Marilyn Monroe's death, sex with JFK, taped by private eye Fred Otash
Staff Writers
June 10, 2013 8:40AM
Marilyn Monroe with President John F. Kennedy, centre, and Robert Kennedy, left, at a Democratic fundraiser on May 19, 1962 at a home in New York City. Files kepy by Hollywood PI Fred Otash claim to have JFK and Marilyn on tape having sex. AP Photo/Bonhams, Cecil StoughtonSource: AP
Marilyn Monroe in a scene from the 1955 film Seven Year Itch. She complained about being used as "piece of meat" by the Kenendys.Source: News Limited
A HOLLYWOOD private eye had tapes of Marilyn Monroe and John F Kennedy having sex and even taped her death after she had a massive argument with Bobby Kennedy, it has emerged.
Documents belonging to Fred Otash, one of Hollywood's most notorious private detectives who died in 1992, were uncovered by his daughter Colleen after being found in a suburban storage unit.
According to Otash Monroe had a sexual relationship with the brothers and on August 5, 1962, complained about being "passed around like a piece of meat", the Hollywood Reporter reports.
Otash claimed he had listened to Marilyn Monroe die after he had taped an argument she had with Robert Kennedy and actor Peter Lawford, Kennedy's brother-in-law.
"She said she was passed around like a piece of meat. It was a violent argument about their relationship and the commitment and promises he made to her," Otash said in the files.
"She was really screaming and they were trying to quiet her down. She's in the bedroom and Bobby gets the pillow, and he muffles her on the bed to keep the neighbours from hearing. She finally quieted down and then he was looking to get out of there."
As for the famous wire-tapping of Monroe and JFK having sex, Otash fessed up to Vanity Fair not long before his death.
"I would have kept it quiet all my life. But all of a sudden, I'm looking at FBI files and CIA files with quotes from my investigators telling them about the work they did on my behalf," he said.
"It's stupid to sit here and deny that these things are true. Yes, we did have (Lawford's house, where the trysts took place) wired. Yes, I did hear a tape of Jack Kennedy f - ing Monroe. But I don't want to get into the moans and groans of their relationship. They were having a sexual relationship - period."
Otash was the inspiration for the shady PI played by Jack Nicholson in the Oscar-winning 1974 film Chinatown.
James Ellroy, the crime novelist and author of LA Confidential, who met Otash several times, turned his career into a novel, Shakedown, published online and is now writing the script for a television version.
Among the stars Otash bugged was Rock Hudson, whose wife apparently confronted him about his homosexuality decades before the public knew he was gay and told him to "grow out of it", The Hollywood Reporter says.
Hudson, who died in 1985 aged 59 due to complications related to AIDS, had been considered one of the most desirable men of his day, starring alongside female screen icons such as Doris Day in classics such as Pillow Talk.
Otash's other files include information on Judy Garland and how in 1963 he cleaned her Beverly Hill apartment out of all the pills and alcohol she had stashed during her bitter split from third husband Sid Luft.
