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The 1960's 12305
Fifth Helena Drive, Brentwood: the house
where actress Marilyn Monroe
died of an overdose on the evening of August 4, 1962.
Cooke had taken a woman to the seedy motel, and after the shooting she claimed that he had tried to rape her. However, evidence suggests that she may have been a prostitute who might have tried to rob Cooke, leading to the chase. When Cooke broke down the door of the manager's office, where he mistakenly believed the woman had gone, the shocked manager shot him. *
The murders were the basis of the 1976 movie, "Helter
Skelter." Before the murders, this house had been the home of
Henry Fonda
and was the site where Cary Grant
& Dyan Cannon
honeymooned in 1965. (Since new buyers were reluctant to live there, in
1994, the owners tore down the original home and built a new 17,000 square
foot Mediterranean villa on the same site.)
Years earlier, Tom Mix movie Westerns were shot there. The remaining ranch buildings burned back in 1970, during the Manson trial. The main buildings
of the movie ranch were roughly where the map says "Santa Susana
Pass Road". Between Santa Susana Pass Road and Stagecoach Road, the
land dips down into a bowl that stretches across to the main ranch area. The Church of Rocky Peak was bought the property,
where they built a church and Christian day-care center.
His story was told in the 1974 movie "Lenny,"
starring Dustin Hoffman.
* locations marked by an asterisk could be located in a high-crime district. Exercise reasonable caution.
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