Legal Battle Over Marilyn Monroe's L.A. Home Where She Died Delayed Amid Wildfires

The fate of the home where Marilyn Monroe died continues to be uncertain.
The Brentwood, Calif., mansion where the Hollywood icon was found dead in August of 1962 at age 36, is currently at the center of a nasty legal battle between the current owners who want to demolish the property and the City of Los Angeles who declared the house a historic cultural monument in 2024. However, due to the wildfires, the court proceedings have been halted.


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The Some Like It Hot actress snapped up the Mediterranean-style property in 1962 following her divorce from her third husband, Arthur Miller.
Six months later on August 4, 1962, Monroe passed away in the house after overdosing on barbiturates alone in her bedroom. Her death was ruled a probable suicide.

The mansion has been bought and sold 14 times since the blonde beauty died. In June 2023, real estate heiress Brinah Milstein and her husband, television producer Roy Bank, purchased it for $8.35 million.
The couple reside in the home next door and want to tear down Monroe's old property to rebuild over it.

Despite Milstein and Bank receiving a demolition permit to start work on the area, their plans were derailed in September 2023 when the Los Angeles City Council approved the motion to evaluate the property for historic-cultural monument designation.
By May 2024, the pair filed a complaint against the city, arguing they have the right to demolish the structure and alleged they violated the law when deeming the home a historical landmark.

"The city ignored all these communicated resolutions of opposition in furtherance of its singular efforts to illegally designate the property," Bank and Milstein claimed in court papers obtained by The Sun. "And, in so doing, irreparably and knowingly harm petitioners and plaintiffs."
Now, the judge in the case has decided to push the nonjury trial from March 13 to June 17 because the duo's attorneys have been affected by the wildfires destroying Tinseltown.

According to The Los Angeles Daily News, Milstein and Bank's lead attorney, Peter C. Sheridan, lost his home in the Pacific Palisades inferno. The other lawyer on their team also resides in the area and has been affected by the natural disaster.
The two attorneys claim they are still under the threat of evacuation as the fires continue to burn throughout the city.

Many groups, including the Brentwood Community Council, multiple homeowners' associations and the Mandeville Canyon Association have come out against the tearing down the final place Monroe called home.