Chateau Marmont
The Chateau Marmont is a hotel on the Sunset Strip which 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 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.
The hotel was built in 1929 and modeled after the Chateau Amboise in the Loire Valley.
