Monroe Sex Tape Hoax
Friday, April 18th, 2008Leading Marilyn Monroe experts, Ernest W. Cunningham and Jennifer J. Dickinson say that claims of the existence of a sex tape featuring Monroe and an unidentified man are part of a publicity stunt. It was reported earlier this week a New York businessman had purchased exclusive footage of the late actress performing a sex act on an unidentified man for $1.5 million, and had planned to “keep it locked up.” Keya Morgan, the memorabilia collector who claimed to have stumbled across the footage while researching for his documentary on Monroe, reportedly has a history of elaborating the truth to promote his own work.The Monroe experts claim, “What Keya Morgan is promoting equates to questionable stories generated simply to sell another book or push another cheesy documentary.”"At the time of our conversation with him, we immediately discerned that he was one of them only out to exploit Marilyn Monroe and to come up with something new to fuel the rumour mill of her life.”"Keya Morgan’s time in the spotlight for this recent spin is nothing more than an opportunity for him to do just that, soak up some extra time in the limelight with his invented story about a fake flick, at the expense of the legacy of Marilyn Monroe.”In the past, Morgan has also made claims he has dated Mariah Carey and Renee Zellweger. “In general, Mr. Morgan was a name dropper, especially when it came to those notorious for supporting the conspiracy theories involved with the story of Marilyn Monroe. However, he wove into our conversation his claim that he dated Mariah Carey and Renee Zellweger.”
