The world’s worst hotel guests

11. Nicole Kidman
Concierges the world over know that this A-list actress can be a bit, um, particular. As detailed in the book “Great Reservations,” by two former staffers of the Four Seasons Chicago (the project was shelved, sadly, just before it was about to debut, though excerpts made it into the press), Kidman issued demands that would make an obsessive-compulsive proud. Once, in advance of what was to be only a 12-hour stay, she had assistants ship a set of pink, 800-thread-count Italian sheets to the hotel, along with pages' worth of diagrams and instructions for making up her bed. Then she never bothered to actually show up. And in 2006, the London Independent reported that Kidman had the staff at the Dorchester replace the standard 60-watt lightbulbs in her room with 40-watt bulbs. Perhaps she just needs a better makeup artist?

12. Michael Jackson
The king of pop's oddball lifestyle isn't news, but his bizarre tics, particularly when it comes to his hotel stays, never cease to astound. And we're not just talking about his history of dangling small children from balconies, as he famously did at the Hotel Adlon Kempinski in Berlin. As msnbc.com reported in 2006, Jackson forced the World Music Awards to book almost the entire Hempel Hotel in London for close to $100,000 in exchange for his performance, and he asked that an 18-foot wall be erected on the first floor to ensure his privacy. Inexplicably, he also had 30 children with him. And last year, the London Evening Standard reported that, during his stay at London's Jumeirah Hotel, Jackson requested bowls full of Haribo gummy candies, a large mirror, and a giant xylophone. Britain's Daily Star quoted a hotel insider as saying, "The weird thing is that they weren't for his kids."

13. Johnny Depp
Though he's since become rather domesticated, Depp was taken downtown in handcuffs after a 1994 incident at the Mark Hotel in New York City. Depp was staying in the presidential suite with then-girlfriend Kate Moss (who we all know is squeaky clean) when he "had a bad day"—as he later told Playboy magazine — and flew into a fury, breaking glass and furniture all over the room, almost as if he had blades for fingers. The charges of felony criminal mischief were dropped after he agreed to pay $9,767 in damages. Said John Waters, who directed Depp in “Cry Baby” not long before and adored the young star, "The room service must have been bad."

14. 1998 U.S. Men's Hockey Team
Rock stars are expected to perpetuate a certain degree of chaos, but Olympic athletes are better known for early bedtimes. Of course, this doesn't apply to NHL players, who were admitted to the Games for the first time in 1998. On the night the U.S. team lost to the Czech Republic in the Nagano games, they presumably spent the night partying before returning to their hotel room inside the Olympic Village. The Associated Press reported that they allegedly broke ten chairs, emptied three fire extinguishers in the room, dented a door, and threw a bunch of the chairs and fire extinguishers into a courtyard below. But perhaps it was all just an accident, as team member Jeremy Roenick tried to claim. "The chairs and furniture that we had were definitely not made for NHL players," he told the Chicago Tribune at the time. "The chairs would fall apart right there, just sitting on them." After which they would levitate and launch themselves out of a window. Right.

15. Keith Moon
The infamous drummer for the Who is the godfather of trashed hotel rooms. An early legend (the details of which differ, depending on who is consulted, but nevertheless is representative of Moon's routine post–check-in behavior) recounts how in 1967 he drove a car into a pool at a Holiday Inn in Flint, Michigan. This was only after he dropped his own five-tier birthday cake all over the carpet of his room during a party where guests sprayed the decor with fire extinguishers. The incident allegedly resulted in Moon's arrest, $24,000 in damages, and a Holiday Inn chain-wide ban on the Who. A year later, in Australia, Moon threw a TV off a balcony on the top floor of the Southern Cross Hotel and into the pool below. When a manager arrived in the suite with a drenched television in hand, demanding to know who did the deed, Moon exclaimed "I did!" before snatching it back and throwing it over the balcony once more. It became his signature move at hotels, a whimsical routine less psychotically “Shining”-esque than the time he went to a hardware store, bought a hatchet and proceeded to turn each piece of furniture in his Saskatoon, Canada, hotel room into timber. Our favorite, though? The time Moon set off a dynamite explosion in the bathroom of an American hotel to teach the manager, who had asked him to turn down the racket on his cassette player, the difference between "noise" and the Who.

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