Tony Curtis confesses steamy affair with Marilyn Monroe

With a movie career spanning more than sixty years, Tony Curtis has earned a place in Hollywood history that few of his contemporaries can hope to explore. The man is a tinsel-town legend. But fame on this scale is not without flaws, and in his new  book, Tony — now 84 — reveals what may be the saddest experience of his long career.

In 1958, Tony, Jack Lemmon and a host of Hollywood’s ‘Golden Age’ names came together to create what is widely regarded as the most perfect comedy film of the era — ‘Some Like it Hot.’ Also starring with Tony was Marilyn Monroe, who played ‘Sugar Kane,’ and while making the movie the two had an affair.

Tony was married to ‘Psycho’ star Janet Leigh, and Marilyn was also betrothed – to writer, Arthur Miller. But passion won out, and Marilyn later discovered she was expecting a child.

Arthur believed that the baby was his…but Tony and Marilyn knew the whole truth. And three had a heated exchange on the ‘Some Like It…’ set, when Marilyn told Arthur about the affair, “I was stunned.” Tony tells the Enquirer. “I just stood there. The room was so silent, I could hear tires screeching on Santa Monica Boulevard.”

It didn’t help much that Tony’s wife, Janet was pregnant at the same time – with the baby that grew into Jamie Lee Curtis.

Once the movie was over, the two secret lovers then drifted apart. Marilyn later miscarried the baby, so the true parentage could never be proved. But in the book, “The Making of Some Like it Hot,” due out on September 28, Tony makes it quite clear that he was the dad.

Three years later, depressed and alone, Marilyn took her own life. Tony never saw his Sugar again.