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TIL In 1954 Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio broke into an apartment they believed DiMaggio’s wife Marilyn Monroe was using to have an affair. They rushed upstairs with a camera but soon realized they had accidentally broken into the neighboring apartment of 39-year-old secretary Florence Kotz

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