Charles Manson Prostitution to Closeted Actors

Manson in interview: ''When I go to get into the music, uh, the Jew rejects me on the universal level from Cary Grant's parking space because I won't use the black people.''

Within 3 months of Manson's 1967 release from Terminal Island Prison in California, he was offered a position as a consultant on a movie being produced by Universal Pictures which would have featured Jesus Christ being reincarnated in 1960s America as a black man in an allegorical film about prejudice. Manson had already developed a reputation in countercultural circles as something like a guru and the movie's producer, Gary Stromberg, this is the Jewish man Manson is referring to here, asked the newly released convict to provide advice on the script and possibly record the soundtrack. This role gave Manson access to the Universal lot in Hollywood and during his later incarceration, he told multiple people, including the author Nikolas Schreck, that he became a hustler on the lot catering to closeted gay men working in the film industry there. Manson told one specific story where he parked in Cary Grant's parking space and one of Grant's assistants came out to tell him to move his car. Manson struck up a conversation with the man and sensing he was gay, went into Grant's office with him where they had the first of many sexual encounters. Cary Grant was notoriously a closeted bisexual, but Manson always refused to name Grant's assistant who he'd developed this relationship with. During the same period, Manson allegedly performed the same services for Robert Conrad of the Wild Wild West TV series and Peter Falk who was confirmed to have been filming Columbo at Universal at the same time Manson was hustling there. Falk even attended Manson's trial after the murders and Schreck claims he interviewed someone who heard Peter Falk admit that he'd slept with Manson saying, {quote} "I did the crazy Gary Stromberg wanted Manson to collaborate with a South African musician on the soundtrack to the movie and Manson, still steeped in the racism of the penitentiary, refused. In Manson's telling, this led to Stromberg destroying the music he'd already made and attempting to blackball him from the industry.

Roman Polanski Porno Ring

Vincent Bugliosi testemony - Researcher, Tom O'Neill was able to coax an admission out of LA Coutnry district attoruny, Vincent Bugliosi, that the prosecutors had lied about the contents of a sex tape police discovered in the house after the murders. It featured Tate with two other men in a scene being directed by Polanski. But highlighting this one tape in isolation actually obscures the bigger picture. The author Nicholas Schreck discovered that the house's owner, Rudy Altobelli, had been running a gay porn production company called Cottage Films from the guesthouse at Cielo, the name being a reference to the cottage-like appearance of the guesthouse and the British gay slang term cottaging. Polanski's social circle, which included Hugh Hefner, Yul Brynner, and Peter Sellers, was engaged in the creation and trade of homemade pornographic films using state-of-the-art home video systems and the newly invented videotape recorder. 

Terry Melcher testemony - In The Manson File, Nicholas Schreck reprints a quote Terry Melcher gave to a writer working on a biography of his mother, Doris Day, saying that when he first heard of the murders committed at his former residence, he immediately assumed that the celebrity porno ring had something to do with it. ''I hadn't been in the house since I moved out, but I'd presumed that the murders had had something to do with the weird films Polanski had made and the equally weird people who were hanging around that house. I knew they were making a lot of homemade sadomasochistic porno movies there with quite a few recognizable Hollywood faces in them. The reason I knew was that I'd gone out with a girl named Michelle Phillips, one of The Mamas and the Papas, whose ex-husband John Phillips was the leader of the group. Michelle told me that she and John had had dinner one night to discuss maybe getting back together, and afterward he'd taken her up to visit the Polanskis in my old house. Michelle said that when they arrived there, everyone in the house was busy filming an orgy and that Sharon Tate was part of it. This was just one of the stories I'd heard about what went on in my former home.''

Bobby Beausoleil testemony - When Bobby Beausoleil gave an interview to Truman Capote in the 1970s, and Capote described the Cielo Drive victims as total strangers and innocent people, Beausoleil snapped back, "Who says they were innocent? They burned people on dope deals, Sharon Tate and that gang.
They picked up kids on the strip and took them home and whipped them, made movies of it. Ask the cops, they found the movies. Not that they'd tell you the truth."

Dennis Hopper testemony - The actor Dennis Hopper, whose social circle overlapped with Polanski's, told the LA Free Press that the crowd at Cielo had fallen into sadism and masochism and bestiality, and they recorded it all on videotape, too. ''The LA police told me this.''

Joanna Pettet testemony - In The Manson File, Nikolas Schreck quotes the actress Joanna Pettet, one of Sharon Tate's best friends, who was among the last people to see her alive, telling the journalist David Dalton that she was sure the killings involved some drug deal gone wrong or revenge by an outraged lover for some kinky sex scene. Sharon had told her that Polanski was in the habit of making home movies of himself having sex with young girls and then showing them to Sharon while they were making love. "Jay Sebring," she said, "was into some very kinky stuff. It was that kind of scene." 

Dominick Dunne testemony - O'Neill reports that the Cielo Drive residence was known for hosting orgies organized by Roman Polanski without Sharon Tate's knowledge, and quotes the writer Dominick Dunne saying, "I never went to their orgies, but I know they existed, and I think Jay Sebring was in on it, too." And Manson himself frequently referred to these connections in interviews over the years.

Charles Manson testemony - ''They were the cult. Did they tell you about all the film that they got with the dogs and shofers that came out of the the the black and white when Yul Brynner and Peter Sellers paid a $30,000 to get the videotapes back that they had done with the pornography where there was gobbling on each other's knobs in the closet with Sharon, or Sharon, beautiful Sharon.'' 

Interviewer: ''Tex was going to show up around How did he So you didn't So you didn't have a reason to go to Sharon Tate or any of those people?''

''No.'' 

Interviewer: ''Did you know them?''

''Uh I had met a couple of them a couple of times.
Uh photographer that used to do that and then some homosexuals there and I would know a lot of homosexuals.'' 

Interviewer: ''Okay, so Tex is going there cuz it's familiar. He's been there before. Did you ever go there?''

''Uh yeah. Yeah.'' 

Interviewer: ''What What took you there?'' 

''Uh the homosexual that lived in the back. Who was that? Garretson? Uh a guy that used to deal grass and uh some other things. Mhm. pornography Uh Polanski was in... see Here's the thing, man. I don't want to start pulling people's covers. Uh but all them people that you talked with were so wonderful and and nice, wonderful, you know, they wasn't wonderful as you would thought their dogs might have been on the shofer's night off. You dig? In other words, there's all kinds of things happening in the in the darkness. So what was going on that you know, like how does someone from Poland get to Hollywood and go all the way over the top and you know, have everything it is there like a Valley of the Dolls where you can just one camera click in and what film are we sending to Hong Kong for the other...''

(grain of salt, ig)

His references to the homosexual in the back almost certainly refer to Rudy Alabelli who lived in the guest house at Cello on and off and was known to hire , young men often drug dealers and gay hustlers to houseid while he was away. It's speculated that William Garrettson, the so-called caretaker at Cello, was one of these men and Tex Watson may have been as well. According to Nicholas Shreck, Altobelli claimed that Watson had even been in some kind of romantic relationship with Sebring before the murders. In a letter to a tabloid journalist, Manson described the video camera Dennis Wilson had given him as a $5,000 video tape TV thing for tapes that fit only on elite bunch porno ring that was worldwide and that he had, quote, "heard Polanski got money from dog and children movies." In correspondence over years, Manson made frequent oblique references to his time as a hustler serving both male and female clients from the Hollywood elite.

Specifically, Manson mentioned being asked to participate in threesomes with both Jane Fonda and Elvis Presley. 

Charles Manson prison letter to tabloid journalist Bill Dakota: "We kicked Jane Fonda out of that dream because her Jewish boyfriend wanted to bring a black guy to play ping pong with her and I said, 'I don't play mixing blood for phony Christians that work for their money selling children.' She had a big dog and a crummy camera and I said, 'No, I do what I do for love, not money.' She was, I think, making some kind of video tapes like Peter Sellers and Yul Brynner were making. One night a girl took me to Elvis's pad with big iron gates and she was begging to suck on my ice cream. Elvis's wife came home that night and when Dennis Wilson came around, he had so many broads. Elvis got afraid cuz that little girl had his heart. I could have eaten it there in front of them, but I was playing a front and I was having sex in the back. I could have them. He had a car I wanted, but Terry Melcher gave one of my buddies a new XKZ Jaguar for me because he didn't want anyone to know about me and his mom." 

But O'Neill only scratches the surface of the sex trade angle in Chaos. For example, he quotes Bob April, a fringe member of the family, saying that Manson would supply girls for executive parties that Terry Melcher threw, giving well-heeled business types unfettered access to Manson's girls. According to O'Neill, in exchange, Manson expected help with his music career and possibly a record deal. Manson clearly was making money as both a pimp and a hustler, but the market for pimping had become much more difficult in an environment of free love.
It seems like he wasn't conducting straight cash transactions so much as just allowing access to the girls in exchange for social networking, a place to stay, or just a favor that he expected to be able to call in at sometime in the future.

In Manson in his own words, Manson describes one of the Canoga Park houses the family lived in, nicknames 'the yellow submarine': ''Within three or four weeks of moving in, it had become a concert hall for musicians, a porno studio for kinky producers, a dope pad, a thieves lair, a place to dismantle stolen cars, and just about everything but a whorehouse. Not a body was sold. Shared for favors returned maybe, but not sold for dollars.''