![]() He bought the bar-known for its red and white checkered tablecloths-in 1959 just one week before Christmas. The bar’s connection to the murder is one its owner Jack Dorrian has previously shied away from, telling the New York Observer in 2009 that it had been a fluke. The highly publicized case is revisited in a new five-part docuseries airing on AMC and Showtime called “The Preppy Murder: Death in Central Park.” He claims to have killed her accidentally trying to push her off him during unwanted rough sex, but prosecutors believed Levin fought for her life as he strangled her.Ĭhambers, who was known as the “preppy killer” in the media, would eventually plead guilty to manslaughter and serve 15 years in jail for her death. Levin and Chambers walked to nearby Central Park, where he killed her. 26, 1986 with her friend Robert Chambers. She was killed after leaving the bar in the early morning hours of Aug. The bar’s connection to Levin is more tragic. Andrew Cuomo said he was hosting a Giants watch party at the six-decade old haunt, The New York Post reports. Lindsey Lohan and Blues Traveler frontman John Popper were also known to hang out at the bar, according to Town & Country. Gwyneth Paltrow downed a “Fireball shot” with friends at the bar in 2015 before the group went to a reunion at Paltrow’s alma mater, the prestigious Spence School, according to The New York Post. Young people getting IDs checked before entering Dorrian's on Upper East Side, NYC.īut the bar-whose staff make a point to know their customers-has played a role in the lives of others as well.
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