Héloïse Goy, with Alexis Patri 11:10 a.m., April 21, 2022
The magazine "Paris Match" publishes in its new issue the results of an investigation signed by the French producer and director François Pomès.
We learn the identity of the biological father of Norma Jean, widely known as Marilyn Monroe.
The Hollywood star never knew who her father was.
INTERVIEW
No one knew his identity.
Until the revelations of the new issue of
Paris Match
, published Thursday.
The magazine reveals the identity of the biological father of the star Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jean.
Her mother Gladys had always refused to reveal the name of this man to her and the actress never knew who her father was.
Sixty years after the death of this icon, François Pomès, a French producer and director, conducted a very long investigation which enabled him to solve this enigma.
And it was to
Paris Match
that he wanted to entrust this exclusive information.
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A quest for Marilyn Monroe's DNA
"François Pomès contacted us a little over a week ago, and we met him", explains to Europe 1 Aurélie Raya, the
Paris Match
journalist who collected and verified the producer's comments.
"He made a documentary about the hidden daughter of Claude François, so we knew he was serious. But we still had to check how he managed it."
"He found peroxidized blond hair that was the right one. He then looked for DNA to compare this hair with," says the journalist.
"In the biographies of Marilyn Monroe, several names of potential biological fathers appear. In particular, the most probable, Charles Stanley Gifford. He was one of the lovers of Gladys, Marilyn's mother, in the 1950s. François Pomès found the Gifford heirs, who agreed to donate DNA."
A surviving American niece
After the verification of this long investigation which confirms that Charles Stanley Gifford was the biological father of Marilyn Monroe, Aurélie Raya looked into the life of this man.
"He's a pretty handsome guy, born in 1898, into a middle-class Californian family. He was a foreman in the company where Gladys worked," explains the journalist.
"He lived on a kind of ranch. He had a lot of mistresses, he was a real seducer who died quite young, in 1965. He had two 'official' children, including a daughter who died when she was 10 or 12 years old. He never wanted to meet Marilyn."
Following this discovery, the
Paris Match
team went to the United States to meet Francine Gifford, the one who has just discovered that she is the niece of Marilyn Monroe.
If you want to find out more exclusive information on this exciting affair, all this investigation can be found in the latest issue of
Paris Match
available from Thursday at your newsagents.