Monroe divorce papers among auction items

Marilyn Monroe in the classic film, 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'.

More than 200 items from the estate of Marilyn Monroe will be put up for auction in June.

The items include her Joe DiMaggio divorce papers, her personal phone directory and an original watercolour painting made and inscribed to President John Kennedy for his birthday. Monroe died in August 1962 before giving the painting to Kennedy.

The New York auction will also include her 1956 application to a New York City court to change her name from Norma Jean Mortenson to Marilyn Monroe and a pearl grey silk dress she wore in the 1960 film Let's Make Love.