I put Dimaggio in the same bucket as Sinatra and Ted Williams - sometimes flawed characters with a deep sense of loyalty and honor.
Sinatra dumped Mia Farrow over Rosemary’s Baby and Williams was tough to get close to, but deeply devoted to liflong friends and family, to the point where the latter was able to exploit him.
In 1972, actress Veronica Hamel and her husband became the new owners of Marilyn’s Brentwood home. They hired a contractor to replace the roof and remodel the house, and the contractor discovered a sophisticated eavesdropping and telephone tapping system that covered every room in the house. The components were not commercially available in 1962, but were in the words of a retired Justice Department official, “standard FBI issue.” This discovery lent further support to claims of conspiracy theorists that Marilyn had been under surveillance by the Kennedys and the Mafia. The new owners spent $100,000 to remove the bugging devices from the house.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000054/bio
When did Joe Dimaggio remarry?
I suspect MM was the love of his life but her lifestyle was not something he could accept. She died on August 5, 1962.
“According to Allen, on August 1, 1962, DiMaggio – alarmed by how Monroe had fallen in with people he considered detrimental to her well-being – quit his job with a PX supplier to ask her to remarry him.”
After Monroe’s death, DiMaggio claimed her body and arranged her funeral. For 20 years, he had a half-dozen red roses delivered to her crypt three times a week.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe