At Chateau Marmont, Belushi was occasionally seen in the company of Robert De Niro, who had come to Los Angeles to look into some new film projects. The pair knew each other from lower Manhattan.

It was 25 years ago today (March 5) that television and film star John Belushi died at the Chateau Marmont of a drug overdose. This is the original Variety story that ran on that day. Cause of ...

Corbis via Getty Images Three years after the interview, Belushi died of an overdose at the famous Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles in 1982. He was 33.

On March 5th 1982 John Belushi died of a drug overdose in his bungalow at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. Belushi had been injected with a speedball, a mixture of cocaine and heroin.

On March 5, 1982, Belushi was found dead in his room at the Chateau Marmont by his personal trainer, Bill Wallace, who was there to deliver a typewriter to him, per The Hollywood Reporter.

John Belushi's death of an overdose in 1982 took place in one of Marmont's garden bungalows, and James Dean famously auditioned at the venue for Rebel Without A Cause.

The sad downfall of Belushi, who died of a heroin and cocaine overdose in a Chateau Marmont hotel room in 1982 at just 33 years old, is well documented in many mediums including books and the ...

On the debut episode he talked about his brother, famed "Saturday Night Live" and "Animal House" star John Belushi, who died at 33 of a cocaine and heroin overdose at the Chateau Marmont in Los ...

In March of 1982, Belushi was holed up at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, lost in a fog of depression and addiction. Aykroyd remembers their last phone conversation: “He was sad and defeated ...