There’s been no end to Chelsea Hotel minority shareholder Marlene Krauss’ troubles lately. Luckily she has a convenient scapegoat: the blog. She managed to alienate one of the top hotel firms in the city, BD Hotels, and now she’s locked in arbitration that threatens to cost the hotel half a million dollars. But don’t you know, that’s the blog’s fault since we drew attention to Glennon Travis’ myspace page where he called himself a “St. Louis Beach Bum.” Then, after scraping the bottom of the barrel to come up with somebody stupid enough to want to work for her, “Piccadilly” Andrew Tilley turned out to be totally incapable of managing the place, costing the hotel another half-million in salary and bonuses. Oh, but of course he had to quit because the blog criticized his hairdo. Now Krauss is stuck with the dimwitted duo of Tweedledum and Tweedledee “managing” the hotel, the first of whom (David Elder) had a tenant assaulted by goons paid off of the books, and the second of whom (Arnold Tamasar) evicted a 75-year-old man. Apparently reading the blog so dazzled these dips that they became unaware of the most basic of laws.
And then there’s the matter of the destruction in Bob Dylan’s room. It was apparently the blog that falsified those permit applications and neglected to get a Certificate of No Harassment, and probably even the blog that wrote the inconvenient law that made that work illegal. Finally, when occupancy dipped into single digits at the hotel and then hovered at around 20% for months, it was the blog’s constant cheerleading for the hotel that caused people to not want to come here.
As for Marlene’s other business related problems, such as falling victim to Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme; being threatened with having her “Spac” company, KBL Healthcare III, de-listed by the New York Stock Exchange; and her “resignation” from the board of Summer Infant, she was probably just too preoccupied with reading the blog (it is certainly engrossing!) and working herself up into a state of constant rage over the fact that we pointed out that her father was Stanley’s plumber.
Hey Marlene, blogs don’t bankrupt hotels; people bankrupt hotels.
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