Friend Of Sharon Tate Regains After Death Try
Sunday, November 2, 1969
Los Angeles Times
Hollywood gossip columnist Stephen A. Brandt, a friend of slain actress
Sharon Tate and her director-husband Roman Polanski, regained consciousness
Saturday after trying to kill himself with an overdose of drugs.
A spokesman for County-U S C Medical Center, where Brandt was taken Friday
after being found unconscious in his West Hollywood apartment, said the
columnist was "much improved" and in fair condition.
Los Angeles homicide detectives working on the Tate case plan to question
Brandt in his hospital room.
Brandt, in New York at the time of the murders, is not a suspect in the
slaying of Miss Tate and four others, but was questioned extensively by police
about acquaintances of Miss Tate and Polanski.
A Las Vegas secretary who Brandt called to say he had drugged himself
described the columnist as "very upset about the Sharon Tate Case."
