Former Manson Family Member Reflects 50 Years After Tate Murders: ‘Just a Commune of People That Went Wrong’
Exactly 50 years after some of Charles Manson’s followers murdered actress and expecting mother Sharon Tate and her friends in cold blood, one of Manson’s commune members speaks out about what drew her to Manson, how he loved her — and how he abused her and pimped her out. Dianne Lake, now 65, was 14 when she first joined the commune after her parents got involved with counterculture. She lived with different couples, never really fitting in anywhere, she told TheWrap. After her parents granted her emancipation and she started living with a couple in Highland Park, that’s when she met “Charlie.”
“Two weeks later, the couple told me, ‘We’re going to this party in Topanga and we want you to meet this groovy guy and his commune girls,” Lake told TheWrap, adding that she was immediately welcomed into the group by the girls of the commune. Also Read: Is 'Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood' Better or Worse If You Know Your Manson History? “It was pretty magical, actually,” she explained. “I had been disenfranchised from my family and the commune they were living in. Charlie comes over, offers me some root beer and invites me to come join...
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