Jay Sebring

…actress Sharon Tate; celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring, a close friend of Tate’s; Wojciech Frykowski, a friend of Roman Polanski, Tate’s husband; and Frykowski’s girlfriend, coffee heiress Abigail Folger. Manson’s followers gathered them in the living room, and Tate and Sebring were linked by ropes tied around their necks. Sebring was…

…her relationship with celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring, who would remain a close friend. Tate’s pivotal role in the beach farce Don’t Make Waves (1967) led to her breakthrough that same year as the starlet in Valley of the Dolls. She and Polanski married in England in 1968, and the glamorous…