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== Long term residence  ==
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A number of public figures have notably chosen to take up semi-permanent or permanent residence in hotels.
*Fashion designer [[Coco Chanel]] lived in the [[Hôtel Ritz]], Paris, on and off for more than 30 years.
*Inventor [[Nikola Tesla]] lived the last ten years of his life at the [[New Yorker Hotel]] until he died in his room in 1943.
*[[Larry Fine]] (of [[The Three Stooges]]) and his family lived in hotels, due to his extravagant spending habits and his wife's dislike for housekeeping. They first lived in the President Hotel in [[Atlantic City, New Jersey]], where his daughter Phyllis was raised, then the Knickerbocker Hotel in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]]. Not until the late 1940s did Fine buy a home in the [[Los Feliz, Los Angeles|Los Feliz area of Los Angeles]].
*The [[Waldorf-Astoria Hotel]] and its affiliated Waldorf Towers has been the home of many famous persons over the years including former President [[Herbert Hoover]] who lived there from the end of his presidency in 1933 until his death in 1964. General [[Douglas MacArthur]] lived his last 14 years in the penthouse of the Waldorf Towers. Composer [[Cole Porter]] spent the last 25 years of his life in an apartment at the Waldorf Towers.
*Billionaire [[Howard Hughes]] lived in hotels during the last ten years of his life (1966–76), primarily in Las Vegas, as well as [[Acapulco]], [[Beverly Hills]], [[Boston]], [[Freeport, Bahamas|Freeport]], [[London]], [[Managua]], [[Nassau, Bahamas|Nassau]], [[Vancouver]], and others.
*[[Vladimir Nabokov]] and his wife Vera lived in the [[Fairmont Le Montreux Palace|Montreux Palace]] Hotel in [[Montreux]], Switzerland, from 1961 until his death in 1977.
*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 in 2002, he raised his hand and told the diners "it was the food."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6990706.stm |title=Home suite home |work=[[BBC News]] |date=12 September 2007 |access-date=12 June 2011 |publisher=[[BBC]] |archive-date=2 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110702155401/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6990706.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>
*Egyptian actor [[Ahmed Zaki (actor)|Ahmed Zaki]] lived his last 15 years in Ramses [[Hilton Worldwide|Hilton]] Hotel – [[Cairo]].{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
*British [[entrepreneur]] [[Jack Lyons (financier)|Jack Lyons]] lived in the Hotel Mirador Kempinski in Switzerland for several years until his death in 2008.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

*American actress [[Ethel Merman]] lived in the [[Berkshire Hotel]] in Manhattan for many years<ref>Kellow, Brian (2008). Ethel Merman : a life. New York: Penguin Books. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-14-311420-8. OCLC 223803989.</ref> but was evicted in 1978 by new ownership who did not want permanent residents.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/50395288/berkshire/ |title=Bing's Widow Writing Books |work=[[newspapers.com]] |access-date=2 July 2023 |publisher=Daily News}}</ref>
*American actress [[Elaine Stritch]] lived in the [[Savoy Hotel]] in London for over a decade.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=186009 |title=Elaine Stritch |work=[[Tcm.com]] |access-date=29 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102132151/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/186009%7C45918/Elaine-Stritch/ |archive-date=2 November 2012 |publisher=[[Turner Entertainment Networks, Inc.]]}}</ref>
*Uruguayan-Argentinian tango composer [[Horacio Ferrer]] lived almost 40 years, from 1976 until his death in 2014, in an apartment inside the [[Alvear Palace Hotel]], in Buenos Aires, one of the most exclusive hotels in the city.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1754488-el-refinamiento-extraordinario-del-hotel-alvear-el-hogar-de-horacio-ferrer |title=El "refinamiento extraordinario" del Hotel Alvear, el hogar de Horacio Ferrer |newspaper=[[La Nación (Argentina)|La Nación]] |language=es |date=21 December 2014 |access-date=11 February 2019 |archive-date=11 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190111145147/https://www.lanacion.com.ar/1754488-el-refinamiento-extraordinario-del-hotel-alvear-el-hogar-de-horacio-ferrer |url-status=live }}</ref>