The World Through My Eyes

Well it looks like no celebrity is immune to this problem, even if they are dead. 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. 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. Last month, he brokered its sale, leading the informant's son to a wealthy New York businessman who wants to keep this unseemly part of Monroe's past buried. "He said he's just going to lock it up," Morgan said. "He said, 'I'm not going to make a Paris Hilton out of her. I'm not going to sell it, out of respect.'"[Source]

Sadly this doesn't surprise me, I think that this is a prerequisite for becoming famous, though I not sure. The question that I have is why would you make one, and if you make one why would you let it out of your sight? Not that it matters in this case , but I'm glad to see that this guy isn't going to plaster this all over the internet. It is refreshing to see someone how will respect a persons privacy, even if they have passed away. So kudos to him for having so scruples. In my opinion somethings should just be left alone.