Watergate Hotel to be sold

Probably the most famous hotel in the world and (indirectly) responsible for any recent scandal to be suffixed with -gate, the Watergate Hotel is to be sold at auction. The hotel, in Washington DC USA, has been closed since 2007 after the previous owners ran out of money.

Of course the hotel rose to fame (or infamy) when it was where burglars in the pay of President Nixon stayed before they broke into the Democratic Party office at the adjoining Watergate Office Complex. The trail investigators followed eventually led to the White House and the fall of Nixon of course.

Update : the sale did not attract any bids.