With Polanski in London for work on another film, an 8 1/2-month pregnant Tate was being entertained at home by three friends: hairstylist Jay Sebring, longtime Polanski buddy Voytek Frykowski and Frykowski's girlfriend, Abigail Folger.Īt around midnight, three members of the Family arrived at 10050 Cielo Drive and got out of a car while a fourth, Linda Kasabian, remained behind the wheel as a lookout.
The worlds of Hollywood glamor and the counterculture underbelly converged on August 8, 1969, when Manson declared that Helter Skelter was imminent and instructed several followers to kill everyone on the premises of 10050 Cielo Drive, the former home of a record producer who had rejected him. READ MORE: Charles Manson and the Manson Family's 1969 Murder Victims Manson sent members of his 'Family' to Tate's house - he did not kill her himself A huge Beatles fan, he termed the race war "Helter Skelter," after a track from the Fab Four's White Album. This wisdom included some destructive notions of race, and Manson told his followers, who became known as the Family, that African Americans would soon engage in wide-scale violence against their white counterparts. A pied piper with a guitar, Manson fascinated the young and aimless who drifted to California, mesmerizing them with his charisma and apparent wisdom gleaned from years of hard living. Meanwhile, a career criminal named Charles Manson was also gaining notoriety as an underground figure. They married in January 1969 and, with Tate pregnant, rented a home at 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills, overlooking the studios. By the late 1960s, actress Sharon Tate and director Roman Polanski were one of the prominent power couples of Hollywood.īrought together for the production of the horror-comedy The Fearless Vampire Hunters (1967), the two disliked one another at first before their time on set together sparked a romance.
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