The Castle On Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, And Scandal At Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont

"In a town where buildings get more face-lifts than movie stars do, the Chateau Marmont stands defiantly, getting better with age as it holds down the Beverly Hills end of Sunset Boulevard. The castlelike hotel became infamous after John Belushi overdosed there. But the pages of this book reveal many other intriguing stories in the decades both before and since, like that Mabel Walker Willebrandt, LA’s first “public defender of women” and at one time the highest-ranking woman in the federal government, was one of the Chateau’s original investors."