10050 Cielo Drive

Former home of Sharon Tate September 2025 10050 Cielo Drive 10050 Cielo Drive, main house.jpg USA Los Angeles Metropolitan Area House French Country Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles 34.093895 -118.432467 region:US-CA dms inline,title 1941 1942 1994 Roman PolanskiSharon Tate 3200 sqft on Arthur W. Hawes 10050 Cielo Drive was the street address of a former luxury home in Benedict Canyon, in the west-central part of the Beverly Crest neighborhood of Los Angeles, bordering Beverly Hills, where three members of the Manson Family committed the Tate murders in 1969. The property had a main residence, a guest house, a pool, and a 2-story garage. The main house was occupied by various famous Hollywood and music industry figures. In 1994, both houses were demolished, and a new house was constructed on the site. The street address was subsequently changed to 10066 Cielo Drive. Architecture The original house was designed by Arthur W. Hawes in 1941 and completed in 1942 for French actress Michèle Morgan.Wells Simon Charles Manson https://books.google.com/books?id=Z5RqZqqBb44C&pg=PT149 April 16, 2009 Hodder & Stoughton 978-1-84894-328-5 149 June 24, 2013 It was similar to the house which sat on its own plateau directly below 10050, 10048 Cielo Drive, which was often called the Twin House. The French country-style structure was located on 3 acre, and included a private drive on Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, an area west of Hollywood in the Santa Monica Mountains that overlooks Beverly Hills and Bel Air. The hillside structure faced east and was surrounded by thick pine and flowering cherry trees. According to official documents with the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety, the architect of record for this home was Arthur W. Hawes (1873–1951). The builder was J.F. Wadkins Corp.https://www.ladbs.org/services/check-status/online-building-records Search Online Building Records | LADBS History Michèle Morgan, French actress for RKO Radio Pictures, arranged for architect Arthur W. Hawes to design a home and for J.F. Wadkins to build the luxury home resembling an early 19th-century European-style farmhouse. The house was completed in 1942, with an address of 10050 Cielo Drive. It was on a 3.3-acre level lot above Benedict Canyon in Beverly Hills. The home included a 3,200 square foot main residence, barbecue shelter, swimming pool, and a 2-story garage. According to the Los Angeles Times, Morgan paid $32,000 (equivalent to $470,000 in 2020). By the end of World War II, Morgan returned to France. In 1944, the house was sold to Dr. Hartley Dewey and his wife, Louise, who converted the barbecue shelter into a guest house and added a dressing room for the pool. In 1946, the Deweys rented the home to Lillian Gishhttps://www.newspapers.com/clip/29745601/the_los_angeles_times/ Lillian Gish Files Rent Suit 31 October 1945 Los Angeles Times 20 August 2019 while she was filming Duel in the Sun.https://la.curbed.com/2018/6/6/17153870/manson-sharon-tate-murder-house-cielo-drive https://web.archive.org/web/20180607002856/https://la.curbed.com/2018/6/6/17153870/manson-sharon-tate-murder-house-cielo-drive dead June 7, 2018 The Manson murder house Eggertsen Chris 6 June 2018 Curbed 20 August 2019 Rudolph Altobelli (1929–2011), a music and film industry talent manager, bought the house for $86,000 in the early 1960s and often rented it out.https://abcnews.go.com/2020/Housing/story?id=1928757&page=2#.UcgR0pwdSUc How to Sell a House of Horrors ABC News 5 May 2006 24 June 2013 Residents included Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon (it was their honeymoon nest in 1965Roberts Jerry The Hollywood Scandal Almanac: 12 Months of Sinister, Salacious and Senseless History! https://books.google.com/books?id=_Y7VORt_rbQC&pg=PA234 20 November 2012 The History Press 978-1-60949-702-6 234 24 June 2013 June 2023 InternetArchiveBot yes ); Henry Fonda; George Chakiris; Mark Lindsay; Samantha Eggar; and Olivia Hussey. Charles Manson visited the house in late 1968, when it was occupied (from May 1967 to January 1969) by couple Terry Melcher (the son of actress Doris Day) and Candice Bergen.Chermak Steven Bailey Frankier Crimes and Trials of the Century [Two Volumes] https://books.google.com/books?id=UNex7XqLuiIC&pg=PA303 30 October 2007 ABC-CLIO 978-1-57356-973-6 303 24 June 2013 Paul Revere & the Raiders' 1966 Billboard Hot 100 top-ten hit "Good Thing" was penned by Lindsay and Melcher at the residence.Houghton Cillea December 31, 2023 3 Songs You Didn’t Know Mark Lindsay Wrote for Paul Revere & the Raiders https://americansongwriter.com/3-songs-you-didnt-know-mark-lindsay-wrote-for-paul-revere-the-raiders/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20250123155830/https://americansongwriter.com/3-songs-you-didnt-know-mark-lindsay-wrote-for-paul-revere-the-raiders/ January 23, 2025 January 10, 2026 American Songwriter In February 1969, Roman Polanski and his wife Sharon Tate began renting the home from Altobelli. On August 9, 1969, the home became the scene of the murders of the eight-months-pregnant Sharon Tate, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring, and Steven Parent committed by Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, and Patricia Krenwinkel, members of the Manson Family cult.Terry Maury The Ultimate Evil: An Investigation into a Dangerous Satanic Cult https://archive.org/details/ultimateevilinve00terr registration August 1, 1989 Bantam Books 978-0-553-27601-5 589 June 24, 2013 Charles Manson himself was an associate of Melcher and previously visited the house.Bugliosi, Vincent with Gentry, Curt. Helter Skelter — The True Story of the Manson Murders 25th Anniversary Edition, W.W. Norton & Company, 1994. 0-393-08700-X, 15164618. William Garretson, Altobelli's caretaker and an acquaintance of Parent, lived in the guest house behind the main house and was unaware of the murders until the next morning, when he was taken into custody by police officers who arrived at the scene. He was later cleared of all charges.https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/manson-followers-arrested-tate-murder-1969-article-1.2894540 Flashback: Two of Charles Manson's followers arrested for the murder of Sharon Tate in 1969 December 1, 2016 New York Daily News August 20, 2019 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20161201194637/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/manson-followers-arrested-tate-murder-1969-article-1.2894540 1 December 2016 Altobelli moved into the house just three weeks after the murders and resided there until 1988. During an interview on ABC's show 20/20, he said that while living there, he felt "safe, secure, loved, and beauty".https://www.chicagotribune.com/1989/09/17/youll-love-lucys-house-for-78-million/ You'll Love Lucy's House, For $7.8 Million Chicago Tribune September 17, 1989 Ruth Ryon April 7, 2014 The house was then sold to John Prell, a real estate investor.https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-10-30-re-655-story.html 'Tate Murder House' Getting a New Owner Ryon Ruth 30 October 1988 Los Angeles Times 20 August 2019 The purchase price was $1.6 million in 1989 (equivalent to $US 1.6 1989 0 million in US). In 1992, Prell sold the property to Alvin Weintraub, another real estate investor.https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/recreate-sharon-tate-s-benedict-canyon-house-quentin-tarantino-turned-a-la-tour-guide-1227436 To Re-create Sharon Tate's Benedict Canyon House, Quentin Tarantino Turned to an L.A. Tour Guide Kiefer Peter 27 July 2019 The Hollywood Reporter 20 August 2019 Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson The final resident of the original house was the musician Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Reznor rented the house in 1992 and set up a recording studio there. This studio, dubbed "Pig" (sometimes called "Le Pig") in a reference to murderer Susan Atkins' writing "Pig" in Tate's blood on the front door of the house, was the site of recording sessions for most of the Nine Inch Nails album The Downward Spiral (1994).SPIN Magazine SPIN: Greatest Hits: 25 Years of Heretics, Heroes, and the New Rock 'n' Roll https://books.google.com/books?id=ITh8mw4QLdIC&pg=PA40 1 October 2010 John Wiley & Sons 978-0-470-89109-4 40 24 June 2013 The band also recorded the EP Broken and filmed the video for "Gave Up" at 10050 Cielo Drive. Marilyn Manson recorded sections of the album Portrait of an American Family at the in-house studio in 1992.https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/charles-mansons-music-history-beatles-beach-boys-8039666/ From The Beatles to The Beach Boys, Nine Inch Nails & More: Charles Manson's Ties to Music Rolli Bryan 20 November 2017 Billboard 20 August 2019 Reznor moved out in December 1993, later explaining, "There was too much history in that house for me to handle."http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,301460,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080519182522/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,301460,00.html dead May 19, 2008 Making records where Manson killed Lorraine Ali 18 March 1994 214 Entertainment Weekly 1 November 2007 Reznor made a statement about working in the Tate house during a 1997 interview with Rolling Stone: While I was working on Downward Spiral, I was living in the house where Sharon Tate was killed. Then one day I met her sister. It was a random thing, just a brief encounter. And she said: "Are you exploiting my sister's death by living in her house?" For the first time, the whole thing kind of slapped me in the face. I said, "No, it's just sort of my own interest in American folklore. I'm in this place where a weird part of history occurred." I guess it never really struck me before, but it did then. She lost her sister in a senseless, ignorant situation that I don't want to support. When she was talking to me, I realized for the first time, "What if it were my sister?" I thought, "Fuck Charlie Manson. I don't want to be looked at as a guy who supports serial-killer bullshit." I went home and cried that night. It made me see there's another side to things, you know? It's one thing to go around with your dick swinging in the wind, acting like it doesn't matter. But when you understand the repercussions that are felt ... that's what sobered me up: realizing that what balances out the appeal of the lawlessness and the lack of morality and that whole thing is the other end of it, the victims who don't deserve that.https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/trent-reznor-death-to-hootie-120934/ Trent Reznor: Death to Hootie Mikal Gilmore 6 March 1997 Rolling Stone 25 December 2007 Reznor took the front door of the house with him when he moved out, installing it at Nothing Studios, his new recording studio/record label headquarters in New Orleans.http://www.feelnumb.com/2012/02/13/trent-reznor-nine-inch-nails-recorded-the-downward-spiral-in-the-infamous-tatelabianca-murder-house/ Trent Reznor & Nine Inch Nails Recorded "The Downward Spiral" In The Infamous Tate/LaBianca Murder House 13 February 2012 FeelNumb.com 17 January 2016 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20190423181156/http://www.feelnumb.com/2012/02/13/trent-reznor-nine-inch-nails-recorded-the-downward-spiral-in-the-infamous-tatelabianca-murder-house/ 23 April 2019https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/nineinchnails/articles/story/5920817/trent_reznor The Fragile World of Trent Reznor Anthony Bozza 5 October 1999 Rolling Stone 19 November 2007 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080131185821/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/nineinchnails/articles/story/5920817/trent_reznor 31 January 2008 Nothing Studios was later sold and the façade of the building changed. Christopher Moore, a New Orleans artist, acquired the front door from the owner of the building, and then in September 2023, the door was sold in an auction to an undisclosed buyer for $127,000 by Julien’s Auctions. Demolition After renting out the house, Alvin Weintraub had it demolished in early 1994, and construction on a new home began shortly after. In 1996, the newly constructed home, which he named Villa Bella, was completed, and he obtained a new address for the property, 10066 Cielo Drive. It is an 18,000-square-foot Mediterranean-style mansion.Mikul Chris The Cult Files: True Stories from the Extreme Edges of Religious Belief https://books.google.com/books?id=SItnjHh8voEC&pg=PT44 2008 Murdoch Books Pty Ltd 978-1-74266-211-4 44 When he listed Villa Bella for sale in 1998, Weintraub told Los Angeles magazine that this was not the Manson murder house, saying "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."https://books.google.com/books?id=oV0EAAAAMBAJ&q=weintraub+%22There%E2%80%99s+no+house%2C+no+dirt%2C+no+blade+of+grass+remotely+connected+to+Sharon+Tate.+10066+Cielo+Drive&pg=PA23 Dial Them for Murder Meyers Laura January 1998 Los Angeles 22–23 20 August 2019 However, there is one remaining pine tree that exists between the house and pool on the property as well as two wooden posts that were originally part of an arbor.June 2026 The owner of the property as of December 2013 was Hollywood producer Jeff Franklin. In 2010, he made a comment to Architectural Digest: "What I fell in love with here was the setting, the view, the privacy, and the amount of flat land" but complained that the design of the house was badly conceived. The property was on the market in August 2019, showing an estimated price of $97 million.https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/10066-Cielo-Dr_Beverly-Hills_CA_90210_M25374-06584 10066 Cielo Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 Realtor.com 20 August 2019 It again was on the market in January 2022 for $85 million, reduced in price in June 2022 to just under $70 million.https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/10066-Cielo-Dr_Beverly-Hills_CA_90210_M25374-06584 10066 Cielo Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 Realtor.com 20 January 2022 By March 2025, the house had a listing price of almost $50 million.10066 Cielo Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 | MLS #25517025 | Compass https://www.compass.com/listing/10066-cielo-drive-beverly-hills-ca-90210/1781514828527136905/?origin=listing_page&origin_type=copy_url References Category:Houses in Los Angeles Category:Manson Family Category:Beverly Crest, Los Angeles Cielo Cielo Cielo Category:1944 establishments in California Category:1994 disestablishments in California Category:Trent Reznor Category:Nine Inch Nails Category:Demolished buildings and structures in Los Angeles