LOS ANGELES - A chance to spend eternity on top of Marilyn Monroe is up for bid on eBay.
Beverly Hills widow Elsie Poncher is auctioning off her husband’s crypt, which is directly above the American icon’s final resting place at the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park cemetery.
Bidding hovered at an eye-popping $4.6 million Monday with slightly more than two hours to go.
“Here is a once in a lifetime and into eternity opportunity to spend your eternal days directly above Marilyn Monroe,” the eBay auction description states.
Richard Poncher was buried face down - looking at the blond bombshell - when he died 23 years ago at age 81, the posting reveals.
His widow, now 80, said she now plans to move him to a nearby plot and sell the valuable vault so she can pay off a $1.6 million mortgage on her Beverly Hills home.
“I can’t be more honest than that,” she told The Los Angeles Times. “I want to leave it free and clear for my kids.”
Bidding started at $500,000 on Aug. 14 and hit $4.5 million three days later.
Monroe died of a drug overdose ruled a “probable suicide” at the age of 36 in 1962. The star of “Some Like it Hot” and “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” was named the sexiest woman of the 20th century by both Playboy and People magazines.
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