When Hollywood’s most hardcore hellraisers wanted to party in secret, the Chateau Marmont was top of the list. But now, after 90 years of celebrity excess, it’s shutting its doors to guests.
The white castle on the hill above Sunset Boulevard is being turned into a private members club, a plan hastened by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Famous clientele are already clamouring to join so they can keep living it up in La La Land’s legendary haunt. “There is something to be said for knowing people,” says owner Andre Balazs, who bought the hotel in 1990. “You can chat with them, you know where they have been.” Greta Garbo, Errol Flynn, Led Zeppelin and Lindsay Lohan are among the stars to have relied on its discreet staff not to blab.
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