Marilyn slept here: Checking out the sex symbol’s last check-in

Fifty years ago today, a nude, disheveled Marilyn Monroe was discovered in bed at her Los Angeles home, dead at age 36 of an apparent suicide from “acute barbituate poisoning.” But a few days before, she’d been partying with Frank Sinatra and other celebrity pals at Lake Tahoe’s Cal Neva Lodge, a state-straddling casino getaway once owned by Ol’ … (more)