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On the evening of August 4, 1962, American actress Marilyn Monroe died at age 36 of a barbiturate overdose inside her home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. Her body was discovered before dawn the following morning, on August 5.
12305 5th Helena Dr. is a home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. The house is most famous as the only residence Marilyn Monroe ever owned, and the location of her death on August 4, 1962. [ 1 ]
Marilyn Monroe (/ ˈ m æ r ə l ɪ n m ə n ˈ r oʊ / MARR-ə-lin mən-ROH; born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model.Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution.
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Original, 9/7/23: Marilyn Monroe's Los Angeles home in Brentwood, which she moved into in February 1962 and where she was found dead that August, is set to be demolished by its new owners. It was ...
Fans of Marilyn Monroe have won a battle to preserve her mark on Los Angeles and are a step closer to seeing a towering statue of the silver screen icon remain in Palm Springs. The Los Angeles ...
Sir Elton John and his husband, David Furnish, have loaned three images of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe to the Victoria and Albert musum (V&A), for its forthcoming exhibition Fragile Beauty. The ...
Gladys Pearl Baker, mother of actress Marilyn Monroe, lived at Rockhaven from 1952 to 1966. Baker was reported to have escaped from the sanitarium several times; a year after Monroe's death , she received press attention for having walked 15 miles to the Lakeview Terrace Baptist Church.