Marilyn Monroe’s Historic Chocolate Wedding Suit Goes On Sale, But It’s Going To Cost You An Insane Amount

Marilyn Monroe’s historic chocolate wedding suit skirt — the one she wore when she married baseball great Joe DiMaggio — has gone up for sale and it’s going to cost you an insane amount if you are hoping to take it home.

Through the “Gotta Have Rock And Roll’ auction house, fans of the late-Hollywood screen legend can score a piece of history when they bid on the two-piece “dark brown serge wedding suit, with a white fur collar on the jacket” that’s described as in “very good condition,” according to the auction site. The starting minimum bid for the suit is set at $1 million.

“The measurements are as follows: Jacket: shoulder to cuff 20″, shoulder to waist 19”, it added. “Skirt: waist measures 27″, waist to hem 25″ The jacket has been shortened from the original length by a few inches, the bottom of the jacket has been folded and hemmed.”

“A tailor should be able to put the jacket back to its original length,” the description about the suit continued.  “Very good condition. Comes with original Sotheby’s auction catalog, a Gotta Have Rock & Roll Certificate of Authenticity and the original wire photograph that is pictured in the listing.”

The “Some Like It Hot” star and Yankees superstar tied the knot at San Francisco City Hall on January 14, 1954, the knot noted.

“This was the most important wedding in Pop Culture history,” the description on the auction site read. “Never before has there been a wedding of this stature of two iconic figures that were the leaders in their fields.”

It also shared a link where people can see the newsreel about Monroe and DiMaggio saying “I Do.” The auction house estimates that the wedding suit will go for somewhere between $1.5 million and $2 million. Fans can bid on the suit for another 10 days, when the sale runs through December 9.

The wedding suit was originally purchased at Saks Fifth Avenue by “The Seven Year Itch” star. She then gifted it to the mother-in-law of Milton Greene. Greene was Marilyn’s personal photographer.

DiMaggio was Monroe’s second marriage, but after 274 days the couple called it quits, the outlet noted. Marilyn was previously married for four years to James Dougherty, and after DiMaggio for five years to playwright Arthur Miller.

She died in 1962 of a drug overdose.

Three Stowaways Found Alive On Ship’s Rudder After Almost 2,800 Mile Journey At Sea

Three men were discovered on the rudder of a ship after they stowed away during an 11-day journey across the ocean from Nigeria to the Canary Islands. 

Two of the discovered stowaways were helped and put back on the ship in order to be deported. A local government spokesperson reportedly said that the third person had hypothermia and dehydration and is still in a hospital on Gran Canaria, one of the islands. A law enforcement spokesperson told Reuters that the law in Spain states that if a stowaway doesn’t seek asylum, they have to be sent back to the original port by whomever runs the ship.

According to the coast guard, the men were saved by a coast guard ship around 7p.m. local time on Monday evening. 

Three migrants rescued in Spain's Canary Islands, after apparently enduring an 11-day journey from Nigeria crouched on the rudder of a fuel tanker, should now be returned home under stowaway laws, a police spokesman told Reuters on Tuesday. https://t.co/l8yQpjzyuG pic.twitter.com/g51XlWKFJt

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Helena Maleno, director of Walking Borders, said that the stowaway men should have been told they had the right to request political asylum and should have been asked questions before they were put back on the boat, per Reuters. 

“The conditions of the journey are already an indication that something very serious may be behind it because the photos are incredible. We have never seen conditions like this where they have arrived alive,” Maleno pointed out. “These people have to be in a state of shock. They need a couple of days to recover and from there they can explain what they were running from to have made that decision.”

Many migrants attempt to get to Europe by way of the Canary Islands, but it is not a safe or pleasant journey. This year, over 11,600 people have come to the Spanish islands via ships, according to Spain’s Interior Ministry, the Associated Press reported. 

The MarineTraffic tracking site reportedly revealed that the boat departed from Nigeria on November 17 and got to Las Palmas on Monday — a distance of around 2,800 miles. 

In 2020, a 14-year-old teen arrived in Gran Canaria from Lagos after traveling for 15 days on a tanker’s rudder. He drank salt water and alternated sleeping in a hole located over the rudder with the other men on the journey.

“We were very weak. I never imagined it could be this hard,” he told outlet El Pais.

The amount of people coming to the Canary Islands from the western region of Africa has skyrocketed over the past few years.

As the BBC reported in 2020, from January to the end of July of that year, 3,269 migrants journeyed from West Africa to the Canary Islands. The number is almost a 600% spike from the same period of time in 2019, according to the International Organization for Migration.

Last year, the United Nation’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) stated there were 1,126 fatalities on the dangerous path.

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