For many years, Fred Otash was alleged to have stored the darkest secrets and techniques of Hollywood stars, together with America’s most well-known intercourse image.
Tinseltown’s most infamous non-public detective died in 1992 at age 70. The World Struggle II Marine veteran is the topic of a brand new e book, “The Fixer: Moguls, Mobsters, Film Stars, and Marilyn.”
It delves into surprising revelations from his never-before-seen investigative recordsdata.
For the e book, co-author Manfred Westphal was given entry to Otash’s archives with the blessing of his daughter Colleen. Westphal, who first met Colleen at Otash’s funeral, developed a detailed friendship together with her through the years.
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“One of many driving forces was to inform the story of his life, the instances he was concerned in and what actually occurred — what really occurred,” co-author Josh Younger instructed Fox Information Digital.
“Not solely was this an opportunity to try this, but additionally an opportunity to delve into this fascinating world of this extraordinary … larger-than-life character who walked out of a Raymond Chandler novel,” Younger shared. “He was concerned within the golden heyday interval of Hollywood within the ‘50s and ‘60s with all the largest stars, mobsters and studio executives.”
“[Colleen] granted us unfettered entry to his never-before-seen private archives, which served as the first supply for the e book,” Westphal instructed Fox Information Digital.
“In essence, he’s talking from the grave.”
In keeping with the authors, Otash was the son of Lebanese rug retailers whose life was marked by tragedy.
He misplaced his father and solely brother in the course of the Nice Despair, prompting him to drop out of highschool at age 16 to affix the Civil Conservation Corps to help his mom and sisters. He went on to volunteer for the Marine Corps and, on the outset of WWII, fought within the South Pacific.
Otash landed in Los Angeles in 1945, the place he signed up for the LAPD. There, he made a reputation for himself as a renegade cop earlier than launching his personal detective bureau in 1955 that, because of his entry to rising expertise, eclipsed his contemporaries. He served as a freelancer for the LA tabloid Confidential.
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“Fred equalized the taking part in area for a number of individuals,” Younger defined. “The LAPD and the FBI had been wiretapping celebrities and getting info that manner. However Fred had his personal wiretapping system that was simply as subtle as theirs, if no more. … He busted a Hollywood casting sofa early on in his profession the place a producer was taking benefit of a younger [girl] who got here to city.
“He got here to the help of many celebrities throughout that point once they had nowhere else to go and typical legislation enforcement was not an choice.”
In 1985, Otash alleged to the Los Angeles Occasions he was employed by Peter Lawford to “do something to take away something incriminating” concerning the actor’s brothers-in-law, President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Each Kennedys had been rumored to have romantic liaisons with Monroe.
Within the e book, Otash alleged that he heard the president having “sexual congress” with the blonde bombshell.
“Sure, these had been audio recordings,” Younger alleged. “These had been made at Peter Lawford’s Santa Monica seaside home. And so they had been made by a collection of circumstances that I’ll let the readers delve into within the e book.”
The e book alleged that Monroe’s affair with Kennedy was a secret that Lawford was decided to maintain from the hungry press. Otash described Lawford as “Jack Kennedy’s sexual archivist.”
Lawford’s seaside home, the e book alleged, was generally known as Kennedy’s crash pad for having affairs with quite a few girls, together with sought-after actresses.
“Marilyn Monroe was actually probably the most well-known film star ever recorded having intercourse with Kennedy, however she wasn’t the primary,” the e book alleged. “That doubtful honor went to fellow bottle blonde actress Jayne Mansfield. A detailed pal of Lawford, ‘The Woman Can’t Assist It’ star was thought of by some to be Monroe’s competitors at twentieth Century Fox.”
In his personal recordings, Otash famous, as quoted by the e book, “Monroe turned the central determine. The unique electronics surveillance had nothing to do together with her. However now, it was established that Monroe was f—— Jack Kennedy. She turned the one, the principle determine, as a result of she was the very best recognized.”
Younger claimed the audio recordings proving that Kennedy and Monroe had an affair went lacking.
“We imagine that they had been destroyed,” he defined. “Nobody is aware of for sure however … they had been turned over to one in all Fred’s confidants within the LAPD. We element within the e book what he thinks might need occurred to them, however he was by no means really sure the place they ended up. He puzzled in the event that they probably ended up within the lawyer normal’s workplace. However, once more, that was one thing he didn’t know.”
In keeping with the e book, Monroe first met Kennedy in 1955 at a celebration on the dwelling of Charles Feldman, producer of her blockbuster movie “The Seven Yr Itch.” Joe DiMaggio, her husband on the time, had no need to attend the bash, nor did he need his spouse there.
Whereas Kennedy was on the town to go to his sister and brother-in-law, his spouse Jackie Kennedy stayed behind in Boston. The e book described how Kennedy would allegedly “go looking,” or “mattress Hollywood starlets” whereas his spouse was away. Kennedy’s assembly with Monroe that night was platonic, and it was allegedly two years later that they’d an affair at Lawford’s dwelling.
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Otash, who stored non-public surveillance on Monroe, additionally alleged that he heard the blonde bombshell die. He claimed that Monroe known as Lawford twice, then Kennedy as soon as, from her dwelling in August 1962. She then known as Lawford as soon as extra and purportedly stated, “Say goodbye to [your wife] Pat. Say goodbye to the president and say goodbye to your self since you’re a pleasant man.”
After the decision, Lawford rushed over to Monroe, the place he discovered her lifeless. Otash alleged that as an alternative of calling the police, Lawford “began rummaging round, attempting to choose all of the s— he may that may implicate anybody.” Otash later instructed buddies he “at all times knew Lawford was weak, however to do nothing to assist a so-called expensive pal which may nonetheless be alive was past creativeness.”
“Fred had Marilyn’s home on Fifth Helena Drive tapped for a wide range of causes that we go into within the e book,” Younger defined. “And on the evening that she died, the wires had been lively. We reveal what Fred heard on these audio tapes, which fits into the thriller of what occurred the evening that Marilyn died.
“I believe, for me, it provides one other piece to the puzzle,” Younger admitted. “Marilyn’s loss of life is a kind of issues that has been mythologized, misconstrued and written about … even most of the individuals who had been concerned on the time. And people who claimed they went to her home after she died later modified their tales for revenue.
“I suppose it was good to have a little little bit of a slice of what might have gone on. Fred himself made recordings of his experiences. It was by these tapes that we had been in a position to glean his quotes of what he stated occurred that evening.”
Younger believed Otash might have had regrets about Monroe’s demise.
“In the end, he noticed how she was swallowed up by the system,” Younger defined. “He noticed what it did to her. … I don’t know if ‘remorse’ is the precise phrase. … However what occurred to her affected him. … And people emotions developed not solely over the time that he knew Marilyn but additionally after her loss of life.”
Monroe died in 1962 from a barbiturate overdose in her dwelling. She was 36.
