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(18 Nov 2016) MONROE'S 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. PRESIDENT' DRESS UP FOR AUCTION
Officials say a dress worn by Marilyn Monroe as she famously sang "Happy Birthday" to President John. F. Kennedy has sold for nearly $5 million at a Los Angeles auction.
Julien's Auctions says that the iconic, form-fitting gown was sold for $4.8 million Thursday night to Ripley's Believe It or Not.
The company said in a news release that the actress wore the Hollywood designer Jean Louis creation - flesh-colored and sparkling with over 2,500 handstitched crystals - on May 19, 1962, for an early 45th birthday celebration for Kennedy at New York's Madison Square Garden.
Monroe's breathy rendition of the birthday song has been broadcast repeatedly since, adding to the lore surrounding the screen icon.
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's office ruled was an overdose of barbiturates.
"This dress – it's so iconic, it's so memorable," said Martin Nolan, executive director of Julien's Auctions, ahead of the auction.
"Marilyn asked Jean Louis to create something bedazzling, something historic, something only Marilyn Monroe could wear. And boy did he deliver. Fifty-four years since then. It was one of the last public appearances for Marilyn Monroe before she sadly passed away. So this dress speaks to history, politics, the Kennedys, Monroe."
The dress was sold by Monroe's estate to a collector-slash investor for $1.25 million in 1999. He recently died, and the dress was up for auction alongside some 1,000 other Monroe-related items.

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