Chateau Elysee – Hollywood Sin Palace – Scientology “Celebrity” Center

The Chateau Elysee, an old hotel apartment building in Hollywood is now the Scientology Celebrity Center.

In its day it was the hot spot of Hollywood’s elites.

Chateau Elysee

Residents included some of the most famous names of the 1930’s and 40’s. Most notably Bette Davis, Errol Flynn (room 211), Edward G. Robinson (room 216), Carol Lombard (room 305), Edgar Rice Burroughs (room 408), Humphrey Bogart (room 603), Clark Gable (room 604), Ginger Rogers (room 705), Ed Sullivan (room 501), Gracie Allen and George Burns (room 609) along with Lillian Gish, Katharine Hepburn, George Gershwin, and Cary Grant.

I found a floorplan of the old hotel before it was redone by the Scientologists and it reminds me of an old west side New York big family apartment with a tiny living room, dining room, kitchen and five bedrooms all along a hallway setting.  I could not but help wonder why a superstar like Tom Cruise would hole up here instead of his 35 million dollar Beverly Hills estate as recently described in the press?

The answer is simple.  Ring after ring after ring of security and privacy from the prying eyes of the  world. No doubts the private sins committed by the Hollywood elites in the 1920s and 1930s there, are still committed here.

People, rich people, “celebrities” who buy into scientology, buy into it not so much for the façade of tax deductible “religion” but rather for the Public Relations output and guaranteed privacy of bunker like (womb) “luxury” style apartments designed in early twentieth century New York City and currently  hidden out of public view in Hollywood USA.

The more the world changes, the more it stays the same. 

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