Camelot's Secret Legacy
by James Pomerantz
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Pub Date 30 Apr 2026 | Archive Date 30 Sep 2026
James Pomerantz | Manhattan Book Group
Description
What if JFK and Marilyn Monroe had a daughter and she never knew until she was in her 40's?
Captain Dan Gilbert was a Chicago Police Department Captain and the chief investigator for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office from 1932-1950. Al Capone reigned as head of the Chicago Mob from 1925-1931. Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion and sent to prison in 1932. Captain Dan Gilbert was colorful, wealthy and assumed to be a full-time member of the Chicago Mob as a high-ranking Chicago Police Department officer. Dubbed, "the world's richest cop" by both of Chicago’s major newspapers in the 50's, Cpt Dan always traveled in a chauffeur driven limousine and lived in a high-rise condo on Lake Shore Drive. Dan Gilbert and Mayor Richard J. Daley were close friends. Captain Dan Gilbert helped Joe Kennedy (JFK’s father) facilitate bootleg moonshine during prohibition through the Capone regime. My wife was Mary Courtney Gilbert Pomerantz (1955-2019). Captain Dan Gilbert was my wife's grandfather and orchestrated her adoption in 1955 from Boston. No paperwork. No birth certificate. No adoption consent forms. No listed parents. No witnesses. Mayor Richard J. Daley, Cpt Dan Gilbert and Joe Kennedy arranged the adoption of the mysterious baby girl born on 12/12/1955. Why? JFK was being groomed for the White House by his father in 1955 as the Senator from Massachusetts. JFK’s infidelity was well documented, and a baby born outside of his marriage would have ended his presidential aspirations immediately in 1955. Circumstantial evidence leads to the assumption that I may have been married to JFK's illegitimate daughter for 36 years and never knew it until Mary passed away in 2019. Mary grew up in Sauganash, two doors down from Mayor Daley's daughter. I have a new novel called Camelot’s Secret Legacy (historical fiction), loosely based on Mary's life, what we knew, what we speculate and what we only can imagine.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781970844184 |
| PRICE | $14.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 234 |