Reply #4: Well, I hope her estate gets the money....

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Of course Jayne Mansfield's daughter is still living....I wonder how she feels about this dude sitting on these pictures for so many years.

Marilyn was not only a beautiful woman, she was very intelligent. I wish our culture would give her credit for this instead of just referring to her beauty.

I remember the moment I learned she had died/was murdered. I was a child, but I had seen 'Some Like it Hot' and thought Marilyn was a very cool woman. I could see how she 'played dumb.' My father and I were at a diner having breakfast with one of his business associates. He was reading the newspaper and declared, "Marilyn Monroe killed herself." It was like someone had hit me in the stomach. I jerked my head around to look at him and said, "There is no way Marilyn Monroe killed herself. I don't believe it." I went on and on. Finally, my dad said, "OK, OK....I'm just telling you what the newspaper says." And I retorted with his words, "So you believe everything you read in the newspaper." I was upset all day. I knew deep down inside of me that she had not killed herself.

I knew something was wrong. And I was just a kid...but I always have felt a sense of Truth in the world.

Go ahead and call me crazy...I'm used to it.

I wish she had lived to see The Women's Movement....it might have saved her. But given her sad life as a child and adult, I doubt it. To this day, I can't stand Miller and Dimagio for how they treated her.

My mom took me to all of her movies. I always had the feeling that I wanted to take care of her....shield her from the cruel world in some way.

She really had no one on her side.

Rambling done. RIP, Marilyn Monroe.