"Say a prayer, Norma Jeane, Jimmy Dougherty's dead."

[Eve]

From the AP:

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) - James Dougherty, a retired Los Angeles detective who was the first man to marry Norma Jeane Baker - before she went off to Hollywood and took the name Marilyn Monroe - died Monday of complications of leukemia, in San Rafael, Calif., his stepdaughter, Annie Woods of Sabattus, told the Sun-Journal of Lewiston. He was 84.

Dougherty married Baker in 1942, before he went to sea as a merchant mariner. She was 16 at the time. Baker set out to pursue a Hollywood career while Dougherty was gone, and the two were divorced in 1946. Dougherty remarried twice.

Dougherty worked for the Los Angeles police department for 25 years, serving as a detective and training the department’s first Special Weapons and Tactics group. After his retirement in 1974, he moved to Arizona and later to Maine, living in the small town of Sabattus. Dougherty refused for years to talk about his time with Monroe, but after his second divorce he was more comfortable with the subject. In 1997, Dougherty wrote a book titled “To Norma Jeane with Love, Jimmie.”

[Eve]

Morning bump—he got a huge obit in the L.A. Times! So I guess Mar’ has all her husbands with her now: Jimmy Dougherty, Joe DiMaggio, Arthur Miller, and even her fake husband, Robert Slatzer.

[Annie-Xmas]

@Eve

Morning bump—he got a huge obit in the L.A. Times! So I guess Mar’ has all her husbands with her now: Jimmy Dougherty, Joe DiMaggio, Arthur Miller, and even her fake husband, Robert Slatzer.

Not to mention Jack & Bobby Kennedy.