Joe Jr. spoke with the starlet the night she died. DiMaggio didn’t seem very interested in parenthood. Close by in New York in the 1950s, DiMaggio never attended one of his boy’s football ...

For years after she died in 1962, DiMaggio sent roses for her grave but ... DiMaggio's only child was a son, Joe Jr., from his first marriage to Dorothy Arnold, an actress he met while working ...

October: On October 23, Dorothy gives birth to Joe Jr., 10 days after Paul Simon ... June: On June 18, Rosalie DiMaggio dies of throat cancer. This comes after the loss of DiMaggio’s father ...