Crypt Currency? A Tech Investor Just Bought a Grave by Marilyn Monroe’s for $200,000

Abby Montanez
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Anthony Jabin may have never met Marilyn Monroe, but he’s decided he’d like to spend the rest of eternity by her.

The Beverly Hills tech investor just bought a mausoleum crypt near the iconic Hollywood actress’s tomb, which fetched an eye-watering $195,000 when it went under the hammer this weekend via Julien’s Auctions. The single-space burial spot is located at the Pierce Brother Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary in Los Angeles, which is where fellow stars such as Hugh Hefner, Dean Martin, Farrah Fawcett, and Truman Capote have also been laid to rest.

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“I’ve always dreamt of being next to Marilyn Monroe for the rest of my life,” Jabin said in a press statement. Along with Monroe’s crypt, he also took home the blonde bombshell’s three-piece bathing suit that she wore in the 1954 musical There’s No Business Like Show Business. The black silk garment, which Elton John donated at a charity auction in 1990, sold for $29,250—way more than its original $6,000 estimate.

The three-day event included even more memorabilia from Monroe, including her former grave marker. The bronze plate, which had to be replaced following “constant touching from fan pilgrimages,” went for a whopping $88,900, or 44 times its $2,000 estimate. Most notably, a pink, long-sleeved Pucci dress worn by Monroe set a world record when it hammered down for $325,000—the most expensive Pucci dress ever sold at auction.

Throughout the weekend, Jabin also nabbed Hefner’s custom-made circular bed for a cool $13,000, nearly seven times the estimated auction price. Prior to the Playboy founder’s passing in 2017, he reportedly paid $75,000 for the drawer next to Monroe’s mausoleum back in 1992. “I’m a believer in things symbolic,” Hefner told the Los Angeles Times. “Spending eternity next to Marilyn is too sweet to pass up.”

Monroe died of a barbiturate overdose at her house in Brentwood, Calif., in 1962 at the age of 36. Last year, her former residence was nearly torn down after the Los Angeles City Council approved a demolition permit filed by the current owner, a trust known as Glory of the Snow LLC. However, the Spanish colonial-style property has since been spared and is being considered for historic preservation.

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