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Encyclopedia > 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.


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Arriving at Chateau Marmont you surrender yourself to a grandiloquent enviornment, an infamous hideaway and a perfect getaway in the center of one of the world's most exciting cities.
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