LOS ANGELES.- The casa in which Marilyn Monroe died in 1962 was declared monument cultural history this Wednesday by the authorities of Los Angeles which saved it from being demolished, after a bitter legal battle.
The 14 members of the Los Angeles City Council voted to grant the designation and protect the 270-square-meter property located in the prestigious Brentwood neighborhood.
“We have an opportunity to do something today that should have been done 60 years ago,” said Councilwoman Traci Park, in a speech before voting for its protection.
“There is no other person or place in the city of Los Angeles more iconic than Marilyn Monroe and her home in Brentwood,” he added.
The residence
The statuesque diva of Gentlemen prefer blondes y Whit skirts and being crazy She purchased the four-bedroom Spanish Colonial-style property in February 1962. It was there that she was found dead six months later from an overdose when she was just 36 years old.
Six decades later, his followers continue to occasionally place flowers on the property, which is also a popular spot for tourists visiting Tinsel Town.
The house, built in the 1920s, has gone through several owners and renovations over the past sixty years.
It is currently owned by a couple who own the neighboring property and who bought this house in July for $8.35 million to demolish it and extend their residence, which sparked the legal battle a year ago.
Brinah Milstein and her husband, producer Roy Bank, had secured permission to proceed with their plan, but historians, Monroe fans and citizens mounted an opposition campaign that pushed the City Council to vote.
“Losing this piece of history, the only home Monroe ever owned, would be a devastating blow to historic preservation and to a city where less than 3 percent of historic designations are associated with women’s heritage,” Park said.
FUENTE: AFP
