The Owners of Marilyn Monroe's Last Los Angeles Home Are Suing the City So They Can Demolish the House

A Los Angeles mates who ain nan spot wherever famed starlet Marilyn Monroe spent her last days is suing nan city, alleging they are being blocked from demolishing nan location truthful nan metropolis tin move it into a humanities landmark.

On Monday, Brinah Milstein and her hubby Roy Bank, filed a lawsuit successful Los Angeles Superior Court accusing nan metropolis of "illegal and unconstitutional conduct" aft being told that they could not demolish nan Brentwood, California, location erstwhile owned by Monroe, arsenic it is successful nan process of being declared a humanities landmark.

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According to nan lawsuit, nan owners were fixed a demolition licence soon aft purchasing nan spot successful July 2023. The mates purchased nan property for an estimated $8.5 cardinal and planned to sound down nan location to grow nan residence adjacent door, which they besides own.

"All of these backroom machinations were successful nan sanction of preserving a location which successful nary measurement meets immoderate of nan criteria for a 'Historic-Cultural Monument,'" nan suit reads. "For 60 years done 14 owners and galore remodels and building permits issued by nan city, nan metropolis has taken nary action regarding nan now-alleged 'historic' aliases 'cultural' position of nan house.''

The Helena Drive spot was nan tract of Monroe's decease astatine property 36 successful 1962. She had been surviving successful nan location for six months earlier her death.

"There is not a azygous portion of nan location that includes immoderate beingness grounds that Ms. Monroe ever spent a time astatine nan house, not a portion of furniture, not a overgarment chip, not a carpet, nothing," nan lawsuit says.

In September 2023, nan Los Angeles City Council halted nan demolition and began nan process of declaring nan spot a humanities landmark, overmuch to nan excitement of history buffs and Monroe fans.

The exertion to make nan spot a landmark received support earlier this twelvemonth from nan metropolis council's Cultural Heritage Commission and nan Planning and Land Use Management Committee.

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The suit claims that nan metropolis assembly has caused "irreparable damage" to nan couple, including $30,000 successful demolition-related expenses and stripping them of their "vested authorities arsenic owners of existent property."

The last determination connected nan spot receiving nan Historical Monument certification will hap by mid-June aft nan exertion goes earlier nan afloat metropolis council.