The new book “Before Marilyn: The Blue Book Modeling Years” provides plenty of lost pics from Marilyn Monroe’s early days as an aspiring model. But The National ENQUIRER was there when legendary private investigator Anthony Summers revealed the true bombshell stories behind Norma Jeane Mortenson’s early years in the book “Goddess”—which included her shocking past as a suicidally-depressed call girl! Summers’ investigations showed that Marilyn once confessed she was a call girl before she hit it big in Hollywood – and during one poverty-stricken period in her life, she even resorted to picking up men in bars and selling herself for as little as $15 a night! She confided to her drama coach, Lee Strasberg, about her past as an escort. Strasberg recalled: “She told me she was the one summoned if anyone needed a beautiful girl for a convention…”
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Deeply lonely most of her life, Marilyn desperately wanted children. But she set aside that dream while seeking stardom - and she admitted to a friend that by the time she was 30, Marilyn had undergone no less than 12 abortions!
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Marilyn herself had been raised in a succession of foster homes. She spent much of her life deeply depressed. She told writer Ben Hecht that she'd attempted suicide twice before the age of 19—once by leaving the gas on, and once by swallowing sleeping pills.
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The tragic screen star also told her press aide and friend Rupert Allan of yet another occasion when she had considered suicide. In New York, she said, she had climbed out onto the ledge of her 13th-floor apartment in her nightgown, determined to jump. "I saw a woman in a brown tweed suit," said Marilyn, "and I thought if I jumped, I would do her in, too. I waited out there for about 5 or 10 minutes, but she didn't move and I got so cold, so I climbed back in. But I would've done it."
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Lena Pepitone, Marilyn's maid from 1957 until her death, said the actress told her how she had once literally sold herself to a man she met in a bar shortly before the end of her first marriage. The man, middle-aged, had persuaded a tipsy Marilyn to go to his hotel room for just $15. At first he merely asked to see her naked. Then he demanded more. According to Pepitone, there were other visits to the same bar, other men, and more pocket money for the future star.
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Marilyn also revealed that her early days as a model also ended with her offering sex for sale! Two years before she died, Marilyn had a conversation with writer Jaik Rosenstein, and said: "When I started modeling, it was like part of the job. All the girls did. They weren't shooting all those sexy pictures just to sell peanut butter in an ad, to get a layout in some picture magazine. They wanted to sample the merchandise, and if you didn't go along, there were 25 girls who would. It wasn't any big dramatic tragedy. Nobody ever got cancer from sex!"
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Hollywood didn't treat Marilyn any better, she told Rosenstein: "You know that when a producer calls an actress into his office to discuss a script, that isn't all he has in mind. And a part in a picture or any kind of a little stock contract is the most important thing in the world to the girl, more than eating. She can go hungry, and she might have to sleep in her car, but she doesn't mind that a bit—if she can only get the part. I know, because I've done both, lots of times. And I've slept with producers. I'd be a liar if I said I didn't!"
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But Marilyn paid a terrible price for her early wild years. Her abortions caused medical damage and destroyed her dream of having children. After Marilyn married playwright Arthur Miller in 1956, she tried to have a baby and actually became pregnant. However, the pregnancy wouldn't even last two months.
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Every public account said that Marilyn died childless—but her ex-maid Lena Pepitone would continue to insist that Marilyn had a child when she was about 14 or 15, but concealed the fact from her guardian for several months. The maid quoted Marilyn as saying: "It was a little boy. I hugged and kissed him. I just kept touching him. I couldn't believe this was my baby!" But then the child was given up for adoption, and Marilyn began the early modeling career that made her a tragic Hollywood legend!
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Deeply lonely most of her life, Marilyn desperately wanted children. But she set aside that dream while seeking stardom - and she admitted to a friend that by the time she was 30, Marilyn had undergone no less than 12 abortions!
Marilyn herself had been raised in a succession of foster homes. She spent much of her life deeply depressed. She told writer Ben Hecht that she'd attempted suicide twice before the age of 19—once by leaving the gas on, and once by swallowing sleeping pills.
The tragic screen star also told her press aide and friend Rupert Allan of yet another occasion when she had considered suicide. In New York, she said, she had climbed out onto the ledge of her 13th-floor apartment in her nightgown, determined to jump. "I saw a woman in a brown tweed suit," said Marilyn, "and I thought if I jumped, I would do her in, too. I waited out there for about 5 or 10 minutes, but she didn't move and I got so cold, so I climbed back in. But I would've done it."
Lena Pepitone, Marilyn's maid from 1957 until her death, said the actress told her how she had once literally sold herself to a man she met in a bar shortly before the end of her first marriage. The man, middle-aged, had persuaded a tipsy Marilyn to go to his hotel room for just $15. At first he merely asked to see her naked. Then he demanded more. According to Pepitone, there were other visits to the same bar, other men, and more pocket money for the future star.
Marilyn also revealed that her early days as a model also ended with her offering sex for sale! Two years before she died, Marilyn had a conversation with writer Jaik Rosenstein, and said: "When I started modeling, it was like part of the job. All the girls did. They weren't shooting all those sexy pictures just to sell peanut butter in an ad, to get a layout in some picture magazine. They wanted to sample the merchandise, and if you didn't go along, there were 25 girls who would. It wasn't any big dramatic tragedy. Nobody ever got cancer from sex!"
Hollywood didn't treat Marilyn any better, she told Rosenstein: "You know that when a producer calls an actress into his office to discuss a script, that isn't all he has in mind. And a part in a picture or any kind of a little stock contract is the most important thing in the world to the girl, more than eating. She can go hungry, and she might have to sleep in her car, but she doesn't mind that a bit—if she can only get the part. I know, because I've done both, lots of times. And I've slept with producers. I'd be a liar if I said I didn't!"
But Marilyn paid a terrible price for her early wild years. Her abortions caused medical damage and destroyed her dream of having children. After Marilyn married playwright Arthur Miller in 1956, she tried to have a baby and actually became pregnant. However, the pregnancy wouldn't even last two months.
Every public account said that Marilyn died childless—but her ex-maid Lena Pepitone would continue to insist that Marilyn had a child when she was about 14 or 15, but concealed the fact from her guardian for several months. The maid quoted Marilyn as saying: "It was a little boy. I hugged and kissed him. I just kept touching him. I couldn't believe this was my baby!" But then the child was given up for adoption, and Marilyn began the early modeling career that made her a tragic Hollywood legend!
