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Marilyn Monroe’s Home Faces Demolition in Battle Over Landmarks
Marilyn Monroe's final home in Brentwood, California in 2023.
Photographer: Mario Tama/Getty ImagesMarilyn Monroe’s last home faces the wrecking ball if its owners get their way this week in a court bid to overturn its designation as a historic landmark.
Brinah Milstein, the daughter of a prominent Cleveland real estate developer, and Roy Bank, a reality TV producer, paid $8.35 million in 2023 for the Brentwood area property where the screen goddess known for Some Like it Hot and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes spent her final six months.