Emille would years later buy the same building in auction, that would later be transformed into the Al Bustan hotel. Her father Emile Bustani headed the leading engineering and contracting firm in the Arab world and was a prominent Lebanese statesman. Bustani's mother Laura, was an accomplished choir singer and pianist and instilled in Myrna a passion for classical compositions .Laura Bustani would take her two children to see concerts frequently in Beirut during their youth.[3][4]