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“I said a prayer for his soul,” Sharon’s sister Debra Tatetold PEOPLEof the moment after she received a call from a prison official informing her Manson died.
Polanski’s short marriage to Tate returned to the spotlight after Manson’s death and then again after actressMargot Robbieappeared as a fictionalized version of Tate inQuentin Tarantino’s 2019 filmOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood. Here’s a look back at the controversial relationship between Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski.
Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski’s strange first dates
Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski make a movie together
After their bizarre introduction, Tate landed the role of Sarah Shagal in the Polanski-directed filmThe Fearless Vampire Killers. Polanski also costarred in the film as Alfred, Tate’s romantic interest.
Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski’s rocky marriage
In an introduction toSharon Tate: Recollection, Polanski recalled some tellingmoments from their marriage. “She was also a born housewife,” said Polanski. “Aside from cooking like a dream, she used to cut my hair, a skill acquired from [ex-boyfriend and hairstylist] Jay Sebring.”
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Tate’s friend, photographer Shahrokh Hatami, also alleged inSharon Tate: A Lifethat Polanski forced Tate to engage in threesomes with random women. “Sharon told me about Roman — about imposed sexual scenes on her,” Hatami said. “He was bringing other girls to have threesomes with Sharon, and Sharon didn’t like that he was picking up girls on the Sunset and bringing them home to have sex with them.”
Sharon Tate’s murder
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Debra Tate later recalled to PEOPLE what her father said aboutthe crime scene: “He said in all his time in the military that he hadn’t seen such slaughter. And he cried.”
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Roman Polanski’s response to Sharon Tate’s death
Polanski confessed how Tate’s death still impacts him every day inSharon Tate: Recollection.“Even after so many years, I find myself unable to watch a spectacular sunset or visit a lovely old house or experience visual pleasure of any kind without instinctively telling myself how much she would have loved it all,” Polanski wrote. “In these ways I shall remain faithful to her till the day I die.”
The director said he was under scrutiny for “several months until the police finally found the real killers, Charles Manson and his ‘family.'”
source: people.com
