3. That being said, just four days before she was found dead, she signed a two-picture deal with Fox that would have been worth $1 million. It would have been the biggest payday of her career.
If there was any way for the tragedy of Marilyn’s death to be even harder to accept, it’s that she was still on the rise as a performer and celebrity. After a career of being underpaid, she was finally starting to receive the big paydays she so badly deserved, and then she suddenly passed away.
It seems like her life was full or stops and starts, and that she was finally starting to gain the momentum to be paid like a full-fledged star. It’s so terrible that she wasn’t able to see where that success led her next.
