17-year-old arrested after 3 people shot in Times Square

17-year-old arrested after 3 people shot in Times Square

A 17-year-old has been arrested after allegedly shooting three people in Times Square early Saturday morning, police said. The incident occurred at approximately 1:20 a.m. on 44th Street and 7th Avenue when, police believe, the 17-year-old suspect got involved in a dispute with a 19-year-old before shots were fired, according to theNew YorkPolice Department. MORE: Suspect alleged to have killed woman and shot 2 officers in Virginia dies after being captured Three people were shot -- a 19-year-old male in the right foot, a 65-year-old male in the left leg and an 18-year old female who was grazed in the neck – but all of the victims were taken to Bellevue Hospital where they remain in stable condition, the NYPD said. Authorities said it is unclear what the dispute was about and if the victims and the suspect are known to each other. MORE: Royal Caribbean water slide malfunction injures cruise ship guest MORE: 2 hikers rescued by helicopter from remote beach after rising tides cut off exit route A total of three shots were fired and the firearm used in the incident was recovered on scene. Charges are pending and the investigation into the shooting remains open. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

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17-year-old arrested after 3 people shot in Times Square

17-year-old arrested after 3 people shot in Times Square A 17-year-old has been arrested after allegedly shooting three people in Times Squa...

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Ghislaine Maxwell puts an uncomfortable spotlight on this prison camp town in Texas

Ghislaine Maxwell puts an uncomfortable spotlight on this prison camp town in Texas

BRYAN, Texas — Daisy Perez has lived across the street from the all-women's prison in her residential community for nine years, forming a careful, if not curious, co-existence with her fenced-in neighbors clad in matching khakis and boots. Theprisoners at Federal Prison Camp Bryanwave to Perez, 42, and her 78-year-old mother while they're looping around the recreation yard. They wave as they pick up litter along the roadside. On Sundays, Perez sees them with visitors outside, the scene reminiscent to her of families enjoying a carefree day at the park. The prison is set in a neighborhood of bungalows and craftsman-style homes with well-kept yards and gardens. Mockingbirds, wrens and sparrows flit in and out of crape myrtle trees lining part of the property's outside perimeter. "Sometimes my girls say, 'Man, they got the good music in there,'" Perez said. "You can hear it. It's loud. … They jam." But the casual atmosphere shifted last week when Perez and her neighbors noticedheightened security— armed guards checking cars, patrol vehicles circling the perimeter and surveillance cameras affixed to utility poles — stationed around FPC Bryan. When she turned on the news, it clicked: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator and confidant, who was convicted of sex trafficking charges involving underage girls, wasBryan's newest inmate. "I say that's crazy," Perez said. "It's creepy because a lot of people try to catch her." The 91,500 residents of Bryan, a small city about 100 miles northwest of Houston, are used to high-profile inmates calling the low-key prison camp home, often drawing media attention and paparazzi staking out the premises. But the arrival of Maxwell, whose association with Epstein and the baselessconspiracy theories surrounding his suicidein a New York City jail in 2019, has spurred a whole new level of concern for some residents. Marina Boland, 29, who lives across a highway from the prison, said, "It's scary to think" that someone would be motivated to come to Bryan in connection with the controversies linked to Epstein, the wealthy financier who had cultivated friendships and relationships with powerful people, from business leaders to presidents. Boland, who was recently wheeling her two young children in a wagon cart out of Bryan's downtown library, said Maxwell's arrival has made locals hypervigilant about who it draws to their town, and in turn, who they speak with — as unfounded internet conspiracies can havereal-world consequences. "People could be out here to cause harm," Boland said. Epstein was facing charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy when he killed himself. Maxwell, a socialite and daughter of a British media mogul, wasconvicted on federal chargesin 2021 for her role in helping Epstein recruit and sexually abuse young girls. In recent weeks, the release of files related to Epstein has become apolitically chargeddebate after the Trump administration said it would not put out all of the documents detailing the federal government's investigation into him. Maxwell herself returned to the spotlight after it was revealed that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with her last month for nine hours over two days in a federal courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida. Details of their discussion have not been made public, but in the days after the meeting Maxwell was transferred from her low-security prison in Florida to minimum-security Bryan. Thatstoked outrageamong some current and former federal Bureau of Prisons employees who question why she would be placed there given her sex offense charges and the higher level of security she requires. Boland said Maxwell's presence is detracting from her town, which beckons visitors with the sign, "Welcome to Aggieland," a reference to Texas A&M University located in neighboring College Station. "Bryan is a beautiful place and it's kind of upsetting it's known for the prison," said Boland, who originally moved here from Chicago. She said she is disgusted by Maxwell's crimes and noted they have placed her in a facility that typically houses nonviolent and white-collar criminals. "I don't consider what she did a nonviolent offense," Boland said. Other residents questioned why Maxwell — w​​ho isn't slated for release until July 2037, when she would be 75 — would get moved to a prison camp where security has traditionally been lax. The BOP's policy indicates she should be ineligible to be housed at a minimum-security prison camp because she is a convicted sex offender. A sex offender must be in at least a low-level security prison, unless a waiver is granted by the administrator of the BOP's Designation and Sentence Computation Center. The BOP declined to comment on Maxwell and the security procedures put in place at FPC Bryan. Maxwell's transfer "makes me mad," said Robert, 43, who declined to give his last name but said he owns a home renovation business. Standing attentively by his son while the boy played at a park near FPC Bryan, he said Maxwell's relocation gives the appearance that people who come from power and influence are being treated differently. "The punishment does not match her crimes," he said. "If it was anyone else, definitely that person would get worse punishment." Another parkgoer, Ashley Doss, 41, wondered if politics or something else was behind Maxwell's move. "It seems like these people that are high profile do get put here, though," said Doss, while she sat with one of her sons on a bench. "It's always surprising to me that our little town is on the map because of our women's prison here," she added. The prison grabbed headlines two years ago whenElizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of the blood-testing lab Theranos, arrived to serve her sentence for wire fraud. It was the same year that "Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" starJen Shah began her sentencefor running a telemarketing scheme that targeted elderly victims. In 2020,Hot Pockets heiress Michelle Janavsserved a five-month sentence at FPC Bryan for her role in asweeping college admissions scandal. Unlike a traditional federal prison, inmates at Bryan are provided more freedoms: They live in dormitory-style housing with no locked doors. They can mingle in sitting areas between housing units. And they have access to the recreation yard and a hobby and crafts area. The chain-link fencing topped with a strand of coiled barbed wire and a section of decorative iron bar fencing surrounds the 37-acre compound, but it's not unheard of for inmates tooccasionally walk off the premisesbefore being forced back. "It's not a facility where you see guard dogs walking around and a whole bunch of concertina wire," said Bryan Councilman Ray Arrington, whose district includes the prison. "It's not like that. It looks like a school." On Thursday night, neighbors noticed a new feature at the prison: a mesh privacy screen was put up along a portion of the fencing, blocking their views. Then on Friday, additional privacy screening was affixed to the fence around the campus, blocking public views of the running path used. Arrington said he has not personally heard from constituents about Maxwell's arrival, but he believes local law enforcement and prison security would be able to handle any related threats. "We don't have any fears," Arrington said. "We didn't have any issues in the past week." Residents around FPC Bryan say the change in security is a diversion from the norm. "They are patrolling for her, not for us," Marc Ybarra, 22, said from his home across the street from the prison, referring to Maxwell. Ybarra said it makes sense she would end up in Texas, and in a semi-remote area such as Bryan, to keep her and the controversy surrounding her "hush-hush." "It makes for whatever agenda they had, whatever they are trying to push," added Ybarra's partner, Mya Lopez, 21. She waved to an inmate who was walking the prison's jogging path. On a recent afternoon, Bryan native Angel Castaneda worked with a crew on a driveway and sidewalk of a home across from the prison camp, as armed guards with bulletproof vests and other equipment patrolled around the property. "They're 24/7 now," Castaneda said. Cars used to be able to drive up to the prison's entrance and use a scanner to get past a barrier arm, he said, but now, drivers are met by guards. "Most people have always felt this was safe. It has never really been a problem," Castaneda said of the prison camp. "They've always had everything under control." "You'll hear of a woman escaping every two, three, five years. It's random," he said, adding that they usually don't make it far. Maxwell's arrival at the prison does have him concerned, he said, but more so given her status as a sex offender than any conspiratorial association. "If they have them in custody," Castaneda said, "it's probably better that way." Suzanne Gamboa reported from Bryan and Erik Ortiz from New York.

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Ghislaine Maxwell puts an uncomfortable spotlight on this prison camp town in Texas

Ghislaine Maxwell puts an uncomfortable spotlight on this prison camp town in Texas BRYAN, Texas — Daisy Perez has lived across the street f...

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David Bowie’s Frenemy Rivalry with T. Rex Frontman Marc Bolan Examined in New Documentary: ‘A Little Jealous’

David Bowie's Frenemy Rivalry with T. Rex Frontman Marc Bolan Examined in New Documentary: 'A Little Jealous'

ITV/Shutterstock The new documentaryAngelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rexcovers the life and career of pioneering glam rocker Marc Bolan T. Rex's biggest hits included the 1971 U.K. No. 1 singles "Hot Love" and "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" Bolan died in a car accident in 1977 at age 29 David Bowieis highly regarded as the chief architect of glam rock, but the man who fell to earth didn't act alone. In the late 1960s, his fellow Brit Marc Bolan — frontman of Tyrannosaurus Rex, which later became T. Rex — was concurrently paying dues and shaping a new sound that would inject a mix of esoteric lyrics, folkie psychedelia and androgyny into old-time rock & roll. Alas, unlike his similarly pioneering friend and sometime rival, Bolan and his groundbreaking band T. Rex would enjoy only limited success in the United States, where they were basically a one-hit wonder, via their 1971 Top 10 hit "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" (known as "Get It On" internationally) from their masterpiece second LPElectric Warrior. They were considerably more commercially successful in their native U.K., where they scored 10 Top 5 hits between 1970 and 1973, including four No. 1 singles. https://people-app.onelink.me/HNIa/kz7l4cuf Courtesy of Rolan Bolan Bolan (born Mark Feld on Sept. 30, 1947) and his band are getting some long overdue recognition via the new documentaryAngelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex. Directed by Ethan Silverman, the film uses the recording of the 2020 tribute album of the same name as its framework while surveying the landscape of the late '60s folkie-psychedelic rock scene that spawned both Bowie and Bolan, who died in 1977 in a car accident at age 29. Angelheaded Hipsterfeatures vintage interviews and performance footage of Bolan as well as testimonials from peers and some of the artists he inspired, includingElton John,Ringo Starr,U2's The Edge, Billy Idol, Joan Jett and Def Leppard's Joe Elliott. It also includes exclusive interviews with Gloria Jones, 79, the American singer Bolan was involved with at the time of his death, and their son Rolan Bolan, 49. Michael Putland/Getty Also in the mix is Bowie, who, in archival clips, talks about his complicated relationship with his "very very good friend" and glam rock peer. "Marc and I had an extraordinary relationship," he says in one segment. "We both knew we were going to do great things, and we were very close in the beginning, and then as it got closer to us actually making it, we drifted apart, and we'd be very wary of each other." "He started getting fairly known, and invited me to do mime performances on his tours and stuff like that," Bowie continues. "But we kind of drifted, you know, we were at either end of the room by that time, you know, even being sort of superficially pleasant with each other. It was like, who's gonna do it first?" Bowie, of course, would go on to be a monumental figure in rock & roll, and nearly a decade after his death from cancer in 2016 at age 69, he remains one of the most revered musicians of all time. In the U.S., full appreciation of Bolan as the connective thread betweenElvis Presleyin the '50s and new wave and alternative rock in the '80s and beyond would be belated and posthumous. In 1985, Power Station, featuring Robert Palmer, Chic drummer Tony Thompson andDuran Duranmembers Andy Taylor and John Taylor, would go Top 10 with a cover of "Get It On" retitled "Get It On (Bang a Gong)," and T. Rex was inducted into theRock & Roll Hall of Famein 2020 — 24 years after Bowie. InAngelheaded Hipster, rock journalist-turned-film director Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous), who interviewed Bolan forCreemas a teenager in 1973, offers more context for Bolan's frenemy rivalry with Bowie. Courtesy of Neal Preston "He talked a lot about Bowie, and Bowie, who kind of obviously started out around the same time — there's a lot of intertwined history with them, "Crowe, 66, says. "They were close friends, but I think because of the kind of culture of the U.K. pop scene where there's [the magazine]Melody Maker, and there'sSoundsand there'sNew Musical Express —and so these are weeklies, and they need content, right? So they would really, like, luxuriate in this world where all the pop artists would snipe at each other." "Rod Stewart would snipe at Elton John, who'd snipe at Marc Bolan, who'd snipe at Bowie, who'd snipe at Jethro Tull," Crowe continues. "You know they just would like be crabs in a bucket. So I got the feeling that Marc was coming off of a publicized feud with David Bowie, so he's alternately really complimentary of David Bowie and then a little jealous." "In the early to mid 1970's, a sound and an attitude was developing that took hold with David Bowie, Elton John and Freddie Mercury — all iconic names," Silverman tells PEOPLE. "In the U.K. at the forefront was Marc Bolan, still beloved over there, but not so much here in the U.S. What I hear in his music is still relevant in pop music today, from folk to rock to heavy metal to funk. His influence and the specific way he did it feels as fresh now as it must have then before he died tragically at the age of 29 in 1977. This film is a musical journey of that story." Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rexis now playing in select theaters and will be available on demand Sept. 5. Read the original article onPeople

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David Bowie’s Frenemy Rivalry with T. Rex Frontman Marc Bolan Examined in New Documentary: ‘A Little Jealous’

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‘The Pitt’ Season 2 will take on Trump policy changes such as Medicaid cuts, ICE raids

'The Pitt' Season 2 will take on Trump policy changes such as Medicaid cuts, ICE raids

With Season 2 production already underway, the creative team behind "The Pitt" is promising that the acclaimed medical drama will continue to tackle real-world situations faced by patients and healthcare workers including ICE raids and new cuts toMedicaidspending imposed bythe Trump administration. In an interview withVarietypublished Aug. 7, series starNoah Wyleand executive producers John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill confirmed that the sophomore season will integrate the passing of PresidentDonald Trump's"Big Beautiful Bill" into storylines. Signed into law on July 4, the legislation cuts nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid spending and is expected toeliminate insurance coverage for 11.8 million peopleover the next decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Wells defended the decision adding that writers do not need to take a political stance to discuss how the changes to Medicaid are going to impact the healthcare industry, Variety reported. He acknowleged that changes have been critcized by some GOP officials like Republican U.S. SenatorJosh Hawleyfrom Missouri, who on July 15 introduced abill that would repeal some of the cuts to rural hospitals. 'Law & Order':There's finally a dance for the TV drama's theme song. See Mariska Hargitay do it "I don't want to have an argument about whether or not they're appropriate, what Congress did or didn't do. But they're going to have on-the-ground, immediate consequences in emergency rooms, and nobody's arguing with that. That's a bipartisan agreement," Wells told the outlet. "You've got very Republican senators from Missouri like Josh Hawley agreeing that this is going to be a problem." Wells added that he believes many are apathetic toward healthcare workers due to a lack of awareness about the pressures they regularly face in the medical system. Both Wyle and Gemmill argued that the "ignorance" toward healthcare workers comes from "the highest levels" of the U.S. government, the outlet reported. The show's creative team has spoke with hundreds of medical professionals to predict the immediate concerns hospitals can start facing as soon as next year, Variety reported. Wyle said that by portraying the real intricacies of the medical system, viewers can determine for themselves whether it is "untenable, unfair and skewed towards one population over another." "We have a certain safety net in just being a realistic drama by trying to depict what it looks like in a hospital," he told the outlet. "You're not making value judgments. You're just painting a picture, and if it's accurate enough and it's representative enough, it becomes a bit of a Rorschach test. You see what you want to see in it and you draw your own conclusions from it." In addition to Medicaid cuts, Season 2 also plans to delve into the Trump administration's border crackdown andrecent ICE deportationswith the treatment of undocumented and immigrant families in storylines, Wyle, Wells and Gemmill told Variety. Gemmill said the creative team feel a sense of responsibility over the content they release knowing that their first season reached an audience of more than 10 million people. "We take our platform very seriously," he added. "You have to be responsible for what you put out there." The first season, which premiered in early January, tackled various social issues that healthcare workers witness in the profession from abortion, human trafficking, hate crimes, drug addiction and gun violence. The series – all 15 Season 1 episodes are available for streaming – has become among HBO Max's most-watched titles globally and landed13 Emmy nominationsincluding one for Wyle in the best lead actor in a drama series category. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:'The Pitt' Season 2 tackles Trump policies on Medicaid cuts, ICE raids

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‘The Pitt’ Season 2 will take on Trump policy changes such as Medicaid cuts, ICE raids

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Sharon Tate's Death: Everything to Know About the Actress' Tragic Murder, 56 Years Later

Sharon Tate's Death: Everything to Know About the Actress' Tragic Murder, 56 Years Later

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Sharon Tate was expecting her first child with Roman Polanski when she was murdered on Aug. 9, 1969 Tate's murder was later traced to the followers of Charles Manson The actress was most famous for starring inValley of the Dolls Sharon Tatewas at the height of her career when her murder rocked Hollywood 56 years ago. Just one year after winning aGolden Globe— and while she was expecting her first child with husband and famed directorRoman Polanski— Tate became the highest-profile victim of one of themost infamous murder spreesof all time. The blonde starlet, whose most famous role was as Jennifer inValley of the Dolls, was 8 ½ months pregnant when she was brutally murdered in her Los Angeles home along with her hairstylist and ex-boyfriend Jay Sebring, Folger's Coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski and Steven Parent on Aug. 9, 1969. Police eventually traced the slayings to thefollowers of Charles Manson, who used the victims' blood to write messages on the walls of the home. Manson and his "family" of followers were eventually convicted of nine killings, and Manson himself was serving nine life sentences in prison before his death at age 83 in 2017. However, Tate's sister Debra believesthere may be more victims of Manson's cultthat haven't yet been discovered. "There was nobody else at that time — other than theZodiac Killer— who was prevalent at wielding a knife like these people," Debra told PEOPLE in February 2019. "We are just scraping the surface." Here's everything to know about Sharon Tate's death and the legacy she left behind. Keystone/Getty Tate was born Jan. 24, 1943, in Dallas. Her father, Paul James Tate, was an Army officer, and she, her mother Doris and younger sisters Debra and Patti moved often for Paul's military role. Tate was a pageant regular when she was young, winning Miss Richland in Washington when she was 16. She also dabbled in modeling, once appearing on the front page ofStars and Stripes, the United States military newspaper. While living in Italy with her family as a teen, Tate became an actress and appeared as an extra in several films. She moved to L.A. when she was 19 and signed a seven-year deal with film and TV producer Martin Ransohoff. She appeared in small and guest roles in TV shows includingThe Beverly HillbilliesandMister Ed, then landed her first lead role in the 1966 horror movieEye of the Devil. Ransonhoff introduced Tate to Polanski, who then hired her to star in his horror comedyThe Fearless Vampire Killers, in which Polanski costarred as her love interest. They began dating and she moved in with Polanski at his London home after filming wrapped. Tate's star vehiclesThe Fearless Vampire Killers, beach romcomDon't Make Wavesand cult classicValley of the Dollsall debuted in 1967, but the following year was even bigger for her: She and Polanski married in London on Jan. 20, 1968, and she earned a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year. In late 1968, Tate became pregnant with her and Polanski's first child, and in February, they moved to 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills' Benedict Canyon. Shortly after midnight on Aug. 9, 1969, Charles D. "Tex" Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel and Susan Atkins entered Tate and Polanski's Beverly Hills home while fellow Manson cult member Linda Kasabian remained in the car. According to Atkins' court testimony, perThe New York Times, they ordered Tate, Sebring, Folger and Frykowski into the living room of the house, where Watson shot Sebring, then tied Sebring and Tate's necks together with a rope. "They kept saying, 'Please don't hurt us, we won't tell the police,' " Atkins recalled on the stand. "Frykowski kept pulling at my hair and I was fighting for my life and I was swinging my knife and I felt it sink into something and I didn't know what it was." Atkins then stabbed Tate repeatedly. Before leaving the premises, Atkins wrote "PIG" on the white front door in Tate's blood. Frykowski and Folger had escaped out of the front of the house, but the killers caught up with them and stabbed them each to death, leaving their bodies on the lawn. Watson also shot Parent, an 18-year-old driving away after a visit with the home's caretaker Willie Garretson, to death outside the front gate of the home. Atkins testified that she couldn't recall how many times she stabbed Tate, but the coroner in the case, Dr. Thomas T. Noguchi, counted: He declared on the stand that Tate was stabbed 16 times: Eight times in her back, twice in her upper right arm and once in her right thigh. She was also slashed twice on her left forearm, leaving what he called "superficial" wounds, according toThe New York Times. Dr. Noguchi testified that Tate was still alive when the Manson followers hung her and Sebring over a beam in the house's living room, giving her rope burns on her face and neck, and that she died shortly afterward. "It is quite consistent, in my opinion, that [Miss Tate] was hanged," he said. "My opinion was — and my opinion is still the same — that the cause of death was multiple stab wounds front and back penetrating the heart and lungs and causing massive hemorrhaging." On Aug. 8, 1969, Tate went out to dinner with friends Sebring, Folger and Frykowski at El Coyote Cafe, Tate's favorite L.A. restaurant. The group arrived back at Tate and Polanski's home, where they were murdered shortly after midnight on Aug. 9, 1969. AP Tate, Sebring, Frykowski and Folger died at Tate and Polanski's home at 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills' Benedict Canyon, a property previously occupied by the couple's friends Candice Bergen and Terry Melcher. Tate was 26 years old when she was murdered. Meanwhile, Sebring was 35, Folger was 26 and Frykowski was 37. Tate begged for her life and that of her unborn son, offering herself as a hostage to the group if they'd let her survive long enough to give birth and keep her son safe, prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi claimed in the bookHelter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. Atkins confirmed the harrowing detail in her testimony. "She said, 'Please don't kill me,' and I told her to shut up and I threw her down on the couch," Atkins testified. "She said, 'Please let me have my baby.' Then Tex came in and he said, 'Kill her,' and I killed her. I just stabbed her and she fell and I stabbed her again. I don't know how many times. I don't know why I stabbed her." Dove & John Downing/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty According toHelter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders, Manson ordered astring of slayingsthroughout L.A. in an effort to start a race war in the United States he dubbed "Helter Skelter." In July 1969, Manson orchestrated the death of Gary Hinman. The evening after Tate's murder, Manson's "family" killed grocery store owner Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary in theirLos Feliz home. The cult leader also ordered a ninth killing of victim Donald Shea before his arrest. Sahm Doherty/Getty While shocked at Tate's death, reports suggest that most people didn't panic about violence untilManson followersKrenwinkel, Watson andLeslie Van Houtenmurdered the LaBiancas, stoking fear in the general public. "The rest of the country was like, 'Well, it's a movie star. You know how they live,' " Alisa Statman, author ofRestless Souls: The Tate Family's Account of Stardom, the Manson Murders, and a Crusade for Justice, toldThe Washington Postin August 2019. "When the murders happened the next night, that's when the fear swept across the United States." The Manson murders spawned at least one copycat slaying in February 1970,The New York Timesreported. The slayings also stoked fear in stars and socialites, who began working more often with bodyguards and security details. Photographer Julian Wasser, who took snapshots of the crime scene forLifemagazine days after the slayings, later recalled toThe Guardianthat Tate's murder was the end of an era in Hollywood. "It wasn't like it is now: there were no paparazzi, no VIP sections, no security. It was a really innocent time. You'd just walk up and there they were," he said. "They'd stop and smile and pose. Now it's a business. If you want exclusive access to a celebrity, you have to pay big money. You weren't considered some sort of psychotic menace who's going to rob or kill them either. Now they'll call their security person and you'll get beat up." Tate's legacy lives on not just in her own films, includingValley of the Dolls— which was critically panned at the time of its release but became a cult classic — but also in filmsaboutTate.Kate Bosworthwas slated to play the slain starlet in a film titledTate, andHilary Duffstarred as Tate inThe Haunting of Sharon Tate. The most famous and commercially successful portrayal of Tate on-screen came fromMargot Robbie, whoplayed the actressinQuentin Tarantino'sOnce Upon a Time…In Hollywood, a fictionalized take on the slayings that had a much different ending than in real life. In addition to her films and image, Tate contributed posthumously to victims' rights: Her mother, Doris Tate, helped get the Victims' Bill of Rights, which allowed victim impact statements to be permissible in court, passed in California in 1982. Doris later founded the Coalition on Victims' Equal Rights. Evening Standard/Getty Polanski was still in London when Tate was murdered. His friend Andy Braunsberg was with him when he got the call about her death. "He literally unraveled in front of my eyes," Braunsberg later told author Ed Sanders inSharon Tate: A Life. "He disintegrated." Days after the murder, Polanski and photographer Wasser returned to the Cielo Drive home, where Wasser took pictures of Polanski by the front door of the house that still had "PIG" smeared on it in his late wife's blood. Wasser was on an assignment forLifemagazine, which ran gruesome photos of the crime scene, and toldThe Guardianthat he also took Polaroids at Polanski's request to give to a psychic in an effort to find the killers. In press notes for his 2019 filmJ'Accuseat the Venice Film Festival, Polanski said that he wasunder severe scrutinyafter Tate's murder until the real killers were found. "The way people see me, my 'image,' did indeed start to form with Sharon Tate's death," Polanski said. "When it happened, even though I was already going through a terrible time, the press got hold of the tragedy and, unsure how to deal with it, covered it in the most despicable way, implying, among other things, that I was one of the people responsible for her murder, against a background of satanism." He added that the satanism allegations likely stemmed from his hit filmRosemary's Baby. In 1978, Polanski pleaded guilty to engaging in unlawful sexual intercourse after then-13-year-old Samantha Geimer accused him of plying her with alcohol and part of a quaalude before raping her. As part of his plea bargain, he served 42 days in jail, but fled the United States for France before serving the remainder of his 90-say sentence. Efforts to extradite him back to the U.S. have failed, and he's released several films from Europe, including 2003'sThe Pianist, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. Several other women have since come forwardaccusing Polanski of sexual assaultand misconduct. Because of his outstanding prison sentence, Polanski remains a fugitive and hasn't been back to the United States since fleeing to Europe. As such, hehasn't visited Tate's grave in more than four decades. "It is a very painful thing," his attorney said in a statement after Manson's death in November 2017. "Sharon and his son are buried here in Los Angeles at Holy Cross Cemetery and because of this case, he has never been able to visit their graves." Barbara Munker/picture alliance/Getty Rudolph Altobelli, the owner of Tate and Polanski's rental home where the actress was murdered,sued Polanski andLifemagazinefor taking and publishing photos of the crime scene, which he alleged would hurt the property value of the Cielo Drive house. Tate's family also recalled inRestless Soulsthat Altobelli sent them what they called an "enormous" repair bill after her murder, then sued Tate's estate for $480,000 when her father replied to the bill with a caustic letter. Altobelli claimed that $300,000 of his request was for "embarrassment, humiliation, emotional, and mental distress," perCurbed. He was awarded just $4,350 in the case. Altobelli moved into the house three weeks after the slayings,he told20/20, and lived there until September 1988, when he listed the property for just under $2 million. It eventually sold for under the asking price at $1.6 million,according to theLos Angeles Times. It was then resold in 1991 to a real estate investor for $2.25 million,then listed yet againfor $4.95 million as-is in March 1992. Later that year, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor rented the home for $11,000 per month and built a home recording studio in the same living room where Tate and Sebring were slain. He recorded the band's hit albumDownward Spiralin the home,later tellingRolling Stonethat a chance meeting with Tate's sister Debra made him cry and rethink living on the property. "I guess it never really struck me before, but it did then. She lost her sister from a senseless, ignorant situation that I don't want to support," he explained. "When she was talking to me, I realized for the first time, 'What if it was my sister?' I thought, 'F--- Charlie Manson.' I don't want to be looked at as a guy who supports serial-killer bulls---." According toRolling Stone, Reznor moved out of the rental in December 1993, taking the front door with him and installing it in his New Orleans' property, a former funeral home he converted into Nothing Studios. The outlet also reported that the home was demolished in 1994. Read the original article onPeople

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August 09, 2025

Sharon Tate's Death: Everything to Know About the Actress' Tragic Murder, 56 Years Later

Sharon Tate's Death: Everything to Know About the Actress' Tragic Murder, 56 Years Later Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Sharon Tate was...

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