It was a sad remnant of a marriage made in an uncertain Celebrity Heaven as auctioneers sold Joe DiMaggio’s love letter to Marilyn Monroe for $78,125 U.S. at a Beverly Hills auction Saturday. The letter was a last ditch effort by baseball hero DiMaggio to keep his gorgeous movie-star wife as their volatile marriage came to an end. Munroe had informed diMaggio that she was divorcing him. It was said he had dreamed of a quiet life together while she continued to be a much-sought-after sex symbol. The letter was sold to an undisclosed party. Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills also sold 300 items from a stache they called “Marilyn Monroe’s Lost Archives.” A handwritten letter from Monroe to her third and final husband, playwright Arthur Miller, sold for $43,750. Monroe, who died of a drug overdose at age 36 in 1962, willed the collection of letters to her mentor, the legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg. (Posted Sunday, December 7, 2014)
