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Hef and Marilyn
■ Hugh Hefner, the founder and publisher of Playboy magazine who died at 91, is being buried in a Los Angeles crypt that he bought in 1992 next to that of Marilyn Monroe – once confiding he’d paid US$75,000 for the crypt “as spending eternity next to Marilyn is too sweet to pass up on.” Ironically, although each helped the other become famous – she was on the cover of the first edition of Hefner’s Playboy in 1953 and was the magazine’s first nude centre-fold – the two never met. The Monroe photos were in fact four years old when published, Marilyn having been paid all of US$50 in 1949 by pin-up photographer Tom Kelley who on-sold them to a Chicago calendar company, that in turn sold some to Hefner four years later for US$500. Nothing beyond the original $50 ever went to Marilyn, who is quoted in her biography as saying she was “embarrassed, even ashamed” of the photos, but as a struggling young actress desperate for the money at the time. Marilyn Monroe is buried in Crypt Number 24 at the Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles, having died of a drug overdose in August 1962 at just 36 years of age. - David Ellis
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■ Abi Richardson and Tottie Goldsmith are bosom buddies in Calendar Girls playing for a short season at the Athenaeum Theatre, City. The play opened on Friday to a welcoming crowd, more photos on Page 14. Photos: Fiona Hamilton Camberwell Sewing Centre
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