Heiress and TV Producer Hubby Sue for the Right to Tear Down Marilyn Monroe’s Home

A wealthy heiress and her reality TV producer husband, who own a California home once belonging to Marilyn Monroe, on Monday filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles in an effort to stop the house being designated a landmark—which would prevent them from demolishing it.

Brinah Milstein and Roy Bank, who bought the Brentwood property for $8.35 million last summer, were granted a demolition permit from the city, but their plans to tear down the building were temporarily halted by the council in September before the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission recommended historic cultural monument status in January. Milstein and Bank are now attempting to stop the status from going through.

In their lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, the plaintiffs accused city officials of “illegal and unconstitutional conduct” with respect to the “house where Marilyn Monroe occasionally lived for a mere six months before she tragically committed suicide 61 years ago,” according to KCAL-TV. They also accuse officials of “backdoor machinations” in order to preserve “a house which in no way meets any of the criteria” for a historic cultural monument.

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