<Li> <P> John Lennon </P> </Li> <Li> <P> George Hamilton </P> </Li> <P> In 1963, the comedy picture Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?, starring Dean Martin, Elizabeth Montgomery, Jill St. John and Carol Burnett, was shot at the hotel . In the 1970s, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hid out in one of the bungalows for a week . Richard M. Nixon's chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, and presidential aide John Ehrlichman were eating breakfast in the Polo Lounge when they were informed of the Watergate in 1972 . In January, 1976, Peter Finch died of a sudden heart attack while sitting in the hotel lobby . Two months later, he was posthumously awarded the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Howard Beale in the film Network . His co-star Faye Dunaway stayed at the hotel after winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for the same film; in one memorable photograph she was seated by the hotel pool lounging back in a chair surrounded by newspapers and her Oscar trophy . The exterior of the hotel was featured on the album cover art of The Eagles's LP "Hotel California" that same year . Two years later, California Suite was filmed at the hotel . </P> <P> Owner Ben Silberstein died in 1979, and passed the hotel to his two daughters, Muriel Slatkin and Seema Boesky, wife of stock trader Ivan Boesky . In 1986, Marvin Davis bought the hotel from Silberstein's sons - in - law Burt Slatkin and Ivan Boesky . Boesky had bought the outstanding 5% of stock for a reported fortune and decided to sell, despite Slatkin's desire to keep the hotel . Less than a year later, Davis sold the hotel to the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, for $110 million . </P>

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