The infamous "Wrong Door Raid" is one of Old Hollywood's most bizarre scandals, a night of drinking involving baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, his friend Frank Sinatra, and a posse of hard-drinking actors that went disastrously wrong.Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Lee Marvin and Broderick Crawford were out drinking (after working on the movie 'Not as a Stranger') when Joe DiMaggio showed up, depressed that Marilyn Monroe had left him. The legendary Yankee Clipper was nursing a raw wound—his short, tumultuous marriage to Monroe had ended just days earlier, and he was convinced he could win her back if he could just confront her.The group got increasingly drunk as the night wore on. Sinatra, always the ringleader of a caper, slurred that he knew exactly where Monroe was staying. Fueled by whiskey and DiMaggio's desperation, the motley crew decided to take matters into their own hands. They piled into a car and headed to a West Hollywood apartment building, intent on forcing a reconciliation between the estranged couple.Arriving at the location, the intoxicated posse stormed the building. Accounts differ on who swung the first blow, but the group—acting as a human battering ram—violently broke down the hotel room door.They did not find the glamorous Marilyn Monroe. Instead, cowering alone in the bed, was a terrified middle-aged woman named Florence Kotz. She had no idea who these men were or why they were destroying her room. The gang had broken into the wrong apartment.Realizing their horrific error, the men panicked and fled into the night, leaving a screaming woman and a shattered door behind them. The "Wrong Door Raid" became an instant piece of Old Hollywood infamy when reported by scandal sheet Confidential over a year later.
This is a fascinating little event in the history of popular-culture and a pretty good little summary of it.However, it's missing one of the most critical and basic necessities of any summary of any kind of historical event: A date.Come on, man, you need to AT LEAST include the year it happened, even if you somehow can't be bothered to include the actual specific day or month. That's sort of information is very important in contextualizing ANY historical event.
>>219966808The "Wrong Door Raid" happened on November 5, 1954It occurred shortly after Marilyn Monroe filed for divorce from Joe DiMaggio; their marriage officially ended on October 27, 1954 The incident took place around 11:00 PM at an apartment building located at 8122 Waring Avenue in West Hollywood
>>219965903>Sinatra, always the ringleader of a caperQuite the euphemism for "orchestrating a violent crime." At least it was mostly peaceful
What was their plan? Were they going to gang rape Marilyn?
>>219966926>I attempted to engage in spousal abuse and stalk my ex-wife so we violently assaulted an unrelated elderly woman.Funny how they sugar coat this shit back then? It's a good thing Marylin wasn't harmed, and it was only a lowly "civilian" who got hurt instead right? Now it's something we can all laugh at.
>>219967459There's a conflicting version of events here which doesn't have the actors from the movie at all and differs significantly.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Ruditsky#Marilyn_Monroe_and_the_Wrong_Door_RaidThe different version of events involving the Not as a Stranger movie cast is the one that appears in the Mitchum biography 'Baby I don't care'.
>>219967418that slut would have enjoyed it
>>219967418They were going to intimidate her into agreeing to stay with a man she doesn't love.Epstein didn't just happen one day. There's an entire culture of enabling rape and whitewashing rapists.
