Hotels By Pierre Cardin

A number of public figures have notably chosen to take up semi-permanent or permanent residence in hotels.
• Actor Richard Harris lived at the Savoy Hotel while in London. Hotel archivist Susan Scott recounts an anecdote that when he was being taken out of the building on a stretcher shortly before his death he raised his hand and told the diners "it was the food."
• Inventor Nikola Tesla lived the last 10 years of his life at the New Yorker Hotel until 1943 when he died in the hotel room.
• Millionaire Howard Hughes lived his last few years in a Las Vegas hotel.