The Two Faces of Mickey Cohen - Page 2
© Ron Lombard
The use of Hollywood to reach into other areas of America for the growth of organized crime, was always on Cohen's mind. Mobsters like Mickey Cohen, who made a career out of exploiting hollywood stars like Marilyn Monroe. Blackmailing movie stars by threatening to expose their secret sexual liaisons, Cohen arranged for the lovemaking of his targets to be surreptitiously filmed and recorded. Johnny Roselli, who shared the interest in "carving out" a piece of hollywood for the Mafia, was Giancana's Hollywood representative, and that placed Monroe's blackmail potential in a new perspective. Marilyn Monroe, who was an acquaintance of both the Kennedys and Mafia predators like Johnny Roselli, was natural "bait" in the desperate, obsessive campaign to blackmail the Kennedy's. Suggestions have also been made that the untimely death of Monroe may not have been an accident, but arranged, due to her role in such activities. Once again this is not the actions of a Robin Hood, but more like the actions of a Rotten Hood.
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