This Day in History: <br />Marilyn Monroe <br />Is Found Dead August 5, 1962 Monroe was found <br />in her bed, surrounded <br />by empty pill bottles. An autopsy revealed a <br />fatal dose of sedatives in <br />her system, and her death <br />was ruled a probable suicide. She had been under <br />constant psychiatric care <br />since the year before, living a <br />reclusive life in her Los Angeles home. Her death inspired conspiracy <br />theories, involving affairs with <br />then President Kennedy and <br />Attorney General Robert Kennedy. In the 1980s, Monroe's maid <br />declared controversially that <br />Robert Kennedy had fought <br />with Monroe the night she died. The model turned actress <br />has remained a cultural icon <br />for more than half a century.
