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(USGovernment-News.Com, July 11, 2013 ) Milford, CT -- Phyllis Gates confronted Rock Hudson's wife regarding her husband's homosexuality in January of 1958. The transcript of the conversation has now come to light as an previously archived item from private detective Fred Otash. The collection of information is being studied for the first time since Otash's death more than 20 years ago by the Hollywood Reporter.
Otash, who later was the inspiration for the character Jack Nicholson played in the 1974 film Chinatown, was a gumshoe known well in the Hollywood area. He was hired far and wide by many stars of the day include Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Lana Turner, and others. Now, Otash's states he knows the location of Judy Garland's pill stash, to have caught James Dean shoplifting, and have actually overheard Marilyn Monroe and John F Kennedy being intimate.
Gates hired Otash to record her exchanges with Hudson regarding Rock Hudson. The transcript of the conversation reveals Gates demanded Hudson “grow out” of his homosexuality. “Everyone knows that you were picking up boys off the street shortly after we were married and have continued to do so, thinking that being married would cover up for you,” Gates said. But Hudson denied the charge, saying: “I have never picked up any boys on the street. I have never picked up any boys in a bar, never. I have never picked up any boys, other than to give them a ride.” Gates filed for divorce three months later.
Otash, who was also known as “Mr O”, died in 1992, after having completed a book regarding Marilyn Monroe and JFK. The manuscript of which was never published. Other files have been kept by his daughter. In said files Otash recalls bugging Monroe's house and allegedly did so in order to snoop on the Senator as well as other politicians. He even bugged Howard Hughes properties. Otash claimed to have taped arguments between Monroe and the Kennedy brothers on the day of Monroe's death.
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