Marilyn Monroe Conspiracy Essay Born Norma Jeane Mortenson but many know her as Marilyn Monroe, She was and still is one of the major sex symbols in Hollywood. She was born on June 1,1926 in Los Angeles, California, her parents are Gladys Pearl Baker and Martin Edward Mortenson.Marilyn Died in her Los Angeles home in 1962 due to an overdose of Barbiturates. Now there are many conspiracies surrounding her death. The first conspiracy is that she was trying to make an attempt with fake suicide but it went wrong. It was said that Marilyn wanted to get out of the spotlight for awhile, there wasn’t a lot of explanation as to why. So on August 5, 1962 she looked herself in her room at her L.A mansion and downed a bottle of sleeping pills.