Chateau Marmont: Last News

Workers at Chateau Marmont “overwhelmingly ratified” their first-ever union contract with the Hollywood hotspot on Wednesday night, in what UNITE HERE Local 11 is calling “a historic breakthrough.”

Madonna never fails to deliver when it comes to leather and has sported yet another eye-popping rock chick-look for her latest studio session.The Like A Virgin hitmaker, 63, shared a slew of raunchy Instagram photos of herself while wearing a black leather jacket and fishnet tights on Sunday evening. Alongside the eye-grabbing images, she wrote the enigmatic caption: ‘Music and Sushi save my life.’ In one of the pictures, she could be seen grabbing her crotch, while another showed her with chopsticks in her mouth, and a third revealed a diamond grill on her teeth.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterUnite Here Local 11, the union backing laid-off Chateau Marmont workers, filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday, alleging that management at the Andre Balazs-owned hotel was unlawfully “engaging in surveillance or creating impression of surveillance of employees’ union activities.”The charge is the latest move in the ongoing conflict between Chateau Marmont, known for its frequent Hollywood guests, and the more-than-200 hotel workers there who were let go without severance in March of last year when the COVID-19 pandemic first took root in the U.S.Local 11 represents over 32,000 Southern California and Arizona workers, most of whom are women and people of color,

This past September, dozens of Chateau Marmont employees broke the hospitality industry’s code of silence. They alleged to The Hollywood Reporter that the landmark hotel, a fabled industry hangout, is rife with racial discrimination and sexual misconduct, perpetuated by complicit management and ownership.

Chateau Marmont owner Andre Balazs is making it official. He’s turning his clubby, storied Sunset Strip hotel — an insiders’ Hollywood haven for generations and for the past few Oscars the site of Beyonce and Jay-Z’s A-list-only bash — into a certified private-membership club.

The historic Hollywood hotel Chateau Marmont, a favourite haunt of celebrities for decades, is to be turned into a private members-only club, its owner has said.