Marilyn Monroe made a “disturbing” phone call asking Jackie Kennedy if she could speak to JFK just days after their affair at Bing Crosby’s Palm Springs home, an author claims.
J. Randy Taraborrelli, who wrote “Jackie: Public, Private, Secret,” claims that Kennedy answered their personal phone in their bedroom in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts and heard the actress on the other end of the line.
Her husband, President John F. Kennedy, was rumored to have had an on-again, off-again relationship with the iconic actress for years until 1962. The author suggests that their sexual relationship did not take place until the weekend of March 24, 1962.
According to Taraborrelli, after speaking to multiple sources, Jackie told family members that there was a “haunting quality to Marilyn’s voice that really stuck with her.”
Author J. Randy Taraborrelli, who wrote “Jackie: Public, Private, Secret,” claims that Kennedy answered their personal phone in their bedroom in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts and heard the actress on the other end of the line
Taraborrelli’s book claims that Jackie Kennedy told her mother the call was “unpleasant” and that Monroe’s voice was “sad,” which she found “disturbing”
In April 1962, Monroe called and asked, “Is Jack home?” to which Kennedy said he wasn’t, then asked who was calling.
The caller said, “Marilyn Monroe. Is this Jackie?’
When Kennedy said it was, Monroe asked if she would tell the president she was calling. Kennedy asked what it was about, and Monroe said it was “nothing special,” according to the book.
The claims are made in a new biography titled “Jackie: Public, Private, Secret” written by J. Randy Taraborrelli
Monroe “just wanted to say hello.”
Jackie Kennedy said she would pass on the message and hung up.
Taraborrelli’s book, seen by Fox News, claims that Jackie Kennedy told her mother the call was “unpleasant” and that Monroe’s voice was “sad,” which she found “disturbing.”
The call was placed on a private number and went directly to the telephone in the Kennedys’ bedroom.
This was the only line not wired or monitored by Secret Service agents.
Jackie Kennedy would be confused by how Monroe managed to get through the private line.
Taraborrelli wrote in his book, “Jackie would never be the type to say to Marilyn, ‘How dare you call here?’ She was not that kind of personality. She was more the type to be polite and hang up, which is exactly what she did.
“If it had been Elizabeth Taylor or some other movie star, there wouldn’t have been much intriguing about it. Even if it was one of the other women JFK had an affair with, there still wouldn’t have been much intrigue.
“Everything Marilyn touched has always created a focus of attention.
“Jackie thought Marilyn was too fragile, too weak to be played by JFK or anyone else.”
John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline sit together in the sun at Kennedy’s childhood home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts
Monroe died three months after she famously sang the famous “Happy Birthday” to President Kennedy. The performance caused one gossip columnist to remark, “It looked like Marilyn was making love to the president in front of 40 million Americans.”
John F Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy pictured with Monroe from the night she sang “Happy Birthday” to the president. It is said to be the only extant photograph of the trio together
Speaking of JFK and Monroe’s weekend affair, the author said, “But it was really just a weekend.
“JFK had so many affairs that Jackie probably thought it was more than just a weekend.
“But we have to understand that Jackie really didn’t know how big JFK’s relationship with Marilyn was.”
Rumors of President Kennedy’s affair with Monroe were fueled by her sultry performance for his 45th birthday at Madison Square Garden on May 19, 1962, just three months before she died.
The performance caused one gossip columnist to remark, “It looked like Marilyn was making love to the president in front of 40 million Americans.”
Jackie Kennedy also reportedly confronted her therapist when she discovered she was also treating Marilyn Monroe who was having an affair with her husband, President John F Kennedy.
According to “Jackie: Public, Private, Secret,” the former First Lady began dating psychiatrist Dr. Marianne Kris after the murder of her husband.
But she was left furious when she discovered that her therapist had also conducted sessions with her love rival Monroe.
Rumors of President Kennedy’s affair with Monroe were fueled by her sultry performance for his 45th birthday at Madison Square Garden on May 19, 1962, just three months before she died
Kris is said to have asked Jackie ‘How is this relevant’ when challenged about it and Jackie replied ‘How is that irrelevant?’.
Jackie was married to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis when she was with the therapist.
The pair discussed ‘Mrs. Onassis’s persistent PTSD, about the November 1963 assassination of President Kennedy in Texas. She was sitting next to him in the motorcade at the time of his death.
“They addressed Ms. Onassis’s lingering PTSD over the murder, as well as certain nagging issues about their marriage,” Kris’s secretary, from 1972 to 1974, Patricia Atwood told author J. Randy Taraborrelli.
“He went out in a blaze of glory,” said Mrs. Onassis, according to one of the notes I read.
“The way he died completely robbed her of the right to hate him,” she said. Alongside that message, Dr. Kris wrote that her grief was anything but, as she put it, “cleared up.”
Jackie was told that Kris had also treated Monroe and she got angry and confronted her
Jackie soon found out that Kris once treated Monroe and she became angry.
“When Jackie confronted her, Kris said she didn’t feel responsible for informing her about former patients in the same way she would never reveal she ever treated Jackie,” Taraborrelli wrote.
‘Marianne asked, ‘How relevant is this?’ to which Jackie replied, ‘How is that irrelevant?’.
The relationship was never confirmed, but it quickly became one of the biggest political scandals in American history.
The pair are said to have met only four times between 1961 and 1962, according to Donald Spoto’s 2001 biography of Monroe, which also states they had one sexual affair.
But other accounts claim the affair began in the early 1950s, when President Kennedy was then just a senator from Massachusetts and a relative unknown in Hollywood.
They were reportedly first introduced by Peter Lawford because Monroe was close friends with him and his wife, the president’s sister, Pat Kennedy Lawford.
But President Kennedy essentially passed the actress on to his younger brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who was also married at the time, after growing tired of the affair.