Thursday, May 8, 2014

The Beverly Hills Hotel & The Sultan of Death: Hassanal Bolkiah



The Beverly Hills Hotel

The Beverly Hills Hotel was unveiled on May 12, 1912. As yet, there wasn't even a city called Beverly Hills. By mid 1914, Beverly Hills had attracted enough residents to incorporate as a city.

Legendary Hollywood directors, actors and actresses such as Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, Buster Keaton, Rudolph Valentino, Lillian Gish, Pola Negri and Will Rogers built homes there, turning farmland, lots and bean fields surrounding The Beverly Hills Hotel into prime real estate.



 

Margaret J. Anderson and her son, Stanley S. Anderson, who had been managing the Hollywood Hotel were the original owners. They loved the movies. They loved the stars and celebrities.


From 1928 to 1932, the hotel was owned by the Van Noy Railway News and Hotel Company. Its strict resident owner from 1954 until his death in 1979 was former Detroit real estate magnate Ben L. Silberstein, who took it over from Hernando Courtright, later hotelier at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
 

Some of the owners have been celebrities:
Irene Dunne

 
Loretta Young
and currently ... the Sultan of Brunei.
 
Marvin H. Davis bought the Hotel for $54 million from Silberstein's sons-in-law Burt Slatkin and Ivan F. Boesky. Boesky had bought the 5% of stock that was outstanding for a reported fortune and decided to sell, despite Slatkin's desire to keep the hotel.
Less than a year later, Davis sold the hotel to the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, for $110 million. The hotel is managed and owned by the Dorchester Collection, organized in 1996 to manage the hotel interests of the Brunei Investment Agency. The west coast regional director for the Dorchester Collection oversees The Beverly Hills Hotel as well as the Hotel Bel-Air.
 
Owner (Corporation)
Dorchester Collection is a luxury hotel operator owned by the Brunei Investment Agency (BIA), an arm of the Ministry of Finance of Brunei. Dorchester Collection owns and manages 10 luxury five star hotels, The Dorchester, The Beverly Hills Hotel, Plaza Athénée, Hotel Meurice, Principe di Savoia, Hotel Bel-Air, Coworth Park, 45 Park Lane, Le Richemond and Hotel Eden.
 
The Sultan of Brunei is the head of state and absolute monarch of Brunei. He is also head of government in his capacity as Prime Minister.
 
Since independence from the British in 1984, only one Sultan has reigned, though the royal institution dates back to the 14th century.
 
The Sultan of Brunei can be thought of as synonymous with the ruling House of Bolkiah, with descendency being traced from the 1st sultan, temporarily interrupted by the 14th sultan Abdul Hakkul Mubin who in turn was deposed by a member of the House of Bolkiah. It is not clear when the house became known as the 'House of Bolkiah', and whether it was named after the current sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, or the 6th sultan Bolkiah.
 
The full title of the Sultan is: His Majesty The Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam.
 
The Sultan:  Hassanal Bolkiah (full name: Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar Ali Saifuddien Sa'adul Khairi Waddien; born 15 July 1946) is the 29th and current Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei. He is also the first and incumbent Prime Minister of Brunei. The eldest son of Sir Muda Omar Ali Saifuddien III and Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Damit, he succeeded to the throne as the Sultan of Brunei, following the abdication of his father on 4 October 1967.
 
The sultan is worth an estimated $20 billion and lives in a 1,800-room palace. Bolkiah is implementing a Sharia law penal code that includes death by stoning, the severing of limbs, and flogging for crimes in Brunei such as abortions, adultery and homosexual acts. The sultan has had three wives and has numerous children. He has received many awards from the leaders of other nations.
 
To destroy the beast - it is the Sultan who must be hurt in his wallet.
 
Celebrities are NOW joining in “the fight”, i.e., boycott of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
The fight is past due. However, these same celebrities also enjoy staying at ALL of the luxury hotels owned by this killer Sultan. There is a list of names. Follow the stars, they proudly advocate all of the Hotels owned by this madman.
 
The LGBT brought The Beverly Hills Hotel into “their” light. For their agenda.
 
How long has the world turned their head and turned their backs ignoring Leaders and Countries who strictly enforce and adhere to Sharia law? A genocide of women, torture of women and children. Murder of homosexuals.
 
All or in part - the rhyme or reason for this boycott is not the issue. IT IS ABOUT TIME.
 
Sharia law has no place in the civilized world.
In a different time and place - in an age of innocence - the newly founded Hollywood was a place of dreams and fantasy and dream-makers.
 

 
 
Little Mary Pickford and Cecil B. DeMille star Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino and Charlie Chaplin, Mae Murray, Ramon Novarro, John Gilbert and ethereal Lillian Gish all graced the lobby and banquet rooms of The Beverly Hills Hotel.
 
 
 

Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks
 

 
Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford
 

 
Then, in the name of money - capitalism - Americans sold their interest in a landmark building, as Americans do. They sold their fabled The Beverly Hills Hotel to a killer.
Now it is time, just like the classic film Frankenstein, for the villagers with torches in their hand to either take back or figuratively burn down The Beverly Hills Hotel.
 
It will never stand for the magic and marvel it once did. It is tainted. The fabled walls and halls can no longer whisper the names of Hollywood and world-wide royalty. The ghosts of the beauties of the silver screen can no longer linger and whisper their memories. The whispering giggles and laughter have turned to despair.
 
There is blood on the carpets.
 
The ghosts of the straight and gay elite legends are saddened that their hotel is now owned by a monster. A monster far more dangerous than the gentle Frankenstein creature.
 
It is time for Hollywood to come out of the closet and fight to take back what is left of decency in America. There is no place for Sharia law in a civilized Country.
 
This Sultan and future death leaders have no place in America. No place in Beverly Hills. No place in this world.
 
 
If need be, this hotel MUST be boy-cotted until is sold to Americans and/or closed down if the Sultan chooses to "hold onto it."
 
 
No one wants anyone to lose a job - but sometimes - a loss of a job is far better than advocating a Hotel that is owned by a murderer - who advocates the loss of life and God-given freedoms.


Brian Pinette