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    Hugh Hefner's Final Resting Place? The Plot He Bought Next To Marilyn Monroe

    Monroe, who died in 1962, didn't get a say in whether she would want to spend the hereafter next to Hefner, who launched his magazine using nude photos of her.
    by Laurel Wamsley Sep 29, 2017 2 minutes
    Playboy founder Hugh Hefner often spoke of how he would one day be entombed in the plot he'd bought next to Marilyn Monroe. Her crypt is at the Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles.

    Hugh Hefner died this week at age 91. And the Playboy founder managed, even in preparing for his death, to cultivate his celebrity and stoke controversy.

    Over the years, Hefner mentioned to reporters where he planned to be buried: right next to Marilyn Monroe, at the Westwood Village Memorial Park cemetery.

    The that Hefner paid $75,000 to buy the drawer next to Monroe's in a Los Angeles is often marked by the lipstick kisses of her fans.

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