Legendary Hollywood vice cop and private eye, Fred Otash was on scene the night of Monroe’s mysterious suicide.

Romeo Carey Podcast

Fred Otash, legendary Hollywood vice cop and private eye once known affectionately as “Mr. O,” being interviewed by Skip E. Lowe.

This podcast is part of an out-take from the in-progress Skip E. Lowe Documentary.

The colorful Otash, who had just completed a book titled “Marilyn, Kennedy and Me” about the death of Marilyn Monroe, died Monday in his West Hollywood home of natural causes. A heavy smoker, he had been troubled for the last decade with emphysema and high blood pressure.

Otash kept silent for decades about his activities on Aug. 5, 1962, the night of Monroe’s mysterious suicide. But in 1985, he told the Los Angeles Times that actor Peter Lawford had hurriedly hired him that midnight to “do anything to remove anything incriminating” to the actor’s brothers-in-law, President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Both Kennedys had been rumored to have romantic liaisons with Monroe.

Otash died at the age of 70.