{"id":111024,"date":"2016-11-18T09:57:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T15:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=111024"},"modified":"2016-11-18T09:59:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T15:59:15","slug":"marilyns-dress-sells-at-auction-nearly-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=111024","title":{"rendered":"Marilyn&#8217;s dress sells at auction, nearly $5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_111025\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111025\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111025\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MonroeMarilyn-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"(Cecil Stoughton\/White House Photographs, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MonroeMarilyn-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MonroeMarilyn-768x562.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MonroeMarilyn-239x175.jpg 239w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MonroeMarilyn.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-111025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Cecil Stoughton\/White House Photographs, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Officials say a dress worn by Marilyn Monroe as she famously sang &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; to President John. F. Kennedy has sold for nearly $5 million at a Los Angeles auction.<\/p>\n<p>Julien&#8217;s Auctions says that the iconic, form-fitting gown was sold for $4.8 million Thursday night to Ripley&#8217;s Believe It or Not.<\/p>\n<p>The company says in a news release that the actress wore the Hollywood designer Jean Louis creation \u2014 flesh-colored and sparkling with over 2,500 handstitched crystals \u2014 on May 19, 1962, for an early 45th birthday celebration for Kennedy at New York&#8217;s Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Monroe&#8217;s breathy rendition of the birthday song has been broadcast repeatedly since, adding to the lore surrounding the screen icon.<\/p>\n<p>It was just a few months later on Aug. 5, that the 36-year-old Monroe was found dead from what the Los Angeles district attorney&#8217;s office ruled was an overdose of barbiturates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Officials say a dress worn by Marilyn Monroe as she famously sang &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; to President John. F. Kennedy has sold for nearly $5 million at a Los Angeles auction. Julien&#8217;s Auctions says that the iconic, form-fitting gown was sold for $4.8 million Thursday night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111027,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111024\/revisions\/111027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}