![]() ![]() ![]() In 1949, a cash-strapped, jobless Monroe posed nude for pinup photographer Tom Kelley in exchange for the $50 she needed to make a car payment, as described in her friend, photographer George Barris' 1995 book, Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words. That was, of course, because neither was legally required. READ MORE: Inside Marilyn Monroe's Final Days and Fragile State of Mind Monroe took the nude photos because she needed to pay her bills In fact, when the late Hugh Hefner used "the famous Marilyn Monroe nude" (the exact words emblazoned upon the publication's splashy inaugural cover) to launch the men's lifestyle and entertainment glossy - and his storied Playboy brand as a whole - in 1953, Monroe hadn't consented to the then-four-year-old images' use, nor had Hefner directly paid her a dime. The naked truth about Marilyn Monroe's famed appearance on the first Playboy cover: The iconic blonde bombshell (born Norma Jeane Mortenson) never actually posed for the magazine at all. ![]()
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