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Hugh Hefner was a super wealthy and influential media mogul. During his long time in the media spotlight, a majority of the news that was reported about him were controversies. What many might not know about the creator ofPlayboymagazine is that he was buried next to one of the most significant figures of all time.
Hefner seemed to have paid a huge sum of money to get buried next to Marilyn Monroe. Interestingly enough, the two never even met each other. However, it is important to know that the actress did lay the foundations for Hefner’s career.
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Hugh Hefner Was Buried Next To Marilyn Monroe
In 2009,Hugh Hefnerpurchased a crypt in Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles right next to Hollywood icon,Marilyn Monroe. He paid $75,000 for it and had full intentions to get buried next to her after his passing. Speaking to theLos Angeles Timesabout this, he mentioned that he liked the idea of spending the rest of eternity with the actress.
“I’m a believer in things symbolic,”he said. “Spending eternity next to Marilyn is too sweet to pass up.”
While the sentiment on its own is quite odd, many found thePlayboycreator’s intentions to be off-putting. Some did not like the idea of the entire situation considering Monroe had not consented to anything of the sort. After being let down by the world time and time again in her life, they did not want to fail her in death as well.
Others have objections about how odd it would be considering the history the two had with each other.
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Marilyn Monroe and Hugh Hefner Knew Of Each Other
Hugh Hefner’s first issue ofPlayboymagazine went extremely viral after it posed Marilyn Monroe on both the cover and centerfold. Despite having never met the man, she was the reason why his career shot to the sky, all because of nude pictures of her being put out for the world to see, without her consent.
According to an account written inMarilyn: Her Life In Her Own Words,in 1948, when Monroe was a struggling actress, she took some nude photographs for her friend Tom Kelley. They were taken under the pretense that she would not be recognized by these shots.
Unfortunately, in 1953, the pictures came into the hands of Hefner, who thought the best course of action to be publishing them for the world to see. He even spoke toE!Newsabout why he did this. The entire situation got so out of hand that Monroe apologized to the public and feared it to be the end of her career in Hollywood.
“The picture was something that had been shot before,”he said.“It was a calendar photo shot by Tom Kelley. Most people had heard about it but almost nobody had seen it and nobody had seen it because the post office had taken the position that you couldn’t send nudity through the mail. And I’m the kid that didn’t think the post office had that right.”
He continued,“So we published that picture and it caused a sensation.”
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Many fans could not help but have a foul taste in their mouth at Hefner’s want to get buried next to the actress, despite all the pain that he caused her. According toStylist, after his passing in 2017, Hugh Hefner was buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park, right next to Marilyn Monroe.
Ananya Godboley
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Ananya Godboley is a Senior Entertainment Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on TV shows, with over 2,000 articles published. She has been an entertainment journalist for the past two years. Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in psychology from K.R. Mangalam University, Ananya also likes to fangirl as a full-time job. She covers news and analyses on anything from Rick and Morty to Hannibal and even Arcane. In between these lines, she also enjoys superheroes and Taylor Swift.A philosophy enthusiast, Ananya enjoys digging deeper into the media she consumes, trying to understand the root of her favorite characters' behavior.
