Some really like it hot.
In the sordid tradition of peddling raunchy video footage of
celebrities a la Paris
Hilton, a long-buried sex movie of Marilyn Monroe recently hit
the market, a top collector told The Post.
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.
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.
There are heavily redacted, declassified FBI documents talking
about a "French-type" film.
They state the informant "exhibited [to agents] a motion picture
which depicted deceased actress Marilyn Monroe committing a
perverted act upon a unknown male," Morgan said.
The informant was with at least one mobster at the time, the
documents state.
According to the documents, "Former baseball star Joseph
DiMaggio in the past had offered [the informant] $25,000 for this
film, it being the only one in existence, but he refused the
offer.
"Source advised that [redacted name of the mole] informed them
that he had obtained this film prior to the time Marilyn Monroe had
achieved stardom."
Morgan said he got the deceased informant's name from the former
FBI agent who tipped him off to the flick - and was floored after
he found the mole's son in Washington, DC, and the man retrieved a
film canister from a safe-deposit box and spooled it up.
"You see instantly that it's Marilyn Monroe - she has the famous
mole," Morgan said.
"She's smiling, she's very charming, she's very radiant, but
she's known for being radiant," he said. "She moves away, and then
it [the footage] stops."
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.'
"