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American film star Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962).Baron/Getty Images

The Los Angeles mansion where Hollywood's legendary actress Marilyn Monroe was found dead in 1962, has been sold to a quick buyer for a whopping sum. According to reports, the mansion sold for $7.25 million a day before her birth anniversary. 

The mansion located at 12305 5th Helena Drive in Los Angeles was the only home the Hollywood screen siren owned. The Brentwood home has sold for $7.25 million, which is $325,000 more than the asking price. Monroe's house was in the market for only 10 days.

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An aerial view of the house where actress Marilyn Monroe died is seen on July 26, 2002 in Brentwood, California.Mel Bouzad/Getty Images

Monroe's residence was built in 1929 and was the only property she owned. She purchased the property in the 1960s for $75,000 after her third divorce. The single-story home, which has a living space, four bedrooms and three bathrooms, which is spread across 2,624 square feet.

In 1962, at the age of 36, she was found dead by her psychiatrist with a phone receiver in her hand in the mansion. Monroe died of drug overdose on August 5, 1962.

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The room where film actress Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Mortenson or Norma Jean Baker, 1926 - 1962) died.E. Murray/Fox Photos/Getty Images

Just weeks before she died, she gave an interview to Life Magazine in which she revealed how she brought the house and why she would not let anyone take photos her hacienda-style mansion.

"Before starting what was to be no less than a six-hour talk, she wanted to show me her house which she had personally searched out and bought. Describing it earlier she exclaimed, '... and it has walls.' She had refused LIFE any pictures of it, saying: 'I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like … ' It was a small, three-bedroom house built in Mexican style, the first home entirely her own she had ever had," the excerpts from the interview read.

"As she led me through the rooms, bare and makeshift as though someone lived there only temporarily, she described with loving excitement each couch and table and dresser, where it would go and what was special about it."

Check out the photos below: 

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An aerial view of the house where actress Marilyn Monroe died is seen on July 26, 2002 in Brentwood, California. The actress, famous for such films as 'The Seven Year Itch' and 'Some Like It Hot,' was found dead on August 5, 1962 in her Brentwood, California home of a drug overdose.Mel Bouzad/Getty Images
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A woman jumps for a better view through the gate outside the house where Marilyn Monroe died in Brentwood, on July 28, 2012 in California, during a tour ahead of the 50th anniversary of Monroe's mysterious death on August 5, 1962.FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/GettyImages
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American film actress Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Mortenson or Norma Jean Baker, 1926 - 1962).Baron/Getty Images
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American film star Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Mortenson or Norma Jean Baker, 1926 - 1962).Keystone Features/Getty Images
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Actress Marilyn Monroe poses for a portrait laying on the grass in 1954 in Palm Springs, California.Baron/Getty Images
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American actress Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962), circa 1950L. J. Willinger/Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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Picture from media preview of 'Marilyn, A California Classic' featuring photos of Marilyn Monroe which have never been seen at the Lladro Center June 10, 2001 in Beverly Hills, CA.Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images