Some don’t like it hot.
A massive iconic statue of Marilyn Monroe with her dress flying up will be booted from its plum spot in Palm Springs — after locals called it “sexist” and complained that kids could see her underwear.
The steamy 26-foot statue — which shows the blonde bombshell in a scene from the 1955 flick “The Seven Year Itch” — had towered next to a downtown park, with her rear end facing the entrance of the Palm Springs Art Museum for three years.
The 17-ton sculpture, titled “Forever Marilyn” by Seward Johnson, will now be moved to a less visible location within the 1.5 acre green space, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
“The City Council is very pleased to have found a satisfactory solution to this issue, which has divided so many within our community,” the city’s mayor, Jeffrey Bernstein, told the paper.
The exact location within the park has not yet been determined, he said
The $1 million tourist attraction — which depicts Monroe’s white dress blown up by a Manhattan subway grate — was first removed from the city in 2014 then returned in 2021, sparking an uproar and a lawsuit.
Locals had complained that the statue was anti-feminist, subjected kids to a too-sexy sight and created parking problems.
The museum’s former executive director, Louis Grachos, previously said the art objectified the late actress and sex symbol, who died of a barbiturate overdose in 1962.
“You come out of the museum and the first thing you’re going to see is a 26-foot-tall Marilyn Monroe with her entire backside and underwear exposed,” he said.
Schoolchildren on field trips to the venerable institution will be forced to look at the star’s white panties, he told the city council in 2021.
“What message does that send to our young people, our visitors and community to present a statue that objectifies women, is sexually charged and disrespectful?” he said, according to reports at the time.
Elizabeth Armstrong, a former director of the museum, also bashed the statue as “a monument to misogyny,” saying it encouraged the practice of “up-skirting” — or taking photos up women’s dresses.
“At a time when sexual violence is on the rise, and women continue to be demonized around the globe, this piece is throwback, a relic of sexist, patriarchal attitudes,” she said in 2021.
When the sculpture was installed later that year, protesters showed up, waving signs that proclaimed, “It’s not nostalgia, it’s misogyny.”
A change.org petition then urged locals to “Stop the misogynist #MeTooMarilyn statue in Palm Springs.”
“If it must be displayed, move it down the road with the concrete dinosaurs near Cabazon, where it can exist as the campy roadside attraction it excels at being,” Los Angeles artist Nathan Coutts fumed in 2021.
A group known as the Committee to Relocate Marilyn sued the city over the sculpture later that year, claiming it blocked “important sight lines” and “co-opts the taxpayer-funded street.”
But Scott White, the president and chief executive of Visit Greater Palm Springs, said tourists love to visit the statue and snap selfies.
“It was immediately embraced by visitors,” he told the New York Times. “She’s been a huge success.”
The sculpture was purchased in 2021 for $1 million by P.S. Resorts, a hotels committee that promotes tourism.