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Jimi Hendrix Drummer Dies at the Benson Hotel

Where: 309 Southwest Broadway [map], Portland, OR, United States, 97205

Sad news today. Mitch Mitchell, the drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, was found dead in his room at the Benson Hotel in Portland yesterday. He was 61 years old. Mitchell was part of one of the iconic rock groups to come out of the 60s.

Hendrix, one of music's most celebrated guitarists, joined with Mitchell and bass player Noel Redding to create the Jimi Hendrix Experience in London in 1966. The following year, the band released its debut album, ``Are You Experienced?'' featuring the tracks ``Hey Joe'' and ``Purple Haze.''

Mitchell had actually come to Portland to play with a Hendrix tribute band. There is no foul play suspected and Mitchell was reportedly frail-looking but an autopsy will be performed.

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Death Comes Again to the Hotel Chelsea

Where: 222 W 23rd St [map], New York, NY, United States, 10011

This has been a turbulent year for the Hotel Chelsea. Regular readers of HotelChatter know all about the hostile takeover, the Bring Back the Bards movement, a serial hoarder and much more.

Now some really sad news come out of the place. A woman was found dead in her ninth-floor apartment. The NY Daily News reports:

The body of Angela O'Conner, 46, was discovered lying faceup on the bed in her ninth-floor apartment just after 8 p.m. on Friday, police said. Neighbors had smelled a strong odor coming from her apartment and called 911, police said. There were no signs of injury to O'Conner's body and there was no indication that someone had broken into the apartment, police said.

No signs of foul play were found and it is believed that O'Conner suffered from a long-existing medical condition. Hotel Chelsea is also the scene of where Sid Vicious stabbed his girlfriend Nancy to death in 1978.

Sad. Condolences to the Hotel Chelsea Family.

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A List of Infamous Hotels Where Celebrities Did Crazy Things

Ask Men has just done a feature on famous hotel rooms, but if you read through the list you'll soon see it really should have been called infamous hotel rooms. But this top ten does make an interesting list.

For example, the Hotel Adlon Kempinski in Berlin comes in at #8 not because Bill Clinton or Queen Elizabeth II have stayed there, but because that was the place where Michael Jackson dangled his baby over the balcony.

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Fairmont Newport Beach: The West Coast's Hotel Carter?

Where: 4500 MacArthur Blvd. [map], Newport Beach, CA, United States, 92660

Normally, we don't like kicking off a Monday with grisly hotel crime but when it happens at a luxury hotel in Orange County, it's hard to ignore.

A woman's body was found packed in dry ice at the Fairmont Newport Beach Hotel Saturday and the details surrounding her death are mysterious to say the least.

The body of Monique Felicia Trepp was discovered in Room 966 at the Fairmont Hotel just before midnight Thursday, shortly after narcotics investigators say they arrested [Stephen David] Royds with a small amount of cocaine.

There's no cause of death yet but both Trepp and Royds had several prior drug-related arrest. Royds also told the O.C. Register that "Everything that happened was for religious reasons."

This is certainly not the kind of publicity the Fairmont wants after having just completed an extensive $32 million renovation. Maybe the Mondrian West Hollywood has some tips on how to cope.