Entrepreneur Hopes to Make Digital Media Marilyn Monroe's Best Friend

Having recently paid in the neighborhood of $50 million for the rights to the image of Marilyn Monroe, Toronto businessman Jamie Salter has big posthumous plans for the one-time star of Some Like It Hot and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

He tells Canadian Press reporter Victoria Ahearn that he has no doubt Monroe will, within the next couple of years, magically re-materialize on screen to star in a Hollywood movie:

Salter said his company is talking with Creative Artists Agency to represent them as they try to incorporate Monroe’s likeness into digital media.

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