According to leading Marilyn Monroe expert Mark Bellinghaus, the 16 mm film footage of the star engaging in oral sex with an unidentified man is a hoax.
New York City based memorabilia collector Keya Morgan made headlines last week when he announced he sold the 15 minute tape to a wealthy New York businessman for $1.5 million dollars. The man said he would keep the tape from public view out of respect for the screen siren.
"You can see instantly that it's Marilyn Monroe; she has the famous mole. She's smiling, she's very charming, she's very radiant, but she's known for being radiant," Morgan said, as quoted on Defamer.com's post "Exclusive: Debunking The Marilyn Monroe 'Sex Tape' Hoax."
But Bellinghaus said after talking to Morgan on the phone for several hours, he has concluded that there are too many holes in the collector's story. He went on to describe Morgan as a "press hungry namedropper whose main objective is to promote himself and the Monroe documentary that he is working on."
"What Keya Morgan is promoting equates to questionable stories generated simply to sell another book or push another cheesy documentary," Bellinghaus told Defamer. "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."
