Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe named in Mafia 'sex parties' plot to smear Kennedys, FBI file reveals

The three Kennedy brothers were accused of having sex parties with Marilyn Monroe and members of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack, according to FBI documents released yesterday.
A Mafia informant tipped off the agency that the Mob wanted to use women supplied by 'associates of Sinatra' to embarrass the Kennedys.
The Mafia had allegedly heard that John F Kennedy and his brothers Robert and Edward had attended the parties, held at a New York hotel.
Also there were Monroe, Rat Pack members Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr and Peter Lawford, and Lawford's wife, Patricia Kennedy - the brothers' sister.
The Mafia wanted the women supplied by Sinatra's associates to 'be placed in compromising situations' with Robert and Edward Kennedy and Hollywood actor Lawford, it was alleged.
The romps were supposedly held at John Kennedy's suite at the upmarket Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan. The Carlyle became known as 'the New York White House' during President Kennedy's administration. He was rumoured to have spent the night in the suite with Monroe after she sang Happy Birthday, Mr President at his 45th birthday celebration in 1962 at Madison Square Garden.
The 'reliable' informant said the Mafia wanted to smear Robert Kennedy because of his war on organised crime when he was U.S. attorney general between 1961 and 1964, according to the declassified documents.