How singular it is that Marilyn Monroe, named by Playboy as the "Sexiest woman of the 20th century" died of a drug overdose, by her own hand, not long after her 36th birthday; that the most iconic of Hollywood stars, whose films earned millions of dollars for the industry, made so little money over the course of her career that, at her death in August 1962, there wasn't enough in her bank account to assure a funeral, and her body had to be transported to the county morgue to be redeemed only when a former husband, Joe DiMaggio, came forward with the required sum of money.
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