Marilyn Monroe's Death EXPLAINED - It Happened Here - Marilyn Monroe

On August 5, 1962, silver screen legend Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her home in Brentwood, California of an apparent suicide. She was found by her housekeeper, face down on her bed, with an empty pill bottle at her side at the age of 36. Marilyn’s life was full of mysteries and contradictions, and we’ll visit the locations that tell her life story through that lens – the Hollygrove Home for Children, where Marilyn found herself living after her mother was institutionalized, Zuma Beach where she had her first modeling photo shoot; the small town of Hemet, California, where she would search for the man she thought was her father; San Francisco City Hall where she famously married Joe DiMaggio; The Actor’s Studio in New York City where she strove to be more than a Hollywood bimbo, but drove her to briefly be institutionalized herself; and outside the gates of her home in Brentwood, where her death shocked the nation.