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During her all-too-brief life, Marilyn Monroe overcame a difficult childhood to become one of the world's biggest and most enduring sex symbols. During her career, Monroe's films grossed more than $200 million. Monroe died of a drug overdose on August 5, 1962, at only 36 years old.
John F. Kennedy, who would be assassinated in Dallas, Texas, a year after Marilyn's death. (AFP). They found Monroe lying on the bed and called an ambulance â suspected she had had an overdose. When the ambulance arrived on the scene, they found Marilyn still alive, yet unconscious with very shallow breathing.