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After his death in September 2017, Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner was criticized in both conservative and liberal circles for, among other things, wanting to be entombed next to actress Marilyn Monroe despite Monroe's displeasure at the way the magazine featured her in its first cover. A conservative web site, New Wave Feminists, garnered more than 94,000 shares on its Facebook page for a post highlighting Hefner's affinity for Monroe. Hefner, who died on 27 September 2017, was laid to rest in a crypt at the the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park cemetery in Los Angeles. He was reportedly interred next to Monroe, who was placed in the same cemetery in August 1962. Hefner told the Los Angeles Times in 2009 that he paid $75,000 to be interred next to Monroe: We contacted Playboy Enterprises seeking further comment but have not heard back at press time. Monroe was on the cover of the magazine's first issue in December 1953 and was also the centerfold. The latter picture, however, was taken during a 1949 nude photoshoot. In the biography Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words, George Barris quotes her Monroe saying that she took photographer Tom Kelley up on his proposal to pay her $50 to shoot her in the nude when [she] really had no work and no money: Monroe signed the release for the photographs using a different name, Mona Monroe. Hefner reportedly paid $500 to acquire the photographs. Barris further quotes Monroe: However, despite the association between Monroe and the magazine, Hefner admitted to CNN host Piers Morgan in February 2011 that the two had never met: A claim to the contrary, based on a picture allegedly showing Hefner lighting a cigarette for Monroe, was debunked after proof surfaced that the photograph actually showed Monroe standing next to actor Laurence Olivier.
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