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DIMAGGIO Joe Jr

 

Joseph Paul DiMaggio Junior.

Date of birth : October 23, 1941, New York.

Date of death : August 7, 1999, Antioch, California.

 

Son of Joe DiMaggio and Dorothy Arnolds.

 

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Christmas 1941 : 

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In 1952, aged 10, he followed some courses at the Black Rock Military Academy of Los Angeles.

At the end of the 50's he also went to the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey.

Marilyn kept alive a very friendly relationship with him.

The day of her death, he had called Marilyn several times, from the Orange County where he served in the Marines (). He didn't manage to reach her : he was told or that Marilyn wasn't home either she wasn't available (calls at 2.00 PM and 4.30 PM).

Between 7.00 PM and 7.15 PM : Joe DiMaggio Jr called again and this time reached Marilyn. They had a brief  but pleasant conversation during which he told her that he had broken up his engagment with his fiancée that Marilyn didn't much appreciate.

Marilyn sounded to him happy and in a good mood (confirmed by Eunice Murray and Dr Greenson). They talked during about 10 minutes.

DiMaggio Jr could gave the exact time of his call because at that moment, he was watching a base-ball game.

Indeed, he stated that at the moment he was talking with Marilyn, he was watching on TV the 7th inning of a base-ball game : the Baltimore Orioles versus the Anaheim Angels, which played in Baltimore this evening. The game began shortly after 7.30 PM (time on the East Coast), which placed the 7th inning at about 10.00 PM.

 

 

He attended her funeral on August 8th 1962 :  

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He married Veronica Dawn Kelley, but the union last only 13 months and it ended with a divorce

(). He worked in real estate.

In March 1999, he attended his father's funeral and bore his casket, despite the fact that they hadn't talk to each other for several years.

After having lived a very dissipated life, homeless and drug addict, he died of an overdose, 6 months after his father's death in 1999.

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