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ENGELBERG Hyman

Date of birth : October 7, 1913, New York City.

Date of death : December 19, 2005, Santa Monica, California.

Addresses

* 1930s, Swan Lake, Sullivan, New York ().

* 1940, 643 Maltman Avenue, Los Angeles ().

* 1960s, he lived 9120 St Ives Drive, a house built by the architect Harry Harrison in 1948

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His office was located 9730 Wilshire Boulevard, suite 101, Beverly Hills, CR 5 4366

().

* 1990s, 1301 South Beverly Glen Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Tél (310) 470-9730

Profession internist .

Story

His parents Julius Engelberg (February 10, 1888, Poland-May 29, 1972, Los Angeles) and Tillie Grebel (1888,

Austria-July 5, 1954, Los Angeles ) married in New York on December 14, 1912.

The had 2 children, Hyman and Monroe (born in 1921)(-).

He graduated in medicine, aged 22, in 1935 fron the New York Cornell University.

He was licensed to practice in California on March 24, 1947.

Hyman married Esther Goldstein (December 5, 1913, New York-September 19, 1998, Los Angeles), on

December 21, 1933 ().

They had 3 sons () :

* Michael Burt (born on August 6, 1938). Internist, oncologist, worked at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the USC, University Hospital in Los Angeles.

* Alan David (born on October 11, 1941)(). Internist, private practice in Beverly Hills.

* Lon Peter (born on January 9, 1944). Psychiatrist in Inglewood, California.

Hyman and Esther separated on May 5, 1962 and the divorce pronounced on June 11, 1964.

She remarried on September 6, 1969 with Albert Maltz ().

Dr Engelberg worked at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital () and had his own private practice.

He taught at the People's Education Center and kept a predominant activity within the Arts, Sciences and Professions Council in Hollywood, and notably within the "Doctor's Professional Group" of which he was a
prominent personality.

In 1947 he was one of the main intervenants at the Thought Control Conference of the Council, in Los Angeles.

Later, he kept on working in collaboration with the Cedars Sinaï Medical Center in Los Angeles (former Cedars of Lebanon) and wrote publications about cardiovascular diseases.

He remarried on February 15, 1996 with Colleen Crystal Creedon (May 8, 1921-August 9, 2011, Virginia)

() who would remain his wife until his death.

Link with Marilyn

Dr Greenson recommended Dr Engelberg to Marilyn in 1960, shortly after their first meeting. The same year, Dr Engelberg supervised Marilyn's hospitalization on the set of "The Misfits".

He treated her for the viral infection which prevented her from keeping her promises on the set of "Something's Got to Give » in 1962.

He was Marilyn's GP and was responsible of many sedatives prescriptions. During the 6 months before her death, she saw him 29 times.

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Many biographers clamied that Dr Engelberg gave Marilyn some injections on August 1 and 3, 1962, either sedatives or a would-be youth serum, but the needles marks (which must have been seen on Marilyn's body) aren't mentionned in the official autopsy report.

He had a close relationship with Dr Greenson who called him on phone and sent him at Marilyn's (she had given him the keys of her home) to give her some sedatves and other drugs.

On Friday, August 3, 1962, he wrote a prescription of 25 capsules of Nembutal, that Marilyn bought at the San Vicente Pharmacy, Brentwood.

On Saturday, August 4, 1962, he would have been approached twice by Dr Greenson to go and give Marilyn some sedatives. But because of personal problems (at that time he was splitting up with his wife), he couldn't see Marilyn. Later, Dr Greenson called him once more. This time Engelberg himself called the police from Marilyn's house and announced her death on August 5, 1962, at 3.40 AM.

Petition of debt

Interview

The personal pictures come from the site of Leslie Kendall Dye, Michael Engelberg's daughter.

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