Name issue

[Amsterdamska]

Hello,

I was wondering if it's legal to use names of famous people who aren't alive anymore. To be more specific:

I have to write a short story about the earth viewed from the perspective of a famous person who is dead and looks down from heaven, for example Marilyn Monroe. Of course I would put between brackets that the story is fiction. But at the end of the story I would put her name down on the last line, for example something like: "with love, M.M" So it's supposed to look like she wrote it from the other world.

Is this legal and could I sell it as well...?

Thanks in advance for your advice

[akula]

yes it's legal...i don't see you infringing on any of monroe estate's obvious rights...although there could be a case made for a copyright infringement..plus other problems..but who cares, it's an unpublished short story. no one's gonna enforce anything. technically, you are afforded certain creative license under the law, so run with it.

[Alexishost]

No trademark
That's not trademark for it. so it will be just fine and good for you.