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Unseen Pictures of Marilyn Monroe’s naked corpse remain hidden

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Unseen Pictures of Marilyn Monroe’s naked corpse remain hidden

There are rolls of undeveloped camera film featuring naked images of the actress in the hours after her death, according to a new documentary.

An interview with the son of the photographer who shot photographs of the Hollywood legend as she lay on a tray inside a Los Angeles morgue is included in Scandalous: The Death of Marilyn Monroe, which premieres Sunday on Fox News Channel.

Actress Marilyn Monroe poses for a portrait in circa 1953. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) (Image: Michael Ochs Archives)

According to Mail Online, Devik Wiener, the son of legendary photographer Leigh Wiener, claims his father paid his way into the Los Angeles coroner’s office hours after Monroe was found dead in her bed.

He said: “It wasn’t the first time he utilised a couple of bottles of scotch to get into an area that was off limits.

“He offered a drink a couple of the guys, and the next thing you know he was in the back.”

Leigh submitted three rolls of film of Marilyn’s body to Time magazine, including a now-famous photograph of her inside the mortuary with a toe tag attached.

That photograph was shown throughout the world, but Devik claims it was far from the most obscene image taken that night.

The corpse of actress Marilyn Monroe is removed to the morgue on a stretcher by a police officer. (Image: GETTY)

Devik claims that his father filmed two additional rolls of Monroe’s body but kept them to himself.

‘The last two rolls, which contained imagery beyond just the toe tag, he took back to his own studio and claims to have processed, examined, and then very quickly put into a safe deposit box,’ said Devik, who also revealed that his father didn’t think they were for public seeing.

Leigh died in 1993 without ever telling where the images were kept.

Devik claims, ‘He actually died with that mystery.’

Marilyn Monroe died of an apparent overdose on August 4, 1962, at her home in Los Angeles, where her lifeless corpse was discovered on August 5 by her maid and a psychiatrist who had seen her on the day of her death.

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