Christopher Jones (actor) Winters, Hal Holbrook, and a young Richard Pryor. Later that same year, Jones appeared with Yvette Mimieux in the hit sex comedy "Three in the Attic". Jones also became friends with actress Sharon Tate and her husband Roman Polanski. He later recounted that he had an affair with Tate while she was pregnant with Polanski's child, and that he had a premonition of her death (she was murdered by members of the Manson family). After two films in Europe with Pia Degermark ("The Looking Glass War" and "Brief Season", both 1969), Jones was cast by director David Lean in "Ryan's
Charles Manson before the court that she and Manson were "deeply in love ... and would marry if Charlie were freed". Before the year's end, the woman did marry Manson, possibly so she would not be required to testify against him. Manson took Leona and another woman to New Mexico for purposes of prostitution, resulting in him being held and questioned for violating the Mann Act. Though he was released, Manson correctly suspected that the investigation had not ended. When he disappeared in violation of his probation, a bench warrant was issued. An indictment for violation of the Mann Act followed in