Jay Margolis graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern California and became a Jesse Unruh Research Scholar for his paper on African American Reparations. On October 15, 2014, The National Press Club in Washington, D.C. accepted Margolis's second book "The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case Closed" for display at the 37th Annual Book Fair & Authors' Night, in partnership with Politics & Prose. Margolis and his co-author Richard Buskin appeared in the United Kingdom documentary directed by Renny Bartlett entitled "The Missing Evidence: The Death of Marilyn Monroe," a Blink Films production in association with the Smithsonian Channel.