A trustworthy friend has passed along a story involving a debunked Marilyn Monroe myth…a 32-year-old anecdote that touches upon the legendary relationship between Monroe and JFK, a phony paternity story, an alleged Monroe impersonator and Oliver Stone.
None of it is remotely credible, and I’m having second thoughts about even posting this as a time-wasting distraction given the fraudulent aroma, but the Stone connection is 100% real.
Friendo to HE: “Back in early ’91 I was introduced to Oliver Stone, who had asked me to drop by his office [for professional reasons]. I went with a friend, and before Oliver appeared we were chatting in the outer office with an attractive woman around 30. She looked familiar but I couldn’t place her. Oliver was working on JFK at the time, and he later explained that this woman had contacted him, having claimed she was the daughter of JFK and Marilyn. She looked exactly like the two of them.”
HE to friendo: “Marilyn snuck in a pregnancy? Was this woman’s hair platinum blonde? Did you ask her name? Did you discuss what she was up to with Oliver? Did he say anything about her other than she had contacted him?”
Friendo to HE: “There was no discussion about why she was at Oliver’s office, nor who she resembled as the penny didn’t drop until after we were with Oliver. I don’t recall that her hair was blonde. The resemblance seemed cioser to JFK with just enough MM in the mix to make it interesting.”
HE to friendo: “If there was a JFK-MM daughter who had the will and the gumption to get in touch with Oliver Stone in ’91, she wouldn’t have stopped there. She would have played that card for all it was worth. Including submitting to a paternity test. If verified, she would have become the Queen of the Realm.
“You might have spoken to Susan Griffiths, an MM impersonator who had apparently claimed to be Gladys Morris Baker, who believed herself to be the daughter of Marilyn Monroe’s cousin, Meredith Baker.
“A disreputable tabloid posted a story about Meredith allegedly telling Gladys on her deathbed in 2014 that she had actually been adopted and was actually JFK + MM’s daughter.
“Snopes’ Dan Evon looked into the claim on 10.18.18, and concluded it was all gas and fancy.
“The mythical “Gladys Morris Baker” was allegedly born in June 1962.
“Griffiths starred in a low-budget, no-account 1991 TV movie called Marilyn and Me. The Wiki page says that the film, directed by John Paterson and costarribg Terry Moore, premiered on the History Channel in India on May 12, 2006.