The 10 men who made Marilyn Monroe fall in love
Husbands, lovers and coworkers made the Hollywood diva enjoy intense romances
James Dougherty, her first husband. She married him so as not to be confined to an orphanage. When he was fighting in World War II, Hollywood discovered the actress and they divorced in 1946.
Robert Slatzer was an unknown film director at the time they met, before she rose to fame. According to an article in El Universal, it is said that they were married for a week, but there is no reliable evidence.
Joe DiMaggio, the star of the New York Yankees, proposed to her in 1954. They were only 9 months together, although it is said that the relationship never ended. Every year he would send a bouquet of flowers to the grave of his ex-wife.
Pulitzer-winning writer Arthur Miller met her in 1951 when he was 10 years her senior. When it was thought that Marilyn would return with DiMaggio, she married the author in 1956. They divorced in 1960. Fans of the diva point out that she was the one who best understood and loved her.
Elia Kazan was one of the most prominent on the lovers list. She confessed to her psychiatrist that they were together for a year, but she left her when she discovered the serious emotional problems that affected her.
They met Marlon Brando before they were stars. They had an on-off relationship for years, but he was always more of a friend than a lover. He was one of the biggest defenders of her when Hollywood started attacking her.
Actor Tony Curtis said in his biography that their unstable relationship led to a pregnancy that did not end. She was married to Miller and he to actress Janeth Leigh. Far from talking about love, Curtis made her look like her lover.
For years it was said that Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe had an unofficial relationship. There are even FBI reports pointing to orgies between the two of them, Sammy Davis Jr and the Kennedy brothers.
News reports indicate that Monroe got involved with Robert Kennedy only to get revenge on President John Fitzgerald. New theories say that the celebrity was murdered by Bob when he threatened to reveal details of her affair with the former president.
John F. Kennedy. Some voices claim that they only lived one night of love, others say that the relationship began many years before her but that he betrayed her by marrying Jackie.
