https://www.thedailybeast.com/standard-hotel-owner-andre-balazs-accused-of-groping-actor-jason-batemans-wife

André Balazs, the owner of several luxury hotels, is accused of groping actress Amanda Anka, who is married to actor Jason Bateman, The New York Times reported Thursday. Balazs, who owns the Standard hotel chain and Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, allegedly reached under Anka’s skirt and grabbed her crotch while giving her and the cast of the film Horrible Bosses 2 a tour of his London hotel, the Chiltern, after the film’s premiere. Bateman reportedly confronted Balazs and spat gum in his face before the couple left the hotel. “On behalf of Jason Bateman and Amanda Anka, we can confirm that the account of André Balazs’s outrageous and vile behavior on that night in London is factual,” the couple’s publicist said in a statement. “His actions were dealt with at the time.” Several of Balazs’ former employees are also accusing him of sexual assault.

https://www.laweekly.com/arts/a-girl-in-the-box-at-the-standard-hotel-speaks-4488715

There's never a shortage of half-dressed ladies on the Sunset Strip, and that includes the lobby of the Standard, the boutique hotel just west of the Chateau Marmont and east of the Comedy Store. But there's always one girl at the Standard who stands out above the rest.

Except she doesn't stand - she lies down, or sometimes sits, in a large glass tank behind the concierge. She's the Standard's Box Girl.

For nearly four years, Lilibet Snellings was a Box Girl.

Los Angeles is crawling with aspiring whatevers working odd day jobs. Snellings' undoubtedly was one of the most confining: The box is 15 feet long, 4 feet wide and 5 feet tall. The Box Girl is part eye candy, part conversation piece and part art installation, a living sculpture that taps into the fantasy of staring at a woman trapped like a caged animal.

Her uniform was a white tank top, white shorts and light makeup. Also, she had to wear undergarments.

"I never thought I would be employed at a place where that needed to be put in writing," Snellings writes in her new book, Box Girl: My Part-Time Job as an Art Installation. (She's doing a reading at Skylight Books on March 11.)

The rules? While inside the box, there was to be no eye contact with hotel guests and no food or drinks. But Snellings, who essentially had been hired as a model, could read, use her computer, talk on the phone and even sleep inside the box, which included a mattress, sheets, pillows and monthly art installations. And, yes, she was allowed bathroom breaks - two per shift.

Just act as if you're alone in your living room, Snellings was told.