Marilyn Monroe Sex Tape Sold for $1.5 Million
Holy crap. Is this, then, the Mother of All Celebrity Sex Tapes? Quite possibly. Even before Paris Hilton learned how to “work” on her knees, Marilyn Monroe was doing it back in the ’50s, and apparently the FBI knew about it all along. In fact, FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover was desperate to prove that Monroe’s sex partner in the tape (well, film, actually, as all things were back then) was either J.F.K. or his brother, R.F.K. He couldn’t, so the 15-minute film was locked away in a vault, but not before someone made a copy of it first. Now, an unidentified New York businessman has shelled out $1.5 million to buy the film from broker Keya Morgan
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The footage appears to have been shot in the 1950s. When it came to light in the mid-’60s, then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had his agents spend two weeks futilely trying to prove that Monroe’s sex partner was either John F. Kennedy or Robert F. Kennedy, according to declassified agency documents and interviews, Morgan said.
The silent black-and-white flick shows Monroe on her knees in front of a man whose face is just out of the shot.
He never moves into the shot, indicating that he knew the camera was there, but Monroe never looks at the lens, said Morgan, who saw the footage.
Morgan said he discovered the film while doing research for a documentary on Monroe, after talking with a former FBI agent who told him about a confidential informant who tipped G-men to the existence of the film in the mid-’60s.
The feds eventually confiscated the original footage - but not before the informant made a copy of it, which is what was just sold by his son, Morgan said.
Some liked it really hot back then, apparently.
