[Cigar4u]

The following story is a work of fiction featuring a fantasy CFNF fight between Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe in early August 1962. However some of the events surrounding the ENF fantasy catfight did happen. The reason I used some actual facts from that period was to add a bit of realism to the story. The problem I had writing this piece is that I could not make it a knockdown, dragout catfight to the death because even in those days before modern DNA testing, a coroner would have ruled Marilyn’s death a murder if Marilyn’s body was covered with many visible scratches and bruises. And if Jackie also sustained bruises, it would have made Mrs. Kennedy a potential suspect in the killing of Miss Monroe. So the fantasy fight had to be carefully written. Given that limitation, I tried to create a fun, yet somewhat realistic CFNF fighting scenario. Also, although I have been critical of Hemo101 for taking too long in her writings to set the scene before the actual fight sequences, this piece also has a long lead-up to the fight, which I felt was necessary to establish some historical perspective. I hope you enjoy it.

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Jackie vs. Marilyn
By Cigar

The big question during the sultry summer of 1962 was did Jackie know that JFK was having an affair with Marilyn?
Of couse she knew. How could she not?

The gossip around Washington, D.C., after Miss Monroe sang “Happy Birthday Mr. President,” at JFK’s 45th birthday party at Madison Square Garden in late May of that year was rampant.

Mrs. Kennedy, being a lover of listening to and repeating gossip, was well aware of her husband’s infidelity with not only the blond bombshell big screen sexpot, but with other women as well.

So embarassed was Jackie about her husband’s philandering she had even considered divorcing the horndog politico.
But JFK’s dad, Joe Kennedy, would not hear of it. He paid Jackie $1 million to ignore her hubby’s flings and stay married to his son. Had the Catholic president gone through a messy and public divorce surely it would have ruined his – and all of the Kenndeys’ -- political aspirations.

But Marilyn’s public performance, where her breathy rendition of the traditional birthday song was akin to making love to JFK in front of thousands of onlookers, was the last straw for Jackie.

Jackie did not attend that night’s celebration, prefering instead to ride horses in Virginia rather than be publically humiliated at the soiree by Marilyn’s lack of discretion.

Jackie and Marilyn were two of the most iconic women of the 20th century, yet they were as different as night and day. Jackie was a brunette, Marilyn was a blond – albeit of the bleached variety.

Jackie was brought up in high society and was not a violent woman. There is no account she had ever engaged in anything more than a silly pillow fight among sorority sisters at college, let alone a full blown hair-ripping, face-scratching, clothes-tearing battle with another woman.

Marilyn was part of a catty-by-nature industry and reportedly had scraps with jealous women. By all accounts, she handled herself quite well.

Jackie, not initially desiring a physical confrontation with Marilyn, tried to reason with her arch rival when he two women met face-to-face that year at a posh hotel suite at the Pierre Hotel in New York.

There, both women, who talked with similar sweet, whispy baby-doll adult voices, conversed with great civility in a mutual effort to reach an accord over who would be the only one to share the handsome president’s bed.

As Jackie chatted with Marilyn, she wondered how could she blame John for wanting Monroe? What man did not fantasize about MM?

Marilyn had burst onto the scene in 1950, appearing in the films “The Asphalt Jungle” and “All About Eve,” and followed those movies up with the hits “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “How to Marry a Millionaire,” “The Seven Year Itch” and “Some Like it Hot.”

Those films and Monroe’s appearance as the nude centerfold in the initial issue of Playboy established Marilyn as America’s quintessential sex symbol.

Jackie Kennedy also had long been enthralled by Marilyn Monroe.

When Mrs. Kennedy got a job in 1951 as the "Inquiring Camera Girl" for The Washington Times-Herald, one of her man-on-the-street questions was: “If you had a date with Marilyn Monroe, what would you talk about?”
And Marilyn had paid tribute to Jackie by wearing a dark wig and pearls during a Life magazine shoot. Marilyn didn’t date JFK to deliberately hurt Jackie. She simply loved John and wanted him for herself. Jackie unfortunately was just one hurdle in the way of Marilyn’s goals.

Marilyn actually told friends she believed John would divorce Jackie and marry her, making Marilyn JFK’s second First Lady.

Although the two women did not come to blows at that New York meeting, they did not settle the matter over the affair either.

As the months past, Jackie’s admiration for Marilyn slowly turned to boiling hatred as Marilyn’s affair with her husband continued.

Even when JFK broke off the affair with Marilyn following the Mr. President song humiliation, word got back to Jackie that Marilyn still wanted him and was threatening to expose their relationship to the world as an attempt to blackmail John into rekindling their tryst.

Jackie had too much invested in John – emotionally and physically -- to allow that bleached blond tart to ruin his chances at re-election to a second presidential term and a lucrative future following the presidency.

Plus Jackie did not want the world to view her as being unable to keep her man happy and satisfied in the bedroom. What woman would?

Jackie set in motion a plan to rid herself of the Marilyn Monroe problem – forever.


End of Part 1. To be continued ...