When Marilyn Monroe died in 1962, her estate was worth $370,000. In 2011 the subway dress from The Seven Year Itch sold for a whopping $4.6 million. Add the gown she wore when she sang, "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy, which sold for $1.26 million in 1999, and one thing is clear. The clothes are worth more than the woman who wore them.

More than a half century after she was found dead on the night of August 5, 1962, Hollywood's tragic dream girl continues to fascinate. We're still mesmerized by her endlesss appeal to powerful men of every stripe, her troubled childhood, her magnetic screen presence and the msytery of what killed the woman who created Marilyn Monroe.

Based on shocking new information, author and physicican E. Z. Friedel offers a fictional first-person account of what might have heppened to the former Norma Jean Mortenson in marilyn's Red Diary. Friedel draws on his medical knowledge to explore some of the darkest questions concerning the troubled star, including who may have killed her, as he recreates the last two years of her life. This provocative and scandalous narrative is told by Marilyn herself, as she recounts the events of the day - and the steamy, sexual encounters of the night - writing in her red diary all the details and dirty little secrets about some of the most powerful people in history and entertainment.