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Hollywood Private Eye and Author   Fred Otash, legendary
Hollywood vice cop and private eye once known affectionately as
"Mr. O," has died at the age of 70.  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 told The
Times he had never discussed his activities publicly because "I
didn't see any purpose of get