Decision To Demolish
From 2004 to 2005, The Ambassador Hotel was closed completely and became the topic of a legal struggle between the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), which wanted to clear the site and build a school; Sirhan Sirhan, who, through his lawyer the late Lawrence Teeter, wanted to conduct more testing in the pantry where Robert F. Kennedy was shot; and the Los Angeles Conservancy and Art Deco Society preservationists, who wanted the hotel and its various elements saved and integrated into the future school. At one point, real estate mogul Donald trump was attempting to build the tallest building in the world on the site of the former Hotel, but was defeated by other interests. The last crew to film in the kitchen of the Ambassador, where Robert F. Kennedy was killed, was "Angel," for its episode "Spin the Bottle."
After much litigation, a settlement was attained at the end of August 2005, allowing the demolition to begin in exchange for the establishment of a $4.9 million fund, reserved for saving historic school buildings in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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