For more than 90 years on a hillside, above Sunset Boulevard stands the imposing Chateau Marmont. One hotel overflowing luxury beautifully combined with the retro atmosphere of the old castle, designed in French style. But it is not the luxury, nor the luxury nor the wonderful location that make it sought after even today in its bosom Hollywood and not only. Chateau Marmont behind its closed heavy doors hides the secrets of glamorous stars and people of the entertainment industry, music and other places.
Secrets of obscenity, exaggerations that they themselves would like to stay there forever sealed and never told. But the thymosophical people say that "the walls also have ears" and the expensive Chateau Marmont could not be an exception. For many years, the sinful stories of the stars, who had found refuge in this hotel to live in moments of filth, were something of a common secret. A favorite gossip that now takes shape through the pages of a new book, The castle on sunset, where author Sean Levy describes it as a "refuge where conventional moral judgment was lost. ", where visitors' tendencies for sex or drinks or drugs were not simply observed, but were widely accepted."
At the Chateau Marmont, Jim Bellucci died in 1982 from a drug overdose, while in the more recent past the Scarlett Johansson and Benicio Del Toro had unbridled sex in his big elevator. The former castle just as easily opens its doors to the stars who want to live their own sin, closes them to the "bad" kids, such as Warren Beatty, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan who have "eaten" door.
Although this is not the official motto of the hotel, the phrase of the president of Columbia in the 30's, "If you want to get involved, go to Chateau" has found and still applies today. After all, the pages of the book host stories and scandals that in many cases the reader does not even think about. And will soon see on screen, since HBO secured the rights. Let's look at some of them:
The tragic deaths of John Bellucci and Helmut Newton
In February 1982, 33-year-old actor John Bellucci passed through the gates of the iconic hotel. His drug addiction was known to all and in vain his own people tried to persuade him to join a detox program. He chose to retire to one of the Chateau Marmont bungalows, where on March 5, his personal trainer and bodyguard found him unconscious from a drug overdose. Chateau Marmont soon became known as the "hotel where Bellucci died". The last people to see him were Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
In the same place he died tragically Helmut Newton, in 2004. The famous photographer was driving out of the hotel garage when he lost control and crashed into a wall, losing his life. It was later established that he had been opposed.
The "Rebel Without a Cause" was born in Chateau Marmont
One of the classic Hollywood movies, "Rebel Without a Cause" was born inside the famous hotel. Director Nicholas Ray caught his second wife in bed with his 13-year-old son from his first marriage. He could not bear the blow and retired to Chateau Marmont, where he remained in Bungalow 2 for almost six years. There, he wrote and gave flesh and blood to the classic film, as, among others, many actors went through his bungalow for casting, with James Dean, Dennis Hopper and Natalie Wood taking the roles.
However, many women passed through Ray's room, as well as unknown young men since the director was bisexual. His famous conquests included Marilyn Monroe, Joan Crawford and Za Za Gabor
But his heart was "stolen" by the then 16-year-old Wood, with whom they soon became lovers. But she betrayed him when she met the young Dennis Hopper. In fact, their relationship was revealed when they had a car accident as they were leaving the hotel.
The "cave" of infidelity
If the walls of Chateau Marmont had a voice they would have a lot to say. And certainly in these, would be the stories of infidelity that took place in his luxurious suites. I was the first to teach the explosive star Gene Harlow. At the age of 22 she got married for the third time and she and her husband spent their honeymoon at the hotel. At the same time, the newlywed star had a separate door in the suite so she could secretly put her lovers, whom she kept after the wedding. Her most famous lover was Clark Gable, with whom they had great moments of passion at the hotel.
Anthony Perkins, the star of "Psycho", who died of Age in 1992, was known to many to be bisexual. He had relationships with both men and women and after his marriage to the photographer Berinthia Berenson he used to meet his young lovers at the hotel.
Nights and days of unbridled sex
This title certainly fits the case of the hotel, which in addition to the unfaithful married, hosted in its suites many stars, who wanted to live their own ugly moments of passion. According to the author of the book "The castle on sunset", the Grace Kelly before she became a princess she was known, especially to the hotel staff for her insatiable appetite for sex. Her lovers were many, either famous or insignificant. Although Gary Cooper is on the list of her conquests, with whom they were an illegitimate couple, since he was married.
Errol Flynn lived moments of passion and unbridled sex, as mentioned in the book with all three of his wives, while Marlene Dietrich is said to have turned the hotel into a love haven with her 15-year-old lover Beverly Aland. And it goes without saying that the great heart conqueror Warren Beatty he could not be absent from the guest list, where he is said to have changed his conquests as dramatically as his unpaid bills. That was the reason why the administration asked him to leave.
The youngest stars and their guilty secrets
As the years go by, Marmont does not show a willingness to surrender in time, maintaining its glamor and reputation. Glamorous stars, such as Beyoncé and her husband Jay Z, party in his expensive rooms, while others give their own "parties" in his luxurious suites.
Johnny Depp and Kate Moss, when they were a couple, had made the hotel their second home. In fact, according to the author, the two of them had sex in all 63 of his rooms, as it was their wish.
Shortly after winning the Oscars in 2004, Scarlett Johansson and Benicio Del Toro had sex in a hidden hotel elevator, and while battling her demons, Britney Spears collapsed from an alcohol abuse room.