The Most Iconic Celebrity Couples of the 1960s

Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski

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Eventually, tensions eased between Tate and Polanski. They began a relationship, moving in together by the time filming ended. They got married in 1968, although Polanski continued to sleep with other women.

Tate’s murder in 1969 devastated Polanski. Forty-five years after her death, he wrote, “Even after so many years, I find myself unable to watch a spectacular sunset or visit a lovely old house or experience visual pleasure of any kind without instinctively telling myself how much she would have loved it all. … In these ways I shall remain faithful to her till the day I die.”

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