Coconut Grove Grapevine: Book launch party for 'Hotel Scarface'

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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Book launch party for 'Hotel Scarface'

Over 120 people attended an event at Grovite Robin Parker's house over the weekend to congratulate Roben Farzad on his new book,"Hotel Scarface," which chronicles the heyday of the Mutiny Hotel right here in Coconut Grove. The hotel was quite notorious during the Cocaine Cowboy days.

Above, from left: Humberto Fleitas, author Roben Farzad, Karen Tarpley, Wendy Zane, Nelson Aquilar and host Robin Parker.

Humberto Fleitas was present, he was the original DJ at the Mutiny from 1976 to 1982, Karen Tarpley, also present, was an original Mutiny Girl Beauty and her necklace is featured in the book, also present old Mutiny cast: Nelson Aguilar currently owns Fifi’s restaurant on Miami Beach, Carlos Quesada and Owen Band all infamous from those days.

You can purchase it at Amazon here: Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami

Happy days.

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