Roman Polanski "When Angels Fall". The couple were married in 1959 and divorced in 1961. Polanski met rising actress Sharon Tate while filming "The Fearless Vampire Killers", and during the production, the two of them began dating. On 1968, Polanski married Tate in London. In August 1969, while Polanski was in Europe working on a film, Tate was murdered along with four of their friends at their home in Los Angeles by members of Charles Manson's 'family,' a group of young, mostly female followers. Tate was pregnant at the time of her murder. Manson, along with members of his 'family', was arrested
Charles Manson parole after California invalidated the state's death penalty statute in 1972. He served out his life sentence at California State Prison in Corcoran and died at age 83 in 2017. Charles Manson was born on November 12, 1934 to 16-year-old Kathleen Manson-Bower-Cavender, née Maddox (1918–1973), in the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was first named "no name Maddox". Within weeks, he was called Charles Milles Maddox. Manson's biological father appears to have been Colonel Walker Henderson Scott Sr. (1910–1954) against whom Kathleen Maddox filed a paternity suit that resulted in an agreed judgment in 1937.