Marilyn Monroe’s Jewish Wedding ‘Cover Up’
Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller Image by Getty Images
Marilyn Monroe has been dead 50 years, but she continues to fascinate.
Classified files released by the FBI in response to a request by the Associated Press reveal claims that the actress’s Jewish marriage ceremony was “a cover up.”
Monroe married Jewish playwright Arthur Miller in June 1956, but a redacted FBI document quotes an anonymous source that informed the New York Daily News that their religious ceremony was a “cover up”—presumably for Monroe and Miller’s alleged Communist activities. Miller “was still a member of the CP (communist party) and was their cultural front man,” the source was quoted as saying. The source also alleges that Monroe was drifting into the Communist Party orbit, and her production company was filled with Communists and funneling money to the party.
Parts of the FBI’s files on Monroe, dating back to 1955 and continuing on through investigations of her 1962 suicide, can be seen on the FBI’s The Vault website, which posts the agency’s records on celebrities, government officials, spies and criminals.
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