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Gold Rolex reveals Monroe's passion for JFK!
London UK - March 10, 2004
Marilyn Monroe's gift to former US President John F Kennedy on his 45th birthday reveals that there was much more than friendship between the two of them. A gold Rolex inscribed "Jack, With love as always from Marilyn, May 29th, 1962", which was given to the President by the blonde bombshell on his birthday is now on the auction block, with a price tag of 2.5 million pounds, reports Hello magazine.
The watch, encased in a gold box embossed with a poem entitled, 'A Heartfelt Plea On Your Birthday', seems to provide yet more testimony that Marilyn shared more than a fleeting friendship with the iconic leader.
The passionate verse inside, which begins, "Let lovers breathe their sighs", ends with the phrase, "And let me love or let me die".
Perhaps unsurprisingly, upon receiving the Rolex, the married JFK seemingly passed it to a trusted aide with instructions to "Get rid of it".
The report adds that the website, which is selling the timepiece, MomentsInTime.com, includes a letter from the son of the staff member in question. Entitled 'The Unwanted Gift', the note reads, "This watch was given to my late father in 1962... As a trusted and well respected member of the White House staff, my father was privy to much sensitive and potentially embarrassing information including the liaison dangereux with Marilyn Monroe."
Article by www.webindia123.com
