It might be the most famous birthday serenade in history, and a new auction only underscores the point.
The silk dress worn by Marilyn Monroe when she sang "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden in 1962 has just sold for $4.8 million USD, reports CNN.
The buyer is the Ripley's Entertainment Inc. (a division of Vancouver's Jim Pattison Group), which made the winning bid via Julien's Auctions.
The snug dress (CNN notes that as the story goes, Monroe had to be sewn into it), decked out with sequins and rhinestones, originally cost $12,000.
Monroe was found dead of a drug overdose about three months later after the now famous JFK birthday appearance.
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