Marilyn Monroe Sex Tape Sells for Millions


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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