Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Polanski ya bukaci Tate ta kawo karshen dangantakarta da Martin Ransohoff, kuma ta fara ba da mahimmancin aikinta har sai Polanski ya gaya mata cewa yana son yin aure da "hippie, ba uwar gida ba". Ma'auratan sun koma Los Angeles kuma da sauri sun zama wani ɓangare na ƙungiyar zamantakewar da ta haɗa da wasu daga cikin matasa masu nasara a masana'antar fim, gami da Warren Beatty, Jacqueline Bisset, Leslie Caron, Joan Collins, Mia Farrow, Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, Laurence Harvey, Steve McQueen, Joanna Pettet da Peter Sellers; tsofaffin taurarin fina-finai kamar Yul Brynner, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda da Danny Kaye; mawaƙa kamar Jim Morrison da Mamas & Papas; da mai shirya rikodin Terry Melcher da budurwarsa Candice Bergen. Jay Sebring ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin abokan da suka fi yawan ma'auratan. Abokan Polanski sun haɗa da Wojciech Frykowski, wanda Polanski ya sani tun yana saurayi a Poland, da budurwar Frykowski Abigail Folger
, magajiyar kofi. Tate da Polanski sun koma cikin Chateau Marmont a Los Angeles na 'yan watanni har sai sun shirya su yi hayar gidan Patty Duke a kan Summit Ridge Drive a Beverly Hills a ƙarshen 1968. Gidan Polanski sau da yawa yana cike da baƙi, kuma Tate ya ɗauki yanayin da ba shi da kyau a matsayin wani ɓangare na "ruhu mai kyauta" na lokutan, yana cewa ba ta damu da wanda ya zo gidanta ba kamar yadda taken ta ya kasance "rayuwa da barin rayuwa". Abokinta na kusa Leslie Caron ya yi sharhi cewa Polanskis suna da aminci sosai, "har zuwa rashin hankali", kuma hakan ya firgita ta.