Early Monroe Photos Sell For Over $300K At Auction

Copyrights and images from Marilyn Monroe’s first photo shoot sold for $352,000 at an auction that also included items from Lady Gaga and John Lennon. Julien’s Auctions said the Monroe photos – taken in 1946 when she was still Norma Jeane Dougherty – were the highlight of the Beverly Hills auction known as “Icons & Idols.” The photos come with negatives and the rare right to sell and distribute them. A judge in September ruled they must be auctioned to settle debts of photographer Joseph Jasgur. A Lady Gaga dress sold for $31,250, and the prop gun used in her video for “Born This Way” went for $7,680. A 1969 caricature John Lennon drew of himself and Yoko Ono went for $90,000.