Site of Manson Family’s Attack for Sale
Monday, September 19th, 1988
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19 — The remote house where members of the Charles Manson family killed actress Sharon Tate and four others in 1969 has been put up for sale, a real estate agent said Sunday.
Known unofficially as “the Tate Murder House,” the 3 ½ – acre Benedict Canyon property, with a 3,200-square-foot main house and 2,000-square-foot guest cottage, is available for $1.9 million.
“I don’t anticipate any problems” in finding a buyer, real estate agent Adam Jakobson said, adding that the owner, Rudolph Altobelli, got two offers at $1.5 million each almost as soon as he expressed interest in selling.
Jakobson, whose grandfather was the late comedian Lou Costello, said Altobelli has owned the house for 25 years and actually received more than 30 unsolicited offers for the place right after the grisly crimes.
Altobelli, a semi-retired Hollywood business agent, wants to sell the house so he can retire in Switzerland, Jakobson said.
Tate and her husband, film director Roman Polanski, had been renting the house from Altobelli when she and the others were killed Aug. 9, 1969.
Altobelli and Polanski were both overseas at the time.
Manson and all but two of his followers remain in prison, serving life terms for the Tate murders and for the killing of grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, the next day.
Would’ve made great grisly museum…