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It’s the hottest grave plot since . . . well, ever.
The living are now invited to stake their claim on a final resting place next to the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Hugh Hefner — for the once-in-a-lifetime (and afterlife) price of $2 million.
The crypt adjacent to where the two sex symbols lie belonged to Broadway composer Jerry Herman at the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles.
Herman, best known for his work in “Hello, Dolly!” and “La Cage aux Folles,” bought the tomb in 1997. When he died in 2019, the late musician instead was laid to rest next to his mother in New Jersey.
His surviving family members are now selling the famed LA plot.
“There’s Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Hefner, then Jerry’s [grave],” Herman’s goddaughter Jane Dorian told the Wall Street Journal recently. “He’s next to the two sexiest people that were ever alive.”
The LA mausoleum also holds the remains of a number of other icons of Tinsel Town, including Natalie Wood, Dean Martin, Farrah Fawcett and Truman Capote.
The creator of Playboy magazine reportedly paid $75,000 for his spot to the left of “Some Like It Hot” star Monroe, who died prematurely in 1962, before his own death in 2017.
On Monroe’s right is a vault that once belonged to Hollywood memorabilia collector Tom Gregory, who originally purchased the coveted crypt for $350,000 — then flipped it in 2014 for $699,000.
The highest bid ever recorded for a spot at the nation’s most expensive graveyard was for a whopping $4.6 million, put up by Elizabeth Poncher on behalf of her late husband, businessman Richard Poncher, who died in 1986. Richard, a Monroe fanatic, purchased the plot above the blonde bombshell after a chance meeting with the starlet’s ex-husband Joe DiMaggio.
“He said, ‘If I croak, if you don’t put me upside down over Marilyn, I’ll haunt you the rest of my life,’ ” Elizabeth told the LA Times, who interviewed her about the auction, in 2009. “I was standing right there, and [the mortician] turned him over.”
When Elizabeth fell on hard times, she decided put her husband’s prime vault up for auction on eBay for $500,000 — eventually topping out at $4.6 million. Unfortunately for Mrs. Poncher, that sale — including numerous prior bids — all fell through. Both Ponchers are now buried at Westwood Memorial’s Corridor of Memories.
“It goes back to the adage: location, location, location,” said Dorian,
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