The Chateau Marmont is a hotel built in Los Angeles, 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?.

The hotel is currently owned and managed by Hotels AB, run by celebrity hotelier Andre Balazs.

External links

• Chateau Marmont official website
• What's A Girl To Do?

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