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.
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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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