In 2016, during a June the 10th broadcast of the “Goodnight Marilyn Radio” program, Michael Selsman appeared along with the host, Nina Boski, Marilyn biographer, Gary Vitacco-Robles, and Marilyn researchers, Marijane Gray and Leslie Kasperowicz. Selsman was a press agent who worked for the Arthur P. Jacobs Agency in 1962, Marilyn’s agency. He also worked alongside Jacobs’ employee, Pat Newcomb, who was also Marilyn’s close friend. Selsman was responsible for Jacobs’ male clients while Pat Newcomb was responsible for Jacobs’ female clients, primarily Marilyn. According to Selsman, Pat occasionally had to work with an actor while he occasionally had to work with an actress. Selsman encountered Marilyn as a result of such a client swapping situation. He did not have a high opinion of Miss Monroe.

She was just another actress to me, he stated. Selsman admitted that he found her to be arrogant and cold, uncaring and unfriendly. He simply did not like her; but then, he did not find much, if anything, to like about actors generally. In his opinion, actors were always acting and anything they said had to be discounted as a possible lie.

Gary Vitacco-Robles mentioned to Selsman the persistent rumor that Marilyn intended to call or had already called a press conference for Monday, August the 6th. The biographer asked if the press agent would comment. Selsman responded:

Sure. I think it’s false. I don’t think that she ever contemplated a press conference and we would have known about it certainly because somebody in the media would have told us. There were only a handful of reporters in those days. There was Vernon Scott of the UPI and there was Jim Bacon of the AP and there was Harrison, whatever his name was, with Herald American and there was Louella in the person of Dorothy Manners, who really wrote her column, and Hedda and that was it. I mean, the news was on at 6:00 for a half an hour. I mean there was no cable, so somebody would have told us.

Obviously, Marilyn had not announced a press conference for August the 6th in 1962 and the likelihood that she would have at a later date seems remote, more than remote in my opinion, nonexistent.

During the five decades that have arrived and departed since Marilyn herself departed, a gaggle of conspiracists have advanced many possible motives that triggered Marilyn’s murder. She had affairs with the middle Kennedy brothers; she knew about their involvement with the MOB; she knew about their plots to assassinate Fidel Castro; she knew about UFOs and aliens; she knew about all the monumental secrets that she foolishly revealed on the pages of her Red Book of Secrets, the existence of which has also been advanced as a murder motive, a book whose existence is as dubious as the alleged press conference Marilyn intended to hold. In reality, though, Marilyn was not the only person with knowledge pertaining to all of the aforementioned secrets. In fact, the secrets for which Marilyn was allegedly murdered were not secrets by any measure; in fact, real secrets simply do not exist.

Having the knowledge of a controversial or politically sensitive situation or a politically dangerous one does not necessarily make a person a target for murder. If that were the case, many persons in the sphere of the middle Kennedy brothers would have assumed room temperature as a result of murder, giving rise to the age old conspiratorial problem: at what point does the murderer stop murdering?―not until he or she is the only human being alive? Obviously, having knowledge is not the danger as much as a willingness or an intent to reveal the knowledge to the public or law enforcement. So in that regard, the alleged press conference that Marilyn intended to announce or had already announced was possibly the single most important motive for Marilyn’s murder: she knew and she was going to tell.

Still, no verifiable or credible evidence has ever been advanced by any conspiracist that Marilyn intended to involve the press in whatever her situation with the middle Kennedy brothers might have been in 1962. The conspiracists have only offered rumor and innuendo. Samir Muqaddin never produced the press announcement which he allegedly discovered in Marilyn’s purse; and he is the only source for the existence of that document. Robert Slatzer and Jeanne Carmen also assert­ed that Marilyn intended to appear before the press and reveal everything she knew, which caused her murder; but they never offered any verifiable or credible evidence to prove what they asserted, either. Besides, the testimony of those two fabulists has been so thoroughly discredited that their testaments have no evidentiary value at all; and essentially, the same can be said of the former Lionel Grandison, Sr.

Was Marilyn going to appear before the press on August the 6th in 1962, expose the middle Kennedy brothers as frauds and wicked men and extract her pound of Kennedy flesh? I assert, here, that those questions can be answered with only one word: NO. Therefore, there was absolutely no reason to and nothing to be gained by committing what Andrew O’Hagan correctly termed the great pointless homicide, meaning the murder of Marilyn Monroe.