Belushi, an original Saturday Night Live cast member, had checked into his usual private bungalow at the hotel on February 28, - almost a week before he suffered the fatal overdose on March 5 at the age of Details about the night John Belushi died in March are included in a new book by Hollywood historian Shawn Levy about the famed hotel.
Belushi suffered a fatal overdose on cocaine and heroin in his private bungalow at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles in March Pictured is his body being removed by the coroner. The body of comedian John Belushi is removed from a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont Hotel after his living room was found in 'shambles - not sloppy, but actually trashed, as if in a rage'. The Animal House star was visited by Robert De Niro on the evening of March 4 because he wanted to go partying - but De Niro left after being freaked out by the state of the suite.
Cocaine was piled on the living room table, there was dirty laundry everywhere and the place was littered with discarded pizza boxes and wine bottles. According to a new book the living room was a 'shambles - not sloppy, but actually trashed, as if in a rage'.
Wallace called Belushi's manager Bernie Brillstein and screamed: 'There's something really wrong with John! Paramedics arrived but Belushi was already gone from an overdose, the book reveals. When De Niro head the news he called the hotel frantically demanding to know: 'Where's John? General manager Suzanne Jierjian told him: 'There's a problem'. De Niro said: 'What'. She replied: 'It's bad'. De Niro demanded: 'Is he sick' and was told: 'It's really bad'.
Levy writes: 'De Niro suddenly understood. He dropped the phone, crying'. Levy writes that in the hours before his death, Belushi did cocaine separately with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
Cathy Smith, the last person to see him alive, was eventually charged and served time for injecting Belushi with the fatal dose of heroin and cocaine.
Members of the Belushi family leave the West Tisbury Congregational Church following funeral services for the comedian. The casket is pictured being carried out of funeral services.
The dramatic account puts new light on the tragic end of Belushi, who was one of the the greatest comedians of his generation but died at the age of His contemporaries and friends included Dan Aykroyd who was planning to include Belushi in Ghostbusters which would have made him a huge star.
Levy writes that when Belushi checked into the Chateau Marmont in February he was a 'bomb, a waste site, a mess, sweaty, flabby, edgy, pale, disheveled'. It had been four years since Animal House came out and his only modest success since then was The Blues Brothers. He had well established alcohol, pot and cocaine problems and had begun to dabble in heroin, telling people it was research for a movie about the punk scene. When Aykroyd visited Belushi they staged a mock sword fight in the lobby lounge using 2ft candles as weapons, but as February rolled into March Belushi became more reclusive.
Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission. Lesser known, however, are the stories of celebrity copycats who seemingly wanted to follow in his footsteps. In fact, his tragic demise inspired fellow famous druggies — including artist Jean Michel Basquiat — to ask to stay in the Belushi bungalow.
And then there was vintage star Jean Harlow. In , the actress was staying at the Chateau Marmont with her brand new hubby No. The newlyweds stayed in a room adjoining the one where Harlow was also having an affair with Clark Gable. It was Casablanca. People secretly had affairs, took drugs and licked wounds from botched relationships.
He was in danger of squandering his career, and his life choices were making that seem a likelier outcome than not, even to casual observers. During his stay at Chateau Marmont, he took a meeting at a Sunset Strip nightclub with a pair of studio executives who brought their wives along. But that was a movie about a forgotten star, he replied; everyone knew Belushi.
We just saw it. While Belushi was trashing his bungalow and himself, people around him were scheming to get him back to New York, where his wife, Judy, and his partner and best friend, Dan Aykroyd, felt they could help him get clean from drugs and resume working productively.
Aykroyd was busily working on a script, titled Ghostbusters , for the two of them to make together with another SNL alumnus, Bill Murray. But even tracking Belushi down to have a chat was becoming impossible.
When he was in the bungalow, he was often too addled to talk or answer the phone, or he was surrounded by clutches of sycophants and drug-world people and hangers-on and unable to have a serious conversation. He was a wreck, and he was spinning beyond the reach of anyone who could help him.
The pair knew each other from lower Manhattan. Since he had last visited the hotel to make the aborted Bogart Slept Here , De Niro had acquired the habit of keeping more or less on retainer an upper-floor penthouse at the Chateau, preferring to stay in the hotel after having some bad experiences with rental houses during recent trips to Hollywood.
His laundry was done by the hotel staff, his car was kept under a dustcover in the hotel garage, and he came and went unnoticed: a New York apartment dweller utterly at home in a place that felt like a Manhattan high-rise. On this visit, De Niro had been joined for a time by his young son and adolescent daughter. One afternoon, he took them to a party where they encountered Belushi snorting such quantities of cocaine and heroin that he had to excuse himself to go find a place to vomit. Failing to raise him, they drove over to the Chateau to see if they could coax him into a bit of play.
Instead, they found him — and his bungalow — in an awful state. The living room was a shambles — not sloppy, but actually trashed, as if in a rage. And worse, a flinty, hard-eyed woman named Cathy was lounging amid the discarded pizza boxes and wine bottles and dirty laundry as if she had some claim to the place and to Belushi himself.
There, he got a phone call from Robin Williams. Williams did and, like De Niro, was creeped out by the scene, leaving after a few words and a little coke. After he left, De Niro, too, stopped in at the bungalow, entering through the sliding glass patio door.
He had a few words and a few lines and then took some of the cocaine that was piled on the living room table and went back to his suite. It was some time past 3 a. Power knocked several times without getting a response before realizing he was at the wrong door and moving along. At around noon, a taut, spry man walked through the grounds of the hotel, past the swimming pool, with a typewriter in his hand.
The sky was clear, the air was warm, and the few sunbathers and lap swimmers who had come out to enjoy the weather took no notice of him: People were often passing through the pool area with musical instruments, wardrobe cases, cameras, easels — the clumsy stuff that creative folks use to make art. Maybe 20 minutes later, a second man came by, in a suit, rushing, but again, nothing terribly odd and, again, nobody paid much mind. But presently there were paramedics, moving with purpose, and then policemen, snooping about, and within an hour, outside the hotel grounds but creating an unignorable hum, television camera trucks and packets of paparazzi.
Finally, one of the sunbathers wandered into the lobby, which was unusually active, and asked a hotel employee what was going on. John Belushi had been discovered in a state of unconsciousness by the man with the typewriter, his personal trainer and bodyguard, Bill Wallace.
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