James Patterson believes Marilyn Monroe was probably murdered. “I think that she was treading in very dangerous waters,” he says. “She had these incredible relationships with President Kennedy, and with Robert Kennedy, and with Sinatra, and with Mafia figures. They told her stuff, and she kept track of it. She had information that was kind of dangerous.”

Patterson is speaking via Zoom from his Palm Beach home office, weeks before the release of his upcoming book, The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe: A True Crime Thriller (Little, Brown) , which revisits the rise and fall of Hollywood’s most legendary blonde bombshell.

James Patterson believes Marilyn Monroe was probably murdered. “I think that she was treading in very dangerous waters,” he says. “She had these incredible relationships

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