Nola Hahn committed suicide--or otherwise died--at the Beverly Hilton in 1957. Something unrelated to that incident that I never knew was that Simon Rodia apparently once considered building his towers on the hotel's triangular plot instead of the one in Watts. While I suspect that the towers wouldn't still be standing if they were built in Beverly Hills, it's interesting to imagine that the Beverly Hills Towers might have become a civic icon, the town's Eiffel Tower, "as it were"...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/us/08watts.html?_r=1