Nude Marilyn Pix Spark Suit

Limited set of prints will be sold

(NEWSER) - The lawsuit over the final nude photos of Marilyn Monroe has been settled amicably, Reuters reports. Photographer Bert Stern, who shot the photos weeks before Monroe’s death in a session known as “the last sitting,” will work with the two photographers he sued to develop and sell limited sets of the seven rare prints, reports the Huffington Post. More»

'Mean Girl' dons wig and little else for mag's Marilyn spread

(NEWSER) - Celebrity photographer Bert Stern has proved that he still prefers his blonds nude, snapping revealing pictures of Lindsay Lohan for New York magazine in a recreation of his famous 1962 Marilyn Monroe photo shoot. In the original, Monroe posed with only a few scarves and a glass of champagne. Blond wig notwithstanding, Lohan appears as bare as Monroe, AP reports. More»

Monroe was jealous of Elizabeth Taylor: memoir

(NEWSER) - A new memoir reveals that it was simple jealousy of Elizabeth Taylor that spurred Marilyn Monroe to pose nude. Monroe agreed to be naked while exiting a swimming pool during a photo shoot, as long as Taylor did not appear in any magazines running the images, reports Vanity Fair, which is publishing the images in this month's edition. (While Monroe made just $100,000 for her final film role in Something's Gotta Give, Taylor pulled down $1 million in Cleopatra.) But the nude pictures weren't the only place Monroe bared all. A smattering of her conversations with photographer Lawrence Schiller, as per his memoir Marilyn & Me:

• On posing naked: "Larry, if I do come out of the pool with nothing on, I want your guarantee that when your pictures appear on the covers of magazines Elizabeth Taylor is not anywhere in the same issue."

Actress says Marilyn Monroe inspires her

(NEWSER) - Lindsay Lohan reveals the secret behind her free-wheeling sexuality in the upcoming issue of Playboy: "Sex and sexuality are a part of nature, and I go along with nature," she tells the mag, whose cover pic of Lohan has already leaked online . "I think Marilyn Monroe once said that. I certainly agree with her." Now on vacation with her sister Ali in Hawaii, Lohan emphasizes "knowing yourself and your body because it gives you confidence." More»

But she hides her birthday suit behind bunny chair

(NEWSER) - Poor Lindsay. She can't even seem to get her big Playboy nude debut right. It's not her fault, though. Someone leaked her Playboy cover online. It doesn't actually show much, because the birthday-suited actress is strategically straddling a red Playboy bunny-shaped chair that hides most of her assets. All she's wearing are black spike-heeled shoes and a red-lipped pout. The 25-year-old n'er-do-well bombshell had planned to reveal the cover Dec. 15 on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. More»