How Much Money Has Rihanna Given For A Marilyn Monroe Artwork ??

 Rihanna has discovered a worthy cause for £100,000 of her finest sterling - after she bought a portrait of Marilyn Monroe made out of 65,000 crystals.

The Umbrella singer reportedly purchased the five sq ft picture of the all time classic blonde bombshell from a bespoke artwork company called "Gemstone Creative".

The eccentric star is believed to 'identify' with Marilyn Monroe  because she feels the same pressures of fame.

The portrait, which constantly changes colour and 'sends rainbows of light round the room', took four months to complete at Claire's Yorkshire studio.

Claire, who was commissioned to produce the piece by "Gemstone Creative", made the 13 stone piece with 100 per cent Swarovski crystals and told The Sun: 'I tried to show the glitter of the public life and then the sadness in Marilyn's eyes.

The ironic thing is that Rihanna made a "Thug Life" tatoo last week & she strongly beleives that she is living the "thug life"...

Come on! She is far from being a thug, judging by the Beverly Hills Mansion she lives in! Actually she lives the high life with all the glamour she is surrounded with & the lavish way she spends her money!

 It has to be marked that the artist who made the Marilyn Monroe portrait, Claire Milner, stated "Because of who Rihanna is, everything had to be done through her interior decorators, but they told me afterwards she loved it."

Thug life eh?

With a team of interrior decorators?

Give it a second thought my dear Rihanna...

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Do you want to know how much were sold early Marilyn Monroe's photos?? Unbeleivable!!!

 Copyrights and images from Marilyn Monroe's first photo shoot sold for $352,000 at an auction!!!

 

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spokeswoman Caroline Galloway tells "The Associated Press" on Sunday that the Monroe photos — taken in 1946 when she was still Norma Jeane Dougherty — were the highlight of the Beverly Hills auction known as "Icons & Idols"

The photos come with negatives and the rare right to sell and distribute them. A judge in September ruled they must be auctioned to settle debts of photographer Joseph Jasgur.

Marilyn Monroe is still a legend! I can't think of an artist that sells too much for so many decades!!! She is soo gorgeous!!! I can't think of a person who doesn't adore Marilyn!!!

 

Well, on the other hand I always wondered what kind of people buy so rare ( and because of that!) expensive collectibles.

 

But the most important question is what in  most cases do with these special items...

 

In this case this is definitely a privilege to resell it...But inside an obsessed collector's mind to resell

these amazing items ( I suppose!) is out of the question!

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Will Katy Perry play Marilyn Monroe on Broadway??

Katy Perry will make her Broadway debut as Marilyn Monroe in the theatrical adaptation of Michelle Williams' new film My Week With Marilyn, if movie mogul Harvey Weinstein gets his way.
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                                      The producer has revealed that Katy Perry is at the top of his casting wish list as he starts work on the ambitious production.

He tells EW.com, "If the movie works, I would try to make it a musical and I would go to Katy first. I think she can play Marilyn on the Broadway stage... I think she would be amazing."

And Harvey Weinstein believes Perry has given the new film a big boost - even though she's not in it.

A remix of the I Kissed a Girl hitmaker's new song The One That Got Away features in a new trailer for the movie - and that has created interest among her fans.

                                         He adds, "Katy posted about it on her Twitter and Facebook (accounts) and the next thing you know 250,000 people have downloaded the trailer in an hour."

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Miley Cyrus & Demi Lovato Team Up on Twitter to Fight Haters, Defend Curvy Women

Miley Cyrus began lashing out on Twitter late last week to comment on all the mean-spirited critiques and the negative impact they can have.
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"By calling girls like me fat, this is what you're doing to other people," Miley tweeted on Friday along with a photo of a woman clearly suffering from an eating disorder. "I love MYSELF & if you could say the same you wouldn't be sitting on your computer trying to hurt others."

Miley proceeded to post a pic of Marilyn Monroe that included the following caption: "Proof that you can be adored by thousands of men even when your thighs touch."


Showing her support for Miley? None other than fellow former Disney star Demi Lovato, who is certainly no stranger to the issue at hand.

"AMEN!" tweeted Demi, adding: "@MileyCyrus god I love you. SO DO YOU!!! And whoever called you that has it coming."

Naturally, Miley appreciated the kind words, replying to Demi with a few passionate ones of her own.

"I will destroy any one that ever calls you the F word," she wrote. "You have the SEXIIIESTTT curvyyyy body! I LOVE IT!"

Miley later wrapped up her rant by saying: "I don't wanna be shaped like a girl I LOVE being shaped like a WOMAN & trust me ladies your man won't mind either."

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Which is the most powerful product on Facebook, Twitter and You Tube???

ATLANTA -- For years, Coca-Cola has told us that so many parts of life "go better" with the iconic soft drink. You can now add social media to the list as well.

Coca-Cola has quietly become one of the most popular brands on Facebook, along with such pop-culture icons as Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Eminem.
Coke, with its 35 million fans, is the 16th-most-popular Facebook page. Disney is No. 23.  
Advertising Age this week named Coke its "Marketer of the Year," citing it as an example of how small and midsize brands also "can use creative stunts and strategic partnerships to get a lot done on a smaller budget."
On Facebook, Coca-Cola has received more than 35 million "likes," and Wendy Clark, Coke's senior vice president of integrated marketing who oversees the social-media effort, says having all those fans respond to Coke is meaningful.
"Fans are twice as likely to consume and 10 times more likely to purchase than non-fans," she says, in an interview at Coke headquarters here.
The emphasis on social media has clearly paid off, even though it's only part of Coke's overall $2.9 billion advertising strategy for TV, radio, Internet, print advertising and billboards.
Coke, the world's largest beverage company with some 500 different drinks -- soft drinks, teas, coffees, juices and water -- says its overall beverage volume is up 6(PERCENT) worldwide year to date; 3(PERCENT) for Coke alone. About 1.7 billion drinks of Coke are served daily in cans and bottles and from vending machines.

USA TODAY visited Coke here in an off-campus semi-secret (there's no Coke branding on the outside) warehouse facility less than a mile from Coke headquarters. Inside, there are no iconic red Coke logos. The one nod to its legacy: a new Coke vending machine that offers 125 different flavor combinations of Coke, Sprite, Fanta and other company products.

The interview was in a large round conference room, with Coke executives projecting Facebook and Twitter pages during the conversation. Clark gives credit to the Facebook Coke page to
two fans, Dusty Sorg and Michael Jedrzejewski, an actor and writer from Los Angeles, who started the Coca-Cola fan page on Facebook. Once the page surpassed 1 million fans, Facebook informed Coke that the page violated its rules and needed to be run by Coke, not fans.

Coke decided that instead of taking it down, it would embrace the community. The two founders are clearly credited and work for Coke now on a freelance basis.
Whether members enthuse about their love of Coke and its products or blast the company, the posts stay up, Clark says. "You can't curate that conversation," she says. "The community will curate it." (Porn and pitches for "free iPads" and the like do come down.)
Letting fans be fans on Facebook, instead of turning the page into a corporate mouthpiece, has paid off, says Jedrzejewski. "People are savvy enough to know when a Facebook page is contrived and manufactured."
The message for marketers: "Don't squander an opportunity with people who are passionate about their brand," says Janice Smithers, a senior media strategist at Covario, a San Diego firm that helps companies with their search marketing campaigns. She's studied brands on Facebook and found that many don't communicate with their fans, don't build apps or have contests for them, as Coke does.
Jeremiah Owyang, an analyst at the Altimeter Group, says there are pluses and minuses to having such a massive Facebook following.

The plus is the huge audience to market to, but for smaller companies, having tens of millions following you on Facebook "could be a 24/7 monster that needs to be fully staffed."
Coke is active on other social networks as well, including YouTube, where its videos have been viewed 33.5 million times, and Twitter, where it has 400,000 followers.
The Twitterverse has had a profound impact on how Coke deals with consumer feedback.
 
Coke monitors the questions posted on Twitter and answers all of them, Clark says. "What Twitter has done is changed our customer service," she says. Clark has shifted staff, putting more folks on the Twitter response team and fewer on the phone.
 
One of the classic marketing missteps of all time was the introduction of New Coke in the 1980s, causing a consumer backlash that forced Coke to pull the new formulation off the market. Clark says Coke learned an important social-media lesson: Your customers have control.
 
"It took 63 days for the company to put Classic Coke back. ... Think about the fact that the government of Egypt was toppled in five days. Look at the difference social media has made in the world."

Carolyn Everson, Facebook's vice president of global marketing, says her goal with Coke is to take the massive Facebook community and "engage" it to "do something good." Coke just introduced a special white Coke can featuring images of polar bears and is touting it on Facebook. Proceeds from sales help protect the Arctic habitat.
 

"That shows the power of Facebook and Coke to make a difference in the world," says Everson.

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Why Megan Fox removed her Marilyn tatoo? Her provocative explanation!

You may have already heard rumors about Megan Fox's vanishing Marilyn Monroe tattoo. But now the actress is finally coming clean as to why she's decided to laser the deceased sex symbol from her body.
 
 


It's because
Marilyn Monroe was a "negative person." Naturally.  
 

Fox told Italian fashion magazine Amica "I'm removing it...She was a negative person, she was disturbed, bipolar. I do not want to attract this kind of negative energy in my life."

Interesting. We wonder why she didn't think of this before she got the giant ink portrait of Marilyn Monroe on her arm. 

Quarter-life crisis, maybe?





Disturbed or not, do you think Marilyn Monroe holds a negative reputation in people's eyes -- or a positive one?

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