INXS was Australia’s gift to the world of rock in the 80’s. Their lead singer, the post 60’s Jim Morrison-esc lead singer Michael Hutchence was a heart throb infamously linked to actress/ singer Kylie Minogue and supermodel Helena Christensen. It was on November 22, 1997 that he was found dead at age 37 [...]

The Chelsea Hotel had always been infamous to housing artists, musicians, writers, and many other cast of characters throughout the years. Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: Space Odyssey while staying in the hotel and icons like Robert Crumb, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, and Stanley Kubrick have all been residents of the hotel. It [...]

Once a ritzy establishment, the St. Moritz took a dive after excessive over-use and became the haunt of many discount travel groups arriving in the Big Apple on a budget.
In its prime, Donald ‘The Don’ Trump once owned the St. Moritz and, as hotel owner, afforded himself a few perks. One perk [...]

The Mondrian has really taken a beating in the press lately, and it’s not because of its service, but rather the behaviour of some of its guests, in particular the celebrity kind.
Most notable of these have been Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears. The former, nick-named Blowhan for her love of a certain substance, threw [...]

Janis Joplin’s life was ended at the Hollywood Landmark Hotel in 1970 during the recording sessions of her album ‘Pearl’.
After injecting herself with heroin and walking to the hotel lobby to buy a pack of cigarettes, Joplin returned to her room and fell to the ground, breaking her nose in the fall, after [...]

“If you are going to get into trouble, do it at the Chateau Marmont”. A fitting introduction from the lips of Harry Cohn, founder of Columbia Pictures.
But we think the quote should be changed to “If you’re going to die, do it at the Chateau Marmont”.
In 1982, celebrity guest and actor John [...]

Located on Trafalgar Square in London, the Trafalgar Hilton was once the location of the home office of the White Star Line who was a shipping company most notorious for building the Titanic. It was in April 15, 1912 that the infamous ship hit an iceberg and sank killing an estimated 1,490 people. White [...]

Apart from having the worst but most interesting name of all the hotels we’ve come across, the Swan Hydro (now the Old Swan Hotel) was the hideout for Agatha Christie when she mysteriously disappeared back in 1926.
The disappearance of a modern-day celeb was, of course, big news, and the press went to town on her [...]

In 2003 Rolling Stone named Jimi Hendrix number 1 in their Top 100 Guitarists of All Time. He captivated audiences at the Montery Pop Festival where he acid induced notoriously lit his guitar on fire and at Woodstock by doing a controversial guitar rendition of Star Spangled Banner (see Woodstock documentary). On September 18, [...]

Michael Jackson is notorious for doing the strangest things and acting in extreme behavior. Highlights include his prosthetic nose, bleaching his skin, and as the April 2003 Vanity Fair reported that he once paid $150,000 for a voodoo curse on Steven Spielberg. It was in November 2002 while staying at the Adlon Hotel [...]