{"id":110499,"date":"2026-06-01T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/was-marilyn-monroe-murdered-inside-the-conspiracy-theories\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:33:09","slug":"was-marilyn-monroe-murdered-inside-the-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/was-marilyn-monroe-murdered-inside-the-conspiracy-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Marilyn Monroe Murdered? Inside the Conspiracy Theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/marilyn_monroe\"><strong>Marilyn Monroe<\/strong><\/a> died on Aug. 4, 1962, countless conspiracy theories were born.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Coroner determined that the 36-year-old\u2014who was born <strong>Norma Jeane Baker<\/strong> on June 1, 1926\u2014died of acute barbiturate poisoning and ruled her overdose a probable suicide.<\/p>\n<p>But that verdict has simply never sat well with people who suspected she suffered an even darker fate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve learned a lot that I wouldn\u2019t trade for anything,&#8221; Monroe <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/marilyn-monroe-last-interview-photoshoot-rare-photos-exclusive-11966798?_gl=1*1apwsz8*_ga*MTY0NjM4NjAxNi4xNzYzNTczMzQx*_ga_DK3GDWHWJH*czE3ODAwODA5MDQkbzUxJGcxJHQxNzgwMDgxMjA4JGo2MCRsMCRoMA..\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">told <em>Life <\/em>magazine<\/a> in a July interview published two days before her death. &#8220;I wouldn\u2019t want a child of mine to go through what I\u2019ve been through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Some Like It Hot <\/em>star added, &#8220;I hope to ultimately be able, through my work, to illuminate for some people some things I\u2019ve learned. Maybe it\u2019s just a dream. But I\u2019m also entitled to my dreams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, it wasn&#8217;t a secret Monroe had been struggling. Her battles with substance abuse and depression were well-documented, and she was fired in June from the romantic comedy <em>Something&#8217;s Got to Give <\/em>for, as 20th Century Fox put it, &#8220;spectacular absenteeism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1432470\/was-marilyn-monroe-murdered-inside-the-conspiracy-theories?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Marilyn Monroe died on Aug. 4, 1962, countless conspiracy theories were born. The Los Angeles County Coroner determined that the 36-year-old\u2014who was born Norma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}