Like so many “murder houses” before and since, 10050 Cielo Drive’s association with terror and death belies the fact that for every day of its existence but one, nothing that happened there would have set it apart from any other house on any other street. The film in part tells the dark story of 10050 Cielo Drive through the characters of Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth (Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt), next-door neighbors to Tate (Margot Robbie) and her director husband Roman Polanski. No less an obsessive than Quentin Tarantino has attracted an impressive cast for his Manson-adjacent film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Nearly 50 years later, the cult of fascination surrounding the crimes remains potent. Overnight, the house itself became indistinguishable from the horrors that took place inside it. What’s perhaps most shocking is how long it took to tear it down. Overnight, the house itself became indistinguishable from the horrors that took place inside it, its burgundy exterior serving as an eerie reminder of the bloodshed.
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But the memory of what happened there in the early morning hours of August 9, 1969, endures.Ĭharles Manson’s name has become synonymous with evil, and the most horrifying representation of what he was capable of happened inside the now-razed home that hosted a revolving door of movie stars, rock gods, and other notables for five decades.īut its greatest legacy lies in who died there: namely, rising actress Sharon Tate (eight-and-a-half months pregnant), celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, aspiring screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski, and recent high school graduate Steven Parent.įor those who have seen them, widely available photos of the crime’s aftermath are impossible to forget. In 1994, the French Normandy-style house at 10050 Cielo Drive, a dead-end street about halfway up Benedict Canyon in Beverly Hills, was demolished.
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