RANDY J. TARABORRELLI

This is the definitive biography of the most enduring icon in popular culture. Beautiful, damaged, the ultimate sex symbol, publicly celebrated, privately unhappy - Marilyn Monroe's tumultuous life and untimely death continue to fascinate us. When Marilyn Monroe became famous More... in the 1950s, the world was told that her mother was either dead or simply not a part of her life. However, that was not true. In fact, her mentally ill mother was very much present in Marilyn's world and the complex family dynamic that unfolded behind the scenes is a story that has never been told - until now. In this groundbreaking book, Taraborrelli draws complex and sympathetic portraits of the women so influential in the actress' life, including her mother, her foster mother and her legal guardian. He also reveals, for the first time, the shocking scope of Marilyn's own mental illness, the identity of Marilyn's father and the half-brother she never knew, and new information about her relationship with the Kennedys - Bobby, Jack and Pat Lawford Kennedy. Explosive, revelatory and surprisingly moving, this is the final word on the life of one of the most fascinating and elusive icons of the twentieth century

Un documento escrito y gráfico sin precedentes, tratado con respeto pero que no deja de invocar todos los demonios que inspiraron la vida de Norma Jeane, Marilyn Monroe. En el corazón de la historia, entre imagenes ineditas y archivos sorprendentes, el lector descubrira a una mujer mucho mas compleja y seria -tragica incluso- que la imagen que la convirtio en "ese oscuro objeto de deseo" universal. Una historia narrada desde el "Erase una vez..." que desmonta el simbolo de Marilyn Monroe hasta convertirlo en una mujer de carne y hueso, alejada del paradigma de la sensualidad femenina y sofisticacion, inseguridad y tragedia que siempre represento. Su humanizacion deja de lado todo lo preconcebido y, aunque separar la ficcion de la realidad no es tarea facil para el autor, el texto desvela la absoluta fe de la protagonista en el Ahora, su presente por encima de todo aunque tristemente su pasado le diera alcance con la misma brutalidad con la que la idea de su futuro le atormentara. Fue un alma vulnerable, un espiritu generoso y una soldado valiente que se debatio en una constante y devastadora batalla interior

A lo largo de muchos años han corrido ríos de tinta especulando sobre la vida de Michael Jackson, el rey del pop, una estrella que se fue inesperadamente dejando muchos interrogantes sobre su vida. J. Randy Taraborrelli, amigo personal del cantante, ha caminado prácticamente a su lado durante más de treinta años en los que se sucedieron cientos de entrevistas dentro del círculo más cercano al cantante, incluyéndole a él. Taraborrelli nos explica sus comienzos, las relaciones familiares, la llegada del gran éxito con Thriller, el disco más vendido de la historia de la música, sus matrimonios, sus hijos, las acusaciones de pederastia y su polémica y prematura muerte en junio de 2009.

Elizabeth Taylor is known internationally as one of the most beautiful and talented women ever to grace the silver screen. She has won two Academy Awards and starred in over sixty films. She is just as well known for her tempestuous personal life, marrying eight times and suffering through innumerable health problems.A cultural icon, she has been written about before . . .but never like this. This moving book traces for the first time Elizabeth's journey through the dark and often lonely world of a fame unparalleled in the 1960s and 1970s, a time during which alcohol and drugs played a major part in her life. It would be with her fifth (and sixth) husband Richard Burton (with whom she made twelve movies, including Cleopatra) that she would learn life lessons about love and loyalty that would inform the rest of her life and, finally, be the catalyst for her recovery from alcoholism in the 1980s.This book also details her philanthropic work as an AIDS activist in the 1990s as well as her stunning success as a business woman today (with a multi-million-dollar fragrance). Based on years of research, this is not just a star's biography . .