283: The Notorious Chateau Marmont: Marmontophilia (Part 2)

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The dark history of Hollywood's most notorious hotel gets even darker as it solidifies itself in its infamy. More Ghost Town: https://www.ghosttownpod.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod (7 Day Free Trial!) Instagram: https;//www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Shawn Levy is the bestselling author of The Castle on Sunset in addition to Paul Newman: A Life, Rat Pack Confidential, King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis, and Dolce Vita Confidential. His writing has appeared in Sight and Sound, Film Comment, American Film, Interview, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter, and The Black Rock Beacon. He is the author and narrator of Glitter and Might, a podcast about Hollywood mogul and political kingmaker Lew Wasserman. To learn more, go to https://shawnlevy.com/. Mark Rozzo is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and author of Everybody Thought We Were Crazy, now in paperback. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Esquire, Vogue, the Wall Street Journal, the Oxford American, the Washington Post, and many others. He teaches nonfiction writing at Columbia University. To learn more, go to https://www.markrozzo.com/. Guest produced by Brian Fernandes. Sources: https://bit.ly/494WnjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of Ghost Town may contain disturbing or graphic descriptions, which may not be suitable for all audiences.
0:07.0	Please use discretion while listening.
0:10.0	The notorious Chateau Marmont.
0:12.0	Part 2.
0:13.0	I'm Jason Horton.
0:14.0	I'm Rebecca Leib.
0:15.0	And this is Ghost Town.
0:30.0	Welcome back to our three-part Halloween series of the notorious Chateau Marmont.
0:49.0	As a refresher, we've talked through the Chateau's opening in 1929, its failures, successes,
0:54.0	and some wild characters that came through its French Chateau doorways up through the 1950s.
0:59.0	But now, as the Chateau solidly hits mid-century Los Angeles, things were changing and fast.
1:05.0	Today, we're joined again by friends Sean Leiby and Mark Rosso, talking through the Chateau from the 1960s until its present day,
1:12.0	discussing some very famous lives, even more famous deaths, a larger-than-life owner, its current cultish fanbase,
1:18.0	and of course, hypothesizing on its mysterious future.
1:21.0	This is Part 2, Marmont Aphelia.
1:29.0	In 1963, the Sunset Strip became a hub for music, and the Chateau and its new owner, William Weiss, couldn't quite keep up.
1:38.0	The Chateau didn't allow partying that places like the Sunset Marquis or the Hyatt House permitted.
1:43.0	The Chateau maintained itself as a quiet, anti-party experience, which did not go over well.
1:49.0	Still, the hotel's reputation was just fine for Janice Joplin, a markedly friendly and polite guest
1:54.0	during her stays at the Chateau.
1:56.0	And Phil Spector, also polite, showing up to the hotel with long hair, high heels, and two pet cats in a cage.
2:03.0	Jim Morrison arrived at the Chateau in 1970, just a year before he would be found dead in a bathtub in Paris from heart failure due to a heroin overdose.
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