No that viral picture doesn't show Hugh Hefner lighting a cigarette for Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
Many people paid tribute mentioning  Marilyn Monroe   who famously appeared on the very first cover of the first issue of Playboy magazine in December 1953.
However  a picture circulating on social media allegedly showing Hefner lighting a cigarette for  Monroe  in 1957 is a fake:
Hugh Hefner lighting a cigarette for  Marilyn Monroe  in 1957 #RIP â¥ï¸ pic.twitter.com/08KURpmNrm â IG: missjudijai (@JUDiJAiKRAZi) September 28  2017
Hugh Hefner will be buried next to  Marilyn Monroe   she was on the first ever cover of Playboy Magazine. pic.twitter.com/RHfXl3zqsu â Parker (@panoparker) September 28  2017
'Playboy to the end! Hugh Hefner will be buried in LA cemetery plot next to  Marilyn Monroe . He bought it for $75 000 in 1992.' pic.twitter.com/wexklQXMV0 â Sheharyar Khan (@iSheharyar) September 28  2017
The photograph actually shows English actor and director Laurence Olivier lighting a cigarette for  Monroe  during a press conference for the 1957 movie Prince and the Showgirl:
'Prince and the Showgirl' press conference in 1957  with  Marilyn Monroe  and Laurence Olivier. Image: SNAP/REX/Shutterstock
Also  Hefner never met  Monroe  in person  as he himself admitted on a 2011 interview with Piers Morgan on CNN:
Piers: Did you know  Marilyn Monroe ?
Hefner:  She  was actually in my brotherâs acting class in New York. But the reality is that I never met  her . I talked to  her  once on the phone  but I never met  her .  She  was gone  sadly  before I came out here.
Despite that  Hefner did purchase the space next to  Monroe 's vault at the Westwood Village Memorial Park  the celebrities' cemetery in Los Angeles  for $75 000 in 1992  according to Reuters and the BBC.
The first issue of Playboy  which came out in December 1953  was 48 pages long and featured inside a nude 1949 calendar shot of  Monroe   which Hefner bought for $200. All 70 000 copies of the magazine sold out within a few weeks.
 Monroe  died on 5 August 1962 in  her  Brentwood home of a drug overdose.
Many people paid tribute mentioning  Marilyn Monroe   who famously appeared on the very first cover of the first issue of Playboy magazine in December 1953.
However  a picture circulating on social media allegedly showing Hefner lighting a cigarette for  Monroe  in 1957 is a fake:
Hugh Hefner lighting a cigarette for  Marilyn Monroe  in 1957 #RIP â¥ï¸ pic.twitter.com/08KURpmNrm â IG: missjudijai (@JUDiJAiKRAZi) September 28  2017
Hugh Hefner will be buried next to  Marilyn Monroe   she was on the first ever cover of Playboy Magazine. pic.twitter.com/RHfXl3zqsu â Parker (@panoparker) September 28  2017
'Playboy to the end! Hugh Hefner will be buried in LA cemetery plot next to  [TGT] Marilyn Monroe . He bought  [TGT]  for $75 000 in 1992.' pic.twitter.com/wexklQXMV0 â Sheharyar Khan (@iSheharyar) September 28  2017
The photograph actually shows English actor and director Laurence Olivier lighting a cigarette for  Monroe  during a press conference for the 1957 movie Prince and the Showgirl:
'Prince and the Showgirl' press conference in 1957  with  Marilyn Monroe  and Laurence Olivier. Image: SNAP/REX/Shutterstock
Also  Hefner never met  Monroe  in person  as he himself admitted on a 2011 interview with Piers Morgan on CNN:
Piers: Did you know  Marilyn Monroe ?
Hefner:  She  was actually in my brotherâs acting class in New York. But the reality is that I never met  her . I talked to  her  once on the phone  but I never met  her .  She  was gone  sadly  before I came out here.
Despite that  Hefner did purchase the space next to   [TGT]  's vault at the Westwood Village Memorial Park  the celebrities' cemetery in Los Angeles  for $75 000 in 1992  according to Reuters and the BBC.
The first issue of Playboy  which came out in December 1953  was 48 pages long and featured inside a nude 1949 calendar shot of  Monroe   which Hefner bought for $200. All 70 000 copies of the magazine sold out within a few weeks.
  [TGT] died on 5 August 1962 in   [TGT]   Brentwood home of a drug overdose.