Presidents Slept Here And Now Sultans Will, Too
Up on the penthouse floor is where one could find Marilyn Monroe's suite: #1782 and JFK's: #1784. There were rooms used by Elvis, the Gabor sisters, the Mob, the James Bond movie "Goldfinger", or "Surfside 6", the "The Bellboy", and on.A Dubai company has bought half the Fontainebleau resort for $375 million, putting Miami Beach's most iconic hotel partly in the hands of a sovereign wealth fund from the oil-rich Middle East.
The parent company, Dubai World, helps invest the emirate's vast oil wealth and sparked controversy in 2006 when another subsidiary tried to buy a company running several U.S. ports, including Miami's.