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Manson, Sinatra and Me is a Hollywood party girls memoir that details her encounters with former Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, foreign dignitaries, celebrities, sports stars, businessmen - you name it - including the likes of Frank Sinatra and other members of the Rat Pack. The average man or woman may not have heard of Virginia Graham, but everybody in the know was aware of what her game was as a key player in the Hollywood Screw System. When Virginia found herself in trouble with the law, she ended up in jail. Yet somehow she continued to meet interesting people - like Susan Atkins, her cellmate, who confessed to Virginia about how she had butchered Sharon Tate and her unborn child. Atkins also told how she and her friends, all members of the Manson Family, were involved in what has become known as the Tate/LaBianca murders. Virginia reveals the true story behind Susan Atkins prison confession about the Manson Murders, what led to her becoming a key witness for District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi in the Helter Skelter case, and why she went into hiding after the trial ended. Virginias testimony helped save the lives of many Hollywood celebrities, and she received recognition from Elizabeth Taylor for doing so.
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Table of Contents
Manson, Sinatra and Me
A Hollywood Party Girls Memoir and How She Helped Vincent Bugliosi with the Helter Skelter Case
by
Virginia Graham
As Told to
Hal Jacques
CCB Publishing
British Columbia, Canada
Manson, Sinatra and Me:
A Hollywood Party Girls Memoir and How She Helped Vincent Bugliosi with the Helter Skelter Case
Copyright 2015 by Virginia Graham
ISBN-13 978-1-77143-206-1
First Edition
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Graham, Virginia, 1932-, author
Manson, Sinatra, and me : a Hollywood party girls memoir and how she helped Vincent Bugliosi with the helter skelter case / by Virginia Graham ; as told to Hal Jacques. -- First edition.
Issued in print and electronic editions.
ISBN 978-1-77143-205-4 (pbk.).--ISBN 978-1-77143-206-1 (pdf)
1. Graham, Virginia, 1932-. 2. Women prisoners--United States--Biography. 3. Witnesses--United States--Biography. 4. Manson, Charles, 1934-. 5. Trials (Murder)--California. 6. Murder--California. I. Jacques, Hal, 1916-2007, author II. Title.
HV9468.G73A3 2015 365'.43092 C2015-900682-1, C2015-900683-X
Cover artwork: Illustration of Virginia Graham is derived from a 1995 painting by Dean Hansford. Photographs of Charles Manson and Frank Sinatra are both in the public domain and are used without malice.
Photo of Elizabeth Taylor and Nurse Shannon Gordon is Shannon Gordon, and is reproduced herein with her express permission. All other photos contained herein are Virginia Graham.
Notice: Significant portions of text contained herein first appeared in The Joy of Hooking by Virginia Graham as published by Zebra Publications, Inc., under the imprint Zebra Books, in 1974, the rights to which were reverted back to Virginia Graham by Bernard Geis.
Disclaimer: This is an autobiographical work, with some names contained herein having been changed in the interest of privacy.
Extreme care has been taken by the author to ensure that all information presented in this book is accurate and up to date at the time of publishing. Neither the author nor the publisher can be held responsible for any errors or omissions. Additionally, neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from use of the information contained herein.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the express written permission of the publisher.
Publisher:
CCB Publishing
British Columbia, Canada
www.ccbpublishing.com
To My Mother
and
To Vincent Bugliosi:
Forty-five years ago in August 1969 in Benedict Canyon, California some grotesque murders were committed of Hollywood celebrities. Beverly Hills was in a panic. A few months later an informant came forward and helped break the murder case. Vincent Bugliosi, a young, courageous District Attorney from Los Angeles was assigned to the case. Through his diligence and persistence he brought the case to trial and won a conviction against a group called the Manson Family. He also saved many celebrities lives who had been targeted for murder on a hit list.
I am writing this with the deepest gratitude and respect for Vincent Bugliosi as I, Virginia Graham, am that informant.
Acknowledgements
I acknowledge with thanks such true friends as:
Maureen Cotter
Elsa Ritchie
Mike and Pat Cerney
and Jean Salutz
and with deep gratitude, special thanks to Ellen Harris
Also, with admiration and respect, Gloria Steinem, who Ive always greatly admired.
Praise received for Manson, Sinatra and Me
Virginia Graham had a heck of a run in her life as a party girl, and has told of her rollicking story very well in this poignant and sometimes very funny memoir of hers. She also happened to be a star witness of mine in helping me bring the Manson Family killers to justice, something for which I will always be very grateful to her.
- Vincent Bugliosi, bestselling author of
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Virginia Grahams personal tell-all as a party girl is a page-turner from beginning to end. Her writing, breezy, humorously and sometimes harrowingly candid, proves her to be an honest chronicler of her own life and times... and what times these were! Her landing in jail, which brings us to what was then the Crime of the Century, comes as a wallop. This book is a winner.
- Jack Engelhard, bestselling novelist of
Indecent Proposal and The Bathsheba Deadline
A riveting read from cover-to-cover, with the best sex tales youve never heard about classic Hollywood celebrities like Frank Sinatra and notorious gangsters like Mickey Cohen. Virginia Grahams fateful meeting with Susan Atkins turned her into a national hero for breaking the case against the Manson Family. This book is an important work of true crime and a thrilling peek into Hollywood behind closed doors.
- Dr. Gloria Brame, sex therapist, blogger and bestselling author of
Different Loving and The Truth About Sex
Whether Virginia Graham writes of her time behind bars or of living the high life as a party girl, every word reads as the truth. I admire this writer because every word, every phase is an education in pushing through any difficulties in life. She is a survivor. This is a memoir that stays with the reader, and is by far one of the best memoirs I have read in a very long time.
- Jasmine Kinnear, author of Every Cat Has A Story
Chapter One
I remember reading a book some years back in which the main character was a powerful Italian construction worker who was so sexually potent that every time he put his hand on the doorknob of his wifes bedroom door she became pregnant.
That was me. I was pregnant five times between sixteen and twenty-one and sometimes even by my own husband. My familys advice not to have sex was like telling the fire-horse not to start running every time the bell rang. And some of those guys I went with sure knew how to ring my bell.
I knew nothing about birth control. I went to a doctor and got a diaphragm but for me it didnt work. I didnt find out til years later that you were supposed to insert it before and not after.
A Catholic girlfriend even tried to sell me on the rhythm method which didnt make any sense at all and the only thing I could think to say was, Rhythm method? Now where the hell am I supposed to get an orchestra at three oclock in the morning?
My mother somehow never found the time to tell me about the birds and the bees, but the night before I got married she gave me a book on marital sex. I thanked her and remember thinking that for it to do me any good Id have to be a helluva quick study.
I was an only child, born Virginia Browne in Philadelphia on December 10th, 1932 into a dysfunctional family and during my very early years we lived with my dads aunt, my great-aunt Virginia.
My mother was beautiful, and Ive been told that I was beautiful, but in her heyday mother would have made me look like one of Cinderellas ugly stepsisters. Mother won her first beauty contest at the age of fifteen at a county fair in New Jersey. With her clear blue-green eyes, her Ava Gardner coloring and beautiful brown hair it must have been no contest.
She was a friendly, quiet woman who had been the last of ten children and never got over the feeling that she was an unwanted child. She never developed a sense of self-esteem and rarely exercised her rights as a person, and if she had any opinions she never voiced them. Her persona was the sum and total of an insecure childhood and growing up at a time when women werent quite as liberated as they are today.
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