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Hollywood’s iconic “blonde bombshell” Marilyn Monroe left us way too soon, and now her house where she lived—and died in 1962—may also be lost if we don’t act quickly. Previous owners filed plans to build a new house on the site of Monroe’s 1929 Spanish, hacienda-style home in Brentwood, and current owners are seeking to have the house demolished, whereby clearance for a demolition permit was nearly in place. While identified in 2013 by the City’s SurveyLA program as being potentially historic, the house is currently unprotected. Park introduced a motion to initiate consideration of the home for historic preservation, and the council unanimously voted to move forward, prompting the city’s building department to revoke the demolition permit. The motion also prevents any major alterations to the property while the city reviews its potential status as a landmark. New York Post reports that the owner of Fifth Helena Drive has filed for demolition permits.
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Per the LA Times, the department now plans to revoke the demolition paperwork that was filed. From here, LA’s Office of Historic Resources will research and assess the home and present their findings to the Historic Cultural Commission, which will then make their recommendation to the City Council. On Sept. 8, the council voted unanimously to temporarily suspend a demolition permit filed by the home’s current owner, Glory of the Snow Trust, according to the Los Angeles Times. Shortly before Monroe’s death, the star invited Life magazine into her Brentwood home. She walked from room to room, lovingly pointing out where she planned to place each couch, table and lamp that had not yet arrived.
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The motion to protect the home was introduced by Councilwoman Traci Park, who represents the city’s 11th district, which includes Brentwood. Ms. Park found out about the looming demolition on Sept. 6 after an article in The New York Post was circulated widely among her constituents, she said. Six months after she moved in, Ms. Monroe died of a drug overdose in her bedroom. The Los Angeles City Council has saved the actress’s Brentwood home from demolition — temporarily. Sixty years after her death there from an overdose, fans still leave flowers at the gate. It is located in the Windsor Square neighborhood, a historic district east of Hancock Park.
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The 2,600 square foot home, which has four bedrooms and three baths, was purchased last month by an anonymous buyer for $8.4 million. During the press conference, Park revealed that she and her team “sprung into action” after learning just two days before that Monroe’s “beloved final residence” was scheduled for demolition. Back in 2014, Emerald Lake hedge fund manager Dan Lukas and his wife Anne Jarmain paid $7.3 million for the Monroe estate, and have lived at the property in the years since. Six months ago, however, the couple paid $13 million for a larger home in the same neighborhood.
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Monroe bought the property in the early 1960s after the end of her third marriage, to playwright Arthur Miller, for $75,000. According to the city, “now that the nomination has been initiated, Los Angeles City Planning Office of Historic Resources staff will prepare the nomination. From the time of the initiation, the Cultural Heritage Commission has 75 days to review the nomination and make a recommendation to the City Council.
But once designated a "monument," the home cannot be touched until the city's historic commission studies those plans and gives them the green light. Last month, Lukas and Jarmain quietly sold the Monroe house to a buyer who has not yet been publicly identified. That person paid nearly $8.4 million for the property, in cash, and almost immediately applied for a demolition permit. The L.A. Department of Building and Safety recently approved the request for a “plan check” of the proposed work, though an official permit has not yet been issued.
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Earlier this year, the owners of the Brentwood residence were listed as Glory of the Snow LLC, managed by Dan Lukas of Emerald Lake Capital and his wife Anne Jarmain, who did not respond to The Times’ request for comment. In August, Glory of the Snow LLC sold the property to Glory of the Snow Trust for $8.35 million. Outdoors, lush lawns surrounded a brick patio and a kidney-shaped swimming pool. Mature trees, a guest house and a small citrus grove filled out the half-acre grounds. The Latin phrase “Cursum Perficio,” which translates to “My journey ends here,” adorned tiles on the front porch — a foreboding inscription after Monroe was found dead of an apparent barbiturate overdose in her bedroom in 1962. The property, which features a guest house and swimming pool, was purchased in 2017 for $7.25m by Glory of the Snow LLC, then managed by a hedge fund executive, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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Now renamed Granville Towers, the building has been home to many bold-faced names, including David Bowie and Nora Ephron. Park said the house was sold in July and the new owners recently filed a request to have it demolished. “Unfortunately, the Department of Building and Safety issued a demolition permit before my team and I could fully intervene and get this issue resolved,” Park said in a news conference on Friday. On Friday, the city’s Board of Building and Safety Commissioners sent the home’s current owners a notice of intent to revoke the permit request to demolish the estate.
She reportedly purchased it after her psychiatrist advised her to "put down some roots." The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Friday to begin a process that would designate the home as a historic and cultural monument, saving it from demolition. Though many New York City buildings eschew thirteenth floors, that was the location of the airy prewar East 57th Street apartment where Monroe and Miller lived as Miller wrote the screenplay for what would be his wife’s final film, 1961’s The Misfits. The 2,190-square-foot three-bedroom three-and-a-half-bath apartment has high ceilings, a wood-burning fireplace, and impressive city views of the Queensboro Bridge and the East River.
Monroe purchased the Brentwood home in the early 1960s, where she died after an overdose in 1962 at the age of 36. The Los Angeles Times previously reported that the property was purchased in 2017 for $7.25 million by Glory of the Snow LLC, which is managed by hedge fund manager Dan Lukas, then sold to Glory of the Snow Trust for $8.35 million earlier this year. The passage immediately triggered a temporary stay on a demolition permit that the city’s building department had approved just a day before. According to city records, on Sept. 7 the building department approved the demolition of the single-family home, attached garage, pool house and storage. Monroe’s bedroom had a tiled fireplace—as did the living room—with patio doors leading to a courtyard.
A year after her death, it passed into the hands of a married couple, Gilbert and Betty J. Nunez, who also took possession of many of the personal belongings accumulated by the actress, which they auctioned decades later. “For people all over the world, Marilyn Monroe was more than just a movie icon. Her story, from her challenging childhood growing up in orphanages and foster homes to becoming a global sensation, is a shining example of what it means to overcome adversity,” she said. Monroe purchased the single-story, 2,900-sq-ft (270-sq-meter) house in the early 1960s for $75,000 after the end of her third marriage to playwright Arthur Miller, according to the Times.
“Anybody who likes my house, I am sure I will get along with,” she said. Monroe’s home was still filled with unpacked moving boxes at the time of her death, just six months after she purchased the only home she ever owned. The nomination study comes first, but it may take up to six months for the city to make a decision on whether to consider (if it does, which everything indicates it will) the house as a Historic-Cultural Monument, and on how to protect it afterward. After stays at a women-only residence, assorted LA apartments and hotels, and the Beverly Hills home of her agent (who left his wife for her), in 1952, Monroe rented a house that she and DiMaggio ultimately lived in during their short marriage. Built in 1938, the two-story walled-and-gated 3,335-square-foot Spanish-style villa has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, and a living room with a wood-beamed ceiling and French doors that open onto a terra-cotta terrace with canyon views. The five-member Cultural Heritage Commission voted unanimously to prevent demolition efforts of the iconic movie star's home, located at block of Fifth Helena Drive.
Most notably, the kitchen and bathrooms have been modernized, and the estate’s formerly detached guest casita has been merged into the main house. Still, numerous original features — casement windows, terracotta tile floors, wood-beamed ceilings — happily hark back to Golden Age times. “Like the many, many hundreds of people from all over the world who have contacted my office over the last 48 hours, I am extremely concerned about this and I recognize the need for urgent action by the city,” Park said. During Park’s press conference, she voiced the importance of fighting demolition of the only home the “Some Like It Hot” actor ever owned. Shortly after that home tour, the actress died at the house in August 1962.
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