Finally one of Miami Beach's landmarks returned with a weekend celebration and star-studded glory. The re-grand opening of Fountainbleau on Friday night looked like a who's who of Hollywood with celebrities like Kate Hudson, Paris Hilton, Molly Simms, baseball player Alex Rodriguez, Gwyneth Paltrow, Diddy, Mariah Carey and Amanda Bynes. This is a far cry from the 50's when the resort was a host to lavish nightlife to icons Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, and Marilyn Monroe.
The resort has maintain many of its features, designed by famed architect Morris Lapidus in 1952, like the stairway to nowhere, bowties tile floor, circular ceilings, columns, and the glamourous lobby bar. The hotel was also backdrop to many feature films including the Rat Pack. Movies like The Bellboy, The Bodyguard, James Bond's Goldfinger and Scarface.
Among the 22 acre hotel's stats includes:
•1,504 rooms all with a personal iMac
• 58 meeting rooms, and three ballrooms.
•11 restaurants and lounges
• 40,000-square-foot Lapis spa, with 30 treatment rooms
• Pool shaped as re-interpretation of Lapidus' signature bow-tie design
In the old Tropigala space, it has been turned in a new nightclub, LIV (roman numeral 54). The club hosted the Victoria Secret fashion show after party.
On Saturday, Victoria Secret's had its yearly famous fashion show at the FB, to be broadcast on CBS on December 3rd. In attendance Mario Lopez, Seal, Lenny Kravitz, Don Soffer with his good friend's James Caan, George Hamilton and Robert Duvall, performance by Usher, The Hills Brody Jener, Martha Stewart, Kim Kardashian with sister Kourtney, Mario, Sofia Vergara, John Stamos, Brett Ratner, Russell Simmons, Jeff Gordon, and 80's hit wonder Debbie Harry aka Blondie.
Locals also present to celebrate included, Jorge Perez and wife Darlene, Susan Magrino, Charlie Cinnamon, Shareef Malnik, Alvin Malnik, Carmel Ophir, Desiree Gruber, JR and Loren Ridinger, Christina Getty, Michael D'Andrea, Iran Issa Khan, and 1,500 others.
Definately the hit of the season!!!
