Picture: Jane Russell The 80th Annual Academy Awards (Oscars) - Arrivals Los Angeles, California - 24.02.08
Veteran actress Jane Russell refuses to believe her late friend Marilyn Monroe committed suicide, and instead thinks "dirty tricks" ended her life.
The 85-year-old also claims the public perception of Monroe, who died in 1962, is far from what the blonde beauty was actually like.
Russell says, "She wasn't a dumb blonde.
"Right before she died, she was planning to marry JOE DiMAGGIO, her second husband, again, and she had a new movie contract.
"So I don't think she killed herself. Someone did it for her. There were dirty tricks somewhere."