Keya Morgan
- Manager
- Producer
- Director
A noted scholar, historian, producer, writer, director, and
entrepreneur, Keya Morgan first appeared on CNN as a child business
prodigy at age 11, and has since lent his expertise to clients that
comprise dozens of the world's most famous people and prestigious
institutions. These include the White House, the Library of Congress,
the Smithsonian Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Stanford
University, and the Louvre Museum in Paris.
A native New Yorker, Keya first developed a deep and abiding interest
in Marilyn Monroe during the mid-1990s, thanks partly to his friendship
with her third husband Arthur Miller and later her first husband James
Dougherty. He then began to research the circumstances surrounding her
mysterious death in earnest after speaking with Jack Clemmons, the
first police officer on the scene, who informed him that Marilyn had
succumbed to murder, not suicide. This, in turn, led Keya to interview
over 300 people -- everyone from her husbands, friends, doctor, maid,
publicist, and pall bearer to the coroner, the prosecutor, the man who
signed her death certificate, CIA agents, a former head of the FBI, and
a long list of other people with first-hand knowledge of details
relating to her demise.
At the one and only Marilyn Monroe estate auction, held by Christie's
on October 27, 1999, Keya Morgan bought hundreds of items, including
much of Marilyn's private library, with many personally inscribed
books. Along with many other items he accumulated over the years, he
now possesses the largest Monroe collection in the world, as well as
large portions of the estates of her second husband Joe DiMaggio and
close friend Marlon Brando.
Additionally, Keya Morgan owns the world's largest collections of both
Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln manuscripts, artifacts, and
original photographs, many of which have been featured in numerous
documentaries, books, newspapers, and magazines, including the cover of
Time on no less than three occasions. Today, items from the Keya Morgan
Collection are continually on exhibit at the Smithsonian, the Library
of Congress, and the White House.
In a full-page article which President Barack Obama wrote for Time, he
remarked that his favorite photograph of Lincoln is one belonging to
the Keya Morgan Collection. Later, Keya made national headlines when he
discovered the only photograph of Lincoln in front of the White House.
A voting member of the Recording Academy (Grammy Awards), Keya has
worked very closely with Michael Jackson, Buzz Aldrin, Al Pacino, and
dozens of other high-profile celebrities. He has been repeatedly
interviewed and quoted by every major national media outlet, as well as
thousands of different newspapers and websites worldwide, including
CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, The Today Show, GMA, The Early
Show, Reuters, the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Washington
Post, the New York Post, the New York Daily News, USA Today, the L.A.
Times, and People magazine, among many others.
Currently, Keya Morgan is producing and directing the highly
anticipated "Marilyn Monroe: Murder On Fifth Helena Drive," a
documentary which has so far been reported on in 189 countries around
the globe.
entrepreneur, Keya Morgan first appeared on CNN as a child business
prodigy at age 11, and has since lent his expertise to clients that
comprise dozens of the world's most famous people and prestigious
institutions. These include the White House, the Library of Congress,
the Smithsonian Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Stanford
University, and the Louvre Museum in Paris.
A native New Yorker, Keya first developed a deep and abiding interest
in Marilyn Monroe during the mid-1990s, thanks partly to his friendship
with her third husband Arthur Miller and later her first husband James
Dougherty. He then began to research the circumstances surrounding her
mysterious death in earnest after speaking with Jack Clemmons, the
first police officer on the scene, who informed him that Marilyn had
succumbed to murder, not suicide. This, in turn, led Keya to interview
over 300 people -- everyone from her husbands, friends, doctor, maid,
publicist, and pall bearer to the coroner, the prosecutor, the man who
signed her death certificate, CIA agents, a former head of the FBI, and
a long list of other people with first-hand knowledge of details
relating to her demise.
At the one and only Marilyn Monroe estate auction, held by Christie's
on October 27, 1999, Keya Morgan bought hundreds of items, including
much of Marilyn's private library, with many personally inscribed
books. Along with many other items he accumulated over the years, he
now possesses the largest Monroe collection in the world, as well as
large portions of the estates of her second husband Joe DiMaggio and
close friend Marlon Brando.
Additionally, Keya Morgan owns the world's largest collections of both
Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln manuscripts, artifacts, and
original photographs, many of which have been featured in numerous
documentaries, books, newspapers, and magazines, including the cover of
Time on no less than three occasions. Today, items from the Keya Morgan
Collection are continually on exhibit at the Smithsonian, the Library
of Congress, and the White House.
In a full-page article which President Barack Obama wrote for Time, he
remarked that his favorite photograph of Lincoln is one belonging to
the Keya Morgan Collection. Later, Keya made national headlines when he
discovered the only photograph of Lincoln in front of the White House.
A voting member of the Recording Academy (Grammy Awards), Keya has
worked very closely with Michael Jackson, Buzz Aldrin, Al Pacino, and
dozens of other high-profile celebrities. He has been repeatedly
interviewed and quoted by every major national media outlet, as well as
thousands of different newspapers and websites worldwide, including
CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, The Today Show, GMA, The Early
Show, Reuters, the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Washington
Post, the New York Post, the New York Daily News, USA Today, the L.A.
Times, and People magazine, among many others.
Currently, Keya Morgan is producing and directing the highly
anticipated "Marilyn Monroe: Murder On Fifth Helena Drive," a
documentary which has so far been reported on in 189 countries around
the globe.