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Joe DiMaggio And Marilyn Monroe Photo Blocked From Book Jacket

First Posted: 10/12/10 04:46 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:00 PM ET

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Marilyn Monroe

New York Daily News:

Engelberg, who became the executor of DiMaggio's estate when the baseball star died in 1999 - and, in the process, the zealous gatekeeper of Joltin' Joe's legacy - has fired off a letter to Yale University Press warning that he will pursue "all legal remedies available" if the publisher persists in using a photo of the baseball great and the blond bombshell for the jacket of a book it's planning to issue next spring.

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Engelberg, who became the executor of DiMaggio's estate when the baseball star died in 1999 - and, in the process, the zealous gatekeeper of Joltin' Joe's legacy - has fired off a letter to Yale Unive...
Engelberg, who became the executor of DiMaggio's estate when the baseball star died in 1999 - and, in the process, the zealous gatekeeper of Joltin' Joe's legacy - has fired off a letter to Yale Unive...
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03:12 PM on 10/13/2010
I think the picture on the front page of Marilyn doing her subway dance is a Marilyn look alike.
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