Upcoming Novel Portrays JFK as Sex Maniac

Five sites of well-known sex scandals

(NEWSER) - New York has housed many a famous cheater in its fancy hotels—the Daily News lists the top five:

• Four Seasons: Alex Rodriguez courted prostitutes here while still married to Cynthia, alleges Manhattan madam Kristin Davis.
• Days Inn: Gov. David Paterson went the budget route at this $150-a-night hotel during his three years of adultery—then took his wife there during their marriage counseling.

'It was just a get-together,' says pal who filmed smokin' star

(NEWSER) - A recently surfaced home movie of Marilyn Monroe shows the star languorously sucking on what a friend revealed is a marijuana joint as she lounges with pals. Monroe takes a hit before vamping for the camera in a New Jersey apartment sometime in the 50s. The movie was purchased by a filmmaker making a documentary that claims Monroe, who died of a drug overdose, was killed by government agents because she was having an affair with President Kennedy. It was shot by a friend who admitted supplying the pot. More»

Even pal, lover Frank Sinatra threw her out for taking pills

(NEWSER) - In a new tell-all, J. Randy Taraborrelli paints a picture of Marilyn Monroe’s drug-fueled final months, her fixation with John F. Kennedy, and the shock friends like Frank Sinatra felt at her downward spiral, the Daily Mail reports. Four months before her death, the screenwriter for her last film found her in a drug-induced coma, “almost naked” and “almost dead,” he says. One pal blames that breakdown on Kennedy. More»

(NEWSER) - Jacqueline Kennedy’s four-year love affair with RFK was so intense that it was she, rather than his wife, who made the decision to turn off his life support after he was shot, according to Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story, which hits shelves this month. The New York Post got a closer look at the controversial book, and reveals some scintillating details: More»

Neighbors claim to have seen frisking; experts decry

(NEWSER) - Jackie Kennedy turned to the arms of brother-in-law Bobby after John F. Kennedy’s assassination—or so a Kennedy biographer claims in Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story, out July 14. C. David Heymann alluded to such claims in two previous books, the New York Daily News reports, but Kennedy insiders aren’t convinced. “It’s a new low,” says one biographer; the Kennedy White House press secretary went further, calling it “bullshit.” More»