All this latest consideration, obtained me to serious about certainly one of Marilyn’s most well-known jewels—the baguette-cut diamond eternity band she obtained from baseball star Joe DiMaggio.
Marilyn Monroe having her make-up performed whereas sporting her eternity band. Picture by Milton Greene through the Marilyn Monroe Assortment
After relationship for 2 years, DiMaggio proposed spontaneously—in different phrases with out an engagement ring—on January 12, 1954 whereas the couple was on vacation in San Francisco visiting the Yankee Clipper’s household. Two days later they went to the native Metropolis Corridor for what was presupposed to be a secret civil ceremony with six friends, but it surely was leaked to the press and 100 photographers, reporters and followers present up.
For the event, Monroe wore a easy chocolate go well with with an ermine collar. DiMaggio was in a darkish blue go well with and the identical tie he had worn on their first date. On the finish of the three-minute ceremony performed by a choose, DiMaggio slipped a marriage ring on Monroe’s finger.
Most movie star jewellery watchers, together with yours actually, have at all times believed the ring was Monroe’s platinum eternity band set with 36 baguette-cut diamonds. When the ring is laid out side-by-side subsequent to marriage ceremony day photographs, as it’s above, it seems to be like that’s what she is sporting. A better inspection of the picture–and it actually is a problem to see–reveals {that a} idea by a web site known as The Marilyn Monroe Assortment concerning the ring could certainly be right. It appears to be an vintage ring with a cluster of little stones across the prime portion. For the reason that ring has by no means surfaced publicly their thought is that it might need been a household jewel borrowed for the hasty nuptials.
Sooner or later, and nobody is aware of when, the place or how, DiMaggio did changed the classic type piece with the beautiful eternity band that may be seen extra clearly, if not completely, on the Milton Inexperienced picture of Marilyn having her make-up performed.
When the baguette-cut diamond eternity band was bought at Christie’s in New York on October 27, 1999 as a part of The Private Property of Marilyn Monroe sale, it confirmed up quick one baguette however nonetheless bought for $772,500. An astonishing determine contemplating the excessive estimate was $50,000. Whereas the type of the jewel is a basic, the value clearly displays the enduring romantic picture of two American icons and their quick however memorable union—even when it wasn’t Monroe’s solely marriage ceremony ring.
,
