There’s a whole mess of car news afoot at the mo: new Bentley, new Bugatti, new Devon.  But it’ll wait because here’s some meaningless tattle.  The burial plot directly above Marilyn Monroe is up for sale to pay for a reported seven-figure mortgage. Flogging this prime real estate is Elsie Poncher, whose late husband is the current tenant. Once the sale is complete, Poncher will have her husband’s remains moved to another location.  Ahhhh.  She must have loved him dearly to be turfing him out of his final resting place like this.  Of course, to maintain classiness, it’s going on eBay (link) and as I write this, the bids are approaching $3 million.  Read more after the jump.

Hugh Hefner, Farah Fawcett and Dean Martin are also “residents” of Westwood Memorial Park, where Marilyn, and the “lucky” bidder will face-off.  The eBay description mentions the current occupant is facing down on Marilyn right now.  Plenty of speak about being “on top of Marilyn Monroe” going around in the news about this.  This is technically true, but it’s pretty stupid how sexual a lot of this subtext is.  You aren’t going to be dry humping her, you know.  In fact it’s the most morbid and depressing encounter you could possibly have.  You’ll have recently died, where you’ll be put in the ground, above another dead person who used to be enormously glamorous, but then died of a huge drug overdose, 47 years ago.