Legendary silver-screen star Marilyn Monroe’s house in Los Angeles’ Brentwood neighborhood was approved in its historical cultural monument nomination by the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday, a designation which is intended to help protect the landmark from demolition.

Famously known as the only house she’d ever owned, Monroe lived in the 1929 four-bedroom Spanish Colonial-style house for approximately six months, before she died of an apparent overdose there in 1962.

Current owners Brinah Milstein and her husband, reality TV producer Roy Bank, purchased the house in 2023 for over $8-million (US) and planned to demolish it to expand their property next door.

Just ahead of the unanimous vote, L.A. City Council member Traci Park said “There’s no other person or place in the city of Los Angeles as iconic as Marilyn Monroe and her Brentwood home”, noting that this “should’ve been done 60 years ago.”