Marilyn Monroe Sex Tape Sells for Millions

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Turquoise Marilyn, Andy Warhol, 1962

No, seriously. And it’s classified by the FBI. And it’s not an actual tape, obviously:

An illicit copy of the steamy, still-FBI-classified reel - 15 minutes of 16mm film footage in which the original blond bombshell performs oral sex on an unidentified man - was just sold to a New York businessman for $1.5 million, said Keya Morgan, the well-known memorabilia collector who discovered the film and brokered its purchase.

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.

As long as there have sex there have sex tapes, I suppose, though it doesn’t sound like this one came about through Paris Hilton-esque circumstances. The FBI informant who ended up with this thing on the 50’s was a mobster, and it was made before Marilyn was famous. So that sounds like it really fucking sucked, and is  a paradigm far older than the celebrity sex tape.

Posted on Monday, April 14th, 2008 at 9:19 am

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