
With Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski Jay Sebring and Sharon Tate Jay and McQueenĪfter the killings, McQueen took to carrying a loaded Magnum pistol at all times. While he spent the night with her, Sebring, Tate and the other guests were systematically tortured and butchered by the Manson Gang at Sharon’s home in Cielo Drive. As luck would have it the actor got a call from one of his eager young women that evening and she convinced him they could have more fun, just the two of them, in a hotel room. Since all three are now dead it is impossible to verify this, but we do know that it was Sebring who invited McQueen to dinner at Sharon’s home that night. McQueen later confided to friends that he used to have ‘threesomes’ with hairdresser Jay Sebring and Sharon Tate, even after Sharon wed Polanski. Roman Polanski, the director, was away in Europe that evening. Unbeknown to him, McQueen’s name was at the top of Charles Manson’s hit list on 8 August 1969, the night he accepted an invitation to have dinner at the Polanski-Tate home. McQueen and Robert Vaughn in the 1960 classic western The Magnificent 7 While on location making The Magnificent Seven in 1960, McQueen and co-star Robert Vaughn spent the whole of Good Friday in a Mexican brothel entertaining seven hookers in their double bed. The billionaire could easily have had him ‘dealt with’, but that was not how he operated. Hughes continued to hassle her after the volatile McQueen threatened to break his nose if he did not desist. Both men had been involved with sex siren Mamie Van Doren. It was in the mid-sixties that McQueen publicly threatened billionaire Howard Hughes. It all sounds a little difficult to believe, although Frank did have a massive ego and an unpredictable short fuse. In the interview he stated that he was a better singer than Frank (possibly in jest), but, apparently, ‘Ole Blue Eyes’ took umbrage to it and had him fired from the picture. The story goes that the role had been promised to Sammy Davis Junior, but Sinatra had fallen out with him over a radio interview Sammy had recently given. In 1959 he landed a breakthrough role in a Frank Sinatra film titled Never So Few. It was his years at the garage that formulated his life-long passion for motorcycles. McQueen was the mechanic who worked on the bike. Coincidentally, the two had met previously when Landau, on the back of James Dean’s motorcycle, pulled into a garage for repairs. Only two were accepted – Steve was one and Martin Landau the other. In 1955, after getting out of the Corps, he used his G I Bill to join over 2,000 aspiring actors auditioning for Lee Strasberg’s exclusive Actor’s Studio. From there he went into the US Marine Corps. He said it was the best thing that ever happened to him that it straightened him out. Shoplifting and stealing hubcaps would land him in Chino Reformatory in California for five years between 19. At 16 he was a towel boy in a brothel and encouraged to sample the wares on offer. He lost his virginity at 13 to an obese teenaged hooker who accepted candy for sex. In May, David Imoh, a sound engineer, was lynched in the Lekki axis of the state and two men were also set ablaze over phone theft in the Ijesha area of the state.Steve McQueen’s mother was a prostitute, his father a circus stuntman and neither cared a fig about their boy. Over the past few weeks, Lagos has witnessed a spate of mob killings. The eviction notice angered some traders who were from northern region of the country and they instituted a suit against the state government. In May, the Lagos state government issued a 14-day eviction notice to the occupants of Alaba Rago market, saying the market has become criminals’ den. The Lagos police command has charged three suspects to court for the alleged killing of the deceased.

Their grouse was that she was not supposed to be carrying the Quran because of the kind of work she was doing.” The girl that was killed also came from the north. “The incident happened at Alaba Rago, where a lot of northerners reside.



So, they started attacking her they stabbed her, took her out and set her ablaze. “While searching the room, they found Quran under her pillow and started asking what she was using the Quran for as a prostitute. So, they decided to go and search her room where she attended to her customers. “The northerners, who were with the customer that the girl accused of stealing her money, asked if she was sure that he stole her money. “But when the customer was leaving, he stole the prostitute’s N5,000 and after discovering that her money had gone missing, the prostitute chased him to ask for her money.
