Chateau Marmont Hotel

The Chateau Marmont is a located in West Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard Hotel, which was built in 1929 after the model of the Château d'Amboise in the Loire Valley French. It was also known by events in the life of various rock stars and actors:

• James Dean jumped through a window to his later role in ... for they know not what they do (1955 ) audition.
• In August 1965, the actress Christiane Schmidtmer learned here her future spouse, the polyglot and language teacher Michel Thomas know.
• After the American rock musician Jim Morrison ( The Doors ) had fallen in January 1971 from the roof of a two-storey bungalows at the " Chateau " he spoke of so have the eighth of his nine lives consumed.
• The members of the rock band Led Zeppelin crossed the lobby of the hotel on motorcycles.
• On March 5, 1982, the actor, comedian and musician John Belushi died in Bungalow 3 of the hotel.
• The skateboarder and musician Chad Muska claims to have lived for a year in the " Chateau ".
• The photographer Helmut Newton was killed on 23 January 2004 with his car outside the hotel and then died.
• The pop singer Britney Spears was banned after she had smeared in the hotel restaurant food in the face.
• The actress Lindsay Lohan was banned after they had not paid bills in the amount of U.S. $ 46,000.

Among the regular guests included the journalist and writer Hunter S. Thompson, the actor Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum and many other sizes of the American movie business. Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, it served as a backdrop.

Current owner of the hotel is owned by Andre Balazs Hotels AB chain.