Haiti Hotel That Hosted Jagger, Brando Burns Down Amid Gang War
The Hotel Oloffson in Port au Prince, Haiti.
Photographer: Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesAn iconic, 90-year-old hotel in Haiti that once hosted global stars like Mick Jagger and Marlon Brando was destroyed by flames over the weekend as gangs have almost completely taken over the capital.
The Hotel Oloffson, a gingerbread structure near downtown Port-au-Prince, was “burned to the ground,” Richard Morse, whose band RAM used to play weekly sessions at the hotel, wrote on X.