Marilyn home illegally destroyed

Los Angeles city bosses rode roughshod over state and local laws by allowing a home where Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe briefly lived to be bulldozed to make way for a condominium, a court action claims.

The house where the Some Like It Hot actress lived for a year was pulled down days before a hearing on whether to consider making it a historic monument, according to the Los Angeles Times.

City chiefs did not recommend considering the house as a monument since Monroe did not break into the film industry until years later.