2008-05-02 08:23:08 - By Jennifer J. Dickinson

Marilyn Monroe's legacy on April 14th was being tainted with mocking headlines of the worst nature because of false claims that in addition to being a busy starlet on the big screen, that she was involved without her knowledge in a smaller scale pornographic production. And these ridiculous reports said how smiling and happy she looked while she was doing this. The most slanderous adjectives were misused by journalists from major news sources to describe this sex tape and Marilyn Monroe. But the one that we would use to describe the whole scenario was ‘fishy'. Mark Bellinghaus, Ernest Cunningham and I quickly teamed up with Defamer.com being the first reporting outlet to debunk this story on April 15th. Soon our article was reported on, questioned, analyzed, syndicated and supported, and now has reached over 98,000 views on the original article alone. And today over two weeks following the release of our story, MSNBC has come to light again with a very comprehensive report including confirmation from the FBI that the Marilyn Monroe sex tape does not exist in their files.

The latest report begins here, now confirming that the FBI has done an extensive manual search of their files and no such tape exists: deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/01/969700.aspx

The media turn of events has taken more twists and turns than when we initially reported it:
www.pr-inside.com/marilyn-monroe-sensational-media-turn-r547728. ..

The web of lies began to spin on April 14th with this report from The New York

Post: www.nypost.com/seven/04142008/news/regionalnews/hard_core_marily .. ,which swept the wave of controversy around the world. Dan Abrams from MSNBC had some initial questions which made the interviewee noticeably squirm in his seat. Next was ours' which immediately and unexpectedly blindsided the person who made the mistake of trying to defame the greatest American legend defamer.com/380219/exclusive-debunking-the-marilyn-monroe-sex-ta .. . We set about a wave of change which straightened out the journalism pool, which had a lot to learn about Marilyn Monroe. Other agencies followed including Radar Magazine's report, written by Tyler Grey, a journalist who refreshingly bypasses the gullible factor in any press of his that we've read, especially on this researched report: www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/04/marilyn-monroe-keya-morga ...

The LA Times initially took bets as to how long the sex tape would take to hit the internet: latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/04/how-long-till-m.html . While jumping on the wagon of speculation and supporting this story, they started to criticize our article: latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/04/defamers-bunk-1.html , later described in this report as 'having fun' latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/04/hey-ny-post---i.html and now challenging The New York Post to open their mouths. As Mark Bellinghaus noted, all differences aside, we couldn't agree more: www.pr-inside.com/marilyn-monroe-sex-tape-hoax-los-angeles-times .., although we disagree on other things: latimesblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/keyarash-mazhari-32-aka-key ..

But one thing is clear: Marilyn Monroe's legacy has been successfully defended again by immediate action against these painful lies.