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Poland to auction Monroe photos

WARSAW, Poland

Poland plans to auction off part of a photographic collection that includes hundreds of photographs of Marilyn Monroe.

The collection includes close to 4,000 photographs taken by the late celebrity photographer Milton H. Greene.

Some are well-known images, but Polish officials say they believe the collection might contain some previously unpublished works.

The photos ended up in Poland’s possession as the result of a complex embezzlement scandal that shook the country in the early 1990s.

A Chicago man accused of cheating Poland out of millions of dollars gave the collection to Poland in the 1990s in partial repayment for the government’s loss.

They have been stored in a New York warehouse since the 1990s and only returned to Warsaw in recent days.

Associated Press