Hugh Hefner will be laid to rest next to Playboy's first cover girl
Updated: 2:40 PM EDT Sep 28, 2017
While Hugh Hefner's funeral details haven't been announced, the magazine founder's picked his final resting place decades ago. The New York Daily 온라인 바카라 게임 reports Hefner bought a crypt in Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles for $75,000 in 1992.The 91-year-old will be buried next to the woman who graced the first Playboy issue in 1953, Marilyn Monroe. Monroe's nude photo spread had actually been taken for a calendar in 1949. The then-unknown star earned $50 for the shoot, before she rose to prominence in 1950's "All About Eve." "To me there's something rather poetic in the fact that we'll be buried in the same place," Hefner said in a 2000 Playboy interview. 바카라 게임 웹사이트Spending eternity next to Marilyn is too sweet to pass up,바카라 게임 웹사이트 he told the Los Angeles Times in 2009.When trying to decide who would be on the first cover, Hefner didn't have the money to pay Monroe to take part in an updated photo shoot. Instead, The LA Times reports that he paid the photographer of the calendar $500 (about $4,500 in today's money) for the rights to the pictures. The inaugural issue sold over 50,000 copies.Hefner died of natural causes Wednesday at his famous Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES — While Hugh Hefner's funeral details haven't been announced, the magazine founder's picked his final resting place decades ago.
The New York Daily 온라인 바카라 게임 reports Hefner bought a crypt in Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles for $75,000 in 1992.
The 91-year-old will be buried next to the woman who graced the first Playboy issue in 1953, Marilyn Monroe. Monroe's nude photo spread had actually been taken for a calendar in 1949. The then-unknown star earned $50 for the shoot, before she rose to prominence in 1950's "All About Eve."
AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file
In this April 20, 2001 file photo, a bouquet of fresh flowers adorns the crypt of Marilyn Monroe at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles
"To me there's something rather poetic in the fact that we'll be buried in the same place," Hefner said in a 2000 Playboy interview.
바카라 게임 웹사이트Spending eternity next to Marilyn is too sweet to pass up,바카라 게임 웹사이트 he told the Los Angeles Times in 2009.
When trying to decide who would be on the first cover, Hefner didn't have the money to pay Monroe to take part in an updated photo shoot. Instead, The LA Times reports that he paid the photographer of the calendar $500 (about $4,500 in today's money) for the rights to the pictures. The inaugural issue sold over 50,000 copies.
Hefner died of natural causes Wednesday at his famous Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles.