Polanski and Phillips: Friends with a Penchant for Young Girls
Sexual Excesses of Sixties Icons.
The late Mamas and the Papas creator, John Phillips, and his friend Roman Polanski have made headlines lately for their excesses in the swinging sixties, especially their penchant for young girls. Phillips’ oldest daughter, Mackinzie, has recently published an earth-shattering book, High on Arrival, exposing an alledged affair between the actress and her father. As Mackinzie tours America answering questions about her tell-all book, Polanski works with his pricey lawyers to prevent prosecution for 32 year old charges of statutory rape.
Phillips and film director Polanski enjoyed the jet set life of their Bel Air neighborhood in the late 1960s. They partied together, networked sixties-style, had intellectual discussions, and womanized together. Polanski admitted to having “a European attitude toward sex” despite being married to the beautiful Sharon Tate. Like Polanski, John Phillips never took his wedding ring seriously. He left his first wife, Mackinzie’s mother, for a teenage Michelle Gilliam. While married to Michelle, he ran around constantly although he applied the double standard when Michelle tried to play the same game. She had affairs with Gene Clark of the Birds and the famed director, Roman Polanski.
The carefree sixties ended the August 1969 weekend when Sharon Tate and six others were brutally murdered. While the slaughter remained unsolved, Polanski tried to put the blame on John Phillips. Since Roman had slept with John’s wife, Roman believed that Phillips had hired professionals to kill Sharon and avenge Roman. Polanski placed a kitchen knife at Phillips throat demanding that John confess. Finally, the grieving Polanski accepted that the musician had nothing to do with his wife’s murder.
Although Polanski accepted that John Phillips had nothing to do with Sharon’s murder, the friendship of the director and the musician were never the same. For many years, Polanski was a broken man. But grief seldom affected Polanski’s womanizing.
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