‘Forced to preserve a monument’: how the fate of Marilyn Monroe’s LA home became a legal saga ^54.1%

The Guardian - By Andrew Gumbel - 5/10/2026, 3:00 PM

Negativity Bias 25.3% - Self-Serving Bias 13.7% - Appeal to Authority 13.1%

Marilyn Monroe is said to have had more than 50 addresses in her lifetime, but only once, in the final months before she died from a drug overdose at the age of 36, did she have a house she could call fully her own. The Hollywood star, burned out by the failure of her marriage to the playwright Arthur Miller and by health problems that... more