the honor of changing into Marilyn Monroe's Norman Norell dress that she wore to the Golden Globes in 1962 — where she received the Henrietta Award For World Film Favorite,» Kardashian wrote alongside pics of her and Monroe in the gown.«In my quest to find the Jean Louis hand beaded dress that I wore to the gala, I discovered @heritageauctions owned Marilyn’s iconic green sequined gown,» she continued. «Further into my research I found out that the owner of the Golden Globe that she received that evening was none other than my friend @jeffleatham.
Kim Kardashian was speechless after receiving a very special and unexpected gift, a lock of the late icon Marilyn Monroe. A video of her reaction was posted on Instagram, moments after making her appearance at the Met Gala, wearing the legendary $4.8 million gown Marilyn wore when performing “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” to President John F.
Kim Kardashian rocking Marilyn Monroe’s dress at the 2022 Met Gala was a moment, but not everyone was loving it.
Kim Kardashian made the internet erupt once again as she took to the steps of the 2022 Met Gala wearing one of the most iconic dresses in the world this week. For fashion's biggest event of the year, the 41 year old chose to don Marilyn Monroe's £3.8m dress, which the Hollywood icon sported to sing Happy Birthday to American President John F.
Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian appeared together on the red carpet at the Met Gala, fans began to question if the comedian got a spray tan prior to the event. On Monday, the couple made their debut on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For the occasion, Davidson wore a black and white tuxedo by Dior, while his girlfriend wore a sheer beige floor-length gown that had 6,000 crystals hand-sewn onto it by costumier Jean Louis.
Kim Kardashian appeared on the 2022 Met Gala red carpet donning Marilyn Monroe’s iconic gem-embellished gown, made famous when the late icon wore it to serenade US president John F Kennedy for his birthday six decades ago. RELATED: The most glamorous red carpet looks at the Met GalaCompleting her red-carpet look, Kim enlisted the help of her trusty makeup artist, Mario Dedivanovic AKA Makeup by Mario, to help recreate Marilyn Monroe’s ultra-dewy skin for the glamorous Met Gala event.
She was one of the most famous faces in Hollywood known as the "blonde bombshell".