Dress Monroe wore to announce DiMaggio split to be auctioned
LOS ANGELES — The black dress that a distraught Marilyn Monroe wore to a 1954 press conference announcing her separation from baseball legend Joe DiMaggio less than a year after she married him is going up for auction.
The simple wool dress with a zippered turtleneck front will be up for bidding starting on March 30, KruseGWS Auctions announced Wednesday.
The auction house expects the dress will fetch between $100,000 and $150,000. The seller’s name is not being made public.