A Few of Will Fowler's Collected Papers
The first two documents pictured above are the two initial accords executed by Robert Slatzer and Will Fowler pertaining to the composition of Slatzer’s literary artifice, then entitled “The Marilyn Monroe Papers.” The first Contract took effect on August the 15th in 1972 while the second Agreement took effect on October the 13th of the same year. The second Agreement mentions that a novel, The Beautiful Loser, would be written by Fowler and credited only to him. As far as I know, Fowler never wrote that novel. The next two documents, pictured immediately above, comprise The Agreement executed by Robert Slatzer, Will Fowler and Frank Capell pertaining to the composition of Slatzer’s fraudulent book, ultimately entitled The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe. The writing triumvirate’s unholy Agreement took effect on February the 16th in 1973. Please note: this Agreement stipulates that Slatzer would receive full credit for writing the fraudulent publication while the names of Will Fowler and Frank Capell would remain secret, certainly not illegal since using ghost writers is a common literary practice. Certainly in this case, the deception has a nefariously sinister overtone considering Capell’s history.
The preceding letter from Joseph Jasgur to Will Fowler confirms that Nobel “Kid” Chissell recanted his testimony regarding the Tijuana wedding between Robert Slatzer and Marilyn. Chissell did not witness the wedding simply because the wedding never happened. Since Chissell doubted, as he expressed to Jasgur, that Slatzer even knew Marilyn, should we conclude, therefore, that Kid Chissell did not know Marilyn, either. Remarkably, Chissell wrote an article for Glitter: The Magazine of the People which appeared in Vol. 1 No. 1 January of 1975, coincident with the publication of The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe. This article, entitled “Norma Jean’s Secret Husband,” must be several magazine column inches of invention. Kid Chissell died in November of 1987.
The preceding copies of two letters from Will Fowler to Joe DiMaggio prompted the following notes from Mr. 56.
A rather succinct statement by Joe DiMaggio: he never met Robert Slatzer. That being the case, then―and there is no reason whatsoever to doubt Joltin’ Joe―Slatzer’s assertions about meeting an angry and billigerent Joe DiMaggio, when Marilyn inadvertently booked a date with each man for the same evening, must be summarily dismissed as just another Slatzer yarn.
