Hollywood's Dirty Little Secrets Revealed
TAPPER: Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. Now it's time for the "Pop Culture Lead." This is the time of the year when big budget blockbusters are supposed to dominate at the Box Office. So how in the world did a horror flick made for practically pennies end up trouncing the competition this weekend? "The Purge" starring Ethan Hawk took the top spot earning $36 million. That's double the earnings of the Vince Vaughn comedy "The Internship." and get this, "The Purge," only cost $3 million to make. For some movies, that would barely cover the peeled grapes and Evian. In contrast, Will Smith's sci-fi flop "After Earth" only earned $27 million in its opening weekend and it cost a whopping $100 million to make, not to mention all those future therapy bills for his son, Jaden, who was hoisted into it. You've heard the rumor for years, Marilyn Monroe's affairs with not one but two Kennedys. Now there are new details from the man who says he heard it all on tape. A Hollywood reporter got his hands on boxes of files from former Hollywood private eye Fred Otash. His daughter said she turned the files in an effort to set the record straight about her father's life. THE LEAD's Erin McPike is here with all the juicy details -- Erin.</s>ERIN MCPIKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, let's get right to the good stuff. There might have been a sex tape but before you get excited, it's just audio, not video. So everyone in the control room can get their minds out of the gutter, but the tapes have disappeared. So there are only notes of them, we will never hear them. But they didn't make this tape is because they were being bugged.</s>MCPIKE (voice-over): There are in intimate details of a reported relationship between a president, his brother and a Hollywood sex symbol. Eleven boxes of files Hollywood spy/private eye Fred Otash sacked away in a storage unit in the San Fernando Valley were reviewed by "The Hollywood Reporter."</s>MATT BELLONI, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, "THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER": This was someone who had wiretaps all over town, was listening to some of the biggest stars and some of these revelations will be published in magazines.</s>MCPIKE: Matt Belloni is the executive editor for "The Hollywood Reporter."</s>BELLONI: Otash claims that he had recordings of JFK having sex with Marilyn Monroe. He spoke about this as if it was a common knowledge thing.</s>MCPIKE: Otash worked for members of the Hollywood elite to dig up on their enemies. A note he left behind before his death reviewed by "The Hollywood Reporter," Otash provides salacious details of the long rumored affairs between Marilyn Monroe and both President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Robert Kennedy. He claims he listened to Marilyn Monroe having sex with John F. Kennedy and in the hours before her death, Otash says Monroe had a blow out fight with Bobby Kennedy over their relationship. He claims Monroe complained she was being passed around like a piece of meat. Otash claimed he heard Bobby Kennedy trying to quiet Monroe down with a pillow so the neighbors wouldn't hear her shouting. But the audiotapes his notes are based have since disappeared.</s>BELLONI: Some of these files that we reviewed contain elements that are not 100 percent verifiable. They are his recollections to his daughter. So what he said and what is actual truth is not necessarily the same.</s>MCPIKE: Otash was part of the LAPD until 1955 after a falling out with the police chief so he became gum shoe to the stars. Otash disguised the surveillance van a TV repair truck. The real life gum shoe helped inspired the fictional detective Jack Nicholson portrayed in the film was classic "Chinatown."</s>JOHN BUNTIN, AUTHOR, "L.A. NOIR": He was someone who naturally moved in the gray zone between the police, the mob, the private investigators who made Hollywood in the 1950s such an interesting place.</s>MCPIKE: Now, Otash's daughter said she released all that information to the "Hollywood Reporter" because she thought her father's reputation was being maligned.</s>TAPPER: Interesting. A weird little underworld you've explored for us, Erin. Thank you very much. "The Wild Rumpus" may have begun with children's author, Maurice Sendak, but it did not end with his death. Today, Google paid tribute to the author and what would have been his 85th birthday with this elaborate Google Doodle. Maurice Sendak, the author of such children's classics as "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night Kitchen Died Last Year." Among his most cherished lines is this little gem, "There Should Be A Place For Only The Things You Want To Happen Happened." We miss him. It's almost as random as the scene from the movie "Being John Malkovich" and perhaps this time it was a superhero exploring the portal into the actor's brain. Malkovich actually rescued a man in Toronto who was bleeding out on the sidewalk. The man said he slipped and slit his neck on a scaffolding pole. Malkovich who was in Toronto shooting a movie reportedly rushed to the man's side and helped to stop the bleeding. The actor disappeared by the time the ambulance showed up. Rumor has it he was last seen near a ditch on the side of the New Jersey turnpike. Make sure to follow me on Twitter @jaketapper and also @theleadcnn. Check out our show page at cnn.com/thelead for video blogs and extras. That's it for THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. I leave you now in the very capable hands of one Mr. Wolf Blitzer. He's right next door in "</s>THE SITUATION ROOM." WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST: Jake, thanks very much. 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