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Sharon Tate Pt 2: Rape, Drugs, and Murdering New Hollywood
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In this episode
Sharon Tate’s entanglement with Charles Manson and her husband, filmmaker Roman Polanski, as well as her involvement in some of the long-rumored hedonistic events at her home on Cielo Drive put her at the center of a counter-narrative that explosively disrupts the supposed motive for the Manson family murders. Was Sharon Tate blissfully ignorant of the darkness that had been bubbling beneath Hollywood’s shiny veneer for years? Or is there more to this story than we’ve been told in the past?
This is a crossover episode with DISGRACELAND Mama Cass (Part 2)
Sources
Sharon Tate and ‘Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood’: What Actually Happened? (NY Times)
Bright Starlet (NY Times)
Polanskis Were at Center of a Rootless Way of Life (NY Times)
Sharon Tate (Texas Monthly)
Housewarming Party from Hell (Medium)
On Sharon Tate, the Actress (Ringer)
Who Wants Sharon Tate’s Stuff? (NY Times)
Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders, by Greg King
Sharon Tate in Rome on October 10, 1967 (Imago)
Inside Manson victim Sharon Tate’s life – Polanski marriage to public decency arrests (The Star)
History of the Birth Control Pill (Planned Parenthood)
How Roman Polanski forced wife Sharon Tate to have threesomes and make home sex videos for friends (Daily Mail)
What's It All About?, by Michael Caine
Credits
Hosted by Jake Brennan.
Written by Zeth Lundy and Jake Brennan.
Copy edited by Pat Healy.
Scored and mixed by Matt Beaudoin.
Additional music and score elements by Ryan Spraker.
*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak