Chateau Marmont Hotel
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The Chateau Marmont is a hotel built in West Hollywood, California in 1929 and modeled after the Chateau Amboise in France's Loire Valley. It has served as the backdrop for a number of events in the lives of well-known rock stars and actors.
- In 1982, John Belushi died of a drug overdose in one of its garden bungalows.
- Jim Morrison of The Doors used up what he called the eighth of his nine lives falling out of a window at the hotel.
- James Dean hopped in through a window to audition for Rebel Without a Cause.
- Led Zeppelin rode their motorcycles through the lobby one evening to cheering guests, and causing modest damage.
- Fashion photographer Helmut Newton died when his car crashed into a wall on the driveway of the hotel.
- Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded his vocals for By the Way in this hotel.
- It is the setting for the majority of the book What's A Girl To Do?.
- It appears in the HBO series Entourage when director Billy Walsh meets with Vincent Chase to discuss Queens Boulevard.
- Was briefly managed by former silent film actress Ann Little in her later years.
- The Hotel is referenced in the Grateful Dead song "West LA Fadeaway"
The hotel is currently owned and managed by Hotels AB, run by celebrity hotelier Andre Balazs.
