Article: Names in the news.

Byline: Tirdad Derakhshani

We're confused by this one. British tabloid The Sun says that "secret tapes" recently surfaced in which Marilyn Monroe reveals that she either had a fling with Joan Crawford (and didn't like it) or that she turned down Crawford's advances. Matthew Smith, who's written a new book about Monroe, has the tapes, which were supposedly made by a therapist during sessions with Monroe.

Smith _ author of "Marilyn's Last Words: Her Secret Tapes and Mysterious Death" _ says Monroe "described an intimate moment in some detail and told how she and Joan had sex." But the tape is also said to have Monroe saying: "I told (Crawford) straight ...

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