Following the murders, the owner of the property, Rudi Altobelli, moved into 10050 Cielo Drive himself, according to House Beautiful. However, matters weren’t quite as simple as they seemed. Soon after the night of August 8, Roman Polanski was featured in an article by Life Magazine. The article included pictures of the director next to the blood-stained front door and in the areas where Sharon Tate and her friends were murdered. Altobelli wasn’t happy with this article and sued both Polanski and Tate’s estates for loss of income owing to the coverage of events, for which he was awarded a paltry $4,350.
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Still, he eventually managed to sell the home almost 20 years later in 1988 to an investor named Alan Prell, who sold it once again in 1991 to investor Alvin Weintraub. Under Weintraub’s ownership, 10050 Cielo Drive was rented to Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails until December 1993, who recorded the EP “Broken” and album “The Downward Spiral” during his time there. When asked why he decided to leave in a 1997 Rolling Stone interview, Reznor said it took bumping into Tate’s sister to realize that he was contributing to the sensationalism of the house and what happened there. He also shared that he was ashamed to be seen potentially glorifying Charles Manson’s actions.
