Marilyn Monroe's marital home bulldozed by Los Angeles developers

Hollywood history was just bulldozed.

Marilyn Monroe's Los Angeles home, where she lived shortly before becoming an international sex symbol, was bulldozed just days before city officials were scheduled to consider granting landmark status.

Fans and preservationists alike have been fighting to protect the home where a 19-year-old Norma Jeane Dougherty lived from 1944 to 1945 with her husband, James, and her in-laws. The Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission was scheduled to convene Thursday, but the real estate developer, who plans on building condominiums on the site, tore down the home on Monday before they were able to meet. According to the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the proper paperwork had not even been filed ahead of demolition.

KTLA reports city officials were planning on rejecting the landmark application anyway, as Monroe didn't live in the home at a significant time in her career.

During 1944 and 1945, Monroe inspected parachutes and sprayed fire retardant on airplanes. But in 1946 she would divorce her husband just as her modeling career was taking off, and take the name Marilyn Monroe.

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