Some recent researchers have cast doubt on the real motivation behind the Manson murders.Of course the case has always attracted frenzied speculation but the central thesis that Manson was a deranged cult leader who sent his followers out to kill is generally accepted.This simplistic senario ignores many other elements surrounding Manson and the murders.As Hollywood currently undergoes a series of sordid allegations and claims of cover-ups it's not hard to believe the Manson murders may have been spun in a way to deflect attention from the activities of tinsel towns finest.
An alternative view claims that Manson was primarily a drug dealer,pimp and car thief with connections to organised crime.While carrying on these activities he also pursued a musical career encouraged by among other's Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys.On the verge of being signed to their label Wilson witnessed a violent act from Manson which saw this falling through.This is seen as motivation for the Tate murders.
Manson was bi-sexual and claimed to have had encounters at Hollywood studios with Peter Falk and Robert Conrad among others,while it's also claimed Dennis Wilson was actually in love Manson.Of course it's easy to see why Hollywood would welcome someone like this with open arms as the late 60s saw a culture of kinky sex,drugs and the occult take hold.The Polanski/Tate household was said to be a center for these kind of activities with the statuesque Tate claimed to be some kind of Illuminati Godess.
Though there are differing versions it seem's clear that the murders were connected to drugs with one of the victims,celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring,referred to as the cocaine dealer to the stars.They were getting more than a shampoo and trim when visiting his Salon.Interestingly Elvis's personal stylist and spiritual guru Larry Geller was a Sebring acolyte.In one version of the events Tex Watson's intention was to rob Sebring of 20.000 dollars of cociane.
After the murders occured Manson is said to have returned to the scene to make it appear like it was the work of Black Panther race warriors.This can be seen as similar to the murder of a wealthy official in the Bahamas by a mafia hitman who partially burned the body and threw chicken feathers around to give it the look of an occult killing(knowing the sensationalism that would follow).The following nights Lo bianca killings again were said to be connected to drugs.In one version an organised crime figure tells Manson to go to their home to locate a black book.
Before police were at the scene it's claimed that Robert Evans,Jack Nicholson and the owner turned up and removed potentially embaressing items from the property.Evans produced Polanski's smash hit Satanic film Rosemary's Baby and had been charged with looking after Sharon Tate while the director was in England.He would have his own brush with notoriety with the Cotton Club killing and would be the subject of a massive cocaine bust.In one book it's hinted that he was a major player in a dangerous occult group.Of course it's because of his activities in the bath of Jack Nicholson's Hollywood home that Polanski was forced to flee Hollywood never to return.
One of the persistent rumours about the Tate house was that various kinds of films were being shot there.Indeed several years later members of the LAPD were found to hawking celebrity porn films that were found in the attic of the house and impounded.This information was supressed while the Helter Skelter angle was played up with information on the debauched lifestyles of some of the biggest celebrities in the film amd music worlds ignored.In the tapes were said to be orgies with the likes of Warren Beatty,Mama Cass,Peter Sellers and Yul Bryner.Indeed one is said to feature Sellers and the former King of Siam having a tryst.
I found all this rather fanciful but googled the two names to find that the actors actually starred in a Hollywood film together that was released in 1969-the same year of the murders."The Magic Christian",as it was called,is a bizarre,little seen project featuring a star studded cast among them Sellers and Ringo Starr.Based on a cult novel it's basically the kind of mess they made back then featuring a string of well known faces making a series of incoherent cameo appearances.Interestingly Yul Bryner's short scene,available for posterity on youtube,see's him in full drag.He sings a dubbed torch song before sashaying up to the bar to attempt the seduction a lone drinker.That lone drinker,as it turns out,happens to be Roman Polanski.
An alternative view claims that Manson was primarily a drug dealer,pimp and car thief with connections to organised crime.While carrying on these activities he also pursued a musical career encouraged by among other's Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys.On the verge of being signed to their label Wilson witnessed a violent act from Manson which saw this falling through.This is seen as motivation for the Tate murders.
Manson was bi-sexual and claimed to have had encounters at Hollywood studios with Peter Falk and Robert Conrad among others,while it's also claimed Dennis Wilson was actually in love Manson.Of course it's easy to see why Hollywood would welcome someone like this with open arms as the late 60s saw a culture of kinky sex,drugs and the occult take hold.The Polanski/Tate household was said to be a center for these kind of activities with the statuesque Tate claimed to be some kind of Illuminati Godess.
Though there are differing versions it seem's clear that the murders were connected to drugs with one of the victims,celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring,referred to as the cocaine dealer to the stars.They were getting more than a shampoo and trim when visiting his Salon.Interestingly Elvis's personal stylist and spiritual guru Larry Geller was a Sebring acolyte.In one version of the events Tex Watson's intention was to rob Sebring of 20.000 dollars of cociane.
After the murders occured Manson is said to have returned to the scene to make it appear like it was the work of Black Panther race warriors.This can be seen as similar to the murder of a wealthy official in the Bahamas by a mafia hitman who partially burned the body and threw chicken feathers around to give it the look of an occult killing(knowing the sensationalism that would follow).The following nights Lo bianca killings again were said to be connected to drugs.In one version an organised crime figure tells Manson to go to their home to locate a black book.
Before police were at the scene it's claimed that Robert Evans,Jack Nicholson and the owner turned up and removed potentially embaressing items from the property.Evans produced Polanski's smash hit Satanic film Rosemary's Baby and had been charged with looking after Sharon Tate while the director was in England.He would have his own brush with notoriety with the Cotton Club killing and would be the subject of a massive cocaine bust.In one book it's hinted that he was a major player in a dangerous occult group.Of course it's because of his activities in the bath of Jack Nicholson's Hollywood home that Polanski was forced to flee Hollywood never to return.
One of the persistent rumours about the Tate house was that various kinds of films were being shot there.Indeed several years later members of the LAPD were found to hawking celebrity porn films that were found in the attic of the house and impounded.This information was supressed while the Helter Skelter angle was played up with information on the debauched lifestyles of some of the biggest celebrities in the film amd music worlds ignored.In the tapes were said to be orgies with the likes of Warren Beatty,Mama Cass,Peter Sellers and Yul Bryner.Indeed one is said to feature Sellers and the former King of Siam having a tryst.
I found all this rather fanciful but googled the two names to find that the actors actually starred in a Hollywood film together that was released in 1969-the same year of the murders."The Magic Christian",as it was called,is a bizarre,little seen project featuring a star studded cast among them Sellers and Ringo Starr.Based on a cult novel it's basically the kind of mess they made back then featuring a string of well known faces making a series of incoherent cameo appearances.Interestingly Yul Bryner's short scene,available for posterity on youtube,see's him in full drag.He sings a dubbed torch song before sashaying up to the bar to attempt the seduction a lone drinker.That lone drinker,as it turns out,happens to be Roman Polanski.
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