The Los Angeles mansion where Hollywood's legendary actress Marilyn Monroe was found dead in 1962, has been sold to a quick buyer for a whopping sum. According to reports, the mansion sold for $7.25 million a day before her birth anniversary.
The mansion located at 12305 5th Helena Drive in Los Angeles was the only home the Hollywood screen siren owned. The Brentwood home has sold for $7.25 million, which is $325,000 more than the asking price. Monroe's house was in the market for only 10 days.
Monroe's residence was built in 1929 and was the only property she owned. She purchased the property in the 1960s for $75,000 after her third divorce. The single-story home, which has a living space, four bedrooms and three bathrooms, which is spread across 2,624 square feet.
In 1962, at the age of 36, she was found dead by her psychiatrist with a phone receiver in her hand in the mansion. Monroe died of drug overdose on August 5, 1962.
Just weeks before she died, she gave an interview to Life Magazine in which she revealed how she brought the house and why she would not let anyone take photos her hacienda-style mansion.
"Before starting what was to be no less than a six-hour talk, she wanted to show me her house which she had personally searched out and bought. Describing it earlier she exclaimed, '... and it has walls.' She had refused LIFE any pictures of it, saying: 'I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like … ' It was a small, three-bedroom house built in Mexican style, the first home entirely her own she had ever had," the excerpts from the interview read.
"As she led me through the rooms, bare and makeshift as though someone lived there only temporarily, she described with loving excitement each couch and table and dresser, where it would go and what was special about it."
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