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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.
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Jim Morrison used up what he called the eighth of his nine lives falling out of a window at the hotel.
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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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Last updated: 05-14-2005 06:58:53