My husband fudged everything off,” Jacobs’s wife says in the tape played in Netflix’s doc. “That’s not true, because my husband was there. According to the documentary, around 10:30pm on August 4, an attendant alerted Jacobs that something was terribly wrong while they were at the Hollywood Bowl-evidently, much earlier than the highly publicized 3:30am discovery of Monroe's dead body. Unfortunately, it is offered as biography.An interview with the widow of Monroe’s press relations manager, Arthur Jacobs, produced the most significant breakthrough for Summers in disputing the well-known timeline of Monroe's death. If only “Goddess” were published as fiction, I could enjoy it with a good conscience. To believe him, the Kennedys are as bad as the Borgias.
Summers “documents” that Robert Kennedy was with Marilyn the last Saturday of her life, that he was in an ambulance en route to a hospital with his dying “mistress” and that he returned her corpse to the Brentwood house so that the subsequent accounts of her death became an elaborate cover-up. He believes that Monroe was carrying on concurrent affairs with John F. But what Summers deals out to Sinatra is nothing compared to his treatment of the Kennedys.
On the basis of his witnesses, Summers draws a disparaging picture of Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra. Many make statements about Monroe and her lovers that are absurd to those who knew her. Many of Summers’ witnesses are sleazy characters-hookers and hustlers and private detectives. “Goddess” reeks with the sort of gossip that some will find delicious and others nasty. On his evidence, Monroe must have been the most compulsive nymphomaniac since Messalina. Summers is less interested in Monroe the complicated human being than he is in the myth. And he has discovered and published a photograph of Monroe after the autopsy, a photograph that is the ultimate horror. He has made Monroe’s private life public, recounting alleged amours with the famous and the infamous, and the final maelstrom of alcohol and sleeping pills. A biographer with an investigative reporter’s sensibility and infinite patience, Summers has tracked down more than 600 witnesses and delved into government files and other untapped sources. Twenty-three years after her death, she is impersonated by Theresa Russell in “Insignificance,” imitated by Madonna in the “Material Girl” video, reincarnated as Miranda Richardson in “Dance With a Stranger,” and now cruelly dissected by Anthony Summers in “Goddess.” This is the best of Monroe books, it is the worst of Monroe books.
Like a restless spirit, Marilyn Monroe keeps returning. GODDESS: THE SECRET LIVES OF MARILYN MONROE by Anthony Summers.
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