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June 28th, 2010
11:47 AM ET
X-rays of Marilyn Monroe sold for $45,000
It’s not as iconic as the photo of a Marilyn Monroe standing in a white dress over a sewer grate – but it fetched quite a price. Adding to strange celebrity medical memorabilia, three X-rays of the actress were sold at a Las Vegas, Nevada, auction this weekend for $45,000. Her chest X-ray was sold for $25,000. Her side view X-ray for $10,000 and another X-ray for $10,000. See results here. The value of the chest X-ray taken two weeks after her divorce from baseball great Joe DiMaggio was originally estimated to be between $800 and $1,200. The X-rays were taken at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital from her doctor’s visit in November 1954, according to Julien's Auctions. Julien’s Auctions also sold several pieces from Monroe's final years. There was also a 50-year-old couch from the home office of Dr. Ralph Greenson, Monroe's psychiatrist, which sold for $2,625. Collectors have paid for bizarre biological items used by celebrities such as a clump of Elvis’ hair (sold for $15,000 at an auction) and a tissue Scarlett Johansson used to blow her nose (sold for $5,300 on eBay).
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Cool – maybe there will be a lawsuit over confidentiality. Shouldnt matter if she's dead or not.
I'm almost sure there will be 🙂
There is no confidentiality once you are dead. Law only applies to living.
how do we rea;;y know if these are hers?
the x-rays could be anybody's.
They look real enough. Those ribs and the boob silhouette, they must be Marlyn's. I've got another I can sell. Anyone wanna give me $45 for it?
Now that's a healthy set of lungs!
fap fap fap
If a digital rectal exam was available for her in the day it would fetch big bucks
What's next? Exhume her body, and start selling off bits of her bones? The fascination with famous people has gone beyond creepy. People are idiots
I agree, creepy!
super creepy.
Lucky for her, she has been cremated… otherwise, who knows what would people do!
no less strange to keep a picture of or the asehs of a dead relative around. people like objects that remind them of people that are important to them in some way or that they care about.
Of course they cremated her. You think that they would want her exhumed at a later date and have a new exam done to her remains that could show what really killed her? (conspiracy).
They look real to me.
I concur
A fool and his money.....
The text in this story is confusing:
"The X-rays were taken from Cedars of Lebanon Hospital from her doctor’s visit in November..."
Is this saying that the X-rays were being stored at the Hospital and were "taken" away from there, implying that there may have been an illegal act involved? Or is it saying that the X-rays were shot (meaning produced) at the Hospital in 1954?
You're putting way too much thought into this. Let's put some of that energy into solving a real problem shall we?
I get the whole celebrity memorabilia thing, but this is beyond creepy.
There's no way that someone paid $5000 for a used tissue. I'm sure if this is looked into, this winning bid was never collected.
It wouldn't surprise me at all. There are some disturbed people out there and I've fanatics keep things like cigarette butts, used napkins, half-eaten sucker... It's really creepy.
Celebrity snot sales could become a new cottage industry for those over-the-hill type celebs who can barely score reality shows.
It's her's alright! I'd recognize those ribs any day!
ild recognize those ribs anywhere
Gross!
They're real and they're spectacular.
I still have some x-ray specs from back in the day.... The box said that if you turned them upside down you could look at an x-ray and see the body... I'll sell them for a mere $10k.
what is wrong with people, you want used toilet paper from her as well
sick
Sound like there's a stupid @sshole with far too much money on his hands! What kind of a pathetic POS would buy something so worthless and absurd? If you have nothing better going on in your life than to collect sh*t like this ... try giving some of your $$ away to a noble cause ... you just might not be so GD pathetic then!!
someone who would pay that a mount of money and still watch families go hungry and homeless is a vapid sick creature!!
Relax! It's not like the $25,000 was destroyed. It was transferred from the buyer to the seller in exchange for the X-ray. The money is no farther (or closer) from being handed out to whatever cause you want other people to support.
Let this woman rest in peace you lowlifes
Sexy.
How low and disgusting can humans be?
It's just an x-ray. How disgusting do you want?
Beyond you wildest imagination.
The Guinness Book of World Records has a story of a man named Graham Barker who
collects belly button lint, he has jars filled with them.
some of the reports of prices paid are probably fake and will only run up any future auction creepies up for sale. Heck, I have a whole yard full of Lassie poop up for sale.
Those are real chest x-rays. If they belong to her, who knows. Good reporting, though, by CNN. What's a side x-ray? I never learned that one in school, maybe these guys can teach me.
FREAKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wonder how much her PAP smear will fetch
A side x-ray is called a lateral.
Thank God, you cleared that up. I was really wondering what a side x-ray was. (I hope you're catching my sarcasm here)
Your sarsacm is terrible.
Nice Rack!
This is one sick and degenerate country full of some very sick people.
That's pretty sad.
Gross! Whoever spent money on that should be ashamed of themselves. Not only is it a ghoulish lack of respect for her after she has passed, but how many hungry children could that money have fed?? Better yet, how much free birth control and birth control education could that same money have provided so there wouldn't be hungry children in the first place?
I think this is ridiculous. Can't Americans find something better to spend their money on?? We got people starving in other countries and even our own big problems here in the US, but 45,000 for a chest X-ray? 5,300 for Scarlett Johansson's used tissue. You people are sick. Stupid spenders and big wasters. All of you.
How very sad
@Burbank
No it couldnt... bc even if the guy didnt buy those i doubt he would just throw his money away on people who he doesnt know... people who buy cars and houses and clothes and other stuff owned by celebrities grossly overpay for shit all the time... but it doesnt make someone sick.. gross or messed up...
Sick and repulsive that someone is selling and buying this – patient confidentiality should still apply, even though she is dead.
Just when you didn't think society could get any weirder, there's always something more bizarre around the next corner.
BOOBIES
Yes... because there aren't children without homes, or people starving, or a ruined gulf, or anything like that...
It is a testimony to current U.S. social values that someone would pay would pay $45K for a pic of mediocre breasts when I could make a list of almost an infinite number of items that you money would be better spent on.
thats wrong i though i was bad .??
I've got $5 for the first verifiable lump of Ernest Borgnine's nose gold. I'm looking to clone him and remake Marty.
My grandpappy has a framed piece of toilet tissue that he claims was stuck to the bottom of Marilyn's pumps after she walked out of a Palm Springs nightclub way back when.....any takers? $45,000, OBO
I haven't had good nose gold since 1955's Marty – I'm willing to pay handsomely for just a brief remembrance.... I also have an xray of ethel mermans "vjayjay" I think the kids call it these days – going... going.... anyone?
Some where there is a rich fool pleasuring himself to this xray
Well I have seen stranger things happen..Like last nite when Bill Compton really (stuck it too ) His maker Lorena...HA Ha HA... Just a little humor to go along with the story about last nites Unorthodox ending on True Blood..If you saw it you know what im talking about...If not then your obviously not a True Blood Fan....
WTF is wrong with people. There are people starving in the world and I get to see s**t like this? This world is headed for the toilet, that's for damn sure. I guess I better get with the "me me me" program that everyone is indoctrinated with at birth; yet something inside yearns to escape this s**thole. Maybe the Buddha was right; "stupid" material possessions only end up making you a delusional demented moron that once had great potential.
I guess CNN didnt like my post on HIPAA violations regardless of whether the person had expired or not.
Looks like she did have a nice rack though. Good for Kennedy.
just goes to show you there are idiots out there everywhere.
I am just wondering how many that are posting actually use THEIR money for the worlds tragedies....... don't hate on people with weird fettishes or the fact that thy have money to spend on them.
funny... who 'poses' for an x-ray with their hands on their hips?
Acutally hands on the hips with shoulders rolled forward (to move scapulas out of the lung field) is standard.
And with the patient PA, and pressed against the board, the breasts will look larger, so dont everyone get too excited.
Ahhh, hello new season of True Blood! We don't have it in the UK yet, but sounds like it's going well? http://www.fancydressoutfitters.co.uk/fancy-dress-news/true-bloods-shapeshifter-sam-takes-a-break-from-women
$45,000!!! Putting aside the fact that this money could have put a deserving student through college (or at least into a nicely-equipped Land Rover), this stretches the notion of a “valuable” item.
http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2010/06/this-week-in-superfluous-spending/