•          HOME PAGE
• BIOGRAPHY
• FILES
• BOOKS
• LINKS
• COMMENTS
• S

LEONARDI Peter

 

Peter Romeo Leonardi.

Date of birth : April 12, 1927, New  York

Date of death : March 26, 1972, New York ().

Profession  hairdresser. Between 1954 and 1955 he was Marilyn's handyman, in New York.

Addresses

* 1930 : 2425 West 1st Street, Brooklyn
* 1940 : 137 Bay 40th Street, Brooklyn
* 1945 : 2277 83rd Street, Brooklyn
* 1950 : 199-01 58th Street, Brooklyn.

Portrait  

 

Story

His parents were Fernando Leonardi (September 22, 1903, Italy-February 1979, New York) and Maria Salmaggi (March 27, 1900, Italy-May 22, 1959, New York). His father, a butcher, immigrated on May 21, 1921.

They married on July 6, 1924 in New York.

They had 3 children : Marie (born May 25, 1925, Brooklyn-2010), Peter and Ivane (born in 1942, New York).

Registration card April 13, 1945 

Link with Marilyn

He was used as driver, hairdresser and assistant at the time when she ran the Marilyn Monroe Productions with

Milton Greene -

Invitation to "The Seven Year Itch" preview showing for Peter's sister, Marie Leonardi , on June 1st, 1955.

 

He told James Haspiel, during the Summer 1955, that he had taken Marilyn to the nice area of Bowery, where she had given money to the homeless.

New York, 1955 

On August 6, 1955, he went with Marilyn to Bement (Illinois) where she attended the festivities for Bement's

centennial -;,;;

;;,;,,;

Their collaboration stopped suddenly when he claimed (wrongly according to Donald Spoto) that Milton Greene and Marilyn had promised to help him to be self-employed. Leonardi had sued Marilyn and naively tried to win by hostaging Marilyn's fur coats. Between November 6 to 9, 1955, the case was solved.

Birthday card sent to Marilyn on June 2, 1956

    
,
In 1959 he worked with Salvador Dali ,

 

BACK TO INDEX                                                                                                                                                  NEXT FILE