what happened to marilyn monroe

Marilyn Monroe, an American actress, model, and singer, died on the evening of August 4, 1962, at the age of 36 from a barbiturate overdose inside her home in Los Angeles, California. Her death was ruled a probable suicide. Monroe was known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters and became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s. Her troubled private life received much attention as she struggled with addiction and mood disorders. Her marriages to retired baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller were highly publicized, and both ended in divorce. Monroes death has always been shrouded in mystery, and there have been various rumors and inconsistencies surrounding the events of her passing. A new Netflix documentary, "The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes," presents a new timeline of events of the night Monroe died, deduced from hundreds of interviews conducted for an updated version of a biography about her. Despite the ongoing intrigue and speculation, the official cause of Marilyn Monroes death remains a barbiturate overdose, ruled as a probable suicide.