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Marilyn Monroe's Lost Love Letters Sold For $121

Joe DiMaggio's love letter to Marilyn Monroe has sold for $78,125 at a Beverly Hills auction.
A view of a love letter written by Marilyn Monroe's ex-husband Joe Dimaggio as part of the Lost Archives of Marilyn Monroe at The Ross Art Group on November 25, 2014 in New York City.

BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- 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.

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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