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Anna, Martha and J.Lo Have Eaten at Le Caprice in The Pierre. Have You?
The official opening of Le Caprice in the Pierre Hotel was on Monday, but well before then a string of celebrities had already graced the deco-styled restaurant. As an outpost of the London Le Caprice, in the same stable as fellow London hotspots The Ivy and Annabel’s, the celeb contingent makes sense. Stars love nothing more than being first to try something, even if it does involve putting deliciously rich food in their mouths.
Anna Wintour threw a Vogue book party there, while J.Lo, Marc Anthony and Naomi Campbell dined with shoe god Christian Louboutin at the opening celebration. So far only renderings have been available of the black-and-white dining room, lined with David Bailey photographs—however we do note a heavy use of mirrored panels, which the A-list is sure to adore.
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Hotel Chelsea Hits The Big Screen. Again.
Sid. Nancy. Janis. Ethan. We all know the vaunted history of the Hotel Chelsea by now, right? Well, in case you somehow managed to get through the past few decades without hearing all about the boozy, bloody past of this landmark on 23rd Street, along comes yet another movie set at the hotel to enlighten you. Unlike Ethan Hawke’s Chelsea Walls, Abel Ferrara’s Chelsea on the Rocks is a documentary—kind of.
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The Hotel on Rivington Wants to Bring Sexy Back
We know, we know, you’ve probably all had enough of Kayne West by now, what with the news that “I’ma Let You Finish T-shirts” are now on sale. But the star of this little tale is actually his lady friend, Amber Rose.
The set? The Hotel on Rivington. The Ford Model and the Lower East Side hotel both appear in a fashion spread in the latest issue of ELLE, although the chicks over at Jezebel were dismayed that the shoot was “asinine” and “ass-centric.”
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Good Luck Trying To Book a Room at Richard Gere's Hotel
Just as all normal folk would and should be, we were highly excited at the prospect of sleeping with Richard Gere when we first got wind of his plans to open up an eight-bedroom bed and breakfast above his restaurant at the Bedford Post Inn in New York State.
So when we spied on the website that the B&B (the Inn part of the title) was already in its soft opening period, we thought we’d try and go along. The only problem – there were no prices advertised, and the website didn’t take reservations. No matter, we thought; we’ll just call.
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Richard Gere's Got a Bed & Breakfast, And Yoga Is Only $20
Looks like someone took Nights in Rodanthe a little too much to heart: Richard Gere has opened his own Bed & Breakfast an hour outside of New York City in Bedford, NY. Called the Bedford Post Inn, the vintage house and barn with 8 guest rooms is the first step Gere and his wife are taking towards fulfilling their dream that the place "will be a magnet for like-minded, powerful souls to come together to save the planet—or at least to chat about big-picture ideas over veggie burgers."
Gere, a Buddhist, has even cleared the attic to make way for a serene "yoga loft," which opened in late 2008 along with the Bed & Breakfast's restaurant, Moonbat, focused on on local ingredients and the slow food philosophy.
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Bruce Willis Strips For The Standard New York
Although The Standard NYC had their first porny photoshoot over two months ago and the voyeur stories have already poured in, the hotel has curiously lacked any high fashion spreads.
Until now, with the newest issue of W Magazine and its uncomfortably-S&M-ish series of images of Bruce Willis and newest wife Emma in dramatic poses throughout the building. Called "Honeymoon Hotel," the glossy photoset includes some snaps taken in a plywood elevator hallway, like in the photo above, while other shots feature the Hudson-facing bathrooms inside the guestrooms, the emergency exit stairwell, and even the hotel's kitchen.
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Forget the Ace NYC and Go Sleep With Richard Gere
No, but really: who would want to wait around to stay at the Ace NYC when you could take a quick trip to Westchester to stay with Richard Gere?
When we first caught wind of the silver fox's plans to open up a 14-acre hotel country hotel in Bedford, New York, we were pumped — but then we'd heard the proposal for the hotel had been turned down by the town because the plans didn't include any handicap access. And originally, we thought the name was going to be Squirrely Acres (we know, right?), but now we're happy to report that things are shaping up nicely for Gere's more appropriately-named Bedford Post Inn.
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The Bowery Hotel: Where Celebs Go To Breakdown
How did New York and its revolving population of distressed celebrities ever survive before The Bowery Hotel came to be? You'd think that it was created for the express purpose of holding launch parties and refined cocktail hours for downtown types, but no--people actually sleep here! Despite what you read in the gossip columns, it's a real hotel.
Open for barely two years already, The Bowery has quickly come to be known as the hotel for paparazzi to stalk during big events in New York, such as Fashion Week and the Tribeca Film Festival. Consider it The Dorchester Hotel for the States. Were we to detail all of the crazy tabloid stuff that has gone down here, we'd need to take a klonopin and the rest of the day off, and so we'll just stick to regaling you with the highlights:
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Jigga What? Jay-Z Hotel No More
Jay-Z has 99 problems and a hotel is one. Last year around this time, hotel geeks around the world were throwing their hands up and saying, "Big Pimpin' up in NYC" when it was announced that rapper Jay-Z (real name: Shawn Carter) would be opening his own Jay-Z-branded J Hotel on New York's West Side. (Ok, maybe it was just us.)
Yet Curbed reports that as the economy continues its epic fail ride, the J-Hotel is no longer. According to the NY Times the developer Charles Blaichman, he of Soho House, cannot secure financing for the hotel and is now currently trying to rent the former Time Warner Cable warehouse.
Mr. Blaichman, who has built two dozen projects in the past 20 years, is struggling to borrow money: $370 million for the three hotels, which include a venture with Jay-Z, the hip-hop mogul. A year ago, it would have seemed a reasonable amount for Mr. Blaichman. Not now.
“Even the banks who want to give us money can’t,” he said.
J Hotels is not dead in the water, we don't think. Maybe when times are good again, we will see a J Hotel rising from some city, somewhere, someday. Until then, "change clothes and go." (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
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Boris Becker Enters Celebrity Hotelier Echelon With Massive Tennis Resort Shaped Like a Turtle
Boris Becker: you broke a ton of tennis records and were once the number one player in the world. What are you gonna do now?
Build a 2.5 million square-foot mega-resort shaped like a turtle in the UAE, apparently.
According to Luxist, the German tennis superstar -- who some of us think looks vaguely like Chuck Norris -- is building the Boris Becker Beach Resort and Tennis Academy on Al Marjan Island. The complex will include a five star hotel, a spa, holiday homes, high end resort and spa facilities, and (obvi) a 7-floor tennis academy.
Also, this is important: it is going to shaped like a sea turtle when you see it from the sky. Yep.
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Pamela Anderson to Build Eco-Friendly Hotel in Abu Dhabi
Sit down. Please. Unfortunately, what we're about to tell you does not appear to be a joke.
Various sources are reporting on this dark, dark day that Pamela Anderson -- yes, She of the Giant Breasts and PETA Ads -- is venturing into the international hotel business to build an eco-friendly hotel in Abu Dhabi.
Friends, there are times when the jokes just write themselves. This is not one of those times because this is like, not even funny.
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Game, Set, Collapse :: Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf Will Not Be Hoteliers After All
"It was just a pipe dream honey."
When Andre Agassi announced he would help Fairmont Hotels build a hotel in Idaho's Tamarack Resort, we were all excited. Think of those hotel tennis courts!
Yet, it was not meant to be. The tennis superstar and his wife, Steffi Graf have cancelled the resort. As usual, money woes are to blame for the development's collapse.
The husband-and-wife tennis champions pulled the plug on the development because Credit Suisse Group sued to foreclose on a US$260 million loan to Tamarack's founders, said Joel Goldman, chief operating officer at Echo Partners, which also invested in the development.
Deposits taken for condo units in the development will be refunded. Perhaps Andre and Steffi would want to look at Las Ramblas?
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