The stars earning from beyond the grave
In the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympic Games, the US men's national ice hockey team took their defeat to the Czech Republic out on their hotel dorms. According to reports, the team broke 10 chairs, emptied three fire extinguishers in the room, damaged a door, and threw furniture into a courtyard.
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In 1968, Led Zeppelin reportedly rode their motorcycles through the lobbies of LA's Chateau Marmont and the Hyatt on Sunset Boulevard.
During her 'Wrecking Ball' era, the former child star caused a stir after her stay at the Greenwich Hotel in NYC. One night, Cyrus and her friends jumped up and down on the lobby furniture. When asked by the manager to tone it down, she reportedly said she spent enough money there to do as she pleased.
To the staff of Hotel Le Meurice in Paris, where the artist was a frequent guest during his later years, Dalí's obsession with animals made him a less than welcome guest. He often brought two pet ocelots along, and the wildcats would use the walls and floors of the Suite Royal as a scratching post. According to NBC, he once requested a horse be delivered to his room, and on another occasion ordered a herd of sheep.
Back in the '70s, Aerosmith reportedly used to bring a chainsaw on tour, so they could use it on hotel room furniture, and extension cords to drop TVs into swimming pools.
The late singer caused a stir when she stayed at London's Riverbank Plaza Hotel in 2007. According to The Sun, housecleaning staff found bottles and cigarette butts everywhere, dirty underwear on the floor, and the bath turned black from Winehouse's hair dye. That same year, she reportedly threw a plate of pasta Bolognese at the wall of her Munich hotel room and then cut up the carpet.
One night in 2007, a hard year for Spears, she was kicked out of the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. She reportedly smeared food on her face in the busy hotel restaurant. She was also labeled persona non grata at the Los Angeles Four Seasons after smoking indoors and allowing her dogs to poop all over one of the hotel’s suites.
Back in 2013, Bynes made headlines for reportedly getting kicked out of the Ritz-Carlton in New York City for her rude and erratic behavior. Piles of dirt and garbage found in her room left a huge mess behind, resulting in a US$9,000 bill.
The Who drummer was known for trashing hotels. In 1967, he reportedly drove a car into a pool at a Holiday Inn in Flint, Michigan. But this was only after he started a food fight and sprayed the decor with fire extinguishers. The incident resulted in Moon's arrest, US$24,000 in damages, and a Holiday Inn ban on the band members.
In 2005, the infamous diva reportedly made London's Baglioni Hotel roll out a red carpet and line it with white candles before she entered the premises.
Besides requesting a specifically male masseur, John Travolta 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.
In 1994, the band were permanently banned from London’s Columbia Hotel, after totally trashing the place. Noel Gallagher later commented, “Those plate-glass windows were just saying, ‘Throw a chair through me.'"
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 asked that an 18-foot wall be built to ensure his privacy, Jackson was considered to be a nightmare guest.
Two former staffers of the Four Seasons Chicago wrote in the book 'Great Reservations' that Kidman would request extravagant demands, like a set of pink, 800-thread-count Italian sheets, and sending pages of instructions for making up her bed. And this was all for a 12-hour stay.
In 2013, while staying at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Mötley Crüe reportedly tossed a queen-size bed from their 11th-floor hotel room. Bassist Nikki Sixx later tweeted, "No one does it better than us #HardRockTrashed.”
In 2009, Courtney Love reportedly trashed a fancy hotel room at The Inn on Irving Place. According to a Page Six insider, "She caused so much damage in eight hours and wreaked so much havoc. It was actually kind of funny ... minus the US$5,000 in repairs."
In December 1993, MTV News anchor Kurt Loder recalled watching a very drunk Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic trash their room, and then his room. The bill was apparently US$19,000.
Sheen was found drunk and naked by police in a totally trashed suite at New York's Plaza Hotel in 2010. The actor caused US$7,000 in damages.
The supermodel has been charged multiple times with assault, and hotel rooms have featured prominently in her police reports. One particular incident 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.
In 1998, while in Poughkeepsie, New York, Marilyn Manson finished off a concert and went on a rampage of ruin. Together with his entourage and band, they destroyed four hotel rooms at the Poughkeepsie Sheraton, setting fire to the carpets and covering the bathroom fixtures in hair dye. This caused US$25,000 in damages.
In 2012, the lead singer of Florence and the Machine had a wild night with Kanye West and Lykke Li, which 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.” Yikes!
In 2005, the Oscar-winning actor got so upset that he couldn't complete a call back 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. He later said it was the "most shameful situation I’ve ever gotten myself into."
In June 2006 the Guns N' Roses star drunkenly broke a mirror at Berns Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden. He then got into an argument with a woman in the lobby, and then bit the leg of a hotel security guard who tried to break up the fight. He eventually pleaded guilty to the related charges.
In the '70s, Rod Stewart was known from throwing wild parties in hotels, so much so that Holiday Inn banned him for life 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.
In 1994, during an argument with then girlfriend Kate Moss, Johnny Depp trashed his US$1,200-per-night suite at The Mark in New York. The damages totaled nearly US$10,000.
In 1972, Keith Richards tossed a TV from the window of his upper-floor room in the Continental Hyatt House on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. This reportedly caused many hotels to move valuables out of the rooms before the Rolling Stones checked in.
The former troublemaker has been blacklisted from a number of luxury hotels, including LA's Chateau Marmont, where she ran up room service charges of US$46,590.62 following a two-month stay in 2012. She also reportedly caused US$50,000 worth of damage to her room at the W in New York City.
Back in 2002, the prince of darkness, together with guitarist Zakk Wylde, totally destroyed a hotel room in Prague. The damages supposedly cost more than US$51,000.
When you've spent time a hotel room, chances are the most havoc you've wreaked was raiding the hotel mini-bar. But that's not the case for many A-listers. Hotels are supposed to be discreet with their celebrity guests, but the rich and famous have been notoriously creative with their destructive behavior. From '70s rock icons to kid actors-turned-troublemakers, stars have ended up owing a lot of money in damages; some have even been slapped with lifelong bans.
So, click through the gallery to find out: which stars are considered the worst hotel guests ever?
Infamously bad celebrity hotel guests
These famous faces trashed rooms and caused some real trouble
CELEBRITY Trouble
When you've spent time a hotel room, chances are the most havoc you've wreaked was raiding the hotel mini-bar. But that's not the case for many A-listers. Hotels are supposed to be discreet with their celebrity guests, but the rich and famous have been notoriously creative with their destructive behavior. From '70s rock icons to kid actors-turned-troublemakers, stars have ended up owing a lot of money in damages; some have even been slapped with lifelong bans.
So, click through the gallery to find out: which stars are considered the worst hotel guests ever?