The scene: the penthouse at the Standard Downtown L.A.. The occasion: the 2008 ESPY Awards. The guests: Kiefer Sutherland, Joss Stone, Samuel L. Jackson and Mario Lopez. The host: Justin Timberlake. Oh man.
As the official host of the ESPY Awards, the Standard housed a good number of star athletes for the week leading up to the awards - which took place yesterday but air on Sunday - complete with an ESPY Style Studio, "a three-day gifting experience" which, in less fancy terms, means everyone scored lots and lots of cool swag.
J. Tim hosted the star-studded penthouse bash last night to top off the awards festivities (he hosted the awards ceremony too).
The day before the J. Tim soiree, the hotel also threw a full-day pool party and BBQ.
Still, we are doubtful Justin actually slept over. This is a Standard Hotel, afterall. Not the Ritz.
More hotel lawsuits happening this week. This time The Westin Bonaventure in downtown LA is suing crazy Phil Spector for stiffing them out of more than a $100,000.
TMZ, getting back to celebrity justice basics, reports:
In the suit, filed today in L.A. County Superior Court, the Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites says they reserved rooms for the music producer's lawyers and expert witnesses during the trial. After seven months of trial, the hotel alleges, Spector had racked up a bill to the tune of more than $104,000.
Apparently, Spector didn't pay the bill because he was hoping to get some sort of steep discount. Now the hotel has sued Spector, his wife and his agent. Looks like Spector will have to find some new digs before his second trial begins in September. The first trial in which he stood accused of killing Lana Clarkson ended in a mistrial.
Yes, Britney Spears has done it again--"it" meaning just being a plain old crazy biatch. Us Weekly is reporting that Britney "seduced" a college boy at the Standard Downtown LA Hotel, with the two pounding drinks and getting all nekkid in the hotel pool. Rrrright. We're sure that boy needed a lot of convincing.
[T]he singer had arranged to have the pool reopened at 2 am for the exclusive use of her group, which included then-assistant Shannon Funk and some hand-picked male extras from her video shoot.
"Britney was the first one to undress, and then everyone else followed," [Matt] Encinias tells Us. "I turned around and saw that she was topless and she had fake tattoos of flowers on her nipples from the shoot."
"I was told all she wanted to do that night was kiss a boy," the 5'10" California native continues. "And that's what she did. Mission accomplished."
What's also funny is that Encinias was dared in a game of Truth or Dare to walk around the pool naked strutting like he was on fashion catwalk. "Britney was laughing really hard," he said.
Not that we are jealous that Britney was kissing hot 21-year-olds (ok we are) but we're totally grossed out that they all got naked in the Standard's pool. Andre Balazs better shell out some dough to have that place sanitized. We say drain the water and maybe retile the pool?
And according to Us, that's not all that happened at the hotel. Some more shit went down later but until we buy the new issue of the mag, we're just going to have to leave you with the image of naked Brit and boy-toy getting it on in the hotel pool.
A dedicated tipster sent us this shot of Will Smith filming his new movie, John Hancock in downtown Los Angeles. Our tipster wasn't the only lucky bystander as the Westin Bonaventure Hotel is right next to the filming.
They are doing a few big scenes on Fifth and Fig (Figueroa) that involve a bank robbery and a couple of cranes where is someone is going to be harnessed and "fly" downtown. The movie is starring Will Smith, Jon h, and I think Charlize Theron. I am watching it right now because it's being done right in front of my building...The view from the Bonaventure looks perfect as I can see a bunch of people watching the scenes.
That would certainly qualify at a Killer View, no? Also, if you happen to be in LA soon, the movie is filming on weekends until August 5th.
The latest one we spied is the appearance of The Standard Downtown LA in the movie Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang starring Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer. This here is a shot of the two moving a dead body found in Harry Lockhart's (RD, Jr.) hotel room 714.
The movie also shows some of the famous rooftop pool which we also saw in an episode of Entourage.
Unfortunately, what's not so killer is what goes on in this hotel. Reviewers said the rooms are sorta outdated (particularly the walls and the carpet) and the service was terribly unhelpful. Also the hotel does not have the best location in Downtown LA. The surrounding area was frightening enough for the Qantas flight attendants to ask for a new crash pad.
Additionally, there are some extra charges to be aware of like $12.95 for ethernet in rooms with a speed that "is close to that of a 56K dialup service" and a $35 parking rate.
The Financial District establishment is throwing a New Year's Eve bash around its rooftop pool, complete with an open bar, a champagne toast and a DJ spinning everything from "bubblegum pop" to "distortion disco."
However, unlike other New Year's Eve parties where you can show up and leave after it's over, this one requires that you book two nights minimum at the hotel and pay an extra $150 for the party.
Sheesh, we didn't know the Standards had gotten so cranky these days.
Did you really think Andre Balazs would let Pomeranc one up him in LA? No neither did we. That is why we were entirely not shocked to see AB's Standard Downtown LA Hotel make a long cameo during last Sunday's Entourage episode.
Turns out the Standard is the place Tori, the blonde third of E's unrealistic threesome, chose to stay during her brief trip out west to LA. In subliminal product placement branding language, AB seems to be saying to us, while Hollywood's Hotel Roosevelt is where hot girls who have threesomes might have a drink, The Standard Downtown is where hot girls who have threesomes might have threesomes. Of course we know the threesome in question was at Sloan's place, but that is not the point. What? That wasn't the lesson you learned from these two episodes? Ok, how bout this one, judging from the extras parading around AB's place in the scene in question, we would say Andre's fictional clientele is currently hotter than Pomeranc's fictional clientele.
Oh, fine this isn't how you want to choose a hotel? You want to know what the rooms are like and what you will have to pay for a room.
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