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photo by Milton Greene
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Like so many summer days in Los Angeles, this one began as a balmy
and sunlit morning. It would grow warmer and sunnier, but the languid
summertime mood was shattered by news of a shocking event in one of the city’s most elite
enclaves. It was Sunday, August 5, 1962, the day Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her
West Los Angeles home, an empty pill bottle nearby. The story broke early and was
soon burning up newswires and airwaves across the globe. Frenzied news crews were camped out
around her hacienda-style house in Brentwood, a posh neighborhood that,
with Beverly Hills and Bel Air, is known as the city's "Platinum Triangle.” It was the
first home Marilyn Monroe ever owned on her own and she had moved in just five
months earlier.
