Inside the daring 1973 NYC hotel heist that robbed Led Zeppelin of $200,000
the band was robbed of a whole lotta cash: approximately $200,000. The stacks of hundred-dollar bills — along with everyone’s passports and a few credit cards — had been stored in a safe-deposit box behind the desk at the Drake Hotel on Park Avenue at 56th Street, where Led Zep was staying.Led Zeppelin was worn out and strung out on drugs, with cocaine and heroin being delivered to their hotel, but had to pull it together for these important MSG gigs, where footage was being shot for their 1976 concert film “The Song Remains the Same.” Richard Cole, the band’s then-tour manager, discovered the theft at 7:30 p.m.