Voted 'Sexiest Woman of the Century' by People Magazine. [1999]
. Voted 'Sexiest Woman of the Century' by People Magazine. [1999] Was 1947's Miss California Artichoke Queen. Was roommates with Shelley Winters when they were both starting out in Hollywood. Ranked #8 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997] Voted Empire's (UK) "sexiest female movie star of all time" in 1995. She was Playboy's first "Sweetheart of the Month" in December 1953. When she died in 1962 at age 36, she left an estate valued at $1.6 million. In her will, Monroe bequeathed 75% of that estate to Lee Strasberg, her acting coach, and 25% to Dr. Marianne Kris, her psychoanalyst. A trust fund provided her mother, Gladys Baker Eley, with $5,000 a year. When Dr. Kris died in 1980, she passed her 25% on to the Anna Freud Centre, a children's psychiatric institute in London. Since Strasberg's death in 1982, his 75% has been administered by his widow, Anna, and her lawyer,...