Celebrity biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli has previously written books about Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly and more, and now he’s turned his eye toward Marilyn Monroe.In “The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe” (an oddly similar title compared to Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe by Anthony Summers), Taraborrelli promises to reveal “a story that has never been told - until now.” Yet another work that’s being described the as the “definitive biography,” the book will discuss Gladys Baker (Marilyn’s mother), in depth, name Marilyn’s father (Charles Stanley Gifford), offer new insight into the half-brother she “never knew” (you also read about him in My Sister Marilyn by sister Berniece Baker Miracle) and talk about the “shocking scope of Marilyn’s own mental illness” (she was bi-polar). Taraborrelli cites 30 pages of interview subjects and says he is the first to read unpublished notes and interviews from reporters in the 1950s. Other words used to describe the book are “groundbreaking” and “haunting intimacy.” This book is due out mid-September. Let’s see how this one is!
