By Christina Ng @ChristinaNg27 Mar 30, 2013 6:00am (Image credit: Baron/Getty Images|AP Photo) A letter from a lost Marilyn Monroe to mentor Lee Strasberg and one from an irritated John Lennon to Linda and Paul McCartney are among hundreds of historical objects set to be auctioned on May 30. It is part of the second in a series of auctions intended to sell about 3,000 artifacts from an anonymous collector. The first auction was a blockbuster sale, with a Vincent van Gogh letter selling for $336,000 and a Thomas Jefferson letter that sold for $300,000, according a news release announcing the latest auction. The auctions are being run by Profiles in History. PHOTOS: Expensive Items The upcoming auction includes letters and manuscripts from historical figures including George Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ernest Hemingway. One of the letters already garnering buzz is a despair-filled letter on Hotel Bel-Air stationary from Marilyn Monroe to her mentor and legendary acting coach, ...

New York, March 30 ( ANI ): Marilyn Monroe 's suicidal letter to mentor Lee Strasberg , Dwight D. Eisenhower 's heartfelt missives to his wife during World War II and John Lennon 's angry message for Paul McCartney are among hundreds of historical documents being offered in an online auction . Douglas Elliman 's Madison Avenue art gallery will display 250 documents that will be sold online, the New York Daily News reported. Monroe's handwritten, undated letter of despair to the famed acting teacher is expected to go for 30,000 dollars to 50,000 dollars in the May 30 sale. John Lennon's typed, undated draft that contained a hate message to Linda and Paul McCartney after the Beatles broke up is expected to fetch 40,000 dollars to 60,000 dollars. Meanwhile, Dwight D. Eisenhower's love notes for wife Mamie are believed to be among the largest group of Eisenhower letters to survive intact and could bring up to 120,000 dollars, Joseph Maddalena, whose Profiles i...

Dark details of the tragic life of Marilyn Monroe have been revealed in black and white with the upcoming sale of a handwritten suicidal message from the stricken star. The heartbreaking letter of despair was penned by the blonde bombshell to mentor Lee Strasberg and is undated but is believed to have been written shortly before her death on August 5, 1962 at her Los Angeles, Calif., home from a drug overdose, reported the New York Daily News . PHOTOS: Never-Before-Seen Photos Of Marilyn Monroe My will is weak but I cant stand anything. I sound crazy but I think Im going crazy, the Some Like It Hot star wrote on Hotel Bel-Air letterhead stationery to the highly acclaimed method actor and theater teacher. Its just that I get before a camera and my concentration and everything Im trying to learn leaves me. Then I feel like Im not existing in the human race at all. PHOTOS: Michelle Williams Channels Marilyn Monroe The beautifully scripted note is expected to fetch $30,000 to $50,000 w...

NEW YORK Marilyn Monroe's letter of despair to mentor Lee Strasberg, and Dwight D. Eisenhower's heartfelt missives to his wife during World War II are among hundreds of historical documents being offered in an online auction. Monroe's handwritten, undated letter to the famed acting teacher is expected to fetch $30,000 to $50,000 in the May 30 sale. "My will is weak but I can't stand anything. I sound crazy but I think I'm going crazy," Monroe wrote on Hotel Bel-Air letterhead stationery. "It's just that I get before a camera and my concentration and everything I'm trying to learn leaves me. Then I feel like I'm not existing in the human race at all." The 58 Eisenhower letters, handwritten between 1942 and 1945, range from news of the war to the Allied commander's devotion to his wife, Mamie. They are believed to be among the largest group of Eisenhower letters to survive intact and could bring up to $120,000, said Joseph Maddalen...

Marilyn Monroe , one of Americas most beloved pop cultural icons, and New Coke , one of its most despised, commanded the biggest bids in the first in a series of online Christies auctions of Andy Warhol artworks that ended Tuesday. The winning bids totaled $1.84 million for 124 auction lots. It was the second round of all-Warhol sales in a multi-year effort by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to liquidate its holdings to boost its grantmaking endowment. Winning bidders also must pay a 25% buyer's premium. The first sale, a regular auction in November at Christie's in New York City, reaped $17 million. QUIZ | At the auction house: Can you guess the price? I Love Your Kiss Forever Forever, a 1964 lithograph on two sheets of paper showing five different-colored pairs of Monroes lips, attracted 50 bids in the online auction and fetched $90,000 -- 16 times higher than the pre-sale top estimate of $5,000. New Coke, a colored screen print on two sheets of paper dated ar...

Marilyn Monroe, Harry Potter, Batman, the Incredible Hulk and a variety of Star Wars characters have been sculpted from sand on an English beach this week. The sand sculptures are part of this year's Hollywood-themed Weston-Super-Mare Sand Sculpture festival in the Somerset seaside resort. More than 20 award-winning sand sculptors from around the world have created tributes to their favourite characters as part of the town's movie-themed Easter beach fest. The annual festival started in 2006 with just two sand sculptors from The Netherlands who created a giant King Kong from 30 tonnes of sand. The following year, eight sculptors from across Europe turned 120 tonnes of sand into four sculptures, depicting fairy tales. This year artists have taken nine days - using more than 4000 tonnes of beach sand, water and wooden frames, to sculpt the mass. The sculptures are so dense they even withstand the rain.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Macys (NYSE:M) today unveiled Marilyn Monroe, an apparel collection that re-imagines the style of the greatest icon of the 20th century for the 21st century fashionista. The collection, created by LF USA and Authentic Brands Group, will infuse the actress unrivaled personality and retro styling into flirty and fun garments for the fashion-forward girl. This March, Marilyn Monroe will launch exclusively in the Mstylelab department at 150 Macys stores and online at macys.com. Customers and fans can look forward to an advertising campaign that immortalizes the starlets style through iconic photographs alongside the new collection. "We are thrilled to partner with the retail experts at Macy's to bring to life one of the things Marilyn loved most fashion," said Nick Woodhouse, president & CMO of Authentic Brands Group. "As one of the world's most famous style icons, it only made sense to create a Marilyn Monroe apparel collection that ...

By Daily Mail Reporter UPDATED: 14:29 EST, 20 March 2013 Photographer Bert Stern has opened up about the three-day session he spent with Marilyn Monroe for her Last Sitting, just six weeks before she died. In a clip from the upcoming documentary, Bert Stern: Original Madman, about the 83-year-old by Shannah Laumeister, Mr Stern recalls the 1962 shoot for Vogue magazine inside the Bel Air Hotel. In the clip, posted on Nowness , he said: 'I would never have taken any nudes of Marilyn if she didn't want to do it. I wasn't out to do nudes, I was out to do pictures. But I didn't know about clothes, I didn't see her in clothes. I saw her with jewellery, or something to cover her a little bit. Scroll down for video Screen legend: Photographer Bert Stern has opened up about the three-day session he spent with Marilyn Monroe for her Last Sitting, just six weeks before she died 'But it ended up to be more nude than I meant,' he added. After laying out sheer scarves a...

A giant Marilyn Monroe statue in Palm Springs, Calif., delights both locals and tourists alike. http://www.freep.com/VideoNetwork/2196400248001/Tourists-flock-to-giant-Marilyn-Monroe-statue http://bc_gvpc_od-f.akamaihd.net/media/963482463001/201302/694/963482463001_2196386233001_076bc6de-9967-45d6-8c84-e6a5bf619db5.mp4?pubId=35547428001&videoId=2196400248001 http://www.freep.com/VideoNetwork/2196400248001/Tourists-flock-to-giant-Marilyn-Monroe-statue http://bc_gvpc.edgesuite.net/img/963482463001/201302/2130/963482463001_2196245490001_961896998-134-1362101209927.jpg Tourists flock to giant Marilyn Monroe statue A giant Marilyn Monroe statue in Palm Springs, Calif., delights both locals and tourists alike. 146 Celebritymarilyn monroeLucille BallPalm SpringsOffbeat/Water Coolerthe desert sunvpcHollywoodmovie starentertainmentCaliforniastatuelifestylegene autryNational Newsgiant 00:48

By Daily Mail Reporter UPDATED: 14:29 EST, 20 March 2013 Photographer Bert Stern has opened up about the three-day session he spent with Marilyn Monroe for her Last Sitting, just six weeks before she died. In a clip from the upcoming documentary, Bert Stern: Original Madman, about the 83-year-old by Shannah Laumeister, Mr Stern recalls the 1962 shoot for Vogue magazine inside the Bel Air Hotel. In the clip, posted on Nowness , he said: 'I would never have taken any nudes of Marilyn if she didn't want to do it. I wasn't out to do nudes, I was out to do pictures. But I didn't know about clothes, I didn't see her in clothes. I saw her with jewellery, or something to cover her a little bit. Scroll down for video Screen legend: Photographer Bert Stern has opened up about the three-day session he spent with Marilyn Monroe for her Last Sitting, just six weeks before she died 'But it ended up to be more nude than I meant,' he added. After laying out sheer scarves a...

Tuesday, March 19, 2013, by Adrian Glick Kudler Click here to view the full photogallery. The sexy 1952 triplex in West Hollywood that housed both Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe has sold; the LA Times reports that the seller was Beverly Coburn , first wife of actor James Coburn. Part of the property originally went up for lease last summer, then the whole thing hit the market in the fall asking $4.75 million. The compound has a main house with a 100-foot-long living room, five fireplaces, and two bedrooms, plus courtyards and patios connecting it to the other two units--a studio above the garage with its own fireplace and terrace and a one-bedroom/one-bathroom built around an atrium. And while we'd originally thought Monroe and Sinatra living there at the same time would be too mad to imagine, apparently their "tenancies overlapped in 1961. She lived in her apartment, and he used his! as a getaway ...." Coburn bought the building in 1989 for $1.643 million; she...

Top Russian artist, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, who painstakingly transformed himself to resemble Adolf Hitler, Marilyn Monroe and Vladimir Putin for avant-garde photo performances, has died at 43, Russian news agencies reported Thursday. Mamyshev-Monroe drowned in a hotel swimming pool in Bali, Russian news agencies reported, citing the Russian embassy in Jakarta. He died on March 16 but his death was only reported Thursday. Born in Leningrad, he was part of the city's exuberant avant-garde scene in the 1980s, mixing with cult figures such as artist Timur Novikov and musician Sergei Kuryokhin. He began to experiment with dressing up and alternative personas while doing military service at Baikonur cosmodrome, where he ran children's art clubs, the state RIA Novosti news agency reported. In 1995, he had his first major exhibition at a Moscow gallery, portraying figures including Hitler and Monroe, whose surname he took as a pseudonym. In 2003, he was one of the artists to take p...

Marc Mehran/Maxppp/European Pressphoto Agency Willy Rizzo, at an exhibition in 2009, was known for, among many things, his poignant portraits of Marilyn Monroe. FASHION WAS A CHALLENGING SUBJECT for a photojournalist like Willy Rizzo. He was already well established and living in Paris in the 1950s, his subjects having included politicians, playboys and a pontiff, when Alexander Liberman, then the art director of Vogue, asked him to shoot for the magazine. Discussing how to approach the subject of couture, the two men talked about the importance of the model, the expression of her eyes and her movements. Like a writer facing a blank page, a photographer had to tell a story. While Mr. Rizzo, who died on Feb. 25 at the age of 84 (according to most biographies), was known for many things his poignant portraits of Marilyn Monroe taken in the weeks before her death, his coverage of the first Cannes Film Festival , his long career with Paris Match , his equally prolific work as a furniture...

By Daily Mail Reporter UPDATED: 14:29 EST, 20 March 2013 Photographer Bert Stern has opened up about the three-day session he spent with Marilyn Monroe for her Last Sitting, just six weeks before she died. In a clip from the upcoming documentary, Bert Stern: Original Madman, about the 83-year-old by Shannah Laumeister, Mr Stern recalls the 1962 shoot for Vogue magazine inside the Bel Air Hotel. In the clip, posted on Nowness , he said: 'I would never have taken any nudes of Marilyn if she didn't want to do it. I wasn't out to do nudes, I was out to do pictures. But I didn't know about clothes, I didn't see her in clothes. I saw her with jewellery, or something to cover her a little bit. Scroll down for video Screen legend: Photographer Bert Stern has opened up about the three-day session he spent with Marilyn Monroe for her Last Sitting, just six weeks before she died 'But it ended up to be more nude than I meant,' he added. After laying out sheer scarves a...