Marilyn Monroe's Brentwood Home, Estate of the Day

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Jul 14th 2010 at 1:01PM

Everything related to Marilyn Monroe seems to sell at a premium whether it's her clothing, images of her or even her chest x-rays which sold recently for $45,000. But the most special Marilyn collectible might be her home in Brentwood, California. The four-bedroom property is a Spanish-style home built in 1929 on a little over a half an acre of property that includes a pool and a separate play house. The Daily Mail reports that Monroe bought the home in 1962 and lived in the home for just six months until her death on August 5, 1962.

Inside the home is as charming as its former owner. Listing pictures reveal beamed ceilings, tiled floors and pointed arches. The home has a very peaceful feel with French doors that open to private courtyard. An open kitchen, family room with a tiled fireplace and a game room up the appeal. The home is listed at $3.595 million with David Offer of Prudential California Realty, less than the$4.6 million price achieved fetched last year for a Marilyn-adjacent burial on eBay last year.

Curbed LA did some digging and found that Monroe may have paid around $90,000 for the house when she bought it (with a 15-year mortgage that had payments of $320 a month). The home last sold back in 1994 for $995,000. The home does still attract Marilyn fans eager for a peek of the home but a high wall protects it from lookie-loos.

Gallery: Marilyn Monroe's Brentwood home

Tags: brentwood, california real estate, los angeles real estate, Marilyn Monroe, marilyn monroe auction, marilyn monroe house, marilyn monroe x-rays

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T. Leeflang Jul 14th 2010 2:08PM

Lovely home, but I'd still feel uneasy living there, considering its history.

DJ Jul 14th 2010 4:34PM

ITA, even though she's been dead for nearly 50 years, you'll still have all of the curiosity seekers coming around for many more years.

Despite that it's a beautiful home.

Linda Jul 14th 2010 4:55PM

Who owns the property? does she have family

Stephen Roesler Jul 14th 2010 7:54PM

Fabulous fabulous fabulous.

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Lune Jul 15th 2010 4:02AM

It's still a lovely home,but I would have left the kitchen as M.M. had it.There was a beautiful blue tile around wall.

mark christian Jul 15th 2010 2:25PM

I was lucky enough to visit the place in 1994 when it was for sale, since I lived within walking distance and frequently walked in the area. It is a gorgeous home but there are hundreds, maybe thousands pf similar homes in SoCal. Whoever buys it might want to do some spiritual cleansing, considering the intensity of evil that took place there back in 1962- a sweet soul being murdered-either by a cursed clan or by herself. Then again, any prospective buyer might want to examine their soul as to why they would want to pay twice the market value or more just because an American "idol" in the truest sense, happened to live there for six months. Ironically, inscribed in tile at the front entrance, was a Latin inscription that, translated, reads "here my journey ends." Prophetic, indeed.

corn5025 Jul 16th 2010 7:30PM

O, Mark !!
I can buy this gorgeous old house for only reason - to transform it into Marilyn Monroe Museum. MM is an American Legend, she's part of American culture, somehow MM is a part of American history.
Mark, your note about the house is very interesting , informative and would be used for future visitors. I have no money to buy this house, but my wish for the buyer- be smart. You're buying the GOLD EGG.
And you as a buyer will be in American history with Marilyn Monroe.

kylady Jul 16th 2010 9:20PM

Mark,I have read a lot about M.M. and her house keeper got the home when she passed,I read where Robert K. and Peter L. was the last ones be seen in that house before they found M.M dead,she talked to her step son on the phone,the last person she talked too.Yes there are a lot to that house,that people will always be wanting to look at.We will never find out.It is sad ,no body claimed her ,Just her ex-husband,Joe D.