{"id":41036,"date":"2026-08-12T15:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=41036"},"modified":"2026-08-12T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:05:07","slug":"when-charles-manson-scared-the-hell-out-of-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=41036","title":{"rendered":"When Charles Manson Scared the Hell Out of Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>On Aug. 8, 1969, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1029717\/inside-the-undying-fascination-with-sharon-tate-destined-for-stardom-doomed-to-be-a-legend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">Sharon Tate<\/a><\/strong> was a strikingly beautiful B-movie actress best known for <em>Valley of the Dolls\u00a0<\/em>and being married to director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/roman_polanski\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Roman Polanski<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 9, 1969, followers of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1173814\/cult-classic-why-the-truth-about-charles-manson-cant-be-told-too-many-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">Charles <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1173814\/cult-classic-why-the-truth-about-charles-manson-cant-be-told-too-many-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">Manson<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0turned her into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1029717\/inside-the-undying-fascination-with-sharon-tate-destined-for-stardom-doomed-to-be-a-legend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">the biggest star in Hollywood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By a horrible twist of much-documented fate, 26-year-old Tate\u2014who was eight and a half months pregnant\u2014became the most famous victim of the so-called &#8220;Manson Family&#8221; when several followers of the 5-foot-2 cult leader slaughtered five people at 10050 Cielo Drive, a sprawling but isolated property tucked into a hillside in Los Angeles&#8217; Benedict Canyon. They killed supermarket executive <strong>Leno LaBianca<\/strong> and his wife <strong>Rosemary LaBianca\u00a0<\/strong>in Los Feliz the following night.<\/p>\n<p>The murders resulted in death sentences\u2014later commuted to life in prison\u2014for Manson, <strong>Charles<\/strong> &#8220;<strong>Tex&#8221; Watson<\/strong>, <strong>Susan Atkins<\/strong>, <strong>Patricia Krenwinkel <\/strong>and <strong>Leslie Van Houten<\/strong>. And since Manson wasn&#8217;t at the scene when any of the seven victims were killed, and he later denied getting anyone to do anything, his role remains the most pored over part of these crimes&#8217; long, convoluted legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Almost a decade after his death, <em>Conversations With a Killer: The Charles Manson Tapes<\/em>, a three-part series premiering Aug. 12 on Netflix, seeks to add to the <em>how <\/em>of it all with never-before-heard prison recordings, firsthand commentary and archival footage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Aug. 8, 1969, Sharon Tate was a strikingly beautiful B-movie actress best known for Valley of the Dolls\u00a0and being married to director Roman Polanski. On Aug. 9, 1969, followers of Charles Manson\u00a0turned her into the biggest star in Hollywood. By a horrible twist of much-documented fate, 26-year-old Tate\u2014who was eight and a half months&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20171017\/rs_600x600-171117111419-600-charles-manson.jpg?fit=around%7C1200:1200&output-quality=90&crop=1200:1200;center,top","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}