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Marilyn Monroe s** film to be kept private
A 15-minute silent, black and white film of Marilyn Monroe performing oral s** on an unidentified man has been sold for $1.5 million to a New York businessman who intends to keep it private.
Memorabilia collector Keya Morgan brokered the sale, with the anonymous buyer allegedly purchasing it out of respect for Monroe’s privacy.
Morgan confirmed that neither he nor the buyer have any intention of exploiting the footage by uploading it to the Internet.
Despite rumours of extramarital affairs with US President John F. Kennedy, Monroe is fully clothed in the film and the man’s face is obscured throughout.
According to FBI files that are available on the FBI website, Monroe’s ex-husband, baseball star Joe DiMaggio, once tried to purchase the footage from the collector for $25,000, but was unsuccessful.
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Morgan, who owns memorabilia from the estates of both Monroe and DiMaggio, learned of the existence of the footage while creating a documentary on the actress.
A former FBI agent told him about it, and Morgan tracked down the son of the FBI informant who had provided a copy of the footage to the bureau.
The original belongs to the late informant’s son, while the copy remains classified in FBI files.
Morgan claims that then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was obsessed with trying to prove that the man in the footage was Kennedy as part of his rivalry with the president.
According to Morgan, Hoover brought in prostitutes who had allegedly been with Kennedy to try to identify him in the footage.
An FBI spokesperson refused to comment on the allegations, pointing only to the online Monroe files that reference the film but do not mention Hoover’s interest.
Monroe died in August 1962 at age 36, and the footage is just one of many pieces of memorabilia associated with her that continue to attract high prices.
In 2018, the dress she wore when singing “Happy Birthday” to Kennedy sold for $4.8 million at auction, while a collection of her personal items, including a script and a copy of Playboy, sold for $10 million in 2016.
