John Legend is the latest celebrity to stand up against the Beverly Hills Hotel and its owner, Sultan Hassanai Bolkiah, in response to the Sultan's installation of Sharia law in Brunei. "These policies, which among other things could permit women and LGBT Bruneians to be stoned to death, are heinous and certainly don't represent John's values," Legend's publicist, Amanda Silverman, said in a statement. "John does not, in any way, wish to further enrich the Sultan while he continues to enforce these brutal laws." Click through to see who else has boycotted the Sultan's hotels.
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Jay Leno spoke at a gathering of women's rights and LGBT groups protesting across the street from the Beverly Hills Hotel in May.
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Ellen DeGeneres took to Twitter in April to announce her boycott of the hotel and its owner, saying, "I won't be visiting the Hotel Bel-Air or the Beverly Hills Hotel until this is resolved."
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Sharon Osbourne also wrote on Twitter, asking her followers to boycott the Beverly Hills Hotel and other hotels under the Sultan's ownership.
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Elton John penned a blog for the Huffington Post in May that said, "It is all the more disturbing, then, to realize that one of the places we most love is owned by a man who is at the forefront of this renewed and horrifying homophobia."
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Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group, said on Twitter, "No @Virgin employee, nor our family, will stay at Dorchester Hotels until the Sultan abides by basic human rights."
