8/7/1962 - NY NEWSPAPER - MARILYN MONROE DIES OF OVERDOSE - DIMAGGIO CLAIMS BODY

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Item up for sale is the original and complete (24 page,) August 7th, 1962, edition of the New York daily News, newspaper; the lead story of the day was of the death of Marilyn Monroe, who had died at her Brentwood, California, home on August 4th, 1962. She had gone to sleep that night, but her housekeeper, Eunice Murray, awoke during the night sensing something wrong and summoned her psychiatrist; once there he broke into her bedroom and discovered her dead on the morning of August 5th. He in turn called her personal physician, Hyman Engelberg, who pronounced her dead at 4:25 a.m.. Toxicology results would confirm that she had died of barbiturate poisoning. A determination of suicide was pending with the L.A. county coroner. She would lay at the morgue unclaimed, until her ex-husband, baseball great, Joe DiMaggio, flew into  L.A. and claimed her body.
Marilyn Monroe, was one of Hollywood's great luminaries; she would paint a tragic figure however; she  bounced around the foster care system and had been consigned to an orphanage as a child. She also was the victim of sexual molestation, before finally escaping the child care maze. She would become a successful model, and take Hollywood by storm with such films as: The Asphalt jungle; Niagra; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; How to Marry a Millionaire; The 7 Year Inch; Some Like it Hot; and, The Misfits. The beautiful starlet would die alone, her body autopsied, before her confidant and friend, Yankee legend, Joe DiMaggio, would claim her body, and see to her proper interment. This newspaper is fully described above. It's a great collectors item, suitable for framing.