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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dude...whoa....Meat Loaf dead!... spooky..
https://www.tmz.com/2022/01/21/meat-loaf-dead-dies-singer/
Meatloaf's Paradise by the Dashboard Light springs to mind.
“I really don’t understand the desire for people to have such places.”
You would need to have staff to run such a place and I could not stand having them around all the time. If they ever stick me in a nursing home I will be a very bad resident.
Melcher had a assistant named Greg Jacobson....Jacobson and Wilson were best friends. Jacobson met Manson when he’d stop by Wilson’s house...for some reason, Jacobson really fell for Manson’s bullsh$#...thought he could be the “next big thing”...and kept pestering Melcher to check out Manson’s playing and singing. Melcher actually went to Spahn Ranch to check out Charlie...wasn’t impressed...couldn’t believe how they were living out there, threw Manson 100 dollars, and said he’d “be in touch”. That was the Melcher-Manson connection. Jacobson would later say that “yeah, i was getting high way too much” back then...
9 Beds -18 Baths - Single Family Home!
I was reading a Babe Ruth biography and learned that when the Babe started making $1,000 a week (huge money back in the 1920s), he decided that he would never wear the same pair of underwear again. So each day he would toss the pair he was wearing into the trash and put on a brand new pair.
Pure cinematic gold. It was such a wonderful story and the perfect fairy tale in an alternate universe. The movie was quite long yet I never wanted it to end.
I often ponder the conclusion and wonder what life would have been like for the characters if events had unfolded the way that Quentin re-imagined it. I like to think that Roman would have taken a liking to Rick Dalton and revived his career by bringing his real life story to the big screen.
Rudi Altobelli, a hollywood talent scout back then, owned the Cielo Drive house at the time...right after the murders, he moved back in and lived there 10 years before selling the house. When asked if it ever “bothered” him to live in the house, he said “nah..that stuff doesn’t bother me”...to show what kind of jerk he was, he sent Polanski and Tates father a cleaning bill when he had to replace the blood soaked carpeting....
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