SFExaitie: (A) OCT 2 7 177 Marilyn Monroe's 'Mr. X': Was He Robert Kennedy?

NEW YORK — (UPI) — A veteran Broadway- Hollywood columnist says Robert F. Kennedy was the "Mr. X" in Marilyn Monroe's life — a friend whom she saw repeatedly during the months preceding her tragic death. In a new book Earl Wilson says that what may have been Mari- lyn's last words were spoken over the tele- phone to actor Peter Lawford, a brother- in-law of the Kennedys with whom they often ROBERT F. KENNEDY MARILYN MONROE PETER LAWFORD stayed on visits to the Was he Mr. X? "Slurred voice" Worried over condition coast. Fred Lawrence Guiles, whose "Norma planes, going the Palm "They both visited the away. Let me get in Jean" may be the defin- Springs - Vegas - Lake Lawfords at their beach touch with her lawyer or Tahoe route. But one did house," the columnist itive biography of Mari- doctor.' " Wilson re- lyn, said without naming not say these things says. "Marilyn Monroe, ports. about the Kennedys in who was in the circle of Psychiatrist Called names that she had a se- print." the Lawfords' friends, cret lover, and that he Ebbins got hold of Mil- was in Los Angeles the Wilson notes that also visited them at the Guiles' book says Mari- beach house." ton "Mickey" Rudin, night she died there. lyn courted privacy dur- Marilyn's attorney, who Wilson, whose column On Aug. 4, 1962, Wil- called Dr. Ralph Green- appears in The Examin- ing her last summer son says, Lawford invit- "because she was in- son, a Beverly Hills psy- er, does not make this ed Marilyn a n d her chiatrist who had been volved with a married press agent, Pat(rioia) claim. man." attending her. Greenson, Newcomb, to dinner at who had seen his patient Awkward Subject "He was not in the the beach house. He I n his book, "The (movie) industry; he says Marilyn accepted that day, said he was Show Business Nobody was an Easterner with but failed to appear. sure she was all right, few ties on the coast. He Wilson says. Knows," Wilson recalls 'Say Goodbye' the problems that beset had come West mainly The doctor's opinion Marilyn during her last to work out the details "At about 8 p.m. was reported to Law- months — notably the of a film production of a Lawford phoned ferd, who still wasn't over-dependence on bar- lit erary property in her. . . ." the columnist satisfied. Then Rudin biturates that sent her which he had a hand and says. "Marilyn said she called Eunice Murray at to the hospital during to escape the pressures was tired and wasn't Marilyn's home. (Wilson the making of her last of his work as a lawyer going to be able to come describes Mrs. Murray movie. and public servant . . ." to dinner. From her as a psychiatric nurse; "Another subject diffi- Wilson quotes Guiles slurred voice, Lawford Guiles says she was a cult and awkward to ex- as saying. recognized that she was former interior decora- plore was Marilyn's Hopeless Alliance either drunk or nearly tor whom Marilyn hired friendship with Bobby "Possibly it was his asleep from pills. . . . as a housekeeper- Kennedy (then the At- host who in Marilyn's " 'Say goodbye to Pat, companion at Gree n- torney General of the view acted as buffer be- say goodbye to the Pres- son's suggestion). ident, and say goodbye United States)," Wilson tween them and those Mrs. Murray said that says. forces antagonistic t o to yourself, because everything seemed to be "I am convinced that their affair. She was be- you're a nice guy,' all right. Marilyn was in he should be absolved . ginning to see the hope- (she said). Her voice her bedroom, with the completely of responsi- lessness of the alliance; trailed off; the phone apparently had dropped door locked, b u t the bility for any of the still, a phone call from light was on and her events connected with him would alter what- from her hand or she had fallen asleep." phonograph was play- Marilyn's mysterious ever else she had ing. death. It would be fairly planned for the evening, Wilson says Lawford easy, now that both are and she would go to wanted to go to Mari- That report satisfied dead, to concoct a mel- him.' " lyn's home and make Lawford, and he odramatic scandal. Wilson describes this sure she was all right, dropped the idea of However, in my opinion as "a dramatic way of but was dissuaded by .going to Marilyn's it would be unjustified saying that Peter Law- his manager, Milt Eb- home. and untrue. ford had a beach house bins. She was found dead at The Vegas Route tat Malibu) where he "'You can't go over 3:30 a.m. the next day, "Marilyn in her last lived with his wife Patri- there.' " Ebbins protest- sprawled nude across year was frequently cia. Kennedy Lawford, ed. 'Yon're the her bed with a hand seen — giggling under sister of John F. Kenne- brother.4n-law of the resting on one of the two her black wig — board- dy and Robert F. Kenne- President of the United private telephones at the ing one of the Kennedy dy. State s. Your wife's bedside.