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Asbury Park Dec. 29, 1982 Cll Actress as murder victim rejected Paul Masson Chablis Fontana Candida Frascati The Associated Press LOS ANGELES The district attorney re-: jected allegations yesterday that actress Marilyn Monroe was murdered and said her death in 1962 was either a suicide or resulted from an accidental overdose of barbiturates. "The facts, as we have found them, do not support a finding of foul play," Los Angeles District Attorney John Van de Kamp said in a statement accompanying a 29-page report. Miss Monroe's body was found on a bed at her home Aug. 5, 1962.

The county coroner at the, time ruled her death a suicide by drug over-, dose. No further investigation is planned, following a 3-month review of information relating to the death, Van de Kamp's report said. The report said a murder "would have required a massive, in-place conspiracy covering all principals at the death scene (including) the actual killer or killers; the chief medical examiner-coroner; the autopsy surgeon to whom the case was fortuitously assigned; and most all of the police officers assigned to the case as well as their superiors in the LAPD A private detective, who has argued that the actress was murdered, promptly labeled the re port "a cover-up." "We know some of the witnesses lied to the district attorney's office," said Milo Speriglio, whose Nick Harris Detective Agency has been investigating the death for 10 years. "I'm very disappointed that the district attorney did not conduct a thorough investigation," he said. "I provided the district attorney with facts and evidence, indicating that Marilyn Monroe was murdered.

I gave him the identity of her killers." Speriglio said he gave prosecutors specific names. He would only describe the alleged conspirators publicly as "a very famous political government appointee," "a prominent movie actor 20 years ago, who is still alive today," and a doctor or person with medical knowledge. Speriglio and Robert Slatzer, who says he was secretly married the actress Oct. 4, 1952, in Tijuana, Mexico, say Miss Monroe was killed shortly after the end of a romance with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

She was killed because she planned to call a news conference to discuss her relationship with Kennedy and an alleged CIA plot against Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Speriglio said. In August, he said she was murdered by "a dissident faction of the CIA" or similar group, but said Tues day he doesn't believe the CIA was involved. "The fact that I have a book on Marilyn out now has nothing to do with it," said Speriglio, author of "Marilyn Monroe: Murder Cover-Up." The prosecutor's report, prepared by Assistant District Attorney Ronald H. Carrol and Investigator Alan B. Tomich, discounts Speri-glio's allegations, saying, "All known existing evidence causes us to believe that the (murder) story is a fabrication." The review was ordered after Speriglio announced his allegations at a news conference just before the 20th anniversary of Miss Monroe's death.

About the same time, former county coroner's investigator Lionel Grandison said he was coerced into signing a certificate listing her death as a suicide even though he felt "there were some circumstances that should have been investigated." His claim was labeled untrue by Dr. Theodore Curphey, who was coroner at the time. Grandison also said he saw a "red diary" belonging to Miss Monroe, allegedly containing explosive government secrets. The diary has never been found. An actor who once claimed to have the diary later said it was only a book of poems and he has never publicly produced either.

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But she was black and blue." The actress went inside her West Hollywood home and called police, who took her to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she received stitches in her mouth, Druxman said. He declined to divulge her age, saying only that the actress is in her 30s. The publicist said Miss McBain is staying friends and hopes her facial bruises will heal sufficiently so that she can continue as the character Foxy Humdinger when filming resumes next week for the NBC soap opera "Days of Our Lives." Druxman said he was not sure The publicist said the actress' other television credits include appearances as a friend of the character Sue Ellen Ewing in some episodes of the CBS series "Dallas" shown early this year, as a guest star in the ABC series "Matt Houston," and as a regular character, Daphne Dut-ton in the 196M2 ABC series "Surfside Six." PLAY IT SAFE! You never know what the day will bring. Bad weather or an unexpected event can keep you from getting to the store for your copy of The Press. Be sure you don't miss all the important local news, great grocery coupons and informative articles you find daily in The Press.

home delivery today. Call the circulation department toll-free at (800) 822-9779. DiraGi72fcjdiiJHG! OEae $5 million suits filed over Donovan probe SM The Associated Press NEW YORK Three $5 million defamation suits were filed yesterday in connection with bribery allegations that helped trigger the federal corruption probe involving Secretary of Labor Raymond J. Donovan and the Schiavone Construction Co. The three separate actions were filed in U.S.

District Court by the Secaucus, N.J., construction company and two company vice presidents, Joseph A. DiCarolis and Genaro Liguori. Named as defendants were Mario Mon-tuoro of the Bronx, former secretary-treasurer of Local 29 of the Laborers International Union, and five others listed as "John Does." The complaints said from December 1981 and thereafter Montuoro repeatedly and maliciously told newspaper, radio and television reporters that Di Carolis paid a $2,000 cash bribe to Louis Sanzo, business agent for Local 29, at a meeting in a Queens restaurant attended by Liguori. and company president Ronald A. Schiavone.

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Allegations by Montuoro and others led to investigations conducted by special federal prosecutor Leon Silverman to determine whether Donovan was involved in any corruption while he was with Schiavone. Silverman said at the end of each of the investigations that there was not enough credible evidence to link Donovan with organized crime. Montuoro's whereabouts could not be determined to obtain his comment on the suit. Introductory Offer Defendant late for court, then freed after mistrial Rate good thru 11383 Pmma Earner Account available 1214H2) After January 13, 1983, account pays high money market rates (91-day Treasury Bill rate plus 38) if average balance is over $2,500. Allows three checks and three automatic transfers per month.

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Sacramento County Superior Court Judge William Lally ruled Monday that a mistrial declared in the case of Raymond G. Manuel would stand. Trying him a second time would constitute double jeopardy and violate his constitutional rights, Lally said. The felony charges of burglary and receiving stolen property carried a nine-year, four-month prison term. Manuel, who had been late for court twice before, did not show up on time Sept.

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