Sad end and sad beginning. Victim more than once of harassment and sexual violence, Marilyn Monroe was a real prey for men. The actress then used her voice to warn of abuse in Hollywood.
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Ayears 1950-1960. Marilyn Monroe is at the “top” of its career in Hollywood. After playing in Men prefer blondes, Seven years of reflection or The Billionaire, beauty icon is young, rich and desirable. However, she knows she is misunderstood (he is automatically offered blonde roles), is harassed by the paparazzi… In 1962, she was found dead at home, aged 36, in Brentwood in Los Angeles. The evidence indicate a suicideor a overdose. The speculations still last today.
In history de Marilyn Monroe, it is its beauty that is highlighted, not his trauma. A documentary called Marilyn, woman of today and available on France 5, restore the truth about this tortured milf since childhood. At 8 years old, the one called Norma Jeane been victim of a viol. It was private from one of the nine host families through which she passed, his mother being unable to take care of her.
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Ces “wolves“who surrounded him
future fame was then under the responsibility of a guardian, who hosted an English tenant: Mr. Kimmel. According to an article published on April 18 in the newspaper Le Figarothe little one would have found herself trapped in a room by the sexual predator, who would have asked him to be a ” nice girl as he abused her. « As soon as she escaped from the bedroom, she told her guardian who allegedly slapped her, accusing her of lying about “his best tenant” », Reports Le Figaro.
A chilling story, which would not be not the only trauma endured by Norma Jeane when she was a child. A long time, it was his secret to her. Physical abuse, sexual favors: Marilyn Monroe later used her new fame as a platform for talk to women and warn them about the dangers of Hollywood. Men who abused her, ces « wolves », as she calls them, the actress talks about them in his autobiography My Story, published in 1974, under the pen by author Ben Hecht.
« Behind the Hollywood myth of the global sex symbol, of the flayed and ingenuous victim, hides a modern woman ». This is the bold pitch of the documentary Marilyn, woman today. In his days, Marilyn Monroe did not suspect it, but she was at the beginning movements #MeToo et #BalanceYourPork. A pioneer of freedom of speech.
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