Marilyn Monroe's alleged sex tape to be auctioned

We imagine this is a vintage piece about Marilyn Monroe that all collectors would want to possess.

A newly discovered 8-mm version of a film purportedly showing Marilyn Monroe having sex when she was still an underage actress known as Norma Jean Baker, will hit the auction block soon.

Spanish collector Mikel Barsa, who owns the 6 1/2-minute, grainy black-and-white film, is hoping for it to fetch at least $500,000 (RM1.5 million).

He revealed that the film was made before 1947, when Monroe was not yet 21.

However, Scott Fortner, a Marilyn Monroe expert contradicted the claim,  explaining that the person featured in the film is not Monroe.

"That's not Marilyn. The chin is not the same, the lips are not the same, the teeth are not the same. Marilyn was a tiny little thing. And I know that for a fact. I own her clothing," he said, adding that he has a belt that belonged to the legendary actress.

Barsa responded: "People with romantic notions have denied that it's Marilyn Monroe, and have invented stories" to raise doubts about the film, Barsa said in his Buenos Aires office, which is lined with pictures from his days as a concert promoter. "This film shows the real Marilyn Monroe – it was only later that the studios discovered her and transformed her."

It was said that though the woman featured in the film was unlike the glamourous Monroe we all know and love, she bore striking resemblance to the movie icon in one of her early movies, Love Happy in 1949, before she shed some weight and added what would later become her trademark – a beauty spot on her left cheek.

'Controlling mum killed her children and left them in holdalls in car boot to punish husband for alleged affair'

Fiona Donnison appeared in court
today for the opening of her trial for the
alleged murder  of her two children

A jealous wife murdered her two young children to punish her estranged husband after he met another woman, a court heard today. 

Fiona Donnison, 45, suffocated Harry, three, and Elise, two, when she wrongly suspected her husband Paul had started an affair with an old schoolfriend.

She then armed herself with two kitchen knives in an attempt to kill Paul, 48, and blame him for the death of their children, it was alleged.

But Mr Donnison did not return to the family home that night. The next day she handed herself in to police saying she had killed her children.

Face Behind The Name: Meet Iurii Chumak, Alleged Flight Attendant Groper

Meet Iurii Chumak.

The 53-year-old was arrested last month after allegedly groping a flight attendant while onboard a British Airways flight traveling from London to New York. Chumak, seen in the mug shot at right, was photographed by the United States Marshals Service after being forcibly de-planed in handcuffs.

According to the FBI, Chumak placed his hand up the flight attendant’s skirt and “grabbed her genital area” when she bent over to pour coffee for another passenger. Although the incident was witnessed by a second flight attendant, who immediately placed him in restraints, Chumak maintained that he had simply been “drinking on the airplane, fell asleep, and woke up in restraints.”

Since his bust, Chumak has been locked up at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. He was named last week in a misdemeanor criminal information charging him in connection with the in-flight April 28 incident (the filing of an information--in lieu of a grand jury presentment by federal prosecutors--often indicates that a defendant is negotiating a guilty plea).

Chumak’s lawyer, Sergei Orel, declined today to comment about his client’s case.

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