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just using me.’”
    John Miner, the Los Angeles County deputy district attorney who was an investigator into Marilyn’s death, claimed to have heard something similar on one of the free-association tapes she recorded for Dr. Greenson: “I want someone else to tell him it’s over. I tried to get the President to do it, but I couldn’t reach him.”
    That afternoon, she felt very upset, used, and betrayed after Bobby had been the one to tell her , “It’s over.” Marilyn shot back, “But you promised to divorce Ethel and marry me.” According to Fred Otash’s recollection of what he heard on the covert recording set up by wiretapper Bernie Spindel, Marilyn said, “I feel passed around—like a piece of meat. You’ve lied to me. Get out of here. I’m tired. Leave me alone.”
    Later, when Bobby tried to persuade Marilyn to visit Peter Lawford’s house, she told him over the phone, “Stop bothering me. Stay away from me.”
    “She was convinced that not Jack but Bobby would leave Ethel and all their kids,” remarked Michael Selsman from the Arthur P. Jacobs public relations firm when asked by Jay Margolis whether one of the brothers had promised to marry Marilyn. “And they were heavily Catholic. She was under the impression that Bobby would marry her.”
    Marilyn phoned hairstylist and trusted friend, Sydney Guilaroff, twice on that final Saturday. The first call was immediately after Bobby Kennedy’s departure. Guilaroff told Wolfe, “She was in tears, and I had difficulty understanding her.” In his own book, Guilaroff detailed their exchange as follows:
     
GUILAROFF:
What’s the matter, dear?
MARILYN:
Robert Kennedy was here, threatening me, yelling at me.
GUILAROFF:
Why was Bobby Kennedy at your house?
MARILYN:
I’m having an affair with him.
GUILAROFF:
Marilyn.
MARILYN:
I never told you. I never told anyone. But I had an affair with JFK as well.
GUILAROFF:
Both of them?
MARILYN:
Both . . . I warned him [Bobby] that I could go public.
    Marilyn relayed to Guilaroff that Bobby had then responded, “If you threaten me, Marilyn, there’s more than one way to keep you quiet.”
    Asking if Bobby was still there, Marilyn told Guilaroff, “He left—with Peter Lawford.” Guilaroff recommended that Marilyn get some rest and they would discuss this further in a few hours. As Peter Lawford’s friend, producer George “Bullets” Durgom, told Fred Otash in 1985, “Bobby was very worried about Monroe getting spaced out and shooting her mouth off.”
    According to Anthony Summers (who didn’t know about that first phone conversation), Marilyn’s last call to Guilaroff was at 9:30 p.m. Guilaroff told Wolfe this final call was between “eight and eight-thirty” and that “she was feeling much better and had met with her psychiatrist, Dr. Greenson.” Guilaroff informed Wolfe that they ended the call with the following exchange:
     
MARILYN:
You know, Sydney, I know a lot of secrets about the Kennedys.
GUILAROFF:
What kind of secrets?
MARILYN:
Dangerous ones.
    After that, Marilyn hung up. According to Morris Engelberg, Joe DiMaggio told his son Joe Jr., “The Kennedys killed her.” In his book, DiMaggio: Setting the Record Straight , Engelberg recalled Joltin’ Joe telling him he’d given his son a manilla envelope containing a statement regarding Marilyn’s death, to be opened after the Yankee Clipper’s own death. “Something the world should know about is in there,” the elder DiMaggio had announced. Engelberg subsequently wrote:
After his father’s funeral, I asked him about that envelope. He had given me an opening by volunteering that he had talked with Marilyn the night she died—he said “murdered.” He claimed he hadn’t opened the envelope because he already knew the message his father had left behind . . . 6

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    Norman Jefferies, who witnessed Bobby Kennedy and Peter Lawford