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That she was hysterical and calling the White House and the Justice Department and Hyannis Port, insisting that Bobby get in touch with her. And that the Department of Justice had called Bobby in San Francisco and told him, 'You'd better get your ass down to LA because she's out of control.'"However, a close friend of Otash, acclaimed novelist James Ellroy, author of American Tabloid, said Otash had confided in him his belief that the RFK/Monroe affair was bogus. Ellroy told the Richmond Review, "As much research as I've done, one fact stands fast -- I think Robert Kennedy was a great man, perhaps the chief crime fighter of the 20th century in America, and a paragon of moral rectitude. Parenthetically he did not play bury the brisket and pour the pork with Marilyn Monroe...I used to be friends with Shakedown Freddy Otash, private eye to the stars in LA circa 1955 to 1965. God bless him, Freddy died recently at the age of 71...Freddy told me he is convinced that Bobby never had an affair with Marilyn Monroe that, at the time of Marilyn's death, Bobby was interceding on Jack's behalf, trying to get this crazy woman to quit calling the president of the United States at the White House. She just kicked off coincidentally."Witnesses such as Jeanne Carmen, Robert Slatzer and Fred Otash have little or no credibility. Peter Lawford, on the other hand, is an authoritative source simply because he was the president's brother-in-law and his story

CompartirWidespread Panic: Freddy Otash Confesses James Ellroy (Autor) · William Heinemann · Tapa Blanda Agotado --> -->Sin StockFrom The Modern Master of Noir comes a novel about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood underground - a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks, celebrity smut films and strange bedfellows.Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in '50s L.A. He operates with two simple rules - he'll do anything but commit murder and he'll never work with the commies.Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. So Chief William H. Parker canned him. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet - and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink and the scurrilous skank on the feckless foibles of misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites and potzo politicians. Freaky Freddy outs them all!In Widespread Panic, we traverse the depths of '50s L.A. and dig on the inner workings of Confidential. You'll go to Burt Lancaster's lushly appointed torture den ... You'll groove overhyped legend James Dean as Freddy's chief stooge ... You'll be there for Freddy's ring-a-ding rendezvous with Liz Taylor ... You'll be front and centre as Freddy anoints himself the 'Tattle Tyrant Who Held Hollywood Hostage'.Continuar Leyendo--> 0 de 5 estrellas--> 0% (0) 0% (0) 0% (0) 0% (0) 0% (0) -->

When we last saw disgraced cop Freddy Otash, author James Ellroy’s rogue literary alter ego, his body was six feet under and his soul was deep in purgatory, plotting a way out. That was two years ago in Widespread Panic. Now, with The Enchanters, Ellroy has written a prequel of sorts, beginning with Otash’s October 1992 graveside service and flashing back to the events that earned him a seat in hell’s waiting room.The action starts in Los Angeles on August 4, 1962, when Otash is recalled into freelance law-enforcement service by Police Chief Bill Parker to solve the kidnaping of a B-movie actress who happens to be the mistress of 20th Century Fox mogul Darryl Zanuck. When strong-arm methods against the perpetrator fail to yield a confession, Otash tosses him 80 feet off a cliff and onto a freeway.Before meeting his maker, the doomed snatcher screams, “It’s a put-up job,” setting the wheels of another of Ellroy’s violent, dirty-cop misadventures in motion. Admittedly, Ellroy is an acquired taste. His alliterative melding of fact, fiction, and unfettered imagination requires from readers a tolerance for sex-charged language, excessive violence, and political incorrectness.For film buffs, August 4, 1962, is among the most infamous dates in cinema history; it’s the day 36-year-old Marilyn Monroe overdosed in her Brentwood home. Because her suicide is the centerpiece of the novel, it’s no surprise the Kennedy brothers, their sister Patricia Kennedy Lawford, her husband (the actor Peter Lawford), and Jimmy Hoffa show up in its pages. Added to the mix are stars and star-wannabes from midcentury Hollywood: Liz Taylor, Richard Burton, Eddie Fisher, Los Angeles Angels’ pitcher “Bo” Belinsky, Rex Harrison, and the doomed precursor to Monroe’s place in the celluloid world, Carole Landis, who killed herself in 1948 after her lover, Harrison, refused to leave his wife.(These characters are “the enchanters” of the book’s title, and Ellroy includes a directory of them and a glossary of police jargon, the most helpful entry being the definition of “459,” the California Penal Code section for burglary.)Once again, Otash finds spiritual comfort in his chaste love affair with actress Lois Nettleton. Simultaneously, he enjoys a more carnal liaison with unhappy Pat Lawford. The premise is preposterous, and for Ellroy fans who recall the beautifully crafted plots of L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia, this book will be disappointing.Otash’s throwing of the suspected kidnapper to his death was supposed to

Her story. She maintained that Monroe had sent her a birthday card shortly before Monroe's death and yet it has never been produced. One would have expected the card would have been kept as a treasured memento especially since it would have been the last correspondence Monroe had sent. Furthermore, no photographs exist of Carmen and Monroe or any documentary evidence to prove they were close friends.The third main witness to the RFK/Monroe alleged relationship is Fred Otash, who claims to have heard tape recordings of RFK and Monroe. In 1985, the former Hollywood private investigator told The Los Angeles Times that on the night of Monroe's death he had received a panicky late-night phone call from Peter Lawford saying Monroe was dead. Lawford allegedly told Otash that Monroe and RFK had a screaming fight about their relationship the evening she died. Otash said RFK arrived at Lawford's house, nervously telling Lawford, "She's ranting and raving. I'm concerned about her and what may come out of this."Otash went on to tell The Los Angeles Times that Lawford begged him to rush to Monroe's house and "pick up any information that linked her to the Kennedys" before it could get into the wrong hands. Otash said he sent an assistant to do the sweep. (The assistant has never been named and has not come forward to corroborate Otash's statement.)Later, in 1991, Otash told author James Spada, "He (Lawford) told me that Bobby Kennedy had broken off the affair with Marilyn and