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Sheen was found by police in a totally trashed suite at New York's Plaza Hotel in 2010. Police say the actor was drunk and naked amid the ruined room, which rents out for US$995 a night according to ABC.
We all know 2007 was a hard year for Spears, and among her other cries for help she also was temporarily kicked out of the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles after reportedly smearing food on her face in the busy hotel restaurant.
In 2005, the Oscar-winning actor got so upset that he couldn't call home to Australia that he threw a phone at the concierge at New York's Mercer Hotel. Crowe pled guilty to assault charges and eventually settled a multi-million dollar civil suit.
That same year, she was reportedly also labeled persona non grata at the Los Angeles Four Seasons after smoking cigs indoors and allowing her dogs to poop all over one of the hotel’s posh suites, according to the New York Post.
The late singer didn't hold back when she stayed at London's Riverbank Plaza Hotel. According to The Sun, housecleaning staff found bottles and cigarette butts everywhere, liquor soaked into the upholstery, dirty underwear on the floor, and the bath turned black from Winehouse's hair dye.
In September 1994, police arrested Depp and then-girlfriend Kate Moss in the presidential suite of New York's Mark Hotel after the couple clearly made too much noise while completely trashing the room. Depp was arrested on charges of criminal mischief, but the charges were dismissed after he paid thousands in damages. The actor said he was trying to catch an armadillo in the room, but said armadillo was never found...
Also in 2007, just before her performance at the MTV Europe Music Awards, she reportedly threw a plate of pasta Bolognese at the wall of her Munich hotel room and then cut up the carpet even while members of her entourage watched.
In June 2006, the Guns N' Roses star drunkenly broke a mirror at Berns Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, then got into an argument with a woman in its lobby, and then bit the leg of a hotel security guard who tried to break up the fight. And all at 8 am! He eventually pleaded guilty to the related charges.
The supermodel has been charged multiple times with assault, one of which was in 1998, when she assaulted her assistant with a telephone in a Toronto hotel room. She paid a fine and went to anger management classes, but in 2005 she allegedly punched an Italian actress in Rome's Eden Hotel.
From dangling his nine-month-old son from the balcony of Berlin’s Hotel Adlon Kempinski in 2002, to booking almost the entire Hempel Hotel in London in 2006 where he invited 30 children and asked that an 18-foot wall be erected to ensure his privacy, the reports make Jackson out to be a nightmare guest.
The infamous diva has a lot of rumored hotel requests including mineral water for her baths, or gold faucets and new toilet seats. In 2005, she reportedly made London's Baglioni Hotel roll out a red carpet and line it with white candles before she would enter the premises.
The Rolling Stones are probably the best-known hotel-trashing stars, so much so that hotels reportedly had to move valuables out of the rooms before they'd check in. Keith Richards once even tossed a TV from the window of his upper-floor room in the Continental Hyatt House on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles in 1972.
Two former staffers of the Four Seasons Chicago wrote in the book ‘Great Reservations’ that Kidman would issue ridiculously specific demands, like requiring a set of pink, 800-thread-count Italian sheets and sending pages of diagrams and instructions for making up her bed, even just for a 12-hour stay.
The artist frequented Le Meurice hotel in Paris during his later years, but his obsession with animals made him a less than welcome guest. He often brought two pet ocelots along to the fancy hotel, and the wildcats would use the walls and floors of the Suite Royal as a scratching post. According to NBC, he once demanded a horse be delivered to his room, and on another occasion ordered a herd of sheep.
One year later, in Australia, Moon threw a TV from the top floor of the Southern Cross Hotel and into the pool below. It's said that when a manager arrived to his suite with the soaked TV in hand, asking who did it, Moon said, "I did!" then grabbed it and threw it off the balcony again.
The night the team lost to the Czech Republic in the Nagano games, they seem to have taken it out on their hotel room inside the Olympic Village. Reports say they broke 10 chairs, emptied three fire extinguishers in the room, damaged a door, and threw furniture into a courtyard below.
The favorite of Moon's hotel-trashing tales is when he reportedly set off an explosion in the bathroom of a hotel to teach the manager, who had asked him to turn down the racket on his cassette player, the difference between "noise" and the Who.
In 1994, the Brit pop band were permanently banned from London’s Columbia Hotel, where drinks at the 24-hour bar led to “archetypal rock 'n' roll sad behavior," according to producer Owen Morris. Noel Gallagher later commented, “Those plate-glass windows were just saying, ‘Throw a chair through me.'"
In 1968, John Bonham of Led Zeppelin reportedly rode his roaring Harley through the hallways of LA’s Chateau Marmont.
Sources: (ABC News) (NBC News) (New York Post) (Absolute History)
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The star is reportedly banned from many hotels, running up bills she didn't pay and throwing parties that took months to recover from. In 2012, her bash at the W Hotel in Union Square, New York allegedly resulted in US$50,000 worth of damage.
Rod Stewart in his 1970s, hell-raising prime was known for throwing wild parties in hotels, so much so that Holiday Inn slapped him with a lifetime ban in 1976. In 2015, Stewart told 'Late Late Show' host James Corden that he and his band were still staying at Holiday Inns, but they would check in as Fleetwood Mac.
The Who drummer is known as the godfather of trashing hotels. In 1967, he reportedly drove a car into a pool at a Holiday Inn in Flint, Michigan. This was only after he started a food fight at a party where guests sprayed the decor with fire extinguishers. The incident allegedly resulted in Moon's arrest, US$24,000 in damages, and a Holiday Inn chain-wide ban on the band members.
While staying at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas in 2013, Mötley Crüe reportedly tossed a queen-size bed from their 11th-floor hotel room, which landed in the valet entrance. Bassist Nikki Sixx tweeted about it, writing, "No one does it better than us #HardRockTrashed.”
The lead singer of Florence and the Machine had a wild night with Kanye West and Lykke Li that included 17 martinis, losing her phone, chipping her tooth, and accidentally setting her New York City Bowery Hotel room on fire with a forgotten “cinnamon tea light.”
Back in 2013, during her particularly troubling period, Bynes was reportedly kicked out of the Ritz Carlton for her rude and erratic behavior, and for the piles of dirt and garbage she left in her room, which resulted in a US$9,000 bill.
Rock journalist Kurt Loder recalled in 1993 watching a very drunk Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic trash their room, and then his room after they escaped hotel security. The bill the next day was apparently US$19,000.
In 1998, while in Poughkeepsie, New York, Manson had already laid waste to the Mid-Hudson Civic Center and continued the destruction at the Poughkeepsie Sheraton, where the musician, his band, and their entourage destroyed not one but four hotel rooms, setting fire to the carpets, covering the bathroom fixtures in hair dye, and causing over US$25,000 in damages.
The actor has a notorious reputation among hotels, and apparently his rider includes that, besides needing a specifically male masseur, he must have his own sheets and the room must be empty for 24 hours before his arrival, to avoid anyone else’s scent lingering behind.
Courtney Love stayed for just eight hours at the genteel Inn on Irving Place in Manhattan in 2009. A source spoke to The Post about the dirty needles and used feminine-hygiene products littering the room, adding, "She caused so much damage in eight hours and wreaked so much havoc. It was actually kind of funny.”
Whether they're touring with a band, traveling for an event, or throwing a party, hotels have proven to be quintessential to the celebrity experience. But not every A-lister has as much respect for the experience of the hotels. It started with rock n' roll, glamorizing the wild destruction as almost a rite of passage, but over the years various stars have ended up owing a lot of money in damages or getting slapped with a lifelong ban.
Hotels are supposed to be quite discreet with their celebrity guests, but the rich and famous are just too creative with their many forms of destructive behavior that it would be a pity to keep it hidden! So click through to find out which stars rank as the worst hotel guests ever.
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Whether they're touring with a band, traveling for an event, or throwing a party, hotels have proven to be quintessential to the celebrity experience. But not every A-lister has as much respect for the experience of the hotels. It started with rock n' roll, glamorizing the wild destruction as almost a rite of passage, but over the years various stars have ended up owing a lot of money in damages or getting slapped with a lifelong ban.
Hotels are supposed to be quite discreet with their celebrity guests, but the rich and famous are just too creative with their many forms of destructive behavior that it would be a pity to keep it hidden! So click through to find out which stars rank as the worst hotel guests ever.