Gore Vidal called the pool ‘a navel filled with sweat.’ ”ĭirector Nicholas Ray retreated to the Chateau Marmont after walking in on his wife, actress Gloria Grahame, having sex with his son from a previous marriage.īut Ray - who was also spotted slow-dancing in his bungalow with another man - found plenty of comfort at his new home. Tab Hunter - stopping by for a dip on his way home from horseback riding in the Valley - met Anthony Perkins there, and they began a two-year affair. “It was the first show-biz hotel to allow black people,” Levy said. Natalie Wood reportedly juggled her “Rebel Without a Cause” director Nicholas Ray and actor Dennis Hopper at the Chateau Marmont. People secretly had affairs, took drugs and licked wounds from botched relationships. It was originally an apartment building but, by the 1950s, had evolved into a hotel that functioned as what Levy called “an open city. The newlyweds stayed in a room adjoining the one where Harlow was also having an affair with Clark Gable.īuilt in 1929, the Chateau was modeled on an actual castle in France’s Loire Valley, the Chateau D’Amboise, a onetime home of Mary, Queen of Scots. In 1933, the actress was staying at the Chateau Marmont with her brand new hubby No. Chateau Marmont Hotel Getty ImagesĪnd then there was vintage star Jean Harlow.
![james and nicholas pnp gay pornhub james and nicholas pnp gay pornhub](https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/750x445/964821.jpg)
Members of Led Zeppelin raced through the halls on bellhop trollies, and Marvin Gaye died owing the hotel $15,000. James Taylor shot heroin in front of Carly Simon in his room. Doors frontman Jim Morrison once jumped off a balcony, and was known to leave bloody sheets in his bedroom for the maids to clean up. ‘If you must get into trouble, do it at the Marmont.’Plenty of boldface names found trouble there. “He had to be revived while staying at the hotel,” Levy said.Īs 1930s studio boss Harry Cohn - who kept a suite at the hotel for extramarital antics with starlets - once told his Columbia Pictures actors: “If you must get into trouble, do it at the Marmont.” Funk musician Rick James did so and, Levy told The Post, overdosed himself.
![james and nicholas pnp gay pornhub james and nicholas pnp gay pornhub](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-3xVRvVSMDTw/TI3kjO6YFCI/AAAAAAAAGHI/b40wY6Dvvh0/s512/Karate%252520Pepi%252520Blumenau%252520SC%252520dandee.com.br%252520%252528245%252529.jpg)
In fact, his tragic demise inspired fellow famous druggies - including artist Jean Michel Basquiat - to ask to stay in the Belushi bungalow. “But after Belushi died, the place was on the map.” Rick James Getty Images After getting so desperate that he reportedly called up his agent for drug money, Belushi invited over dealer/celebrity hanger-on Cathy “Silverbag” Smith (so named because she carried her contraband in a silver-colored bag).Īccording to the National Enquirer, Smith later said she actually shot up Belushi with the speedball that killed him: “his coup de grace … He had a death wish.” Just six years earlier, “New owners bought it with an eye to tearing down,” said Shawn Levy, author of “ The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont” (Doubleday), out Tuesday. The “Saturday Night Live” star had been staying in one of the fabled bungalows, on a five-day cocaine and heroin bender.
![james and nicholas pnp gay pornhub james and nicholas pnp gay pornhub](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vITqlUSw-K0/Rf5C2ReO8KI/AAAAAAAABJM/UVxU9alGpM4/s400/236899586_1646408.jpg)
Lesser known, however, are the stories of celebrity copycats who seemingly wanted to follow in his footsteps. Of all the jaw-dropping things - movie-star affairs, secret parties and tragedies of many stripes - that have happened at the Chateau Marmont hotel in West Hollywood, the most notorious remains comedian John Belushi’s 1982 drug death.