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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Catherine Shoard

Kim Kardashian accused of doing ‘permanent damage’ to Marilyn Monroe’s dress

 Kim Kardashian at the Met Gala in May.
‘I’m extremely respectful to the dress’ … Kim Kardashian at the Met Gala in May. Photograph: John Nacion/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

A Marilyn Monroe collector has claimed that “permanent damage” has been inflicted by Kim Kardashian on the iconic dress Monroe wore to serenade John F Kennedy on his 45th birthday, shortly before the actor’s death.

Kardashian wore the gown to the Met Gala last month; photographs taken in the last week by Scott Fortner, a collector who works to authenticate and verify Monroe memorabilia, appeared to show stretched and buckled fabric and missing crystals on the back of the dress.

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