On the night of August 8, 1969, Charles Manson instructed four members of his 'Family' - Tex Watson, Linda Kasabian, Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel - to break into 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angles, and to "totally destroy" everyone they found there.
The property in Benedict Canyon had recently been rented to French/Polish film director Roman. Polanski, and his pregnant American actress/model wife Sharon Tate, but on the night in question, with Polanski in Europe working, Tate's friends Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger and Wojciech Frykowski had called around to visit her. Also present on the night was 18-year-old Steven Parent, who was visiting the house's caretaker. All five were murdered by Manson's disciples, as was the eight-and-a-half month old fetus that Tate was carrying.
As the Family members exited the house after the killings, Susan Atkins wrote the word 'pig' on the front door in Sharon Tate's blood.
In 1992, Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor rented out the house at 10050 Cielo Drive, and installed a recording studio, labelled Le Pig, in the property. That year Nine Inch Nails recorded their Broken EP at the house, and Reznor remained there while he worked upon his band's second album, the follow-up to 1989's Pretty Hate Machine. Alongside members of his touring band, Reznor invited Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins and King Crimson vocalist/guitarist Adrian Belew to participate in the sessions, which would ultimately birth 1994's The Downward Spiral.
