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Tate, Manson door.

10050 Cielo Drive was the site of the Sharon Tate murder along with 4 other people in the house. Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Jay Sebring, and Steven Parent. The gruesome murders shocked Los Angeles. Susan Atkins wrote "pig" with Tate’s blood on the front door as they left. The murders created a nationwide sensation. After the murders Charles Manson and followers Linda Kasabian, Patricia Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins, were charged and convicted of the murders. Roman Polanski had a photographer take pictures of himself with the word “pig” in still visible on the door with his wife and unborn child’s blood. Manson was sentenced to death which was later overturned to life without parole.

In 1992 Trent Reznor moved into 10050 Cielo Drive, to begin recording The Downward Spiral. Reznor named the studio "Le Pig" after the message that was scrawled on the front door with Tate's blood by her murderers, and stayed there for 18 months. After the album's recording, Reznor moved out and the house was demolished shortly thereafter but not before Reznor collected the door which later ended up in New Orleans at Trent’s new studio, Nothing Records. Reznor had renovated the building into a recording studio around 1992 and the door became the entrance to Nothing Records in New Orleans on Magazine Street. In 2004 Reznor left the studio behind and moved to the west Coast. The defunct studio made it through Hurricane Katrina, with little damage and went up for sale in 2010. After a doctor purchased the building for new offices the door actually ended up in the trash. After someone pointed out that the door had a macabre historical past it was removed from the trash and stored in a suburb of New Orleans. In November 2017 days after Charles Manson had died it was procured by Christopher Moore, a New Orleans artist, who wanted to save the door and use it at one of his properties in New Orleans.