Marilyn Monroe seems to attract hoaxes, in the same way that
Hitler,
Bigfoot, and
Paris Hilton do. I guess it's because any news about Marilyn is guaranteed to get attention, which is what many hoaxers are looking for.
The
latest Marilyn news is that a sex tape starring her was sold for $1.5 million to an anonymous wealthy businessman, who swore he would never make it public. The tape is said to be a copy of a film that has been kept classified by the FBI.
The promise of the businessman to not market the tape sounds very noble, but nobility probably has little to do with it. The tape is probably being kept from the public because it doesn't exist.
Defamer, with the help of Marilyn Monroe expert Mark Bellinghaus, has
put all the pieces of this story together. (If I'm a "hoax-pert," does that make Bellinghaus a "Monroe-xpert"?)
The key point, as Defamer argues, is that the sale to the anonymous businessman was brokered by Keya Morgan "whose main objective is to promote himself and the Monroe documentary that he is working on." Defamer argues that "What Keya Morgan is promoting equates to questionable stories generated simply to sell another book or push another cheesy documentary." Some of the questions that Defamer and Bellinghaus raise:
· 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?
Keeping key pieces of evidence hidden (such as the tape itself!) is the classic
modus operandi of hoaxers. So I'm definitely with Defamer on this. It smells like a hoax.
(Thanks Bob and Joe!)
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Update: The Smoking Gun has
conducted research that also casts doubt on Morgan's claims.
Comments
He has found national treasures in the most obscure places and his ability to chase down every clue with with almost obsessive attention to detail is commendable. In his persistant search for the truth he has once again rocked the world with the Marilyn Monroe sex tape.
As always there are people who wont be ready for the truth, but that doesn't mean it should be suppressed. I think Keya has and always will be a steward of historical information. We need more people like him around.
On the other hand there is Mark Bellinghaus is the originator of the Church of Marilyn, and claims that someday Marilyn will be bigger then Jesus. Bellinghaus is obviously jealous and wants to be seen as the ultimate authority on Marilyn Monroe.
Bellinghaus has to realize that making such ludicrous claims about Marilyn Monroe will not do his credibility any good. How can you begin to compare a God to a mere mortal? How can you start a church on the back of a fallible human being?
I'm not taking anything away from Marilyn, personally i'm a big fan. But u have to be a deluded individual to worship her as a God. Bellinghaus is just an obsessed lunatic who lives in his own fantasy world. I hope for everyone's sake he can come to terms with realiy at some point.
Right now he's doing the Marilyn Monroe legacy a lot more damage then good by uplifting her to God status. I'm sure if she was around she'd be embarressed to be associated with this nut.
But what really moved me is, how the Mark Bellinghaus talent has detected yet another super hoax. And since you are the museum of hoaxes, I am glad you recognize his success. Now in all respect for Keya Morgan's amazing success to fool the entire world with this dumb stunt; I would just recommend to give it up right now.
He had fun and he is famous now. Got some good interview $$$$ buddy? Enjoy your money but please do not bother with any docu or even book. On what? How you talk to Mr. Anonymous and then the other man who wants to remain anonymous is saying something?
I never trusted Jeanne Carmen, and to me it seems now since she has passed that Keya Morgan would like to continue this dirty business of slandering Marilyn Monroe and by his stupidity he has just done so. Talking about JFK's 'phallus' isn't very helpful to gain respect for an American President who died tragically enough.
Anyhow, I just wanted to throw this in and I am absolutely sure that the Bellinghaus exposure machine has just booked another success, since Keya Morgan's wrongest move was to threaten with a cease and desist and to claim that Mark Bellinghaus has threatened him. The only thing that truly is threatening these charlatans and tale tellers, liars, psychics, etc, is the truth. Is proof and is a debunking like the defamer piece printed it.
Did anybody watcht this movie in 2007, the one with Richard Gere about the Howard Hughes forgeries? It is called HOAX and it is worth watching, and I can assure you, you will remember the latest Marilyn Monroe hoax that just made it all over the world: the Marilyn Monroe sex tape hoax.
And in regards of monroe77's post I would like to state that if he does not know what SCIENTOLOGY is based on, he should not speak in his hate and jealousy driven try to shut down the most successful hoax debunker in recent history. He certainly is one of them. And I can easily imagine who he is, since he is known to follow Bellinghouse anywhere the debunker goes. Any website, any forum, they all seem to just wait for him. They are obsessed with him. That seems to be a fitting, the right term for their actions and attacks.
monroe77 says:
'Bellinghaus is just an obsessed lunatic who lives in his own fantasy world. I hope for everyone's sake he can come to terms with realiy at some point.'
For me the most important thing is, that these fights have proven that I will never become member of any of those strange clubs. Fan clubs are a thing from the past. Marilyn Monroe lived in the past, but since he just became public domain, we can enjoy her more than ever. Without being a fan club member.
Just the way she was, knowing that she never did such a crazy sex film and gave 15 minutes head. And if Keya Morgan wasn't so stupid, he would know that no woman is looking 'radiant' after working for 15 minutes in front of the camera and performing a 'perverted act.'
Wouldn't this be something in this case of clear and proven BS?! Do us a favour Mr. Morgan. Show us your paperwork for this deal, show us something, but don't assume we buy anything, from a man who is photo shopping himeself next to the rich and famous, just because he has the obsession to be one of them.
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Church of Marilyn Monroe? Sweet and sexy I assume. and better than a fake blowjoy like defamer called it lol
You got that right, Alex. It's not only a "modus operandi," it's pretty much a NECESSITY in many hoaxes. Often, the hoaxer is trying to convince the public of the existence of something which simply doesn't exist.
People like to drag others - especially talented, popular, charsmatic people - through the dirt to drag them down to their level. Bit pathetic really, especially as they're picking on a dead woman with no living relatives to sue them.
Marilyn Monroe video
Not really sure if his black stream 'hair' is a total 'mirage' or 'illusion' as well, it looks to me like one of these swimming caps for grannies. The ones with palm trees and fish heads on it. Keya Morgan is wearing a helmet, it looks a bit to me. Is he going to sue me now too? Did you see that this banjo player is trying to sue defamer, or that he threatened to sue?
Who is going to sue him for fooling all of us and and throwing feces onto JFK and MM?
Raoul, where are you when you are needed the most. Funny thing is that the Pope was here or is he still and nobody really cared. It was all about the Marilyn Monroe sex tape. Funny.
A classic hoax, similar to some famous other ones, just unfolded in front of your eyes and in a year or two, or maybe even earlier, a whole lot of people will think about how stupid they feel, that they even believed this loser Keya Morgan's silly tale of BS.
Peace.
It is reality.
SCIENTOLOGY was founded by a science fiction writer.
The Church of Marilyn Monroe has the same rights that Scientology does. Or not?
Ken Knoll, who peddled a sick book, a caught team of losers and terrible writers and who has been cyber stalking others, he is making fun of people who believe what they want to believe in, whatever makes them happy. Why?
Because he wants to be a famous Hollywood producer, with cigar in his mouth and pool filled with money like Dagobert Duck.
Maybe people can remember what happened to the good old Christians, when they started...yes, Ken Knoll--Marilyn Monroe might just be some day, bigger than Jesus, but you will never witness it, because you are too old anyhow.
Cheers, no tears.
Friends Through Marilyn!
Try to declare Ron Hubbard crazy as you do it with us, loser KK. You do not have guts at all.
Maybe there is some fairness?
Mark Bellinghaus is no cyberharasser, he has left these poor individuals in the dust, the smoke he created with his success in debunking one after the other hoax, crime, scam, prank and of course fraud. Jealousy is thriving these bastards just like the last living body is making Zombies hunt the last living flesh. All of these fake and phony Marilyn fans: you are cursed, and you will feel when this curse will take place.
I have spit on you, but now you are cursed, by Marilyn Monroe herself.
This comment is a reflection of a situation that has been going on for the past 26 months and it is no fiction, unfortunately.
Can YOU tell the difference between
Mark Bellinghaus and a stinking
black pot full of cyberharassers ?
by Ernest Cunningham,
author, The Ultimate Marilyn and plaintiff
in the Marilyn Monroe / Queen Mary
class action lawsuit
Mark Bellinghaus and I met by chance at the now-infamous and bogus exhibit of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia aboard the Queen Mary ocean liner. We accompanied two newspaper reporters.
I was puzzled: what th' hell is this junk? Mark was furious: who do they think they're fooling with this junk?! We were both in an agitated state, while the two reporters made copious notes.
Mark said, This is an outrage--someone should report it to the police! I said, I'll go with you--and we were off and running . . . and we slowed down only long enough to pick up Jennifer Dickinson to run with us.
- continued -
Time and tears later, we pause to wonder if--knowing what we now know--would we have continued with our fight . . . if we had known the ugliness and the outrage and the criminal behavior -the violence and the threats--we would encounter?
Truthfully, I don't think so. Who would have expected men and women who identify themselves as fans of unforgettable Marilyn Monroe--a lovely, compassionate and gentle woman--to be so violent, and vicious, and deceitful?
- continued -
Who could have imagined that we (Mark and Jennifer and Ernest) would one day have to file police reports against other Marilyn fans? That we would have to go to the courts to ask for legal protection from these people--they had put their clearly worded threats of violence--and death!--into emails and blogs that were traceable.
But then came the day when the safety of two small children was threatened, and we went forced to file for a restraining order against the sicko responsible. We went with a professional process server to deliver the stay-away order--and they called the police to us. We had the restraining order--would you like to see it?--but they were the ones crying for help.
Now, this rogue element, this group of "cyberstalkers" has increased its emails and blogs and anonymous postings and threats. They continue their dirty tricks, their obscene illustrations, their childish and stupid uses of the Internet to threaten people.
Mark, Jennifer and I are serious writers and researchers. (Resumes on request) We have debunked nonsense after nonsense, while these people, also called jealous haters and Marilyn fans (they are the opposite) mainly a restrained for his AIDS blood threats and threats towards five people: Eric M Woodard, (he referred to me as 'cripple' and mocked me for my handicap and looks when he himeself scared the crowd at the Santa Monica court when he lost his case last November), Pauline Berry, Merja Pohjola, Jill Adams, Heidi Hanson-Hidrobo, Daniel Rutschman aka Bret Ludwid aka 'Danamo,' Melinda Mason, Dorothy Broekaert, Frank Ferruccio, Hillary Jayne Mansfield, Greg Schreiner, Roy Turner, David Marshall, Suzie Kennedy, Andrew Hansford, and many other people who found it 'chic' to join a group of criminals, haters and fruitcakes. I have witnessed that these people followed Mark Bellinghaus to every single website he went, reported him, had him kicked out with their vicious lies and malicious slander. They are like the KKK and the Nazis--combined. They smile in your face and they have manners, if they want. But their motor for all these actions is called CMG Worldwide and their master is an evil lawyer who turned Marilyn Monroe into a salt and pepper shaker. A tacky kitsch item. These people adopted hate and they love it. The group we are protesting are childish, vicious, and obscene. They may have a place on the Internet, but it should be very far away from decent people.
Ernest Cunningham
A postscript: Mark Bellinghaus is not a self-proclaimed Marilyn expert: he has worked long and hard to achieve that distinction. What have the cyberharassers done for Marilyn Monroe, other than to shame her with their viciousness, their hatred, their greed?
http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/01/969700.aspx?GT1=43001
a. shes dead so well never know, for SURE
b. i happen to be a HUGE marilyn collecter and i have many pictures where her mole ISNT there, it could have been something she purposley did to be different or used makeup to cover it. who knows
and who cares anymore, who DOESNT have a sex tape???
i just wish people would leave her alone :(
historian has bern caught red handed again
in selling completely fraudulent items he claims
that Mansfield owed.
MANY people sadly have been taken advantage
by this long time fraudster.
It numbers in the many of $1000's of dollars.
The company that he claimed her bought a bunch
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from them and that the receipt Ferruccio uses
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If you have any useful information on Ferruccio
and especially if you have been taken by him,
contact this email asap!
Ferruccio is being brought into New Jersey court
on fraud and a whole host of charges.