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A major new biography of late Marilyn Monroe has revealed how her old flame Frank Sinatra had flown into a violent rage when President John Kennedy snubbed him for her. Sinatra, who had been in a relationship with the actress, was furious when his friend JFK rejected a long-standing arrangement to stay at his luxury Palm Springs home. The President had instead chosen to stay with Monroe at Bing Crosby's nearby house on the night of March 24, 1962. "Frank Sinatra had been expecting JFK and his Secret Service man to stay with him at his Palm Springs home," the Daily Express quoted Keith Badman, author of 'The Final Years Of Marilyn Monroe', as explaining. "In readiness for the visit, extra land was purchased and an additional guest house was built, an ultra-modern phone service installed and new concrete helicopter landing pad was constructed. "Sinatra then learnt that Kennedy would be spending the night nearby at Crosby's home instead. Fury engulfed him," Badman said. His rage was focused on Rat Pack colleague Peter Lawford, Kennedy's brother-in-law, who had promised that the President would be staying with him that night. "In a fit of fury, he picked up an axe and started to attack the prized items strewn around his house, many of which were purchased especially for the presidential visit," Badman revealed. "Sinatra armed himself with a sledgehammer and ran up the lodge's stairs to the club's roof where he vented his anger on another of his prized possessions: the recently modified concrete helicopter pad on which JFK's helicopter was expected to alight," he added. Contrary to previous accounts Badman insists this was the only sexual encounter between Monroe and the President and that there was no long-standing affair.

When JFK snubbed Frank Sinatra for Marilyn Monroe