Marilyn Monroe and The Los Angeles Times - a year of shame and disgust!

Advertisement in the Los Angeles Times, which promised 'Up Close and Personal' to the fraud, that is. Robert Welkos knew all along that there were 100% fakes on display, but he did nothing at all to stop it. By Hans Siegfried Schmidt   2006-11-27 16:27:24 - The newspaper could have shut down the exhibit - why didn't it? The Los Angeles Times could have prevented an expensive and fraudulent exhibit! Was the Los Angeles Times paid to cover up the truth about a fraudulent exhibit? Are there scandals hiding behind the scandals in the Queen Mary exhibit? A true scandal of possible corruption to sell advertisement space and let the readers for seven months pay to see the biggest fraud in exhibition history, ever. The phony 'Marilyn Monroe: The Exhibit- was dumped on the Queen Maryand an unsuspecting publicjust over a year ago. Robert Welkos, entertainment staff writer for The Los Angeles Times, was at the press opening in the company of Mark Bellinghaus, a Marilyn authority and major collector. At great length, Mark clued the reporter in to the deception (even inviting him to see his personal collection in his home).  But the attempts to educate Robert Welkos resulted in a reference in a Times story to 'some fans who scoff at the collection.- And there was a later reference to 'jealous fans.- For the record, Bellinghaus didn't scoff, he raged. www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-monroe23mar23,1,5106364 .. There's talk that media mogul David Geffen is planning to buy The Los Angeles Times, and it can't happen a moment too soonStop them before they shame themselves again! Mark Bellinghaus and friends fought for a year to bring legal attention to the scam on the Queen Mary--$22.95 to view a collection of certifiable junk! But doors were slammed shut all over town, including important ones in City Hall. The refrain could have been 'Don't nobody bring me no bad news!- - and the loudest chorus could have come from the offices of The Los Angeles Times. When the newspaper began running ads for the Marilyn Exhibitand billboards began appearing around townyour obvious question was, 'Hey, do you think they're being paid off?- And your obvious answer would be, 'Yeah, probably so.- But the year of horror was just beginning! John Miner, a deputy district attorney at the time of Marilyn Monroe's death, came forth with a container ship of foolishness, claiming he'd listened to audio tapes Marilyn had made for her psychiatrist. The tapeswhich surely don't existare unimaginative soap opera. They contain cornball fantasies and lies built upon other fantasies and lies created since the death of the blonde icon. They're the wet dreams of an unimaginative old man. Miner calls for a new autopsy on Marilyn, which he says will prove she was murdered. (Hugh Hefner promised last year to finance that pointless caper, but nothing has happened so far.) www.latimes.com/news/local/la-et-marilyn5aug05,0,1217607.story?c .. BUT: that didn't not stop Robert Welkos and The Los Angeles Times from devoting an obscene amount of space to the dumb and pointless story of John Miner and his transcriptions. Which led to The Wall Street Journal asking, 'Is Marilyn Monroe the answer to the hard times at the Los Angeles Times?- The WSJ answered its own question, noting that unpublished portions of Miner's transcripts received many hits when it was posted on the Times' Web site. online.wsj.com/public/article/SB112830208746958155-3bSMjiI_EfyMt .. The English conspiracy writer Matthew Smith was quoted as saying it would be 'absolutely impossible- for John Miner to have invented his claims. (Smith himself is absolutely impossible to believe.) The BBC reported that John Miner was facing bankruptsy before he 'remembered' those tapes. A German theater production in Berlin just staged a play which is based on those absolutely unbelievable in all means, tapes. Miner's call to arms was featured in last December's Playboy magazine . . . along with the appearance of June DiMaggio, an 83 year old woman claiming to have been a longtime friend of Marilyn's, and the niece of Joe DiMaggio. June and co-conspirator Mary Jane Popp announced the coming publication of their book: Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Me. Angry emails apparently made the publisher change his mind, as the book dropped out of sight. It's been a busy year for Marilyn frauds. A guy in Canada picked up Marilyn, hitchhiking after escaping from an ambulance. Dolores Hope Masi tried to peddle the jewelry that Marilyn had given her and her mother. Marilyn's 'best friend- Jeanne Carmen is peddling her memories of best-friend Marilyn. Singer Howard Keel revealed his long-time affair with MM. Italy donated a faily scary bronze statue of Marilyn to Los Angeles. And, surprise! June DiMaggio (real name June Alpino) is back, with a revised version of her book. It deletes stories about June's appearance at Monroe's funeral, stories that had been questioned, and substitutes spaghetti recipes. The Times dipped into Marilyn fantasy again this year, with a whopper. It seems that psychiatrist Adrian Finkelstein (who teaches past-life regression therapy in Malibu) was treating Canadian pop singer Sherrie Lea Laird and discoveredwouldn't you know it?!that she is the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe, and (it gets better!) Sherrie's daughter is the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe's mother. And then it gets worse: Robert Welkos in The Los Angeles Times devoted an incredible FULL-PAGE to this idiocy, plus a very large Page 3 photo. www.rickross.com/reference/false_memories/fsm113.html If the O. J. Simpson publisher had gone ahead with the 'If I Did It- confessional book, it would forever be listed as the most shocking lapse of journalistic integrity in memory. But it didn't happen. So now the Los Angeles Times can make that claim for itself, for Welkos's one-full-page story on Dr. Finkelstein and his two-for-the-price-of-one bottle blondes. Friendly messages have been left for Robert Welkos, asking, What are you thinking? Angry messages have been left for him, asking, WHAT are you thinking?! Brsuhing off with silly articles on nothing, that seems to entertain the calendar section management. So, if you have a circus you bring to town, with two headed Marilyn siamese twins. That will possibly make it onto the front cover of this paper. You want to sell a book about a silly sam? Even better. Call Mr. Welkos and make sure you mention a high dollar amount. The attention will be on your side, depending how many zeros your amount contains. Similar messages have been left for his boss, Betsy Sharkey. No one returns calls. They must be both busy digging for more freakish stories and characters, or both. True and applaudable journalism. How much are they making a month for this crap? While Welkos was sitting for weeks on paid vacation and of course worked here and then, sending some more unimportant articles from the Cannes Film Festival last May, a groundbreaking class action lawsuit was filed abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=4222447 and it was hardly even noticed by the Los Angeles Times, as again, that is the theory of some insiders, the LA Times simply was guilty for not doing anything earlier, when Mr. Bellinghaus stated on his blog, that the first call he would make the very first day into the exhibit was to, you guessed right: Mr. Robert W. Welkos. Betsy Sharkey promised that 'she would look into the possibilities of writing a warning for the Times' readers, if there was a lawsuit, but here again, she failed and Welkos disappointed the fraud hunter fully again. He more though let his readers down and behind and his work ethics should be questioned and double checked. Mr. Welkos who visited Bellinghaus' home and taped a three hour interview with the expert and collector; a journalist who also witnessed June DiMaggio and taped her interview and shook his head in disbelieve, he would write nothing at all in the entire time, while the fraud was on display. He got a personal 'fraud tour for dummies tour' and detailed explanation by Mr. Bellinghaus, the nuber one expert in this field, yet he never wrote one word about the fraud. No if someone really screws up in your office and fails more than once--would you send that person for weeks to Cannes, France as a reward for his screw ups and failure to report the biggest crime in Marilyn Monroe history? One big thank has to be made to Mr. Welkos though. When Mark Rosler's famous appraisal was printed by Robert Welkos, with the obvious try and bluff to shut Mr. Bellinghaus up (Welkos would discribe Bellinghaus literally as a 'fruitcake'), he delivered, mostly unwanted the final blow against the famous and super arrogant lawyer from Indianapolis. This multi million lie must certainly disbar this celeb lawyer for licensing of dead stars (Sophia Loren is one of his only living clients). David Geffen wants to run The Los Angeles Times? Let him have it! He can't do any worse than what we've got now! But please send some unqualified staff writers home. Including his boss, as they both failed to warn the paying reader about a fraud, that certainly could have been prevented by one strong article. As that paper still and not understandable has the second strongest power in this country. What a shame. That is how Monroe collector and expert Mark Bellinghaus finished our interview, he simply stated: Shame on Robert Welkos and Shame on Betsy Sharkey, too! They should really both be fired. Contact Information: Hans Siegfried Schmidt Now showing: the private life of Marilyn Monroe? - Los ... www.latimes.com › archives › la-x... Diese Seite übersetzen 11.11.2005 — By Robert W. Welkos ... Other items from “Marilyn Monroe: The Exhibit,” which goes on display today at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, veer ...

Mark Roesler: Marilyn Monroe's licensing lawyer got caught---the rise and fall of one of America's most famous lawyers!

Mark Roesler: Marilyn Monroe's licensing lawyer got caught---the rise and fall of one of America's most famous lawyers!

Marilyn Monroe estate lawyer Mark Roesler, Hugh Hefner, Robert Otto, June Alpino aka June DiMaggio, Mary Jane Popp from right to left. At the famous press opening for 'Marilyn Monroe--the exhibit,' the biggest media prank in the history of television and film. Courtesty of Mark Bellinghaus

2006-11-29 00:41:12 - Mark Roesler, 51 made it from roofer in his own business, to super rich and powerful, within a few decades. He has three offices world wide. He created his famous 'rules for success,' yet he was caught by a sincere and passionate Marilyn Monroe collector. Mark Bellinghaus stopped the rise of former OJ Simpson civil case expert witness Mark Roesler, and turned it into the biggest scandal in exhibition history, ever.

By Hans Siegfried Schmidt
Mark Roesler is hit, like a fighter plane in the air, spinning out of control and trying to avoid a crash. He was caught by the world's biggest expert on Marilyn Monroe memorabilia.
During my last interview with Mr. Bellinghaus, I discovered a story behind the story so to speak. The exhibit fraud, that now is

awaiting it's trial on May 7, 2007 is one scandal. The other one is what kind of people have supported and initiated it, and literally tried to sell it to the public.
The 'all in one-package deal' did not work this time. The scandal is unheard of in exhibition history and it seems to be the biggest - ever.
Mark Roesler is connected to the who's who of entertainment. He is also a lawyer of Hugh Hefner. www.cmgworldwide.com/offices/la.html But that wasn't mentioned when Mr. Roesler conducted a helpful interview with Mr. Hefner, last year, in order to get more attention to one of his latest creations. 'Marilyn Monroe--the exhibit,' the now failed and stopped for good, and outed as a total hoax exhibit, started out in Mark Roesler's office building in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Mark Roesler was greeting arriving guests in person. He would shake hands and invite the many invited people into his office building, where the Marilyn Monroe exhibit idea was literally born. www.cmgworldwide.com/offices/indy.html
Mr. Bellinghaus stated, that he witnessed Mr. Robert W. Otto, a Chicago based self proclaimed Monroe historian, who is now also awaiting his trial for fraud charges, in the company of Mark Roesler, the Marilyn Monroe estate lawyer, head of his own company, the CMG in Indianapolis.
He would win a Marilyn Monroe wig, but lost out on Marilyn Monroe's piano. If you read and follow the auction rules, Mr. Roesler, as he is literally connected with the owner of the estate of Marilyn Monroe, Anna Strasberg. One could argue that this was a clear case of shill bidding. He drove up the bids, on items which he, himself was getting paid for. That is shill bidding.
But this is the smaller crime which Mark Roesler has been caught in committing. It does not take a genius to put one and one together, as Roesler and Otto were seen in public together. There are many witnesses and this automatically suggests, that the fraud exhibit was planed for at least five years. June DiMaggio was created as the 'authenticity' of over 90% of the fakes on display and her book, which is a joke in the Marilyn Monroe community already, is just another try to screw the public with a vicious flood of lies.
Bellinghaus tried to warn the public, but after book project manager Ken Knoll, Mary Jane Popp and her lawyer Christine Craft protested to amazon.com, the entire comments were removed from the famous book site. Sounds familiar? Yes, indeed, as Mr. Bellinghaus was able to find the most outrageous proof for fraud. The 1974 Clairol hair rollers were also pulled from the running exhibition, in March 2006, three months prior to the exhibit's closing. But the fact that they were gone, made the whole scandal even more obvious. This is how it now looks in terms of June DiMaggio's 'memoir.'
Mark Roesler is still backing up June Alpino, as this lady was never officially adopted. She named herself simply 'DiMaggio,' to get more attention.
Her 'uncle Joe,' as she refers to baseball great Joe DiMaggio, was never her real uncle, not even by adoption.
But that does not stop Mark Roesler to support and stand behind the most ridiculous book scandal since James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces.'
www.markroesler.com/press/viewheadline.php?id=3560
It is getting even better, as he is still showing an interview on his website, which was taped right after the press opening on the Queen Mary.
Watch this with the knowledge what they really knew and what they tried to get away with. Mary Jane Popp, an informercial actress, who self published 'Marilyn, Joe & Me," with the help of her partner Mr. Erick Sprunger, is the author of said book.
June DiMaggio's book was put on hold, after Mr. Bellinghaus spilled out facts and proof against it, on his first blog on blogcritics.org.
blogcritics.org/archives/2006/02/06/132111.php
The success of this blog alone should prove to all of us, that one single voice really can make a difference, if it is strong and passionate, and supported by hard evidence.
Mark Bellinghaus did the smartest move anybody can think of; he simply purchased the domain names of all the fraudsters involved and linked them to his website www.MMfraud.com, which he created. He simply created an exposure of the fraud. Mr. Bellinghaus, who also is a guest lecturer at University Of Southern California on Marilyn Monroe, and worked with Christie's NYC for many years, does a detailed and absolutely telling demonstration via his website. He comapes the real Marilyn Monroe items, with the fakes. It is simple to understand for anybody. It worked. This was a never before seen method to expose an estimated $100 million dollar fraud, as Roesler and partners were about to tour the world for the next twelve years, and they made in admission fees in Long Beach, CA alone ca. $1.5 million dollars. But Mark Roesler has many items to sell. 'He turned Marilyn Monroe into a cheap bag-lady!' Bellinghaus fumes again, during our interview.

Mark Roesler sued Mark Bellinghaus in an attempt to get hold of the domain of www.MarkARoesler.com, but that lawsuit was dismissed, right before Mr. Roesler was sued himself, when the biggest lawsuit in terms of fraudulent belongings hit the news, one day before the icon's birthday, on June 1, 2006.
Mr. Bellinghaus offered a fair trade. He let Roesler's lawyer know that he would trade the domain name for the Marilyn Monroe wig, that Roesler bought in 1999 at his client's auction at Christie's. The answer showed the real face that lures behind the always suit wearing lawyer: He simply used the "F" word as a response to the shocked collector, Mark Bellinghaus.
MB: "Talking about "Kramer' Michael Richards, and his use of the "N' word, when this star lawyer is using the 'F'-you words?! How about that?'

Mark Roesler had a chance to disconnect himself from the exhibit fraud, after their idea was rejected by the Hollywood Museum in mid 2005. He wrote a letter, and signed it personally, which states, that the Robert Otto collection is authentic and worth $8.75 million dollars. A list that was used to insure the collection puts a suggested value three hundred thousand dollars alone, for the 1974 (Monroe died in 1962!) plastic hair curlers, which Bellinghaus was able to buy on eBay for $7,99.

When the items arrived and were unpacked, four pairs of claimed Monroe shoes were compared and the staff of the museum was shocked, as the each and every pair of the shoes was a different size.

Yet Mark Roesler believed in his exhibit and would not go back to Indianapolis and let go of his friend Robert W. Otto. He would push the fake exhibit onto the Queen Mary and act as the authenticator and also as one of the official sponsors of the exhibit. He would not speak to reporters for months, when he was accused by Bellinghaus in his first blog.
He now is trying to disconnect himself from the lawsuit, that also was filed against him.

There are written interviews in existence, which link him directly to the exhibit fraud, as he would use some money from the proceeds for the first opening stunt in Indianapolis, to dedicate a room in a hospital in honor of his dead sister. This is were Mark Bellinghaus noticed, that Roesler had a middle name. He saw the "A" on the big golden plaque, that Roesler had installed on the rooms wall, with his own name on the palque. Mr. Bellinghaus checked the availability immediately and the domain wasn't taken.
Did after all, Marilyn Monroe have to do with all these strange coincidences and accidences, too?
One may easily believe so, as the media spectacle was bigger than the Oscars, in a town where entertainment was born. But they all have been pranked. By Mark Roesler, Robert Otto, Mary Jane Popp, June Alpino aka June DiMaggio and of course Anna Strasberg, who is watching the ongoings from the background and must have given her okay for the biggest insult on all of us. Not only the Marilyn Monroe fans.
Mark Roesler is padding his own shoulder for what he did in the OJ Simpson case. He was able to make $25 million dollars for the Goldman family. Only problem is: they have not received a penny from that amount in over ten years.

Mr. Roesler is trying to impress, an old rule in Hollywood, where Marilyn and James Dean were reigning for just a short period of time. Roesler is playing on his website a speech, that was taped in May of 2005. After the opening of the first exhibit fraud and before the second one. He talkes about his childhood and the stars. We are almost reminded of Mary Jane Popp's and June DiMaggio's portrayal of Marilyn Monroe. Pathetic and fake. He sounds, as Bellinghaus nooticed on onother blog article he wrote, as if he is about to accept a lifetime achievement award. He is offering himself on said website as a speaker for events. Bellinghaus was laughing about this idea, of having Mr. Roesler come to your home and talk about his fake collection he supported as a sponsor. He says: "Roesler and June DiMaggio are the clear contender of the freakiest and the most obvious scam--seasond with sweet talk and bad acting abilities. It was hard to watch Roesler's speech for the entire time. He seems to be nervous and uncomfortable and you can feel that. "You ain't seen nothing yet' by Bachman turner Overdrive was really the best choice, as the first lyrics say:
I met a devil woman, she took my heart away
She said I had it comin' to me, but I wanted it that way
I think that any love is good lovin'
And so I took what I could get, mmm
Oooh, oooh, she looked at me with big brown eyes
And said

You ain't seen nothin' yet
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain't seen nothin' yet
Here's something that you never gonna forget
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain't seen nothin' yet

Roesler's 'devil woman' in Bellinghaus' opinion is clearly Anna Strasberg.

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When Mark Roesler's quote was printed in the Los Angeles Times, he literally outed himself as the most arrogant and the most despicalbe person in this business. He insulted Marilyn Monroe fans from around the world and also tried to shoot directly at Mr. Bellinghaus, as he mentioned the collectors. But this shut backfired into his own face. His gun did not work and now he is exposed in full to the public.
Mr. Bellinghaus pointed out more details about this man, who should look for a new territory himsel;f, as he will not be able to keep any credibility.
A simple, but outrageous statement at the end of Robert W. Welkos' interview--it turned into the end of Mark Roesler's career.
Maybe it is time for Mr. Roesler to create new 'Rules For Success,' www.markroesler.com/rules/index.htm as Mr. Bellinghaus wrote on his blog, that he is missing the most important one: Be honest.

LA TIMES, March 23, 2006:
Mark Roesler, chairman and chief executive of CMG Worldwide Inc., the Indianapolis-based company that licenses the names and likenesses of 250 celebrities, including Monroe, said he remains absolutely convinced that Otto's collection is authentic and has appraised it as being worth $8.75 million. He said he's not at all surprised by the allegations of fraud.

"You always have jealous fan club members and collectors who question such things," Roesler said. "It goes with the territory."

After the recent Michael Richards scandal, the actor apologized in person and on tv the very next day. But a year has gone by and the biggest fraud in the history has been stopped, will be in court in lest than six months. But Mark Roesler has failed to apologize to the fans of Marilyn Monroe. He insulted all of us and he shoud instead of airing a pathetic and over the edge bad speech, that is 19 months old o top of that, air an apology for his action he has been caught in. Or this will really be the end of the estate of Marilyn Monroe, as we know it. As we accepted it for way too long.

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