Charlie Sheen vs. Eloise
Long before Charlie Sheen’s coke-fueled rampage at the Plaza Hotel, another infamous guest was terrorizing the staff: 6-year old Eloise, the star of a famous children’s book. So who’s the hotel’s most destructive guest ever? View our face-off and vote in our poll.
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Eloise brought a dog (Weenie) and a turtle (Skipperdee) into the Plaza.
Charlie Sheen brought a 22-year-old porn star (
Capri Anderson) to the Plaza.
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Eloise wrote her name on the walls, poured water down the mail chute, broke a piano, and ate cookies in bed.
Charlie Sheen thrashed a bed, overturned a table and set of chairs, and broke a glass chandelier, causing
$7,000 worth of damage.
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Eloise created a rainstorm in the bathroom using the shower, and invites her turtle and dog into the tub.
Charlie Sheen's date
locked herself in a bathroom naked and called security.
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Eloise put shoes on her ears, a pillowcase on her head, and made hats out of a Kleenex box, a cabbage leaf, and breakfast dishes.
Charlie Sheen was "stark naked” when police arrived at the Fifth Avenue hotel and needed help buttoning his shirt when the
cops asked him to get dressed.
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Eloise took over the phone lines in the lobby, harassing guests with calls.
Charlie Sheen's ex-wife
Denise Richards called the front desk at 2 a.m., begging, "Please call the police!”
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Eloise woke her nanny with a flashlight to save her from imaginary tigers and lions and birds of prey.
Charlie Sheen's antics woke up his ex-wife in the next room, who called the cops to save his date from his rampage.
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Sometimes Eloise gets terribly sick and has to be waited on.
Sometimes
Charlie Sheen gets terribly drunk and has to be hospitalized.
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Eloise chewed gum in the Plaza.
Charlie Sheen reportedly
admitted cocaine use to police.
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