THE luxury hilltop mansion where the grisly Manson murders took place has gone on the market for $85million – and it comes with an infinity pool, cinema and incredible views over Los Angeles. The beautiful villa in Beverly Hills, California, is hot spot for A-list celebrities but it comes with an eerie history. Known as […]
THE luxury hilltop mansion where the grisly Manson murders took place has gone on the market for $85million – and it comes with an infinity pool, cinema and incredible views over Los Angeles.
The beautiful villa in Beverly Hills, California, is hot spot for A-list celebrities but it comes with an eerie history.
Known as the Cielo Estate, the nine-bedroom, 18-bathroom pad belongs to ‘Full House’ creator Jeff Franklin.
Franklin originally purchased the house for $6million in 2007, though it was not yet completed – having been demolished following the 1969 murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring and Wojciech Frykowski.
The Manson family were a criminal cult of around 100 followers led by master manipulator Charles Manson, intent on committing horrific crimes that would shock the world.
On the night of 8 August 1969, four members of the Manson family – Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkeln and Linda Kasabian – murdered the group of friends at the Cielo Estate home that Sharon Tate shared with husband film director Roman Polanski, under the direction of Charles Mansion and Watson.
Sharon Tate was eight and half months pregnant and Roman Polanski was away working on a film when the historic grisly crimes happened.
The sprawling property, which sits on 3.6 acres of land, was rebuilt and given a fresh start by architect Richard Landry.
The home spans 21,000sq ft and boasts incredible views of the city, coming complete with an infinity pool, loggia with indoor and outdoor access, home cinema, spa, gym and even a hair salon.
Outside, the pool has three waterfalls, two hot tubs, a 35-foot water slide, swim-up bar, private grotto and a lazy river, as well as a detached guest house for entertaining.
The listing describes the home as “exuding opulence” with “unparalleled luxury”, and the “epitome of world class Beverly Hills luxury living”.
The house was built in 1944 for French actress Michèle Morgan and talent manager Rudolph Altobelli bought the house for $86,000 in the early 1960s, renting it out to Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski.
Altobelli moved into the house just three weeks after the murders and resided there until 1988.
Musicians, morbidly fascinated with the events that had occurred there, drew inspiration from the house.
The final resident of the original house was the musician Trent Reznor of rock band Nine Inch Nails.
Reznor rented the house from 1992 and set up a recording studio which he dubbed “Pig” in a reference to murderer Susan Atkins’ writing “Pig” in Tate’s blood on the front door of the house.
Marilyn Manson also recorded sections of the album Portrait of an American Family at the in-house studio.
Reznor moved out in December 1993, later explaining “there was too much history in that house for me to handle.”
It was then that screenwriter Jeff Franklin demolished it in 1994, and construction on a new home began later that same year.
Now, the home does not resemble the residence in which the Tate murders occurred 1998, realtor Alvin Weintraub assured Los Angeles magazine that this was certainly not the Manson murder house.
“We went to great pains to get rid of everything. There’s no house, no dirt, no blade of grass remotely connected to Sharon Tate.”
The mansion is currently available with Douglas Elliman Real Estate for $85 million.
It comes as another mansion where the Manson family murdered Leno and Rosemary LaBianca that had languished for months on the real estate market secured a buyer who paid below the $2.2million asking price.
