A Marilyn Monroe exhibition’s organisers are being sued over claims that some of its memorabilia had no connection with the Hollywood goddess.
Marilyn biographer Ernest Cunningham , who wrote ‘The Ultimate Marilyn‘, filed a lawsuit after seeing the exhibition on the Queen Mary ship in California. Among the items said to have belonged to the screen siren, who would have turned 80 today (Thursday), is a red dress.
"The Queen Mary should have done a little more homework," Cunningham’s lawyer, George Braunstein says.
A spokesperson for the Queen Mary, which is docked in Long Beach, was not available to comment. But the memorabilia’s owner Robert W Otto has previously insisted that all his items are authentic.
The lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, claims many of the items have no connection with Marilyn, with some of them even being made after her death from a sleeping pills overdose in August 1962.
The suit wants to the exhibitors to refund admission fees and seeks unspecified damages.
