Marilyn Monroe | Burial Crypt Near Monroe And Hugh Hefner
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Monroe died unexpectedly at age 36 on August 4, 1962. Baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, Monroe's ex-husband, organized a private funeral for her that took place in the cemetery chapel on August 8. DiMaggio is reported to have chosen this location because Grace Goddard and Ana Lower, who had both helped care for Monroe as a young girl when her mother became incapacitated, had been buried there. Monroe fans from around the world continue to make pilgrimages to the cemetery to pay respects to the entertainer.
Hefner famously launched Playboy magazine in 1953 with Monroe on the cover of the first issue and with a nude photograph Monroe had posed for in 1949. He purchased the crypt to the immediate left of hers in 1992 and was interred there shortly after his death in 2017. In a 2009 interview with Los Angeles Times, Hefner discussed the purchase, saying, "Spending eternity next to Marilyn is an opportunity too sweet to pass up."
Among the other show business luminaries interred at Pierce Brothers Westwood are Natalie Wood, Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal, Truman Capote, Twentieth Century Fox president Darryl F. Zanuck, Monroe's Some Like It Hot costar Jack Lemmon, and Billy Wilder, who directed Monroe in The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot.
Sight, 34 x 28 inches
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