Marilyn Monroe Had A Copy Named Jayne Mansfield—How Satanism And Mk-Ultra Crafted Blonde Bombshells

Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson, revolutionized the film and modeling industry, representing the 1950s decade of glamour and entertainment. We know her today for her alluring image, incredible sex appeal, and lively persona. But her life was anything but glitzy and glamorous; in fact, her upbringing in her early years and her life in Hollywood were often traumatic. Many don’t know how the young Norma Jeane – broken and devoid of affection – suddenly got thrust into the limelight. And the release of Marilyn Monroe’s biopic, Blonde, caused more people to research her past and her legacy after it featured disturbing scenes of her childhood, forced abortions, and the abuse she faced in Hollywood.  But today, I want to discuss some things that the general population doesn't really know about, including Marilyn's "copy," Jayne Mansfield, and her involvement with the Church of Satan, and the stars' possible ties with Mk-Ultra.

The Strange Case of Anton LaVey, Marilyn, and Her Strange Copy, Jayne Mansfield 

Let me give you some background on Anton LaVey first. He was the author of several books like The Satanic Bible, Satan Speaks!, and The Devil’s Notebook. LaVey grew up loving superstition and classic dark literature like Dracula and Frankenstein. His strange interests often left him alienated, and he dropped out of high school to work in circuses and carnivals as a musician. He then worked at the burlesque houses in LA, where he allegedly met and hooked up with Marilyn Monroe.

“When the carnival season ended, LaVey would earn money by playing organ in Los Angeles area burlesque houses, and he relates that it was during this time period that he had a brief affair with a then-unknown Marilyn Monroe,” LaVey’s biography says. This made me pause. The Marilyn Monroe had an affair with the strange and rebellious Anton LaVey? Was LaVey being honest, or was his account of Marilyn just based on a fantasy that his mystical and odd mind conjured up? 

U.S. military officer and founder of The Temple of Set, Michael Aquino (yeah, you read that right), knew LaVey. In his book, The Church of Satan I: Volume I - Text and Plates, he talks about investigating LaVey and Marilyn’s supposed love affair. Not only did he find zero evidence of this relationship, but someone who knew LaVey came forward and said that he lied. Aquino writes, “‘Anton LaVey never met Marilyn  Monroe,’ Edward  Webber said in 1991: Back then he told me that it was all a story which he had made up. Anton always liked to create things that he knew would interest people of the media and other people who had an interest in the occult mysteries, and in celebrities. He approached me with the idea of putting this Marilyn Monroe story out. I told him, ‘Don’t even try. The media will find out that it’s a lie.’”

Anton LaVey never met Marilyn Monroe.

So, it's possible that the infamous Satanist and blonde bombshell never had a relationship after all. Then again, Michael Aquino could be lying to discredit their relationship on purpose, so we may never really know the truth. But keep reading – because while it's not very clear what LaVey's relationship was with Marilyn's, he did have a connection with one woman who ultimately became an uncanny copy of her. 

Jayne Mansfield: Marilyn's Carbon Copy  

Jayne Mansfield was known as the “poor man’s Marilyn Monroe” – a cruel title for any woman trying to make a career in Hollywood. Allegedly, Mansfield was 20th Century Fox’s version of Monroe. Prior to that, Mansfield lived in Monroe’s shadow, often dressing like her and even styling her hair in the same fashion. While people might think that “imitation is the highest form of flattery,” Marilyn certainly didn’t think so. "All she does is imitate me – but her imitations are an insult to her as well as to myself,” Marilyn told an interviewer. "I know it's supposed to be flattering to be imitated, but she does it so grossly, so vulgarly – I wish I had some legal means to sue her."

Not only did Jayne look and dress like Marilyn, but she also shared other peculiar similarities with her. She, like Marilyn, was not a natural blonde; both of them dyed their hair after becoming famous (under the same agency). Both were credited for “sexualizing” Hollywood. They both appeared in Playboy magazine, and the two were rumored to have had an affair with former president John F. Kennedy. Jayne, like Marilyn, died tragically in her 30s. Of course, Jayne was different from Marilyn in other ways. Though she played the “dumb blonde” role in movies, Jayne actually had an IQ of 163 and had five children.

Now that I’ve introduced you a little to Jayne, buckle up! Things are about to get weird. Mansfield 66/67 is a documentary that explores the last two years of Jayne’s life. It details the tragic events that occurred after LaVey supposedly put a curse on Jayne’s then-significant other (Sam Brody), her divorce attorney, and her manager. Jayne Mansfield’s son got mauled by a tiger, Brody got into multiple car accidents, and they both died in a crash together in 1967, just one year after she met LaVey.

Now, you might ask why LaVey and Jayne Mansfield were even involved in the first place. According to Mansfield 66/67 filmmaker, Todd Hughes, “Anton LaVey was like Hugh Hefner,” and “He just used the word Satan to get attention, but his whole thing was about empowering people and rebuking Catholicism.” Jayne, who was often judged for her sultry and sexual image, felt comfort in being around the “accepting” LaVey, who favored rebellion and separation from the mainstream. Here's where it gets interesting: Some people think LaVey and/or Hugh Hefner controlled Jayne.

It's a popular theory that celebrities were a part of the notorious Mk-Ultra project, a CIA initiative that conducted horrifying experiments on individuals that included “electroconvulsive therapy, testing chemical substances, use of psychedelic drugs, inducing certain behaviors, implanting false memories, and deleting memories.” Others describe the project as "Satanic ritual abuse."

The CIA’s goal was to alter the minds of people for control, brainwash them, and even discredit certain people by making them act erratically. They experimented on CIA employees, government agents, doctors, military personnel, and other members of the public. Whether or not these experiments were used on celebrities is up for debate; however, the CIA has had ties to Hollywood since the 1940s, so maybe the idea of a programmed, robotic celebrity isn’t too much of a reach after all. In the case of Jayne and Marilyn: Is it possible they were both a part of the Mk-Ultra program? Was LaVey a handler for Jayne like some people believe? Well, if he was similar to Hefner like the Mansfield 66/67 creator says, then it’s definitely possible.

Playboy, Hugh Hefner, and Brainwashing

Hugh Hefner was in the army in the 1940s (remember, the CIA has ties to the U.S. military too) until he founded Playboy, just six years after the Central Intelligence Agency was established. Playboy Magazine conducted interviews with William Colby, a former director of the CIA. Jayne Hayden, who was a top-secret spy for the agency, even posed nude for Playboy magazine in the '90s.

Now, like the CIA, Hefner has been accused of “brainwashing” women. Holly Madison, a former playmate, for example, made the claim that Hefner “brainwashed” her and controlled her. And, like the abusers in the Mk-Ultra program, Hefner would even drug the Playmates. “Hefner fed ‘his girls’ quaaludes—or ‘thigh openers,’ as he liked to joke. He controlled their financial and social lives, imposed curfews and screamed if they violated his cult-like standards of dress and appearance; needless to say, plastic surgery was ‘compulsory,’” according to one article. Unfortunately, we may never know the truth behind Jayne's relationship with Hugh or LaVey, but let's move on to Marilyn.

Was Marilyn Monroe an Mk-Ultra Slave Too? 

The Playboy magazine used Marilyn on one of its covers, but she apparently never even met Hugh Hefner. This doesn’t mean she wasn’t brainwashed, though – because, like Mk-Ultra subjects and Playboy Playmates, Marilyn was supposedly under heavy surveillance. In 1972, Veronica Hamel and her husband moved into Marilyn’s house in Brentwood. They hired a contractor to renovate their home, and the contractor found “a sophisticated eavesdropping and telephone tapping system that covered every room in the house.” According to one Justice Department Official, the system was “standard FBI issue,” with components that weren’t commercially available at all. The new owners of the home had to spend $100,000 to remove the bugging devices. The question is, who was watching Marilyn? Was it Kennedy’s team or her handlers? 

The Mk-Ultra project was run by CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb. Stephen Kinzer, a journalist who investigated the secret operation, said that Gottlieb had a two-way process to control people’s minds. "First, you had to blast away the existing mind. Second, you had to find a way to insert a new mind into that resulting void. We didn't get too far on number two, but he did a lot of work on number one," Kinzer says. Hmm, a void? Interestingly, Marilyn Monroe had written about a strange operation she underwent that left her devoid of feelings. 

To give you some context, Marilyn Monroe had an acting coach, Lee Strasberg, and a psychiatrist named Margaret Hohenberg. At the time, Marilyn was also married to Arthur Miller. Fragments, a collection of Marilyn’s notes, poems, and intimate letters, included a very strange entry where Marilyn recalls going under anesthesia in a medical room with Strasberg and her psychiatrist. She wrote the following passage, which people often theorize is just a “nightmare” that she had:

“Strasberg cuts me open after Dr. H [her psychiatrist] gives me anesthesia and tries in a medical way to comfort me—everything in the room is white in fact I can’t even see anyone just white objects— they cut me open—Strasberg with Hohenberg’s ass. and there is absolutely nothing there—Strasberg is deeply disappointed but more even—academically amazed that he had made such a mistake. He thought there was going to be so much—more than he had ever dreamed possible in almost anyone but instead there was absolutely nothing—devoid of every human living feeling thing—the only thing that came out was so finely cut sawdust—like out of a raggedy ann doll—and the sawdust spills all over the floor & table and Dr. H is puzzled because suddenly she realizes that this is a new type case of puple. The patient (pupil—or student—I started to write) existing of complete emptiness Strasberg’s dreams & hopes for theater are fallen. Dr. H’s dreams and hopes for a permanent psychiatric cure is given up—Arthur is disappointed—let down.” 

She describes herself as being “devoid of every human living feeling thing” and equates the remnants of herself as “finely cut sawdust” out of a “raggedy ann doll,” reminiscent of the “void” that Gottlieb is credited with inducing in his Mk-Ultra subjects. Though people believe Marilyn was documenting a dream, to me, it sounds like she was under some kind of "mental operation" similar to what Mk-Ultra scientists would do to their subjects.

According to Jeffrey Meyers, who wrote a biography of both Monroe and her husband Arthur Miller, Marilyn had no control over her life. “Many so-called friends convinced her that they were indispensable, and she allowed photographers, agents and movie executives, psychiatrists, publicists and parasites to exploit her and control her life,” Meyers writes. Indeed, her acting coach Lee Strasberg and his wife Paula were known to often have a say in the things Marilyn did. In a way, they were sort of like her foster parents (or controllers). In Marilyn Monroe’s will, 75% of the estate went to the Strasbergs, and the remaining 25% went to her therapist, Marianne Kris. In the words of Marilyn, “I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”

What Does Blonde Hair Signify? 

Norma Jeane dyed her hair blonde and assumed her new identity under the management known as The Bluebook Model Agency, the same group responsible for Jayne Mansfield's career. Many people believe that celebrities going blonde symbolizes their success in getting brainwashed. For example, in 2016, Kanye West told the audience that they were being lied to by Google and Facebook, mentions Hillary Clinton, condemns politics, and even showed his support for Trump. Not too long after, Kanye West was hospitalized for “memory loss,” and after he was released from the institution, he came out with blonde hair. Remember, one of the reasons for the Mk-Ultra project is to discredit public figures. Also, isn’t it interesting that Lana Del Ray wrote the lyrics, “Kanye West is blonde and gone” in her song The Greatest? 

Oddly enough, MTV has come out stating that blonde hair is a sign of “rebirth” and “renewal,” leading more people to believe that it has something to do with brainwashing. I know, I know, it sounds crazy. But I’ll leave you with one last fact: In ancient times, light-colored hair was associated with the enslaved German and French women in Rome. As a result, Rome required prostitutes to wear blonde hair as a sign of their profession to distinguish themselves from the “proper” brunette-headed women. 

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