Let me tell you a story about a house.

It's a 2,300-square-foot Spanish-style house in Los Angeles. Over the past six decades, it's had at least 14 owners and undergone major city-approved renovations.

Now it's in disrepair and has sat vacant since 2019. In 2023, neighbors Brinah Milstein and Roy Bank bought it for about $8 million, planning to tear it down and make better use of the land next to theirs.

They did everything by the book – secured demolition and grading permits, spent about $30,000 preparing for the work.

Then the city changed its mind and revoked the permits.

Why? Because the house was briefly owned by Marilyn Monroe in 1962 – the year she died there.

More than 60 years later, the city decided that was enough to designate the property a "historical-cultural monument." In 2024, it made it official.

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