Image Credit: Getty

GLAM BUT TRAGIC LIFE

MARILYN MONROE'S

Marilyn Monroe has captured public imagination again, just like she did so many decades ago

Image Credit: Getty

Kim Kardashian stunned the Internet by wearing Marilyn's iconic dress to the Met Gala

Image Credit: AFP

Marilyn wore it to sing Happy Birthday to then US President John F Kennedy in 1962

Image Credit: Getty

Born Norma Jeane Mortensen, Marilyn's glittering stardom was a patina over her troubled life

Image Credit: AFP

She never knew who her father was, her mother struggled with mental illness

Image Credit: AFP

At 16, in 1942, she married 21-year-old neighbour James Dougherty. They divorced in 1945

Image Credit: Getty

In 1954, the now famous-Marilyn Monroe married baseball legend Joe DiMaggiio

Image Credit: AFP

They were married less than a year and divorced amid allegations that he hit her

Image Credit: AFP

She married third husband Arthur Miller in 1956 and they divorced in 1961

Image Credit: AFP

Marilyn found a diary entry in which Arthur Miller wrote that he was “embarrassed” by her

Image Credit: AFP

Marilyn struggled with addiction and mental illness. She also suffered two miscarriages

Image Credit: AFP

She died in mysterious circumstances in 1962 at the age of 36. The coroner's verdict was drug overdose

Image Credit: AFP

To Read More 
Movies Stories 

Image Credit: AFP