TWENTY YEARS LATER: Investigations re-open into death of Marilyn Monroe
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The governing County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday for the investigation after reports quoted a former coroner's aide, Lionel Grandison, as saying the investigation into Miss Monroe's death was incomplete. He was also quoted as saying a diary giving details of her friendship with President John Kennedy and Senator Robert Kennedy, both of whom were assassinated, disappeared soon after her death.
Miss Monroe died in 1962 at the age of 36. The Los Angeles Coroner's Office said she committed suicide with an overdose of barbituarates.
"The latest allegations are serious enough to warrant the district attorney's. (prosecutor's) office to look into them," a member of the five-strong supervisors board Michael Antonovich, said. He had introduced the motion.
The district attorney, John Van de Kamp. later released a statement confirming an assistant prosecutor was already studying information on Miss Monroe's death.
"We are in the process of reviewing both news accounts and official police reports in order to see what further action may be necessary," he
