Copley Plaza
Back in 1917, movie mogul Adolph Zukor, and his equally powerful and very bad partner-in-crime, Jesse Lasky, threw a party in Copley Plaza for their biggest star of the time, Roscoe Arbuckle, possibly on the site of what is now the Westin Hotel (although I could be wrong about that, but it was certainly somewhere around here.) This party has since passed into folklore and, such was the notoriety of this get-together, that it was trotted out and used as evidence against Arbuckle at his trial(s), following another party on the opposite coast, a few years later. The great irony is that, although the events were used to show how debauched and depraved Arbuckle was, he organised neither, had no say in who was invited, and only showed his face at the Boston party, leaving well before any debauchery began.
