Marriages
Dougherty was married three times. His first marriage was to Marilyn Monroe. While working part-time and living with his parents, Dougherty met Monroe (then known by her birth name of Norma Jeane Baker) when she was 15 and he was 20. They began dating. Monroe's foster family was moving away and couldn't take Monroe with them, so her foster mother suggested that Dougherty marry the underage Monroe, who otherwise may have had to return to an orphanage. In a later interview with the A&E Network, he told that his own mother also wanted him to marry Monroe. On June 19, 1942, Dougherty and Monroe married at the home of Chester Howell in Los Angeles. Since they met, she affectionately nicknamed him "Jimmie." In 1943, Dougherty joined the United States Merchant Marine. Prior to that he worked with Robert Mitchum in a defense plant. He was ordered to boot camp on Santa Catalina Island, California, then sent overseas in 1944. Norma Jeane started to work for Radioplane Company where she was included in a series of morale-boosting photographs, launching her career as a model and actress. She moved out of her mother-in-law's home and stopped writing to Dougherty. She filed for divorce in Las Vegas, Nevada, while he was in Shanghai, China; it was finalized on September 13, 1946. In To Norma Jeane With Love, Dougherty stated he was so depressed after his breakup with Monroe that he considered taking his own life, but he could not bear the thought of his mother finding his body.
Dougherty's second marriage was to Patricia Scoman in 1947, when he joined the LAPD. They had three daughters Cheryl Ann Dougherty (born 1947), Vivian Kathleen Dougherty (born 1950),and Mary Irene Doughtery (born 1952). The couple divorced in 1972.
In 1974, Dougherty married a third time, to Rita Lambert. The couple relocated to her native Maine, settling in Sabattus. They were married until her death in 2003. He was noted to have become more outspoken about his relationship with Monroe after marrying Lambert. In 1997, Dougherty commented: "I love her, but I'm not in love with her. There's a lot of difference between loving someone and being in love."
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