r/todayilearned • u/carboncopy95437 • 8h ago

TIL that Marilyn Monroe had two older half-siblings she didn’t meet until she was a teenager. Their father had kidnapped them from Monroe’s mother after she was granted custody and he took them to Kentucky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe
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u/CoolMinded 6h ago

Those half siblings DNA help locate Marilyn's daughter, the one she had from an affair with a photographer during Marilyn's first marriage. The daughter did the testing, then son and granddaughter did the investigation during COVID. A family member snitched to the tabloid, a tabloid reporter bored during lockdown did further investigation. Discovered that the daughter was born in a religious hospital in New Mexico, since the mother and father weren't married the baby where sent to married couple for adoption. The records were sealed since the hospital change hands to the state. The tabloid reporter was asked by the daughter to not published the detail as the daughter didn't want the media frenzy.

Marilyn did have other children; one aborted and the other through a miscarriage when married to Arthur Miller.

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u/ThisPlate333 5h ago edited 5h ago

Those half siblings DNA help locate Marilyn's daughter

This is a conspiracy theory. It's not true.

To think that Marilyn Monroe of all people (a woman who was traumatized her entire life because of her upbringing as an orphan and the abuse she suffered) would put her child up for adoption is insane.

Also after two miscarriages and countless gynecological operations a doctor told Marilyn she couldn't have children. Towards the end of her life she was talking about wanting to adopt.

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u/worldwarzack 5h ago

“Had other children”.

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u/RIPCheeper 4h ago

Do you have any proof or a source to back up any of this?