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Hotel News Briefs: Marriott Gets Greener, Trump Gets Delayed, Le Meridien Gets Facebooked and More

There's tons of hotel news flying around this week and we don't have time to give each and every story the love and attention it may deserve, so you will have to settle for some news briefs.

· Bravo to Marriott Hotels for going green at the company headquarters in Baltimore. Check-out this unintentionally hilarious video from Marriott Corporate about the green changes. We can't quite put our finger on it but there is something very high school about the headquarters. Is it the cafeteria? Is it the mocked-up green cubicle? Or is it the parking spaces for the cool people with hybrids?

· Chicago Tribune reports that the Trump Chicago still has not received a certificate of occupancy from the city. The hotel, which was to open on Dec. 3rd, will get a new batch of inspections this week.

· Rapper Pimp C who died at the Mondrian Hotel yesterday may have died from natural causes. TMZ says he was found fully clothed on top of his bed and there were no drug paraphernalia or other drugs found in the room. Sad. We'll still pour out some pimp juice for him.

·Le Meridien Hotels have launched a new website design today at LeMeridien.com. The creative concept behind it is called "Discovery Starts with You".

The aim of the website is to let its guests take an interactive journey into the world of Le Méridien by placing them in control of their own hotel guest experience.

But one-upping that, Le Meridien is now on Facebook. OMG, WTF, LOL and SuperPoking all apply.

· We mentioned that NYLO Hotels have finally gotten the promised Daniel Vosovic hotel uniforms but we forgot to mention that NYLO Warwick will open in June 2008. To be more specific, it's in the mixed-use development Pontiac Mills near Providence. But Warwick should suffice, right?

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Rapper Pimp C Found Dead at the Mondrian Hotel on Sunset

Where: 8440 Sunset Boulevard [map], West Hollywood, CA, United States, 90069

TMZ is reporting that rapper Pimp C, one-half of the rap duo UGK and most famous for his spot on Jay-Z's hit song "Big Pimpin'," was found dead in his hotel room this morning at the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood. He was 33.

L.A. County Fire responded to a 911 call at the Mondrian Hotel, located on trendy Sunset Strip in Hollywood. They arrived to his sixth floor hotel room to find him dead in bed.

Pimp C. aka Chad Butler apparently did a show on Saturday night with rapper Too Short at the House of Blues next door. There's no word on cause of death just yet.

All this comes at a very bad time for the Mondrian which has been going downhill for a while and for the parent hotel company, Morgans Hotel Group whose former CEO Ed Scheetz found his female acquaintance dead in his Las Vegas condo a few months back, forcing him to resign. Let's hope 2008 is a little less scandalous for these folks.

[Photo: Rolling Stone]

Related Stories:
· Rapper Pimp C Found Dead in Hollywood Hotel Room [TMZ]
· The Mondrian West Hollywood Also Home to Everyday Average Puke, Not Just Celebrity Vomit [HotelChatter]
· Ed Scheetz coverage [HotelChatter]