The front door to the infamous home where Sharon Tate was murdered by Charles Manson’s cult followers in 1969 has gone to auction.
Bids for the piece of the murder house have already skyrocketed past $25,000 – and the sale is not set to be finalized until September.
The door, which is 47.75 x 78 x 7.5 inches in size, is described as a white, cottage-style door previously attached to the infamous residence at 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverley Hills, California.
It is the former address of actress Sharon Tate and film director Roman Polanski.
The object has nine glass window panels on the top, a center ledge, a brass knob, and a gold-tone lock. It had the word ‘pig’ written using Tate’s blood on it soon after the murders.
Bids for the piece of the murder house have already skyrocketed past $25,000 – and the sale is not set to be finalized until September
The front door to the infamous home where Sharon Tate was murdered by Charles Manson’s cult followers in 1969 has gone to auction
Tate and her unborn baby were murdered at the home in the Hollywood Hills in 1969
Tate and Polanski lived in the home – and would have entered in and out of the door – for nearly six months before they were murdered on August 8, 1969.
Manson’s cult entered the home, built in 1942, on orders to murder everyone present.
Following the massacre, it was eventually sold to Nine Inch Nails member Trent Reznor – who rented it while working on his sophomore album, Downward Spiral.
He moved out of the home in December 1993, and he took the front door with him as a souvenir.
He installed it at the front of his ‘Nothing Studios’ in New Orleans, Louisiana, where it remained until the property was abandoned.
Christopher Moore, the door’s current owner, bought it off a doctor in 2017 and has now decided to put it to auction, reports TMZ.
The notorious Manson Family were convicted for nine murders after embarking on the killing spree that terrorized the city fifty years ago.
Charles Manson is escorted to court for preliminary hearing on December 3, 1969
Now, decades later, one of the murderers Leslie Van Houten has been released from prison after serving more than fifty years for two of the infamous killings.
Members of the Manson Family stabbed, beat and shot young actress Sharon Tate, who was heavily pregnant, to death at her Hollywood Hills home in 1969.
They also killed her friends, celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, aspiring screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski and teenager Steven Parent, who had been visiting an acquaintance at the estate’s guesthouse.
The next night Manson and some of his followers struck again, this time murdering wealthy grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary at their home.
Manson and his followers also killed musician Gary Hinman and Hollywood stuntman Donald ‘Shorty’ Shea.
Patricia Krenwinkel, who was convicted for the murders of Folger and Leno LaBianca, aged 75, remains in prison.
The object has nine glass window panels on the top, a center ledge, a brass knob, and a gold-tone lock
Krenwinkel met Manson when she was 19 and believed that she was in a romantic relationship with the cult leader, but he soon bartered her for sex and she twice attempted to leave.
Charles ‘Tex’ Watson, now 77, also remains behind bars for his role in the killings on the Tate estate and at LaBianca’s home.
Bruce Davis, now 80, remains incarcerated at California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo.
He was convicted of taking part in the Hinman and Shea murders but was not involved in the Tate and LaBianca killings.
Bobby Beausoleil remains in prison at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville for murdering his musician friend Gary Hinman.
He was eventually recommended for release in 2018, but Governor Newsom also blocked the decision.
Charles Manson died in 2017, aged 83 having spent fifty years in prison.
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