Several hotels have had a writer-in-residence. The Chelsea Hotel in New York has a blogger-in-residence. And the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey, Los Angeles, has a felon-in-residence.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Jeffrey Borer, sentenced to six months’ home detention for illegally videotaping Michael Jackson, is serving his time at the hotel because his own place is infested with mould.

Borer is picking up the tab, but the federal prosecutor is not best pleased. “When someone is sentenced to electronic monitoring, normally the presumption is he’s not going to be holed up in a four-star hotel,” he said.

As the Times points out, the Ritz-Carlton is actually rated as a five-diamond.