My journey ends here...
KROHN Leon
Date of birth : June 11, 1906, Illinois. Date of death : June 9, 1983, Los Angeles.
Address : 436 North Roxbury Drive, Los Angeles.
Practise : Marilyn's regular gynecologist.
Chief of the gynecology department at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.
Story
Graduate of Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago in 1930. He was licensed in California in 1937.
He was assisted by Dr Marcus Rabwin, during Marilyn's appendix surgery on April 28th 1952, at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles.
From then on, she consulted him for her fertility problems. She made friend with him and used to contact him when she needed advices, for medical and personal reasons.
She did it in October 1954, when her wedding with Joe DiMaggio began to fail. He helped her to face a situation exacerbated by the hundred of reporters gathered in front of her house. Some versions say that Joe didn't leave the house to go to San Francisco, but went to hide in Dr Krohn's house.
After her leaving to New York, she found another gynecologist but kept seeing Leon Krohn during her returns to Los Angeles. He was his friend as long as her doctor and accompanied her on the set of "Some Like It Hot".
On November 7th 1954 : he operated her for a chronic metritis at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital;
also in 1961 and on July 20th 1962,
for the same reasons. Krohn stepped in several times (until 14 times)
to deny the rumors pretending that Marilyn had had an abortion : "She
never had had an abortion. She had 2 miscarriages and an ectopic
pregnancy which needed an urgent surgery, but no abortion". He also
warned her about the dangers of her drugs dependency : "She often told
me she wanted above all a child, but I told her that she would
kill the baby with all her pills and alcohol. I told her that the
addition of all the drugs couldn't let to know at which moment the
glass too much would caused a miscarriage".
Invoices from the Fairfax Drug Company, dated October 16th 1958, prescriptions of Dr Krohn : 
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