MARILYN MONROE'S : GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD

MARILYN MONROE Golden Globe award sells for record at auction

Marilyn Monroe Golden Globe Award sold for a  record-breaking $250,000 at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, California, auction officials sold late Saturday.

The 1961 award statue for  World Film Favourite Female from the Hollywood  Foreign Press Association made history as the highest  selling Golden Globe sold at auction.

Monroe's  raven black  two-seater , 1956  Ford Thunderbird, which was auctioned for the first time fetched   $490,000   at  Icons & Idols : Hollywood, which took place on Friday and Saturday.

Monroe, one of the most collectible celebrities, was pictured driving in the car with her husband, playwright Arthur Miller, shortly after their June wedding.

The movie star owned the vehicle for six years until shortly before her death in 1962.

Darren Julien, president of Julien's Auctions, said the car was  ''not only part of automotive history but comes with an aura of glamour, romance and tragedy of a true Hollywood legend''.

Monroe gifted the Thunderbird to the son of her acting coach, Lee Strasberg, in 1962. [Reuters].