The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What's My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen by Mark Shaw

Author:Mark Shaw [Shaw, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Published: 2016-12-06T06:00:00+00:00

Charles Simpson was Kilgallen’s hairdresser and make-up artist along with Marc Sinclaire.

The recorded comments by Simpson are quite impressive. Wearing a bright golf shirt while chain-smoking, the balding and mustachioed Simpson spoke deliberately. He paused and reflected before answering questions about Kilgallen. When the interviewer attempted to get him to agree with a statement, and he did not, Simpson held his ground.

Specifically, the hairdresser, who also handled Kilgallen’s make-up chores, recalled she was smart enough to “only go so far,” and not “cross the line” when dishing criticism of celebrities and public figures. Simpson also said that “when it came to really big stuff,” Kilgallen did “not pull any punches when necessary when there was someone who really needed to be exposed for something they were doing, government people, things like that she pulled no punches.” He added, “It wasn’t like today when if [celebrities] have fungus under [their] fingernails, [the media] exposes it. There was an unwritten law then and Dorothy knew the limitations.”

Simpson, who stated, “I’ve never seen her in a Sunday night show when she wasn’t alert and with it,” remembered the days when “I fixed her hair every Sunday before What’s My Line” He said he and Marc Sinclaire both had keys to Kilgallen’s townhouse so they could wake her without “waking up the servants.” Simpson said the “night she died, Marc had done her hair for the show and she was taking a plane to London the next day. This is why I find it very hard to believe that she committed suicide for the simple fact that she was looking forward to this trip to London the next morning. And Marc went over very, very early in order to get her ready for the plane trip to London and that’s when he found her.”

Regarding the JFK assassination, Simpson recalled that Kilgallen “never quit investigating, never quit.” He said she, “dug up something about the assassination of President Kennedy that somebody didn’t want her to know because she even told us of her own volition, ‘I used to share things with you guys,’ she said, as noted, ‘but after I have found out NOW what I know, if the wrong people knew what I know, it would cost me my life’ and she was dead about nine months later.”

Regarding the Jack Ruby Warren Commission testimony, Simpson said, “She printed it on the front page of the Journal-American BEFORE the president received it and therein lies the tale. From then on we were stalked. Marc and me, our phones were tapped [since] they were trying to figure out where she got her information, that she could get this information before the president got it.” This was because, Simpson said, “Actually, even though I didn’t know anything about the assassination, these people, whoever they were, didn’t know that, they didn’t know what Dorothy may have told us. And, yes, I kept it to myself and denied everything until recent years.” Asked if it was safe to talk about it at the time of the interview, Simpson paused and then replied, “No, uh, no.

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