The legal saga regarding Marilyn Monroe ’s former Los Angeles home continues. Since 2023, the owners of the Brentwood property, where Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe lived and died in 1962, have been butting heads with the city over their right to demolish the property . In the latest development, libertarian-leaning public interest law firm Pacific Legal Foundation has stepped in to represent the owners pro bono in a federal lawsuit, Brinah Milstein et al. v. City of Los Angeles. The house in question is the only home the film star ever owned. Bettmann A little backstory, for those who haven’t been following along: Monroe purchased the 1920s Spanish-style bungalow for $77,500 in February 1962, six months before dying, apparently of an overdose of barbituates, inside the residence . It was the first (and only) home that she owned herself.…