Marilyn Monroe Confidential Author:Lena Pepitone, William Stadiem The whole world knows Marilyn Monroe. But not like this. Never before like this. Still she lingers in our minds as the brightest, blondest, most sensual movie star of our time. She should have had a life happily different. — Lena Pepitone was with her through the last six years of the extraordinary, exciting, tormented and finally tragic life she... more » did have. As her closest friend and confidante, Marilyn confessed things to Lena Pepitone that she had never told anyone before. Here told with compassion and candor is the whole story of a beautiful, troubled woman's fall to sex, drugs, alcohol, failed marriage and unhappy love.« less