6 Chilling Photos of Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy Before Death

• When did Monroe and JFK first meet?

How much of the rumors were actually true? According to a number of sources, including historian Donald Spoto who wrote the 1993 book Marilyn Monroe: The Biography, the answer is not much. Actually most stories indicate that just a handful of times during their lives they bumped into each other.

Apparently, during an event at the Paris Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, JFK was present, as was Marilyn, both of them accompanied by their spouses. And because this was an event where almost 1,000 people participated, it was nearly impossible that the two of them would have crossed each other’s path.

The actress and the newly elected President of the United States were said to have attended the same dinner party in 1961, four years later, at actor Peter Lawford’s Santa Monica residence, and Monroe was a close friend of Lawford’s wife Patricia Kennedy Lawford, who was the sister of JFK. However, these are just speculations since her presence can’t be confirmed for sure.