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Marilyn’s Home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive: SOLD!

September 9, 2010
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According to www.redfin.com, Marilyn Monroe’s home closed escrow on September 8, 2010, and sold for $3,850,000.00, well above the original asking price of $3,595,000.00.

To read about my tour of Marilyn’s home, click here.

Categories: 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, Brentwood, For Sale, Marilyn Monroe, Sold, Spanish Hacienda

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2 thoughts on “Marilyn’s Home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive: SOLD!”

  1. Leslie on September 10, 2010

    It must have been a bidding war. I wonder who bought it! Your pictures are awesome.

  2. Anonymous on September 19, 2010

    My husband and I went to this home…gated, darn…took some photos….Thrill beyond thrill to be there. Joy

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A super rare shot of Marilyn in Detroit, Michigan A super rare shot of Marilyn in Detroit, Michigan to promote Love Happy. According to news reports, this was July 8, 1949. (That hat!) @philiptreacy #marilynmonroe
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My “In Her 👠” tour continues with me inside Marilyn’s apartment building lobby at 444 East 57th Street in New York. Marilyn appears, exiting from her elevator on November 11, 1960. In this shot, I’m standing in the lobby in front of a set of double doors that Marilyn walks by as the heads toward the front doors of her building.   Her divorce from third husband Arthur Miller had just been announced, and she was surrounded by members of the press, both inside the lobby and waiting outside. They were asking for quotes and taking photos. In film footage from this same event a reporter is heard asking Marilyn, “What’s the reason for the breakup, can you tell us?” She responded with, “I’m sorry, I can’t talk about my personal life.” 
We’ve all experienced the end of relationships, resulting in pain and loss. Imagine, however, having the breakup be the headline in newspapers around the world.

There are still more NYC posts to come! My trip to Manhattan last January provided countless locations for my “In Her Shoes” series. Be sure to follow me for more “In Her 👠!” moments from New York! Remember to subscribe so you never miss a post. And, stay tuned for more photos from INSIDE Marilyn’s 444 East 57th Street apartment.   #marilynmonroe
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Super rare costume test shot. Marilyn Monroe, So Super rare costume test shot. Marilyn Monroe, Some Like It Hot, 1958. #marilynmonroe
When I asked her, “Has anyone ever accused you o When I asked her, “Has anyone ever accused you of wearing falsies?” she came through with a genuine Monroeism. “Yes,” she told me, her eyes flashing indignantly. “Naturally,” she went on, “it was another actress who accused me. My answer to that is, quote: Those who know me better know better. That’s all. Unquote.” Marilyn Monroe to Pete Martin for The Saturday Evening Post, published on May 19, 1956. #marilynmonroe
Without a doubt, one of the most interesting, uniq Without a doubt, one of the most interesting, unique, and poignant items in the collection: Marilyn Monroe’s personal maternity dress. She wore this dress during her final pregnancy in 1958, while filming Some Like it Hot. This dress sold originally at the 1999 Christie’s auction. Excerpts from “Marilyn Monroe” by Donald Spoto: Page 405: Professionally idle, dependent on his wife’s income, humiliated by what he saw as her childish caprice and contemptuous of Hollywood in any case, Arthur could no longer tolerate her or the marriage. But there was another problem, and that autumn, the atmosphere on location in Coronado was thick with tensions. “Arthur told me he would allow Marilyn to work only in the morning,” (Billy) Wilder recalled. He said she was too exhausted to submit to outside work in the afternoon sun. “The morning? She never shows up until after twelve! Arthur, bring her to me at nine and you can have her back at eleven-thirty!” We were working with a time bomb, we were twenty days behind schedule and God knows how much over budget, and she was taking a lot of pills. But we were working with Monroe, and she was platinum – not just the hair, and not just her box-office appeal. What you saw on the screen was priceless. The reason for Arthur’s request was simple: in late October, the Millers learned that Marilyn was pregnant again. Fortunately, her most strenuous scenes were already shot and the filming of Some Like It Hot was completed on November 6. By this time, director and star were barely speaking. Page 407: Returning to New York before the end of November, Marilyn was determined to rest during the early stages of her pregnancy. But on December 16, she miscarried; it was the last time she tried to be a mother. Both for sleep and as a tranquilizer, she had been taking Amytal, a brand name of the barbiturate amobarbital, and now she guiltily recalled Leon Krohn’s warning, as she wrote the Rostens: “Could I have killed it by taking all the Amytal on an empty stomach? I took some sherry wine also.” For weeks she was inconsolable, convinced that the drug abuse she now freely admitted had caused the spontaneous abortion. #marilynmonroe
Seven Year Itch. Marilyn, behind the scenes with d Seven Year Itch. Marilyn, behind the scenes with director Billy Wilder. 1954. #marilynmonroe
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