Beverly Wilshire Hotel

The Beverly Wilshire Hotel (formerly the Regent Beverly Wilshire ) is an on Rodeo Drive located in the center of Beverly Hills luxury hotel and operated by Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts under license from Regent International Resorts since 1992. The built in 1928 by Walter G. McCarty and 1991 converted hotel features 395 rooms and suites.

The musician Elvis Presley and later the actor Warren Beatty lived for several years in hotel suites. It also became the home of John Lennon, as he had separated for a few months by Yoko Ono.

The American jet-set icon and department store heiress Barbara Hutton spent her last years poor and sick in hotel and died there in May 1979.

Celebrity guests were, inter alia, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito, the Dalai Lama and Sadruddin Aga Khan as well as the actor Michael Caine, Michael Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, Dustin Hoffman, Anjelica Huston, Robert Pattinson, Walter Matthau and Al Pacino.

The hotel was known by the movie Pretty Woman with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. In Valentine's Day it is shown.

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