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RUDIN Milton
Date of birth : November 16, 1920, New York City.
Date of death : December 13, 1999, Beverly Hills, California (
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Profession
Marilyn's lawyer since 1962 (previously, the MCA represented her).
He worked at the Gang, Tyre and Brown practice, which ensured the defense of the show business personalities in front of the House Un American Activities Commitee.
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Story
His parents were Morris Rudin (born in 1893, Russia) and Sonia Seligman (born in 1888, Russia-died between 1930 and 1940).
They had another son Herman Isaac (September 3, 1918, New York-October 8, 1983, Las Vegas).
Graduated from UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) and from the Harvard Law School.
Registration card, February 16, 1942 
He was admitted to the California bar on January 8, 1947.
On March 12, 1947 he married Elizabeth Greenschpoon (July 9, 1914, New York-September 21, 1991,
California)(
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), sister of Dr Ralph Greenson; so he did become Greenson's brother-in-law.Elizabeth Greenschpoon, a musician who played cello, belonged to the orchestra which played with Frank
Sinatra during the recording of the Capitol Records song "Mr Success" in 1958 (
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).
They had 3 children : Michael Joel (26 juin 1952, Los Angeles), and the twins Pamela Sue (8 décembre 1949, Los Angeles-14 août 2008, New Mexico) and Lisa Marie (8 décembre 1949, Los Angeles).
He cut his teeth in entertainment law in the 1950's in the famous firm of Martin Gang, a pioneer in the field.
Among his clients were Lucille Ball and Desilu Studios, the Warner Brothers, Elizabeth Taylor, the Jackson Five, Liza Minelli.
Il had cameo roles in four movies, twice portraying a judge.
But it was his association with Frank Sinatra (
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) that
brought him the most prominence. He handled the most delicate tasks
such as Sinatra's divorce with Mia Farrow, and it was him who announced
to the singer the death of his second wife, Ava Gardner.He also advised Sinatra on business matters, and the two once joined in an unsuccessful bid to take over the Del E.Webb Corporation, which owned several hotel-casions in Nevada. In later years, his focus shifted to libel and copyright actions defending the star's reputation.
On June 21, 1978 he divorced from Elizabeth Greenschpoon.
On November 4, 1978 he married Mary Carol Farnam (born March 1st, 1944) a former TWA stewardess.
Frank Sinatra was Rudin's best man and his wife's maid of honor was her own sister Elizabeth Farnam.
The wedding took place in Beverly Hills, at Jerry Weintraub's house (
).Mary Carol remained his wife until his death (
,
).In 1987, his professional relationship with Sinatra ended for reasons that were never made clearn but they remained friends and Rudin attended his freid's funerals in 1998.
He was involved in many philanthropic causes : member of the board of Hope for Hearing at UCLA, and Reiss-Davis Child Study Center and the Sounth Coast Foundation for the Developmentally Disabled. He was also on the board of the Reed College and was board chairman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he founded the Mary Carol and Milton A.Rudin Training Center for Developmental Education.
Link with Marilyn
The biographers disagree about the date he took office next to Marilyn. Some say that he met her throught Greenson, others think that it was through Sinatra.
He was in charge of Marilyn's house purchase at 5th Helena Drive (
).Letters to the City National Bank
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.Letter to lawyer Aaron Frosch dated November 27, 1961
.Letter to Marjorie Stengel, dated November 27, 1961
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Memo to Aaron Frosch and Marjorie Stengel, dated January 9, 1962 
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He was also in charge of the negotiations during Marilyn's suspension by the Fox, on the set of "Something's Got to Give".
Letter to Marilyn dated June 25, 1962 
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At Marilyn's death era, he had a project about a detective movie with Marilyn and the Rat Pack members (Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr).
He was one of those who would have taken place the evening of Marilyn's death.
In his turn, he called Eunice Murray to question her. He confided to Donald Spoto that Eunice Murray put down the receiver, went to check then came back and told him that Marilyn was doing well, but he didn't feel that she had really checked.
The rest of the story depends on whether a suicide or a murder is considered.
- Rudin and Greenson left to Marilyn's house and found her dead at midnight.
- Rudin received (even before his brother-in-law's one) a call announcing him that Marilyn was dead.
- he arrived on the scene after the police.
On August 5, 1962, he was at Fifth Helena 
Joe DiMaggio asked him to be in charge of the formalities for the funeral (
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to which he attended on August 8, 1962. He isn't clearly visible because he didn't attend the procession
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