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RED NOTEBOOK

 

Since Marilyn's death, many biographers have got involved in the search of this red notebook, she would have bought in Spring 1962, in which she would have written down her appointments with Robert Kennedy, as well as informations he would have confided to her about highest importance politic subjects.

The coroner assistant Lionel Grandison (,) declared having seen this notebook in the police office, then it disappeared. On Monday, August 6, 1962, Grandison sent a chauffeur at Fifth Helena Drive to take everything he could find able to give adresses or phone numbers of Marilyn's relatives. The chauffeur came back with the red notebook. Grandison remembers having seen written down the two Kennedys brothers names, Frank Sinatra, Fidel Castro, Jimmy Hoffa and notes about the CIA and the Mafia.

Another witness declares having seen this notebook; it's Mike Rothmiller, former intelligence service officer of Los Angeles, who worked under Darryl Gates's command at the OCID (Organized Crime Intelligence Division).
In 1978 he found his way around in the archives, where, from the floor to the ceiling, thousand of confidential files spread; among them there was a copy of Marilyn's notebook.

Norman Jefferies had also confirmed the existence of this notebook; he said that Marilyn kept it either in her bedroom, or in a file cabinet in the guest house. Jefferies had declared that the night of August 4, 1962, the lock of the file cabinet had been forced and that a big part of its content had been taken.
When he went back at Marilyn's home on Monday, August 6, 1962 with Eunice Murray to open the house for Inez Melson, he remembered that Eunice Murray was in possession of the red notebook and she gave it to the coroner chauffeur. Jefferies couldn't explain since when and how Eunice Murray was in possession of it.

Although it never reappeared, several people have declared being in possession of it.

In 1982 the antique merchant Doug Villiers made, in the name of his clients, a bid of 150 000$ to every person who could provide the aforesaid diary.

But Marilyn's close relatives (Pat Newcomb, Ralph Greenson and Eunice Murray) denied the existence of this diary. They even maintained that Marilyn's lack of organization invalidates the idea she could have regularly made notes and kept this kind of documents.

Donald Spoto dated back to a 1975 article, published by Anthony Scudato, the first evocations of this Marilyn's diary.

 
In 1994, a document from the CIA appeared, confirming the fact that the red notebook had been the object of big concern for the national security.

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