Steve McQueen

<p>After <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson" title="Charles Manson">Charles Manson</a> incited the murder of five people, including McQueen's friends <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Tate" title="Sharon Tate">Sharon Tate</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Sebring" title="Jay Sebring">Jay Sebring</a> at Tate's home on August 9, 1969, it was reported McQueen was a potential target of the killers. According to his first wife, McQueen began carrying a handgun at all times in public, including at Sebring's funeral.<sup id="cite_ref-dominickdunne_57-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McQueen#cite_note-dominickdunne-57">[57]</a></sup> Two months after the murders police found a hit list with McQueen's name on it, a result of McQueen's company having rejected a Manson screenplay. In 2011, it was revealed that Sebring had invited McQueen to the party at Tate's house on the night of the murders. According to McQueen, he had invited a girlfriend to come along, she instead suggested an intimate night at home, which probably saved his life.<sup id="cite_ref-Eliot_7-3" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McQueen#cite_note-Eliot-7">[7]</a></sup></p>