Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami

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By Roben Farzad ’98

Published April 18, 2017

Hotel Scarface (Berkeley) tells the story of Mutiny, a boutique hotel and disco that served as Miami’s gateway to cocaine. The decadence of the Mutiny helped inspire the blockbuster film Scarface.

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