She was a complicated human being with a layered personal history and talents that went far beyond her captivating smile and voluptuous body. But she wasn't simply a symbol, and she wasn't just a pretty face, either. The grisly murders shocked and stunned L.A.'s glitterati, and Tate became a symbol of everything that was both enchanting and lethal about America's free love decade. A fifth victim, 18-year-old Steven Parent, was shot to death in the driveway. She and the other victims had been stabbed multiple times. At the time of the murders, Tate, wife to director Roman Polanski, was almost nine months pregnant. On August 9, 1969, three members of the infamous Manson Family entered Tate's sprawling French country-style home in the Benedict Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles and brutally slaughtered everyone inside, including Tate's former lover and hairstylist to the stars, Jay Sebring screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski Frykowski's girlfriend, Angela Folger, heiress to the Folger coffee fortune and Tate's unborn son. Sharon Tate, the brown-eyed ethereal star of '60s cult classics Valley of the Dolls and Eye of the Devil, is perhaps better known for how she died than how she lived.
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