$1.6m keeps Monroe sex film off net | The Australian

$1.6m keeps Monroe sex film off net | The Australian

He really just bought it because now he can be the only one to wack off to it.

A 15-MINUTE film of Marilyn Monroe engaging in an oral sex act with an unidentified man will be kept from public view by a New York businessman who has bought it for $US1.5million ($1.6million).

Memorabilia collector Keya Morgan said he recently arranged the sale of the silent, black-and-white film from the son of a dead FBI informant. The film was bought by a Manhattan businessman who wants to protect Monroe's privacy.

"The gentleman who bought it said out of respect for Marilyn, he's not going to make a joke of it and put it on the internet and try to exploit her," Mr Morgan said. "That's not his intention, and I would never get my name involved if that were to happen."

Monroe is clothed and the man's head remains out of the frame for the entire 15 minutes of the film, said Mr Morgan.

Monroe was rumoured to have had an affair with US president John F.Kennedy, and Morgan said former FBI director J.Edgar Hoover, a Kennedy rival, went to great lengths to prove it was Kennedy in the film.