so I bought this out of print book about murders in Los Angeles... and it has a chapter on Cielo Drive with this interesting tidbit... that Sharon didn't really take drugs until she met Jay and that Jay was a dealer to his clients mostly LSD and pot... I am curious to see where this author is getting the information from so I look in the back at his cites and he said he relied on Thomas Kiernan's book Roman Polankski ... (I can't remember the subtitle) from 1980/81 - I happen to have that book (I am so weird) and he doesn't name his sources at all except he notes that he took his info re: the murders from Atkins' Grand Jury Testimony but there is nothing to back up his claim that Jay dealt to his clients. In his telling of the murders he has Jay and Sharon coming into the living room and Jay recognizes Tex... (ok, I think it was Tex - I read it last night and my mind is like a sieve!!) I remember an interview with Polanski when his biography came out in 1984 - he said that one reason he wrote it was because there had been a previous biography where it was so full of lies that he felt he had to write his story to set the record straight and so I am pretty sure that it is Kiernan's book he is talking about. Just the wee bit I read last night had several obvious factual errors that are dispelled by Polanski's book... but I did think it was interesting about Jay and his alleged dealing ... I wonder if it was a Hollywood rumour that grew legs after the murders.
I heard it was more a "service" he provided to certain of his more prominent customers. The way I read it, I can't remember where, it was not for profit but just one of the things he did for certain people.
if he was a dealer, he wasn't a very successful one. Apparently he was going broke just trying to run in the same circles as his clients.
[quote author=bryane link=topic=2782.msg17232#msg17232 date=1207830879] if he was a dealer, he wasn't a very successful one. Apparently he was going broke just trying to run in the same circles as his clients. [/quote] That is what I remember seeing. He was not really doing all that well. He needed an influx of cash to get his business really rolling.
In his telling of the murders he has Jay and Sharon coming into the living room and Jay recognizes Tex... (ok, I think it was Tex - I read it last night and my mind is like a sieve!!) I want to clarify something... I re-read this again and I think I/or the author put the wrong emphasis on the wording... I think it should read "WHAT are you doing here?" but I read it before as "what are YOU doing here?" big difference
