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6 unusual facts about Jay Sebring


Jay Sebring

After graduating from Southfield High School in 1951, Sebring joined the Navy for four years, and during this time served in the Korean War.

Sebring had a hand in launching the film career of Bruce Lee, after meeting him at the International Karate Championships in Long Beach in 1964.

On August 8, 1969, Sebring, Tate, Frykowski and Folger went to El Coyote, a Mexican restaurant, together.

He then moved to Los Angeles, where he changed his name to Jay Sebring: Jay, after the first initial of his middle name, and Sebring after the famous Florida car race.

Nikolas Schreck

According to Schreck, the murders of Sharon Tate and the others actually resulted from conventional underworld rivalries between drug dealer associates Charles Watson and Jay Sebring, who Schreck contends was linked to the Mafia.

Sebring International

Sebring International is an international hairstyling corporation created by Jay Sebring and partners in 1967.



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Sebring International

Less than a year later Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and 3 others including pregnant actress Sharon Tate were murdered by followers of Charles Manson.