Very interesting post Mark. I was wondering if you have shopped your investigative story to the news media? I would think that most would be very intersted in telling your findings.

Mark, I was hanging on every word. I have been a MM fan for as long as I can remember, and devour any and all information I can find on her whenever I can find it. I appreciate the time, energy and effort you took to write this in-depth expose' of this fraudulent exhibit, and this woman's claims to be, not only Joe's niece and MM's friend, but someone who is going to write a memoir detailing her time with MM and secrets surrounding her life and death.

I would like to submit this to whichever one(s) of the sources that we submit to as I feel it would be most appropriate as a noteworthy news story. I think it is very important that this story reach as many people as possible.

Thank you so much Rene, Susan and Matthew! Please spread this story to as many people as possible. We can make a difference, and the REAL LEGACY of Marilyn Monroe needs to be defended against people who use her, over and over! If you need more facts, feel free to contact me. This exhit truely is a huge scandal. I have worked on this ever since I set foot on that Queen Mary, 11/10/05! How many more people, do they think they can fool?!

Add to you fraudulent accounts the producer of "Marilyn's Man" who used a photo of me in his documentary, claiming it is Marilyn. How did he get the photo? Why, from a dvd of photos and video of me, posing and performing as Marilyn, which I gave to Jimmy Dougherty!

I knew it !!!! I was really surprised by that exhibit also, I just saw it a few weeks ago, what a JOKE, I am so glad you wrote this article, my friends didnt believe me ! Mark , I dont know you, but I was at the auction in LA last year, and still have the article in the LA times which mentions your name ! I am not quite the collector you are (YET), but will try to catch up, I will tell everyone I know about this article, and see you at the next auction !

Eric! I really Thank you for believing in this and opening your ears, when others, including Oprah Winfrey, Michael Moore, and many others did not even reply to my letters or emails(this is not an Oscar acceptance speech{yet})! lol I called Ernest and he also is happy with the final results. From here we hope that destiny will take it's course. I never lost faith to bring this story out there and warn the world about this disgusting money making, off a tragic movie star's back! If Anna Strasberg doesn't want to lose her face in front of the MM admirer( who ultimately pay her bills, by buying all the copyrighted photos and memorabilia), she will have to dump that Mark Roesler guy who is in with them all together! She has to finally SPEAK! I entrusted her my entire life savings by buying at auctions for hundreds of thousands of $, my money I made as an actor, and my dead father's inheritence! I feel betrayed(by the estate) and I am very very angry that the ESTATE OF MARILYN MONROE would something like that let happen and even SPONSOR!!! This is a huge scandal! So much bigger than the mentioned Oprah/Frey story! We are talking about millions and millions of $ they are trying to make - from people all over the world! If Martha Stewart went to jail for a phonecall - what is going to happen to Otto, June & Co?!

www.mmfraud.com Thank you so much, Jill! This is finally the moment we were waiting for! Fans, admirers, lovers and just onlookers, who somehow watched this aweful "Circus" going on at the Queen Mary and anybody who had the chance to meet June DiMaggio in person would agree on my article! We are in 2006, the year our idol, our beloved Star, would have turned 80! You know that I would give all my items I collected of her and trade them in, to meet her alive! To speak to her, as she would be, an old lady with a lot of stories to tell, maybe she would have had kids and a great family, just like Jane Russell. I am excausted from this research, but I really put my heart into it! We can NOT let them get away with this! Enough is enough of the tale telling of Ottom June and Co! Fabricating sweet stories over an former eBay item, sold by a guy we all know who he is(but are HELPLESS thanks to our system...) is just CRIMINAL!Speaking about 48 HOURS: I left three messages for Anthony Vendetti on his cell, that he gave me; he never called me back or looked into this!I wanted to tell him my facts, but: no interest in the TRUTH! (as June DiMaggio over and annoyingly pitched her book with!) The CBS in general will have to apologize in the long run, and start an investigation! But not about how MM died, but how Otto&Co committed this unbelievable scam; this sad hoax, this very very hurtful plan of scamming the world over the course of 12 years!!! That is insane.

To: Angie #8 Thanks, but I think until the ESTATE OF MARILYN MONROE is not taking action in that matter, I will never ever buy from (Anna Strasberg) again! If they will somehow actually leave this state in order to scam others, I will simply kiss MM Good Bye, sell ALL my treasured MM items at auction, and move back to Germany and try to have some small cameos in a small town theatre, until I am old and grey and die! Of course I hope that won't happen...but you never know how powerful Roesler is, since he seems to know even god(well, yeah~ close to it:Bill Gates!) But maybe even Mr. Gates, and I hear his wife is an admirer of our Marilyn, so maybe they will be our helping hand after all?!

I did have the opporunity to visit the exhibit on the Queen Mary. I questioned so many items, since I was able to only attend the Julien's Auction. I was lucky to buy the Christie's Auction book and have looked through it extensively. Those curlers!! As soon as I saw them, I thought this isn't right. I'm not as knowledgeable as most Marilyn collectors, but I had a sense of something just not right with this exhibit. I'm glad you are trying to get this out there and to keep Marilyn fans from being taken advantage of.

A brilliant debunking of that most obnoxious James van Praagh, who now appears to be talking to a Marilyn Monroe look-alike who "passed over" to the other side some time after 1974. One would think that he could tell the difference! Of course, while he's chatting it up with Marilyn on the other side, now that Jolt'n Joe is there perhaps he can ask him about those pesky rollers, and did Marilyn really proclaim that Joe was the only man who ever gave her an orgasm? Inquiring minds want to know...

A job well done , Mark. It looks more to me like a thrift shop window display than an exhibit of Marilyn's belongings.Why would anyone pay to look at some's DOLL collection.Most of the clothes look like holloween costumes!Maybe they should serve the wine with cheeze & crackers?!

Most definately a 3 ring circus, but costs ALOT more to get in & Otto is laughing all the way to the bank!I'm sure he has some help , of course!

You are RIGHT ON, Mark. I have always been sickened by these crooks, and I'm thrilled to see that someone is finally taking them on. You've got a strong supporter in me!!!

to#15:What a honor~Michael Shermer! I still can not believe how many people bought that psychic's "stick"! And they probably it is entertaining and funny! But not so, if you take $ for displaying (JUNE)"JUNK"! If ANYBODY needs proof that van Praagh is a phony~ I have that ET show saved! He really needs to be exploided, just like Otto, June & Co!

to: #16 & #17 Caren: wonderful, I am absolutely happy to have support from the people who care, who seem to love MM, even though, so many decades after her tragic death, we feel she is here (sorry Mr.Shermer)!

You said, and I quote "The highlight was the presentation of the "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" gown - which was rolled out in dimmed light, with the familiar voice of Marilyn singing "Happy Birthday, Mr. President . . . and when spotlights hit the rhinestones, still sparkling after 37 years, I got goosebumps all over. It was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience."

Now at the end of the column, you say "We know her styles and colors and sizes and designers and flavors. She sang songs about rhinestones, but she didn't wear them."

I am shocked and appauled, as well as ashamed of myself for believing that all the "artifacts" I saw at the exhibit were real. I have just begun to appreciate Marilyn Monroe, researching about her for a report and becoming a big fan of her movies and music. I can't believe that these sick people would take advantage of her death and popularity just to make a buck. I am further shocked that my beloved Queen Mary would let such a scandal take place within its hull! Thank you for revealing the truth. I would really like to help bring this to light. If there is anything I can do, please let me know! Perhaps you could send your story to The Smoking Gun. Good luck!!

To#21 Kay, Marilyn Monroe did not wear rhinestones in her personal life, only for her public. I am sorry, but if you look at all the plastic necklaces or the glass beat necklace, she did dress very much so "down" simple colors, and always her favorite brands. She was not like Jane Mansfield who would have a "pink palast" and a heart shaped pool! Anything else unclear? I would recommend to you maybe to read the intro for the Christie's catalog; that says a lot about what she wore and her favorite brands, too! I am not trying to convince you, but Otto & Co are trying to make MM look like she apeared in her movies, but in private, MM was Norma Jeane! Still after all these years...as Susan Strasberg writes in her: " Marilyn & me" (maybe that is where June got her stupid and outrageous idea for her title), "Marilyn could click it on or off! She was able to create"Marilyn" in an instant! Anything else? Hope that is of help...

to #23 Dear Kayla! That happened to me as well, I saw a photo my older brother had of her, and I was "hooked"! You are a nice person, as some people have insulted me before for even thinking that the items are fakes! I should do a follow up, as I can explain what originated from where, including names from where he bought items; It really is sad, the whole thing, and I am not trying to put anybody, like the people who work for the Queen Mary and just want to survive, out of work, but it is a criminal act, and there is a law agaisnt those doings! You are doing it already, just by writing about it! Trust me, I also wish the things were real!!! I went back and took notes (and paid the fee of $22,95 myself!) If you want to help me and persue this matter, maybe you can send this story to The Smoking Gun and others; anybody can make a difference. Thank you so much!

That was a fantastic read for me. Getting a pyshic to authenticate MM artefacts on TV? That's just dodgy!! I hope you do get the real facts out to the masses. Good luck!

WOW MARK WHAT A GREAT ITEM TO READ, I KNOW HOW MUCH THIS MEANS TO TRUE FANS AS YOU KNOW I SPENT MY HARD EARNED MONEY ON REAL ITEMS SO SAD OTHERS BUY THRIFT STORE ITEMS AND THEN CHARGE ADMISSION ...

A very informative and interesting piece. I've never been an MM fan personally, but I think it's disgusting that some people should not only dupe others, but capitalise on it to satisfy their own greed. It is an insult to the MM name and her memory, and I would love to see such fraudsters prosecuted for their actions. You say that this so called 'exhibition' is going to visit 39 cities on six continents. The UK press would have no hesitation in printing the truth should it be presented to them with the relevent evidence ...

Thank you Mark for writing this article. I am a Marilyn fan of many, many years, in fact, as long as I can remember and there is nothing remotely authentic about this exhibit. When it first opened and the items were seen, anyone who even knows anything about MM could see that they were all rubbish. I am angry that people are getting ripped off and once again Marilyn's name is being dragged through the mud. True collectors know whose provenance to stay away from, most not worth the paper they are printed on. Christies was the most amazing time of my life and you could never re-create that. June Dimaggio is a nobody, and she certainly never knew Marilyn, I am afraid she will have to join the ranks of Slatzer, Ted Jordan, Jeanne Carmen and to an extent, Lena Pepitone. Like I say, if you knew her, then show me a picture of you with her, if you were such good friends, this shouldn't be difficult. This is damaging for new fans or people who know nothing about MM, because there is a danger that they could believe this trash, and think these items are genuine. One thing that made me laugh was on the magazine wall, one of the magazine covers is not even Marilyn, if "a great Marilyn collector" can make a mistake like that, then we just know he is buying trash off E-Bay with no clue. If this exhibit plans to come to England, I promise you that I will tell everyone I can, press, radio and TV, and expose it for the laughing stock it is.

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