Posted on 01/20/2022 2:22:15 PM PST by BenLurkin
The home, which sits on 3.6 acres, is currently listed at $85 million.
Located at Cielo Drive, Franklin first purchased the property for $6 million “roughly two decades ago” when it contained only a partially finished mansion, according to The Wall Street Journal. Franklin moved in after fixing up the estate in 2007, and has since said that the property’s past has had “no impact on my life whatsoever,” the outlet reported.
A previous home on the same property — located at 10050 Cielo Drive — was the site of the Manson Family’s gruesome murders of Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski and Steven Parent in the very early morning of Aug. 9, 1969. Tate was eight months pregnant when she was killed; the fetus did not survive.
The house at 10050 Cielo Drive was eventually torn down in the mid-1990s by Alvin Weintraub, who owned the property around this time, Los Angeles magazine reported in 1998. Weintraub built a new home on the property, changing the address to 10066 Cielo.
“We went to great pains to get rid of everything,” said Weintraub, per the Los Angeles article. “There’s no house, no dirt, no blade of grass remotely connected to Sharon Tate.”
Franklin had also told Architectural Digest in 2010 that he hired architect Richard Landry to build the mansion with “a warmth and coziness that isn’t very common in houses this size,” and credited “John Stamos, Bob Saget and the Olsen twins” for contributing to the wealth that afforded him the opportunity to build his dream home.
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Any Third World dictator would love to live in this place.
See “once upon a time in Hollywood “
Is the flamethrower included?
😂😂
Can’t have one without the other.
“See “once upon a time in Hollywood “”
I loved that movie. There is a really great trivia site about the Manson murders on the ‘net
Steve McQueen was invited by Sharon to stop over that night. He said yes but later went home with a woman he picked up..
It will probably be sold to some commie member of the CCP.
I really don't understand the desire for people to have such places. But to each their own.
Same reason gangstas drive a Sclade...it’s symbolic of the genre....
i cant believe Full House made him that kind of money.
You’re Home is Where You’re Happy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI5HJGxP7ck
Manson was hitch hiking in LA and was picked up by a young Texan, a newcomer to California. They got to talking, found music was a common interest. The hitch hiker said he knew Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys and they went to his house. Wilson was not there. The hitch hiker was Charlie Manson, the Texan: Meatloaf.
Mark Lindsay, lead singer of Paul Revere and the Raiders, lived there before Sharon Tate did. He was posting on FB yesterday about this sale. It was always weird for him to have lived in that place and to have known what happened there after he left it.
Ditto and ditto.
I would put in an offer on the house.
But it’s in Kalifornia.
I believe the Tate LaBianca murders were on Laurel Canyon. That’s in the Hollywood part of Los Angeles.
All I can figure is that the took what he made, and made good investments.
I’m a little fuzzy on why the Manson Family picked that house to kill everyone.
I think it was Doris Day’s son Terry Melcher who was a huge record producer during that time, he produced records for the Beach Boys, Manson was introduced to Melcher who listened to his music and turned him down. Melcher had previously lived at the house on Cielo Drive and that’s why the house was chosen.
No pictures of the garage.
People Say Im No Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKcL9qltF58
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