Drop Dead Gorgeous! This gruesome list is one of women famous for being beautiful and also for their early deaths. I am not sure what the prioritization is here. Most tragic? Most famous deaths? Most famed for their beauty? Maybe some combination?

10. Jon Benet- We know what she looks like and we know the story. And don't come to my site if you want to oggle a picture of a dead 5 yr old.

9. Aaliyah- Ok, pics allowed now. Aaliah is in my mind the most tragic of the bunch. She really did nothing wrong except get into a faulty plane when she was 22. She seemed like such a nice down to earth girl on TV.

8. Eva Peron- Famed for her beauty, her facism, lust for power and death to cervical cancer at age 33. People, get your HPV vaccines.

7. Jayne Mansfield- One of the most famous ex playmates and one that still inspires others to take pictures posing as Mansfield. Died at age 34 due to a car accident.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

 

6. Jean Harlow- Siren of the silver screen, Jean Harlow died only at age 36 from  kidney failure. She was the inspirataion and idol of Marilyn Monroe and perhaps the woman that originally caused the association between platinum blonde hair and sex appeal.

5. Gia Carangi- One of the first supermodels, gracing the top magazine covers before anyone knew which magazine covers made a top model. Also a lesbian, a heroine addict and one of the very early victims of AIDS at age 26.

4. Anna Nicole Smith- Her goal was to be Marilyn Monroe and her looks were often compared to Jayne Mansfield. Be careful what you wish for, eh? I adored Anna Nicole. Her life just kept getting more and more intriguing like one of those collisions on the autobon that starts with 2 cars and ends up like a 100 car pile up. A high school drop out, a stripper, a playmate, a guess model, a bride to a billionaire, an orca, a success at weight loss, a reality TV show star, a girl with a supreme court win, a lover of some count that is Zsa Zsa's husband, a woman that lost an adult child, the sister to a man that cruelly abducted a paraplegic, a woman accused of freezing her billionaire husband's sperm and using it to make a second child, a drug addict... Even death does not end this list of intrigue and psychosis.

3. Princess Diana- Famously married, famously beautiful, famously popular and most famously dead. Di-ploitation was the tabloid's main occupation in the year of '98, when Diana died at age 36. There are the conspiracies...was it really a papazarri chase or did the Queen hired her killed for an imminent engagement to Dodi Al Fayed?

2. Marilyn Monroe- The ultimate pop icon- singer, model, actress, playmate. She is the reason playboy exists, she invented the modern ideal of sex appeal. She was intimately connected with President Kennedy, Joe Dimaggio, Arthur Miller, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and everyone else who was famous in her time.  She died famously at age 36 from a drug overdose.

1. Cleopatra- The only person more famous than Marilyn for being desired and dead too early, her legend has lasted millenia and she has been world wide a household name for several centuries. She inspired a Shakespeare play, a Chaucer legend, a Handel opera and countless others, two thousand years of paintings and sculptures, dozens of TV series, films, books and video games.  Those are some serious shoes to fill, but give Marylin a few more centuries and we will see who really ends up winning queen of the damned.

So here's the violet eyed cleoptra of the 20th century, Elizabeth Taylor

So, there's the list and can I just make a note here. Lemme present this quote- "the images come from movies of my childhood. I'm susceptible to a particular kind          of look; blonde in nature and baby-faced. I love women like Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe and Pamela Anderson."

Ok, Hef's taste is inspired primarily by his childhood fantasy, Jean Harlow, he bought a crypt next to Monroe to be laid to rest and Anna Nicole and Mansfield have also been clear choices and favorites of Hef. Does it make you wonder when 4 of the 10 women deservedly on the desirable and dead list were all paticularly admired by this guy? What can I say? hef knows how to pick them. And the next time anyone thinks of dying their hair platinum blonde and getting implants, remember- it's one step closer to the grave.