Fans from around the world gathered near her Los Angeles crypt Friday to celebrate the life of Marilyn Monroe and mourn her death 43 years ago.

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On Aug. 5, 1962, the 36-year-old movie star was found dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood home. Her death was ruled a suicide by acute barbiturate poisoning.

One of Friday's mourners was expected to be John Miner, 86, the former Los Angeles prosecutor who investigated her death and is sure she didn't kill herself, the Los Angeles Times said.

Miner says he's heard secret tapes that Monroe made in the days shortly before she died that prove the legendary screen actress was anything but suicidal.

Miner says tapes show Monroe obsessing about the Oscars, describing various sexual encounters, yearning to be taken seriously as an actress, contemplating why her marriages to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller failed and favorably describing her body as middle age neared.