Split with married BOBBY KENNEDY pushed fragile sex symbol MARILYN MONROE over the edge.
After having inherited Marilyn Monroe as a mistress from his brother President John Kennedy, attorney general Bobby Kennedy, a staunch Catholic and father of 12, had just ended their affair when the star took off to mob and Rat Pack hangout Cal-Neva for one last wild party.
"Marilyn was distraught and heartbroken. She felt the Kennedys had handed her around like a piece of meat,’ Monroe’s publicist Rupert Allan said.
Long time pals confided the peroxide beauty’s grip on reality – damaged by mental illness, booze and prescription drugs – was more than unstable – it was volatile.
In a rage, MM told an ex-lover Robert Seltzer, "If I don’t hear from Bobby Kennedy soon I’m going to call a press conference and blow the lid off this whole damn thing – I’m going to tell about my relationships with both Kennedy brothers!"
At Cal-Neva resort she as drunk and out-of-control as a very worried former lover Frank Sinatra – a longtime pal of the Kennedys – acted fast.
"It was clear Sinatra was worried. She was in a state where she could have said anything," Monroe pal, jazz pianist/singer Buddy Greco revealed.
"Monroe, after all, knew an awful lot of secrets – and, in her condition, might have been prepared to share them.
‘Sinatra motioned to his bodyguard – Coochie – to get her out of there. Coochie, a big guy, escorted her out. Actually, he picked her up and carried her out."
The next morning a concerned Greco called for her at the complex where Cal-Neva owners Sinatra and mob boss Sam Giancana reserved quarters for top-secret booze and sex parties with their White House cronies.
"I thought that the next morning I could put her with Pat Lawford, who was her companion, and make sure she got back to L.A. safely.
‘But the next day when I called, she had already left. That was the last time I saw her."
That Sunday, August 5, 1962, Marilyn Monroe, 36, was found dead — naked and face-down on her bed at her home on the edge of quiet cul-de-sac in Hollywood.
"The long troubled star clutched a telephone in one hand. An empty bottle of sleeping pills was nearby," Associated Press historically reported that fateful day.
