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The burial vault above where Marilyn Monroe’s remains lie was auctioned off, but failed to receive any bids, reports CBC. This is the second time the crypt of Richard Poncher has been placed on the auction block since August.

Poncher’s widow is selling the vault to pay off the mortgage on her home in Beverly Hills. He died 23 years ago and his remains will be moved to a nearby plot, she says.

The starting bid on auctioncause.com was $500,000, but Eric Gazin of the auction web site says the family was hoping to get $4 million.

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The Playboy mogul’s 83rd birthday was a success in Las Vegas- even though Hugh Hefner was in the middle of a crowd including his current and former girlfriends.

According to E! News, ex-girlfriends Holly Madison, Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt made sure to give the big boss their own gift.

“I haven’t seen him since I left the mansion,” said Madison.

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The King of Playboy is 83-years-old and still a trooper.

After Fox News reported earlier today that Hugh Hefner “looked far from his normally alert and healthy self” at Saturday’s Kandykaneland Masquerade Ball at the Playboy mansion with his new girlfriends Crystal Harris and 19-year-old twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon, Hefner said that he’s doing more than fine.

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Hugh Hefner says that he’d love to have Miley Cyrus pose for Playboy when she turns 18.

Cyrus has been the centre of the media spotlight this month for her recent photo spread in Vanity Fair. The photo, taken by world renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz, shows 15 year old Cyrus topless with a sheet covering her chest.

Critics say Cyrus is too young to be photographed topless.

“I think to make such a big to-do over something as innocent as those photos is a reflection on how schizophrenic America is about sexuality,” Hefner said in a recent television interview.