Vast Trove Yields Marilyn Secrets

Papers from unearthed Monroe filing cabinets suggest abortion
By Elizabeth Wolff,  Newser Staff
Posted Sep 3, 2008 4:52 PM CDT
Vast Trove Yields Marilyn Secrets
A rare copy of Playboy Magazine includes photos of Marilyn Monroe.   (AP Photo)

Filing cabinets stuffed with receipts and letters are opening a window into Marilyn Monroe’s personal life, Vanity Fair reports. Payments for something "medical" coincide with her 1953 hospitalization for a gynecological procedure, suggesting an abortion, and notes she sent to husband Arthur Miller’s children while they were at camp recollect dancing with Robert Kennedy. (More Marilyn Monroe stories.)

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