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An anonymous New York businessman has paid $1.5 million for a 15-minute silent film of Marilyn Monroe performing oral sex on an unidentified man, said the New York Post. The 1950s 16mm footage was discovered by memorabilia collector Keya Morgan, who was tipped off by an FBI agent. The bureau had obtained a copy of the film during J. Edgar Hoover’s investigations of the Kennedy family; Hoover hoped to prove that the man in the film was either John F. Kennedy or Bobby Kennedy, but could not. The man who bought the film “said he’s just going to lock it up,” said Morgan. “He said, ‘I’m not going to make a Paris Hilton out of her. I’m not going to sell it, out of respect.’”

J.K. Rowling appeared in a Manhattan courtroom this week in an effort to stop publication of a book called The Harry Potter Lexicon, a reference work that she says infringes on her copyrights. “This book constitutes wholesale theft of 17 years of my hard work,” she testified, often appearing on the verge of tears. A lawyer for the Lexicon’s publisher called the book a legitimate effort “to organize and discuss the complicated and very elaborate world of Harry Potter.”

Alicia Keys believes the fatal feud of rap artists Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. in the 1990s was fueled by the government “to stop another great black leader from existing,” the R&B singer told Blender. Keys also said that “gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other.” She now wears an AK-47 pendant around her neck to symbolize her sympathy for the former Black Panther movement. “She wears what?” said Keys’ mother. “That doesn’t sound like Alicia.”

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Rockers Ashlee Simpson, 23, and Pete Wentz, 28, announced their engagement last week, after dating for more than a year. But the Fall Out Boy bassist denied this week that his fiancée was pregnant, as two magazines had reported. “There is a witch hunt for people to be pregnant whenever they get engaged in Hollywood,” said Wentz. “This is all news to me. I can’t wait for the story about how I’m really in a gay relationship and this is all just a cover.”