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Lovitz says he later apologized for his remarks.

Dick did eventually admit to having given Brynn cocaine, but claims he was not responsible for her relapse. “She was already in relapse mode, which I didn't even know she had a problem [with] at all in the first place,” he said in an episode of 20/20. He also denied being to blame for the murder-suicide.

In regard to his alleged comment toward Lovitz, Dick said, "Maybe I started something that I meant as a joke and [Lovitz] just got really angry," and recalled Lovitz throwing him against the wall.

Dick has never been formally accused of anything in regards to Hartman's death, though Dick has a long and storied history of arrests and legal issues due to assault, sexual battery, and drug use.

Robert David later came to believe Carpenter was responsible despite new DNA evidence suggesting otherwise.

Jackson's brother Jermaine claimed in his book You Are Not Alone: Michael: Through a Brother’s Eyes that Jackson was meant to have an appointment at the towers that morning. He stayed up late talking to his family in his hotel room after performing a concert, causing him to oversleep and miss his meeting.

Walken has not said much about the night beyond affirming it was an accident and that he had nothing to do with it. "I don't know what happened. She slipped and fell in the water," he said. "It was a terrible thing." He also said, "The people who are convinced that there was something more to it than what came out in the investigation will never be satisfied with the truth. Because the truth is, there is nothing more to it."

Wagner says he believes Wood was trying to either tighten the dinghy to stop it from banging against her window or get away from Wagner and Walken's argument (though Walken said he was asleep when the disappearance happened). He thinks she then slipped, hit her head, and fell. The dinghy was later found far from the boat (and Wood's body), but had nail marks to indicate Wood may have tried to get in. 

Both of Wood's daughters believe her death was an accident. Her sister Lana is more suspicious of Wagner. 

Hinckley had tried to emulate Taxi Driver's protagonist by dressing like him and keeping a diary of things he was frustrated with.

Still, Schrader didn't believe the film had actually inspired violence, saying, "No, those guys were out there. They were out there. I didn't create them."

The murder came shortly after Lewis moved back into the Writer's Villa, a Los Angeles home where a woman had rented out rooms to young creatives for decades. Lewis had been going through a personality change following a motorcycle accident, which many family and friends believed contributed to his violent outbursts, which came on suddenly and seemed to get worse after stints in jail. 

Tyrone has disputed this account and said no racist comment was made.

According to a biography of McQueen, he had been having an affair with a blonde woman at the time and even invited her to come to Tate's with him. However, she said, "she had a better idea for just the two of them." McQueen, unlike Tate, was on a list of targets for the Manson family. His death was planned to look like a suicide.