Peter said that they only went on the one date, as she was an extremely dirty person, and his standard for personal hygiene was indeed higher than hers, and he couldn’t find her sexually attractive, knowing how she keeps her house and only imagining how she keeps her body. Peter was so disgusted that the two men switched women, Peter taking the other woman home and Marilyn was taken home by the other male on the date. Despite the fact that Peter saw Marilyn as unclean, they were still good friends.

At the time of her death, Marilyn Monroe had every reason to be depressed and suicidal with Peter’s help. Peter was the one that introduced Monroe to the Kennedy brothers, who would ultimately ruin her life, what was left of it, and contribute to her death/suicide.

Peter had bought Monroe into the sexually charged, politically dangerous world that was the Kennedys, a world she was not able to cope with emotionally. Peter knew this, but still introduced her to the Kennedy brothers anyway. JFK, to fulfill his goal of bedding every woman in Hollywood, was eager to meet Marilyn who was the most popular star of that era. Peter acted as a messenger boy, passing messages and notes from one to the other. Peter also helped Monroe conduct her affairs with the brothers, by offering his house as a place where they could be together, away from the prying eyes of the media and the public.

As Marilyn became more and more taken with the Kennedys, he watched her abuse her body and risk her life with overdoses both accidental and intended, due to the pressure and stress she was feeling due to her love for both Kennedy brothers, at different stages of her life. He watched as Marilyn fell into a deep depression after JFK ended their relationship and also as Bobby began to distance himself from her. Peterwatched as she desperately tried to hold onto her relationships with the Kennedy brothers by threatening to reveal the affairs to the press and public.

Marilyn moved into a home in Brentwood shortly before her death, to be nearer to Peter and his wife Pat, as they were two of her closest friends at the time of her death. Peter was torn between the love for his friend Marilyn and his loyalty to the Kennedys, and it often played on his mind before and after Monroe’s death.

On the day of her death, Peter went to Monroe’s home along with RFK to tell her straight that the affair was over, and also to help RFK search for bugs and any evidence that would link Marilyn to the brothers. Peter held a party that night at his home, and invited Marilyn in the hopes of smoothing things over with her, after the afternoons events. She declined Peter’s invitation and Peter rang her on several occasion during the night to check on her, and sensed something was wrong but was reluctant to involve himself because of his Kennedy connection, an act that contributed to her death.

Before following his instinct of going to Marilyn’s home to check on her, he sought advice of Milt Ebbins, and other people, while Marilyn was in her final hours. Peter spent the rest of his life haunted by the knowledge that a large portion of the blame for her death was his. Not only had he been instrumental in creating the situation that sent her over the edge, but when she called out for help in her final hours, he vacillated for hours as her life slipped away.

In a way Peter was punished for this, as along with Sinatra’s blacklisting of Peter after his falling out with him over the Kennedy Palm Springs visit, a number of producers in Hollywood wouldn’t use him in their films either because of Sinatra’s blacklisting, or because they were disgusted by the situation surrounding Monroe’s death.

The Kennedys never blamed themselves for Marilyn Monroe’s death, they blamed Peter. He became a symbol of all that had gone wrong regardless of the fact that it was RFK and JFK that caused it. His relationship with the Kennedys was never the same after Monroe’s death.