夢露遺物緊身長裙拍得480萬美元天價

The dress worn by Marilyn Monroe as she sang "Happy Birthday Mr President" to John F Kennedy has been sold at auction for $4.8m (3.9m pounds).

瑪麗蓮·夢露爲約翰·肯尼迪總統獻唱“總統生日快樂”一曲時穿過的連衣裙，近日以480萬美元（390萬英鎊）的天價拍賣。

The figure-hugging Jean Louis gown, with 2,500 crystals, was bought by the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum chain, exceeding the $3m guide price.

這件鑲滿了2500顆水晶的讓·路易緊身連衣裙，最終由雷普利連鎖“信不信由你博物館”收入囊中，其收購價格遠超過指導價格300萬美元。

The company's vice president said it was "most iconic piece of pop culture that there is".

該公司的副總裁表示，這件連衣裙是“當時流行文化最具標誌性的物件”。

Monroe died from a drug overdose just three months after the performance. The sultry rendition for President Kennedy's 45th birthday at a 1962 Democratic fundraiser at New York's Madison Square was one of her last public appearances.

就在表演後的三個月，夢露死於藥物過量。1962年，在紐約麥迪遜廣場民主黨資金籌集活動中，夢露登臺進行了性感表演以慶祝肯尼迪總統45歲生日，而這也成爲她的最後一次公衆表演。

President Kennedy was shot dead a year later.

而就在一年後，肯尼迪總統遭槍殺身亡。

The dress, which the auction house said was so tight she had to be sewn into it, had previously been bought at auction for $1.3m in 1999 by the late business mogul and collector Martin Zweig.

拍賣行稱，這件連衣裙非常緊身，當年夢露必須先鑽進去然後再將裙子縫起來才行。在1999年的一次拍賣會上，它曾以130萬美元的價格由近代商業大亨、收藏家馬丁·茨威格購買。

Marilyn Monroe's billowing white dress from the Seven Year Itch sold for $4.6 million (plus $1m in commission) in 2011.

此外，瑪麗蓮·夢露在電影《七年之癢》中那件蓬鬆飄逸的白色連衣裙在2011年時拍賣價達到了460萬美元（再加上100萬美元佣金）。

The largest collection of the screen star's possessions ever offered for auction is being sold by Julien's auction house in Beverly Hills over three days.

持有最多夢露私人物品的是比佛利山莊的朱利安拍賣行，他們在三天內售出了大量夢露的私人物品。