The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe

by Donald H. Wolfe

  * The tapes, which were made by Fred Otash for Bernie Spindel, were seized during a raid in 1966 by New York District Attorney Frank Hogan. At that time, Hogan was a close associate of New York Senator Robert Kennedy. Kennedy was preparing his run for the presidency, and Spindel told Life magazine reporter John Neary, “Hogan really did Kennedy a favor by pulling that raid. They stole my tapes on Marilyn Monroe and my complete file.” For years Spindel, and then his widow, tried to have the tapes and other seized material returned through litigation, but without success. According to the New York district attorney’s office, the material seized during the raid at Spindel’s was destroyed.