# Marilyn Monroe divorces Joe DiMaggio on 27 October 1954 after a short public marriage

Date: 1954

## The fact

Britannica dates the October 1954 divorce filing and decree ending the DiMaggio marriage amid reported conflict over her career and publicity. Attorneys share the file.

It is one event.

## Context

January marriage and Wrong Door Raid neighbour this. Korea tour sits earlier in 1954.

[Marilyn Monroe](/people/marilyn-monroe)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Studio publicity versus private control disputes; Seven Year Itch subway shooting tensions are adjacent lore.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and AFI biographical notes independently date the October 1954 DiMaggio divorce.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Marilyn Monroe (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marilyn-Monroe; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

A public celebrity divorce under career conflict is a polarisation path.

## What is established and what is not

Established: October 1954 divorce in the biography file.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Marilyn Monroe.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `political-polarization` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Marilyn Monroe did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Keep distinct from the January marriage row. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Marilyn Monroe.
The driver `political-polarization` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Marilyn Monroe did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Keep distinct from the January marriage row. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Marilyn Monroe.

## People

- Marilyn Monroe: https://factrail.ai/people/marilyn-monroe

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marilyn-Monroe
- https://catalog.afi.com/Person/129923-Marilyn-Monroe

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mm-dimaggio-divorce-1954