By John Gittelsohn, Bloomberg

Marilyn Monroe’s last home faces the wrecking ball if its owners get their way this week in a court bid to overturn its designation as a historic landmark.

Brinah Milstein, the daughter of a prominent Cleveland real estate developer, and Roy Bank, a reality TV producer, paid $8.35 million in 2023 for the Brentwood area property where the screen goddess known for Some Like it Hot and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes spent her final six months.

Shortly after the couple received a demolition permit, preservationists persuaded the city of Los Angeles to designate the house as a historic-cultural monument, sparing it from destruction. Milstein and Bank planned to combine the site with an adjacent lot, their residence since 2016, “to improve the property,” Peter Sheridan

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