Post by peter on Jan 31, 2005 14:55:12 GMT
Saturday, December 25, 2004
LOS ANGELES - Forty tenants of the Morrison Hotel, which is pictured on the cover of The Doors' 1970 album of the same name, filed a "slumlord" lawsuit against the residential hotel's owners.
The 90-year-old downtown hotel is best known for its depiction on the album cover. It features band members looking out a window bearing the hotel's name.
A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Superior Court claims Hope Pico Co., which owns the hotel, and Sauli Danpour, the hotel's manager, failed to "repair the unsafe, unsanitary and uninhabitable conditions."
The lawsuit seeks general, punitive and statutory damages and legal costs.
Danpour wouldn't comment and referred calls to his lawyer, Fariba Bakshian Banayan, who didn't immediately return a phone call. The 111-unit building has been neglected for decades.
LOS ANGELES - Forty tenants of the Morrison Hotel, which is pictured on the cover of The Doors' 1970 album of the same name, filed a "slumlord" lawsuit against the residential hotel's owners.
The 90-year-old downtown hotel is best known for its depiction on the album cover. It features band members looking out a window bearing the hotel's name.
A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Superior Court claims Hope Pico Co., which owns the hotel, and Sauli Danpour, the hotel's manager, failed to "repair the unsafe, unsanitary and uninhabitable conditions."
The lawsuit seeks general, punitive and statutory damages and legal costs.
Danpour wouldn't comment and referred calls to his lawyer, Fariba Bakshian Banayan, who didn't immediately return a phone call. The 111-unit building has been neglected for decades.
