Fifty years later, friends of Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski recall hearing the news that changed Hollywood forever.
“I was sitting in the shallow end of my sister-in-law’s swimming pool in Beverly Hills when she received a telephone call from a friend who had just heard about the murders at Sharon Tate Polanski’s house on Cielo Drive. The phone rang many times during the next hour.”“I had picked up [Gulf + Western chief] Charlie Bluhdorn at the Beverly Hills Hotel that Saturday morning and brought him to my house to work.
‘Joyce, what are you talking about? Of course I’m not dead.’ ‘You didn’t hear?’ ‘Hear what?’ ‘It’s on the radio. Last night at Sharon and Roman’s house on Cielo. They’re all dead.’”“There wasn’t the instant news then that there is today. I was in London and got a call in the middle of the night telling me this terrible tragedy had happened. I couldn’t even talk through the crying.”“I found the house, but the street was blocked off.
The police said you could only get official protection if you were shot at, so Metromedia, who I was working for at the time, hired a private detective to protect me.”©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection“It wasn’t until later that Saturday, when I heard about the murders, that I thought about that carload of kids again, but I figured murderers would quietly leave the scene of their crimes, not carry on like they were having a party.
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