![]() ![]() The sultry seven-storey building, modelled on a French castle, had a turreted, fairytale atmosphere with plenty of cosy nooks and crannies in which to get up to no good. From the beginning, the hotel was known for two things, causally linked: misbehaviour and privacy. Staff were famously discreet, walls were infamously thick, paparazzi were banned, and there were plenty of secluded exits through which to nip into, or out of, the premises. The hotel’s louche interior design, all antique furniture and velvet carpet, proved to be a fertile ground for naughty behaviour. “It has an incredibly seductive atmosphere,” Sandra Bullock once said. “No wonder people come here to have affairs.” Jean Harlow is said to have done just that, with Clark Gable, while on honeymoon with her third husband. Alan Cumming once boasted that he had sex on top of a grand piano at the Chateau. Johnny Depp claimed that he and Kate Moss had made love in each of the hotel’s 63 rooms. ![]() Lily Allen said she once walked in on James Blunt, mid-romp, in the foyer to her suite. The most infamous sexcapade at Chateau Marmont, though, might never have happened. ![]() In 2004, Scarlett Johansson was living at the hotel – she found it “less lonely” than her house – when she reportedly hooked up with Sicario star Benicio del Toro. “We were making out or having sex or something – which I think is very unsanitary,” Johansson joked at the time. Later, she would deny that anything happened between the pair, insisting that the rumour was just that. “Did I have sex with Scarlett Johansson after an awards show? I kind of like, you know, well, I don’t know,” he mused. ![]() “Let’s leave that to somebody’s imagination. It might not be the last time, either.” Though he did point out that, logistically, there were some chinks in the tale’s veracity, given that the hotel elevator is quite compact and only travels for seven floors. “I would still be struggling out of my jacket by the second floor,” he noted sagely. ![]()
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