The burial vault above the grave of late screen siren Marilyn Monroe found no takers in a recent online auction. It is the second time that the bid for the marble crypt at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery has been unsuccessful, BBC News reports.
The crypt above Marilyn Monroe is going back on the auction block.
In a bid to ward off foreclosure on her Los Angeles home, local widow Elsie Poncher first attempted to auction off her late husband’s crypt above the iconic film siren last August, but the $4.6 million winning bid fell through. Bidding for the marble mausoleum crypt, where Mr. Poncher has been buried for more than 20 years, will start at $500,000 Oct. 19, according to organizer Eric Gazin of AuctionCause.com. Gazin says he believes the crypt at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery will fetch “millions of dollars.”
The new eBay.com auction will end Oct. 29 and require a 1 to 5 percent refundable deposit, based on the bid.
Other celebrities laid to rest in the Hollywood cemetery include Farrah Fawcett, Natalie Wood, Rodney Dangerfield, Dean Martin, Jack Lemmon, Eva Gabor, and Truman Capote.
Someone just spent a lot of money to spend eternity lying on top of screen legend Marilyn Monroe. The crypt directly above final resting place of the dearly-departed sex symbol fetched more than $4.6 million in an online auction that ended Monday.
Earlier this month, The Los Angeles Times that the seller was Elsie Poncher, who was putting her late husband’s crypt up for auction to help pay off the $1.6 million mortgage on her Beverly Hills home.
The widow’s late husband, Richard Poncher, bought the crypt from Monroe’s former husband, Joe DiMaggio, during his 1954 divorce from Monroe. Poncher died 23 years ago at 81.
She has said that the remains of her husband will be moved sideways to a neighbouring plot to make room for the new occupant.
Monroe was buried in 1962 at a mausoleum in the Westood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Celebrities like Dean Martin, Natalie Wood, Truman Capote, and Farrah Fawcett are buried in the same park.
A widow is selling her husband’s burial spot — located directly above the final resting place of film legend Marilyn Monroe –on ebay.
Elsie Poncher has placed an advertisement on eBay to auction off the tomb in L.A.’s Westwood Village Memorial Park.
“Here is a once in a lifetime and into eternity opportunity to spend your eternal days directly above Marilyn Monroe,” the listing reads. “In fact the person occupying the address right now is looking face down on her.”
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And in news that will send Lindsay Lohan’s head popping right off her shoulders, Lost In Translation’s Scarlett Johansson, 24, is at the top of a list of seasoned actresses being considered by director Simon Curtis and producer David Parfitt to play blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe in a new motion picture.
The Daily Mail’s Showbiz Reporter Baz Bamigboye has learned that the Scarlett has been tapped to portray Marilyn in the upcoming film My Week With Marilyn, will be based on the diary of Colin Clark, an employee of Laurence Olivier, who escorted the screen star on a tour of London when she arrived in the British capital to film Olivier’s The Prince And The Showgirl in 1957.
In the diary, Clark speaks about showing Marilyn around Queen Elizabeth’s private apartments at Windsor Castle, as well as other trips.
Kate Hudson, Amy Adams, and Michelle Williams have also been mentioned as possible “Marilyns” for the film.
Lindsay Lohan’s obsession with blonde screen siren Marilyn Monroe has reached new heights. No longer content with simply mimicking the late beauty in fashion spreads, Lohan is desperate to star in a remake of Marilyn’s motion picture classic Some Like It Hot and has been frantically pitching the idea to film bosses around Hollywood.
A hit at the box office in 1959, Some Like It Hot also starred Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. In 2000, the American Film Institute named Some Like It Hot as the “Greatest American Comedy Film of All Time.”
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We got sneak peek at this photoshoot earlier this year, but it looks like Spanish Vogue has finally unveiled Lindsay Lohan’s second photographic tribute to late screen siren Marilyn Monroe. The controversial star graces the pages of the August issue of Vogue Espana in character as the iconic blonde. Read the rest of this entry »
Had she lived, on Monday, Marilyn Monroe would have celebrated her 83rd birthday. In memory of her life, Life.com has published a bunch of gorgeous, never-before-seen photos of the sexy screen siren at age 24. Editors at Life believe the photos, shot by photographer Ed Clark, were taken at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California in 1950.
Marilyn, 36, passed away of a mysterious drug over on August 5, 1962.
May 7th, 2009 by Castina
Tagged as: Lindsay Lohan, Magazine Covergirls, Marilyn Monroe, Vogue Magazine
Lindsay Lohan — who recreated blonde icon Marilyn Monroe’s infamous 1962 nude photoshoot for New York Magazine last February — will pay tribute to her idol for the second time with a new Marilyn-inspired transformation on the pages of an upcoming issue of Spanish Vogue.
Aren’t you dying to know what Lindsay Lohan selected as a post-Samantha Ronson breakup ink during her visit to Shamrock Tattoos in Los Angeles last week?
Yeah, neither are we. But just in case you care, celebrity tipsters tell PEOPLE that the actress had a famous quote by her idol, tragic Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, inked on her wrist after breaking up with her girlfriend of nearly two years earlier this month.
Lindsay’s been showing off a tattoo bearing the words “Everyone’s a star and deserves the right to twinkle,” surrounded by yellow, blue and green stars, says a source.
Lindsay is a longtime fan of the Some Like It Hot star. In 2008, Lindsay recreated Marilyn’s famous nude 1962 photo shoot for New York Magazine. And the actress’ popular 6126 accessories line was named in honor of Marilyn’s birthday.
