Never Ending Stories
Sometimes an interesting event occurs in connection with a death or a burial. They are often stories that are worth retelling. We have compiled a small collection.
(Click heading to see the story in full)
Michael Jackson’s burial site under camera surveillance
Michael Jackson is buried in the Forrest Lawn Memorial Park in the Glendale suburb of Los Angeles. It’s a graveyard which is different from other “Celebrity cemeteries” as there are no maps showing the situation of the various graves. In close proximity to Jackson rest Hollywood legends such as Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Carole Lombard.
Visitors are not supposed to walk around looking for Jackson’s enormous mausoleum – or that of any other celebrity. Forrest Lawn is well-known for its rigorous protection of the privacy of its “residents” and there are CCTV cameras all round Jackson’s mausoleum. Anyone who gets too close is simply kicked out.
A tip for those who want to visit celebrity graves in other cemeteries: contact the tourist agency owned by Scott Michaels in Los Angeles. Scott Michaels specialises in organising tours of the burial sites of deceased celebrities.
Auctioned off husband’s grave opposite to Marilyn Monroe’s.
Movie legend Marilyn Monroe is buried in the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park cemetery in Los Angeles, USA. Other celebrities buried here are Dean Martin, Roy Orbison, Truman Capote, Natalie Wood and lately deceased Farrah Fawcett, to name but a few.
For a while Richard Poncher will also be buried there. He was laid to rest 23 years ago but now his widow, Elsie, has auctioned off his site – a crypt – which happens to be placed directly opposite Marilyn Monroe’s!
Elsie’s husband will soon be moved to the site that Elsie had originally purchased for herself. But this doesn’t worry the widow: - He was afraid of nothing and was one hell of a guy, she told the LA Times.
It’s a story that contains some fascinating details, one being that Richard Poncher bought the site from Joe diMaggio, who wanted to get rid of it when he was divorced from Marilyn Monroe in 1954. Another is that when Richard Ponter was on his death bed, he threatened to haunt his wife for the rest of her life if she didn’t bury him face-down in the direction of Marilyn!
Anyway, the widow has now auctioned off her husband’s crypt on Ebay for the dizzy sum of 4.6 mio dollars! Reportedly in order to pay her debts….
Ryan O'Neal meets his own daughter at the burial of Farrah Fawcett.
Ryan O’Neal’s relationship with his daughter, Tatum O’Neal, seems unusual to put it mildly.
In Vanity Fair, Ryan admits that he made the mistake of flirting with his daughter at the funeral of her mother, Farrah Fawcett.
– I had just watched the coffin being driven away when a beautiful blond woman came over and hugged me, says Ryan.
On which he found it hard to contain himself:
- I asked her, “Have you got a drink? Have you got a car?”
To which she replied: "Dad it’s me - Tatum!", says Ryan.
Ryan admits that the situation was bizarre.
– I just wanted to have a bit of fun with this unknown Swedish woman, and she turned out to be my daughter. It’s sick, I suppose.
Tatum agrees with her father that the incident was unpleasant, but adds that she is not surprised that he didn’t recognise her.
– That’s our relationship in a nutshell. You can believe it or not. It’s been a few years since we saw each other and he’s always been a womaniser, says Tatum to Hollywood Access.
|
