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![]() Frank had a strained friendship (that ended upon Marilyn's death as he held Frank partly to blame) with Marilyn’s 2nd husband, Joe DiMaggio but despite this helped him stage a raid on a stranger's apartment as Joe believed that Marilyn was in the apartment with her lover. This "Wrong Door Raid" led to a successful law suit against DiMaggio and Sinatra. The friendship between the two ended when Sinatra had an affair with Marilyn. The two weren't having sex when they first moved in together, however that changed when Sinatra came downstairs one night and saw Marilyn naked in the kitchen. Sinatra never considered popping the question although it is rumoured that a few weeks before Monroe's death, Sinatra considered popping the question in an attempt for Marilyn to get her life back on track as "No one [would] mess with her if she is Mrs. Frank Sinatra." The weekend before her death, Sinatra reportedly tried to convince Monroe to start her life over. "Why bother?" she responded. "I'm not going to be here too much longer." Sinatra felt that if she were his wife, everyone else would back off, give her some space and allow her to get herself together. However, Marilyn was planning on marrying Joe DiMaggio for the second time, so Sinatra’s proposal was too little too late. Frank was one of the people who coaxed Marilyn to the Cal-Neva Lodge the weekend before her death. Frank helped the Kennedys take photos of Marilyn being molested by prostitutes in an attempt to blackmail her if she went public with her affairs with the Kennedy brothers. Frank did care about Marilyn, as he tried to get her to forget about the Kennedys and forget about planning her revenge by destroying their image, but when she wouldn’t listen Frank lured her to Cal–Neva in an attempt to almost make her see sense, get over the Kennedys and move on – providing her with the “you’ve got to be cruel to be kind” method of support. Marilyn was deeply hurt that someone she considered a friend was working against her, and changed her opinion of Sinatra after that. One week later she was dead. |