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Feb 24, 2024 · James Dougherty fully moved on from his first marriage. But it still stung when he got the news on Aug. 5, 1962, that Marilyn Monroe had died at the age of 36 from an overdose of barbiturates. “It was like someone had kicked me in the stomach,” he recalled.
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Jul 13, 2023 · Marilyn Monroe’s first husband, James E. Dougherty (Photo Credit: Bettmann / Getty Images) In 1949, he became a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department and went on to help in the formation of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) group, serving as their first training officer.
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James Dougherty, a retired Los Angeles police detective who earned a niche in Hollywood history when he married a pretty teenager named Norma Jean Baker in the early 1940s, years before she...
Oct 24, 2021 · Marilyn’s first husband was James Dougherty, a Los Angeles police officer. They began dating in January 1942 and were married in June of that year, just 18 days after Marilyn (then Norma Jean Baker) celebrated her 16th birthday.
- Jim Dougherty (1942 - 1946) LAPD policeman James Dougherty was Monroe’s first husband. On June 19, 1942, Monroe married Dougherty, then 21, when she was 16 years old.
- Joe DiMaggio (1954 - 1955) In 1954, Monroe married her second husband and former New York Yankees baseball player, Joe DiMaggio, per PBS. By that time, DiMaggio had been retired for three years and Monroe was a famous actor, with “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and “How to Marry a Millionaire” as credits.
- Arthur Miller (1956 - 1961) Monroe’s longest marriage was to her third husband, “Crucible” playwright Arthur Miller. They met in 1951, according to “The Genius and the Goddess,” a book about their relationship.
May 31, 2017 · During her short lifetime, Marilyn Monroe married and divorced three distinctly different men: her high school sweetheart, James Dougherty; Yankees baseball star Joe DiMaggio, and playwright...
Feb 20, 2024 · Marilyn Monroe Married James Dougherty When She Was 16 Years Old. Michael Ochs Archives/Moviepix/Getty Images. In 1941, Monroe was 15 years old and still a ward of the state, living...
