A few days ago the big story was that there was a Marilyn Monroe film sold for $1.5 million to a private collector. Word came down from Keya Morgan, a man who is working on a Marilyn Monrow documentary and who claimed to have brokered the deal to a anonymous collector.

Thing is, the more we learn about Morgan, the more he seems like the kind of person that would make this sort of thing up to promote his independent documentary.

Defamer is running an unusually long and well thought-out piece from Mark Bellinghaus (one of the foremost Marilyn Monroe experts/collectors in the world), Ernest W. Cunningham (author of The Ultimate Marilyn) and freelance journalist Jennifer J. Dickinson.

It’s long, well thought out and includes bullet point reasons why this film is probably a fake. And bullet points are what we like anyway:

· The film was supposedly made of Marilyn Monroe as a starlet. If filmed in this time period of Monroe’s life, why would the feds have cared about the activities of a young starlet, considering that Marilyn Monroe had not reached the heights of fame at the time this footage was claimed to have been filmed?

· “You see instantly that it’s Marilyn Monroe - she has the famous mole.” This is a quote by Keya Morgan, which is one of the flimsiest pieces of evidence ever presented. Just because this alleged film has a person with a mole, it’s instantly Marilyn Monroe?

· Essentially Morgan is claiming that this is a bootleg copy of a classified FBI film. So if an original is classified, why would the FBI allow this public brouhaha in the press and not stop this sale from taking place? Why would this film copy not be destroyed?

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