10050 Cielo Drive is a mansion located in the area north of Beverly Hills , Los Angeles , California . In 1969, actress Sharon Tate was killed by members of the Charlie Manson gang in this house. After these tragic events, various Hollywood celebrities - figures of the film and music industries - lived in it. The mansion was demolished in 1994, a new house was built in its place, which has a different address.
| House | |
| 10050 Cielo Drive | |
|---|---|
| 10050 Cielo Drive | |
 | |
| A country |  USA |
| City | Los Angeles |
| Architectural style | French Country |
| Project Author | |
| Architect | |
| Building | 1942 - 1944 years |
| Date of Abolition | |
| Status | demolished |
Architecture
The project of the house was designed by architect Robert Bird for the French actress Michelle Morgan [1] . Construction continued from 1942 to 1944. The mansion was extremely similar (but not identical) to the neighboring house - 10048 Cielo Drive, which was located on a separate plateau, directly below 10050. Two of these buildings were often called "twin houses."
The mansion was built in the style of French Country and was located on 3 acres of land in one of the dead ends of Cielo Drive, in the Benedict Canyon area, near the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking Beverly Hills and Bel Air [1] . The eastern part of the house was located on a hillside, among its interior decoration were: stone fireplaces, ceilings with beamed ceilings, large panoramic windows, an attic above the living room, a swimming pool and a guest house - all this was surrounded by a dense growth of pine trees and cherry blossoms [1] .
House History
Michelle Morgan operated this house for a very short time. By the end of World War II, she returned to France. In 1946, Lilian Guiche moved there with her mother during the filming of the movie “ Duel in the Sun ” (1946).
In the early 1960s, the house was bought by music manager Rudi Altobelli for $ 86,000. [2] He often rented it out, among the residents were: Carey Grant and Diane Cannon (they spent their honeymoon there in 1965 [3] ), Henry Fonda , George Chakiris , Mark Lindsay , Paul Revere & the Raiders , Samantha Eggar and Olivia Hassi . For the first time, Charles Manson visited this house at the end of 1968, when Terry Melcher lived there (son of Doris Day ) and his girlfriend, actress Candice Bergen , as well as music manager Roger Hart [4] . However, in 1969, the couple broke up, and Melcher moved to Malibu .
In February 1969, Roman Polanski and his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, settled in this house. On the night of August 9, 1969, a massacre occurred in the house. Manson’s gang members committed a massacre on his orders, among their victims were: Sharon Tate, Wojciech Frikowski , Abigail Folger , Jay Sebring and Stephen Parent [5] . William Garretson, home caretaker and friend of Parent, lived in a guest house behind the mansion and survived; he was taken into custody by police officers who arrived at the crime scene in the morning. Later, all charges were dropped from him. Roman Polanski at that time was in London.
Altobelli moved into the house three weeks after the murder and lived there for the next 20 years. During an interview with ABC, he said that being in this house “feels safety, reliability, love and beauty” [2] . In the end, he sold this mansion for $ 1.6 million [2] .
The last resident of the house was Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor . Reznor began renting a house in 1992 and built his own recording studio inside [6] . This studio was called "PIG" (sometimes called "Le Pig") - referring to the eponymous inscription, which was written in the blood of Tate on the front door of the house (the inscription was left by one of the killers - Susan Atkins ). Two NIN albums were recorded in this studio: Broken (1992) and The Downward Spiral (1994), as well as Marilyn Manson's debut album Portrait of an American Family (1994) [6] . Reznor left the mansion in December 1993, later saying that: “the atmosphere in this house was too depressing” [7] .
Reznor described personal experiences associated with this house during an interview with Rolling Stone (1997):
| While working on The Downward Spiral, I lived in the house where Sharon Tate was killed. Once I met her sister. It was an accident, a short meeting. She asked me: “Do you use my sister’s death for cheap popularity, living in her house?” It was a slap in the face for me. I replied: “No, this is a bit of an interest in folklore. I lived in a house where a strange part of American history was going on. ” I thought it would never hurt me, but it happened. She lost her sister in an insensitive, cruel situation, which I do not approve of. I asked myself: “What if it would be my sister?” And I thought: “Damn Charlie Manson .” I came home and cried that night. That allowed me to see the other side of the coin, you know? [eight] |
While moving, Reznor took the front door of the house with him, setting it up at Nothing Studios , his new recording studio in New Orleans [9] .
In 1994, the new owner of the building demolished the house, and a new mansion was built in its place - Villa Bella, which was registered at 10066 Cielo Drive. The current owner of the property is Hollywood producer Jeff Franklin . The new building is not at all like the home where Tate was killed. The only reminder of the past was the lone telephone pole on which Tex Watson climbed (one of the "Family" thugs) to cut the wires and strip their victims of communication [10] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Wells, 2009 , p. 149.
- ↑ 1 2 3 How to Sell a House of Horrors . ABC News (May 5, 2006). Date of appeal April 19, 2017.
- ↑ Roberts, 2012 , p. 234.
- ↑ Chermak & Bailey, 2007 , p. 303.
- ↑ Terry, 1989 , p. 589.
- ↑ 1 2 SPIN Magazine , 2010 , p. 40.
- ↑ Ali 1994 .
- ↑ Gilmore, 1997 , p. 36.
- ↑ Bozza, 1999 .
- ↑ Mikul, 2008 , p. 44.
Literature
- Wells, Simon. Charles Manson - Hodder & Stoughton, 2009 .-- ISBN 978-1-84894-328-5 . (Retrieved April 19, 2017)
- Roberts, Jerry. The Hollywood Scandal Almanac: 12 Months of Sinister, Salacious and Senseless History! : [ eng. ] . - The History Press, 2012 .-- ISBN 978-1-60949-702-6 .
- Crimes and Trials of the Century : [ eng. ] / Steven M. Chermak, Frankie Y. Bailey, ed .. - ABC-CLIO, 2007. - ISBN 978-1-57356-973-6 .
- Terry, Maury. The Ultimate Evil: An Investigation into a Dangerous Satanic Cult : [ eng. ] . - Bantam Books, 1989 .-- ISBN 978-0-553-27601-5 .
- Mikul, Chris. The Cult Files: True Stories from the Extreme Edges of Religious Belief : [ eng. ] . - Murdoch Books Pty Ltd, 2008 .-- ISBN 978-1-74266-211-4 .
- SPIN Magazine. SPIN: Greatest Hits: 25 Years of Heretics, Heroes, and the New Rock 'n' Roll : [ eng. ] . - John Wiley & Sons, 2010 .-- ISBN 978-0-470-89109-4 .
- Ali, Lorraine. Making records where Manson killed : [ eng. ] // Entertainment Weekly . - 1994. - No. 214 (March 18). (Retrieved April 19, 2017)
- Gilmore, Mikal. Trent Reznor: Death to Hootie : [ eng. ] // Rolling Stone . - Wenner Media, 1997 .-- No. 755 (March 6). (Retrieved September 2, 2017)
- Bozza, Anthony. The Fragile World of Trent Reznor : [ eng. ] // Rolling Stone . - Wenner Media, 1999 .-- No. 823 (October 14). (Retrieved April 19, 2017)