He was also known for having a love-affair with Sharon Tate shortly before her murder.
Back in 2007, Jones had claimed that he had been having an affair with Tate before she was murdered. "It's not like Sharon's always preying on my mind, but if I see something about her on TV, it all comes flooding back. It had been a very unpleasant experience. Jones played Johnny, an American stockbroker in Rome who falls in love with Luisa (Pia Degermark) and misappropriates funds to invest in a speculative venture to fund his romance. That's what was happening when I heard about Sharon's murder." Miles makes frequent mention of Jones's erratic behaviour during filming, and paints a picture of an actor who was pretty much a loner. The couple share a lovers idyll in the Italian countryside and at a luxury hotel, their pleasure made poignant by the eventuality of Johnnys recapture. March 1 (UPI) -- iHeartMedia is teaming up with SeeHer to celebrate International Women's Day with a special streaming event. She saysJones started abusing her soon after they began dating in the late 1960s, Hussey and Jones had broken up when she planned to move into the guesthouse of the home Sharon Tate was renting with her husband Roman Polanski prior to the Manson crime spree, Hussey had been planning to help Sharon Tate and Roman Polanksi (left) with their soon-to-born baby when Tate was murdered by Charles Manson's 'family'. 'I didn't know if he was going to kill me,' Hussey said. Davis."
"After I'd been with her, I came back to the hotel and tried Sharon's door which was open. He also starred in The Looking Glass War and TVs The Legend of Jesse James before leaving Hollywood after the murder of Sharon Tate at the peak of his brief career in the '60s. Jones, 72, died Friday at Los Alamitos Medical Center. "There was probably some guilt on my part there, in the way that any man would think to themselves: 'I deserve to be shot'." Fate is fate. "The next day I ran into actress Nathalie Delon (wife of actor Alain Delon) who was a friend of Sharon's and whom I had also been seeing, and she said: 'Chris, what did you do to Sharon? Later, Lean decided to have Julian Holloway re-record all of Jones' lines in post-production, a decision previously taken by Degermark for The Looking Glass War. In 1965 he married Susan Strasberg, the daughter of the acting coaches Lee and Paula Strasberg. Jones's next acting role, was rock star and presidential aspirant Max Frost in the influential cult film Wild in the Streets (1968), co-starring Shelley Winters, Hal Holbrook, and Richard Pryor. "I read some of Sarah's book - I didn't like the part where she called me a midget and inferred I was a homosexual. NBC updates viewers on Hoda Kotb's absence from 'Today', March 1 (UPI) -- NBC said "Today" co-anchor Hoda Kotb, who has been missing from the morning show for over a week, has been dealing with a "family health matter. //