
Elsie Poncher is evicting her husband from his final resting place above Marilyn Monroe at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park cemetery in Los Angelis, Calif., and relocating him over one spot.
It’s a move that is going to payoff off her $1.6 million mortgage and leave the home “free and clear” for her kids.
And then some.
She recently put the plot up for auction on eBay with a starting bid of $500,000. It’s already received 34 bids, generating more than $4.5 million with one week still to go before the online auction expires.
Here’s Poncher’s pitch:
“Here is a once in a lifetime and into eternity opportunity to spend your eternal days directly above Marilyn Monroe. This crypt in the famous Westwood Cemetary in West Los Angeles currently occupied above Marilyn Monroe is being vacated so as to make room for a new resident. “Spending Eternity next to Marilyn Monroe is too sweet to pass up”, recently quoted by Hugh Heffner, who has reserved his place in eternity next to her. The lucky bidder will be deeded a piece of real estate that he or she will make their last address. And below you will be Marilyn Monroe. In fact the person occupying the address right now is looking face down on her.”
Her late husband, Richard, purchased two crypt’s from Monroe’s ex-husband, Joe DiMaggio, back in 1954. He likely had no idea at the time that he had made the investment of a lifetime — Monroe didn’t commit suicide until six years later in 1962.
Poncher intends to sell the one crypt to the highest bidder, relocate her husband to the other tomb and the have herself cremated when the time comes.
In addition to Monroe — likely the most popular and famous celebrity of the 1950s era — stars such as Natalie Wood, Dean Martin, Rodney Dangerfield, Merv Griffin, Mel Torme, Truman Capote and Farrah Fawcett, are buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park, according to the Los Angeles Times.
It’s prime real estate, which the report indicates is, “on a per-square-foot basis — one of the most expensive pieces of real estate on the market.”



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