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.

External link

• The hotel's website