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Jay Sebring was one of seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate, murdered in a homicidal spree by the Manson family in 1969

By then, Sebring was a pioneering hairstylist and, his family says, his legacy has long been overshadowed by the lurid fascination with his death and with his killers

"One of the things that remains is the distortion, not only of the facts and what happened in these historical events but also in the victim blaming and the marginalization and downright slander of the victims," Sebring's nephew says

In the 1960s, Jay Sebring made a giant leap from middle-class Michigan boy and Navy veteran to stylist to the stars, tooling around Hollywood in his Shelby Cobra convertible and jetting off to cut the hair of Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra and more

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