Monroe famously wore the nude cuddle dress to sing a suffocating version of Happy Birthday to President John F Kennedy in front of thousands in Madison Square Garden in 1962. Watching paparazzi photos and scanning recent interviews, social media users speculated that Kim was going to wear the dress after she and her new partner Pete Davidson were recently spotted in Orlando, Florida – the home of the Ripley’s Believe Museum. It or Not. In 2016, the dress, which contains more than 2,500 hand-stitched crystals, sold at auction at Ripley’s for nearly $ 5 million (3, 3.99 million). Read more: The good, the bad and the ugly from the red carpet of the Met Gala It was first sold at auction in 1999 for over $ 1 million as part of a sale of Monroe’s estate to Christie’s. It was then sold for $ 4.8 million at Julien’s auctions in 2016 and later acquired by Ripley’s. Image: The dress originally cost $ 12,000 (9 9,500) and the movie star had to sew on it. Image AP To date, it holds the record for the most expensive dress sold at auction. It is the first time it has been worn in public since the day Monroe sang in it. Kardashian was the last celebrity to walk the red carpet at the Met Gala with Davidson. She exchanged her signature long black hair for a tight platinum blonde bun, mimicking Monroe. The reality star and businesswoman told Vogue that she had to lose 16 kilos to fit in the dress and said that she would be “forever grateful” for the moment. All of Kardashian’s sisters attended the gala, as did her mother and manager Kris Jenner. The annual event, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, took place on Monday afternoon. Kim and Davidson made their red carpet appearance together last week at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington.
