Have you heard the wild tales about the carpet soaked in shark's blood or the TV thrown into
the swimming pool?
Let's take a closer look at some of the most outrageous stories ever of celebrities trashing
hotel rooms.
Johnny Depp is now one of the most famous actors in the world, but back in 1994, he
was just starting to make a big splash in films such as Edward Scissorhands and What's
Eating Gilbert Grape.
In September of that year, he was arrested at The Mark hotel in New York City.
While wearing combat boots, he used his fists and feet to smash a glass coffee-table top,
a lampstand, a china pot and some antique picture frames in his suite.
His lawyer suggested that the actor was frustrated because his usual New York hotel, the Carlyle,
had no availability.
Others suggested he was having a lovers' quarrel with model Kate Moss.
People Magazine interviewed neighboring guest Roger Daltry, lead singer of The Who, who
bragged about his rock band being better at trashing hotel rooms than Depp.
According to Daltrey,
"On a scale of 1 to 10, I give him a 1.
It took him so bloody long.
The Who could have done the job in one minute flat."
Depp later claimed that he was trying to kill a cockroach, but in 2009, he finally came
clean about his shady past.
As he put it,
"Was in a bad mood.
I assaulted a hotel room.
I broke a lot of stuff and it felt good.
I felt better afterwards.
I can't say that I would recommend it."
Britney Spears' showbiz career has included no shortage of tabloid dirt, but the rumors
about her trashing a hotel room in 2009 may not be the product of a crazy Hollywood lifestyle.
Instead, this one just sounds like an unfortunate day-in-the-life-of-a-mom moment.
While staying at the Mohegan Sun Resort and Casino in Connecticut in 2009, the tabloids
alleged that her young sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James, racked up a big hotel bill
for their mom by ruining curtains, drawing on walls in crayon, and relieving themselves
in the pool.
While that sounds like a lot of stress to deal with for any parent, famous or otherwise,
the good news is that Spears' "Circus Tour" that year was a big hit.
We hope that she still managed to turn a profit after paying for the damages, and considering
that the Mohegan Sun has welcomed her back since that rumored ruckus, all seems to be
forgiven.
The Holiday Inn hotel chain reportedly banned Rod Stewart for throwing wild parties with
too many girls in his room while touring with his band the Faces in the '70s.
And Stewart hasn't denied it.
In fact, he detailed his antics years later, revealing that he and his band would empty
rooms, stick furniture in the elevator and send it to the lobby.
They went to all that trouble, according to Stewart, because the Holiday Inns they stayed
at didn't want to serve them, so the rock stars took their revenge.
"We were actually, as the Faces, we were banned from all Holiday Inns, so we used to check
in as Fleetwood Mac."
They say time heals all wounds, and that seems to be the case between Stewart and the hotel
chain.
After the rocker talked about the ban on The Late Late Show with James Corden, The Holiday
Inn tweeted,
"Hey @RodStewart, we're not one to hold a grudge.
You're welcome back any time."
The rocker reportedly took them up on that offer and stayed in Holiday Inns during his
2016 U.K. tour.
However, he couldn't resist teasing the hotel on Twitter:
"Careful what you wish for.
After parties @holidayinn on tour this summer."
Sadly, Kurt Cobain is no longer here to tell the stories of Nirvana's wild days, but thankfully,
Kurt Loder is.
The MTV reporter interviewed the band in St. Paul, Minnesota in December 1993, and years
later, he revealed what happened after that infamous interview.
While he was drinking with Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, Novoselic supposedly broke
a photo on the wall.
Security got wind of it, but Loder covered for the band, earning him infinite cool points
in grunge history.
As he recalled,
"It's, like, 4 in the morning, and we hear that hotel security is coming up, so I said,
'Well, it's really time for me to leave.'
So I'm leaving, going to the elevator, they're behind me, because they want to go down to
my room; they don't want to get in trouble either."
Alas, Loder had apparently jumped from the frying pan into the fire, because the band
proceeded to trash his hotel room instead, breaking tables and chairs and really working
on the TV to the tune of $19,000 in damages.
As he explained,
"It was hard, you know, to use a coat stand [to break a TV set].
You'd figure it would go right through it - but you had to continue doing it before
it finally works.
They were just out of their minds; it was fabulous in a way and yet wrong."
Kurt Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, experienced her own wild rock star days as the frontwoman
for the band Hole, and in 2009, she reportedly trashed a fancy hotel room at The Inn on Irving
Place in New York City.
According to an insider who spoke to Page Six,
"She caused so much damage in eight hours and wreaked so much havoc.
It was actually kind of funny [...] minus the $5,000 in repairs."
The damage included dirty needles and used feminine hygiene products that had been left
behind, which doesn't sound all that hilarious to us.
It's also worth mentioning that Love's daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, was reportedly with her
mom during that infamous stay.
In 2019, Frances Bean stopped by RuPaul's What's the Tee podcast to discuss her relationship
with her mom.
She called her mom, quote, "so deeply empathetic and so intelligent" and said that it's difficult
for her to "sit with herself," further explaining that she's self-destructive because she doesn't
know what to do with, quote, "all that information and feeling."
Aerosmith has remained a force in rock n' roll since they first broke out in the 70s.
They continue to tour and record to this day, and lead singer Steven Tyler was a judge on
American Idol.
So clearly, his reputation survived the band's rambunctious antics in the '70s.
That's when "Dream On" and "Sweet Emotion" were climbing the charts and when Tyler, Joe
Perry, and the rest of the bad boys from Boston were chopping up hotel furniture, literally.
Aerosmith reportedly used to bring a chainsaw on tour so that they could use it on hotel
room furniture, and extension cords so that they could drop TVs into swimming pools.
According to Walk This Way, a documentary about the band, the rockers' tour manager
enacted a 24-hour-rule.
If the band weren't seen by anybody for 24 hours, then the hotel room door would be broken
down to see if they were still alive.
These days, Aerosmith performances are much more orderly affairs.
The band launched a Las Vegas residency in 2019, and Sin City hotels haven't reported
any sawdust in their suites.
The late Amy Winehouse sang openly about her addictions and tragically died from fatal
levels of alcohol in her blood in 2011.
She infamously trashed a hotel room in 2008, following one of her stints in a treatment
facility.
She stayed at the Park Plaza London Riverbank hotel for about two weeks, but that was two
weeks too long, according to hotel sources who described the carnage that happened.
Winehouse refused to let cleaners do their jobs during her stay, and when she finally
checked out, the scene was less than ideal.
A source claimed that the bed hadn't been changed since she arrived and that most of
the room had been used as an ashtray.
Other details included dirty underwear strewn everywhere, an incredibly stale smell, and
a mirror taken off the wall and laid on the floor.
Also, the bath had to be scrubbed and unblocked from balls of matted hair.
In another incident in 2009, Winehouse allegedly smeared the walls of her hotel room with spaghetti
and tore up some carpet prior to the MTV Europe Music Awards.
Snoop Dogg supposedly witnessed the whole thing.
A source reported that the rapper was just standing there open-mouthed and couldn't believe
what he was seeing.
Ozzy Osbourne became famous as the lead singer of Black Sabbath and infamous for biting the
head off a bat on stage, but even that controversial chomp doesn't seem as weird as his hotel room
antics.
When his bandmate Tony Io mmi published his 2012 autobiography, he shared a story about
the Prince of Darkness defacing a room at the Edgewater hotel in Seattle.
The hotel was built on stilts, which allowed guests to fish out of the window.
So that's what Osbourne was doing when he caught a shark and put it in the bath.
He then cut it up, causing blood and guts to go everywhere.
The band also tied a lamp to some fishing line and left.
Needless to say, it wasn't there when the group returned.
"Rock 'n' roll is, you can't make it up.
Some nights is good, some nights is not so good."
Osbourne trashing hotels reportedly continued when he went solo.
Guitarist Zakk Wylde waxed poetic about one night in Prague that supposedly cost more
than $51,000.
As he told Birmingham Live,
"They said the room couldn't be used for 41 days […] Hey, you and I could've cleaned
the place up in two hours - with the right kind of equipment, something chemical, maybe
biological."
Amanda Bynes was a promising talent whose personal challenges got in the way of her
acting career.
The Nickelodeon star of All That and The Amanda Show had a gift for characters and voices,
which she also put to good use in movies such as She's the Man and Hairspray.
But in 2010, she started taking a hiatus from acting.
In 2013, she made headlines for getting kicked out of the Ritz-Carlton in New York City for
allegedly smoking marijuana in her room.
Bynes denied the accusations, but TMZ obtained pictures of the trashy scene, which reportedly
included piles of garbage, ashes, cosmetics, and a destroyed smoke alarm.
It all added up to a $9,000 bill over 9 days, and that was before the hotel finished tallying
up the damages.
On the bright side, Bynes appears to have put those dark days behind her.
By 2018, she was sober and studying at the Fashion Institute of Design & Marketing.
She told Paper Magazine that year,
"The mixture of marijuana and whatever other drugs and sometimes drinking really messed
up my brain.
It really made me a completely different person.
I actually am a nice person.
I would never feel, say or do any of the things that I did and said to the people I hurt."
Lindsay Lohan was riding high as a child actor in the late 90s and early 2000s.
1998's The Parent Trap made her a young box office behemoth, and she went on to star in
more hits like Freaky Friday and Mean Girls.
But her party-girl image and a slew of legal troubles eventually overshadowed her professional
life.
In the early 2010s, she was appearing in the likes of Scary Movie 5 and the Lifetime movie
Liz & Dick.
In the midst of it all, she apparently didn't even know that she'd been banned by the Shutters
on the Beach in Santa Monica, Calif.
Lohan and her mom tried to check in late one night in 2013, but were turned away because
the actress had been put on a blacklist after she allegedly trashed one of the hotel's rooms
in 2007.
The cleaning crew had reportedly discovered the room littered with cigarette butts, dirty
towels and trash, and apparently a bloody syringe was found.
Earlier that same year, the famed W hotel in New York City reportedly banned Lohan for
allegedly causing $50,000 in damage to a single room.
A source told Us Weekly that her suite had so many cigarette burns that they had to change
all the carpets.
"None other than Lindsay Lohan.
DON'T JUDGE!"
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