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Marilyn Monroe love letters fetch $120k at auction

Marilyn Monroe and photographer Milt Greene pictured in 1956. Hulton Archive / Getty Images

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Joe DiMaggio’s love letter to Marilyn Monroe has sold for $78,125 at a Beverly Hills auction.

Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills says the letter, written by the baseball great after Monroe announced she was divorcing him, was sold Saturday to an undisclosed buyer.

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The letter during their brief, volatile marriage was among 300 items, dubbed “Marilyn Monroe’s Lost Archives,” that went on the block.

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.

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