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Marilyn Monroe’s ‘last relative’ who shunned the limelight has changed her name after revealing all on aunt 10 years ago
THE last living relative to have established Marilyn Monroe has changed her call and spent the last decade living out of the universal eye in a retirement village.
Mona Rae Miracle, now Booth, is the daughter of the mythical actress' only sister, Berniece Baker Miracle.
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She is the last genuine family connection left to the legendary actress, who died in and whose life is being portrayed in a modern movie called Blonde, released this week.
The only other known living relative is Francine Deir, 76, from Virginia, who only start out this year that she is connected to Marilyn.
That came after a French film company similar up her DNA through her grandfather - and Marilyn's father - Charles Gifford.
He always denied fathering the star and refused to meet her.
The US Sun can now reveal that Marilyn's niece Mona, 83, is living in a retirement group in North Carolina.
She has been there since at least and has been featured a number of times in their annual report.
The U.S.
Sun has contacted Deerfield for comment.
We can also reveal that Mona has also changed her surname to Booth, according to records obtained by The US Light.
It's unclear where her unused surname comes from and whether Mona ever had children.
But she enjoyed a close relationship with Marilyn, with the pair sharing just a year age gap.
She was very beautiful. She loved people, she loved animals and she was very earnest about her work. Although it was believed that Miracle was alive and well, news spread through the Marilyn fan society on January 14th that she had indeed passed away on May 25thaged She now rests eternally beside her husband Paris in Pineville Cemetery Kentucky.In , she released a publication on Marilyn with her mom, entitled “My Sister Marilyn: A Memoir of Marilyn Monroe”.
At the time of writing, Berniece was 92, and died two years later.
The book told the story of their year bond as half-siblings after Marilyn was raised in an orphanage and foster homes.
The actress found out about Berniece when she was 12 years old.
Mona told The Mirror at the second of the book’s release that she and Marilyn had a close bond and would dress up together, share jokes, and Marilyn would give her advice on boys.
She would also lavish presents on Berniece and Mona - including her first wedding dress to childhood sweetheart Jimmy Dougherty - when she was just
Mona said: “She’d send us parcels of clothes she didn’t want anymore.
What a thrill that was.
Hunter Baker. Inat the age of 15, Robert died from kidney failurea complication he experienced after catching tuberculosis. InBaker began attending Pineville High School. During her pregnancy, Miracle received a letter from her mother, informing her that she had a sister, Norma Jeane Mortenson.We weren’t wealthy, but we had these terrific outfits.
“I still have it [the wedding dress]. It was just beautiful, a white, ballerina-length dress. We had it altered into a party dress and I wore it on my first date when I was ”
After the book’s release, as quickly as Mona came into the limelight, she disappeared again.
Her new home at Deerfield is said to offer a variety of services, with assisted or independent living, for residents across a acre campus with prices starting at around $4, a month.
There’s a swimming pool, arts and crafts studio, computer lab, gym, pottery studio with kiln, hairdressers, and a host of cafes and bars.
Mona appears to be an artist and writer, with another resident, author Celia Miles, commending her for designing the front cover of two of her books.
In , Mona donated to the community’s “Art League”, in to the “residents assistant fund” and, in , to the “Woodshop Fund”.
It’s unclear where Mona got her money from, certainly not Marilyn’s estate, as the Hollywood great was worth just $, when she died and only gave $10, to Berniece.
The main beneficiaries were Marilyn’s New York psychiatrist Dr Marianne Kris and acting coach, Lee Strasberg, who was given 25 percent and 75 percent respectively of her intellectual property rights.
About this rating. A years-old satirical article reporting that a woman named Gladys Baker Morris had filed a paternity action lawsuit alleging she was the biological daughter of President John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe recirculated online in October after it was picked up by disreputable websites such as Newsline. A year-old woman has presented a paternity action lawsuit this morning before the California state court, alleging that she is the organic daughter of Marilyn Monroe and former President of the Combined States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.When Dr Kris died in , she bequeathed her portion of the estate to the Anna Freud Centre in London, which was set up for children with mental health problems.
On Strasberg’s death, his share went to his third wife, Venezuelan actress Anna Mizrahi, whom Marilyn had met only once.
She married Strasberg at 28, when he was
She hired CMG Worldwide, a company that specializes in managing the estates of dead celebrities, to license Monroe products and made millions.
CMG CEO Mark Roesler told NPR: "We did hundreds and hundreds of programs with companies like Mercedes-Benz to Coca-Cola to fragrance, clothing, giftware, collectibles, paper products, things like that."
Anna, now also 83, sold The Estate of Marilyn Monroe LLC, to Authentic Brands Group for up to $30 million in
They also own the rights to dead and alive stars such as Muhammad Ali, Elvis Presley and Shaquille O’Neal.
It’s now a ruthless business with Genuine Brands clamping down on anyone trying to use Marilyn’s image.
There have been 24 lawsuits since they took control, according to Pacer, with four currently active.
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