Beverly Wilshire Hotel
Hotel Beverly Wilshire (formerly Regent Beverly Wilshire ) is a luxury hotel located at the intersection of Rodeo Drive and Wilshire Boulevard in downtown Beverly Hills and has been operated by Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts under license from Regent International Resorts since 1992. Built in 1928 by Walter G. McCarty and remodeled in 1991, the hotel has 395 rooms and suites .
The musician Elvis Presley and later the actor Warren Beatty lived in suites of the hotel for several years. It also became the home of John Lennon after he separated from Yoko Ono for a few months .
The American jet set icon and department store heiress Barbara Hutton spent her final years impoverished and sick in the hotel and died there in May 1979.
Prominent guests were u. a. the Japanese Emperor Hirohito , the Dalai Lama and Sadruddin Aga Khan as well as the actors Michael Caine , Michael Douglas , Farrah Fawcett , Dustin Hoffman , Anjelica Huston , Robert Pattinson , Walter Matthau , John Travolta and Al Pacino .
The hotel was best known for the film Pretty Woman, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere . It is also shown in Valentine's Day .
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Coordinates: 34 ° 4 ′ 1 ″ N , 118 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ W.