Catherine Share

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Catherine Louise Share , called "Gypsy" (born December 12, 1942 in Paris , France ), is a former actress who is best known as a member of the " Manson Family " and was imprisoned in the 1970s for various offenses.

Childhood and youth

Catherine Share was born in Paris as the daughter of a Hungarian and a German. At the time, her parents were in the French Resistance and lived underground, her father's parents were killed in the Holocaust . Her parents committed during the war of suicide , however, had previously sought through a lawyer, a French activist as a foster mother to her daughter. She married an American psychologist after the war and Share moved to California as the couple's adopted child .

Her adoptive mother died of cancer when Share was 16 years old. After her adoptive father remarried, Share moved from home and came into contact with the early Southern California hippie scene . She earned her living as a saleswoman and as an actress in B-Movies under the pseudonym "Manon Minette".

Membership in the Manson Family

During one such production in 1968, Catherine Share met Bobby Beausoleil , an acquaintance of Charles Manson , who at times imitated his habitus as the " guru " of a community consisting mainly of women. With this group, Share moved through California in the summer of 1968. From the winter of 1968/69 Beausoleil's group lived permanently with the Manson Family at the Spahn Movie Ranch .

“Gypsy,” as Share was called within the commune, was not directly involved in the group's murders in the summer of 1969. However, she belonged to the closest and most loyal circle of Manson supporters. So she was actively involved in gaining new members. After Manson and the other murder suspects were arrested, she was part of the management team with Lynette Fromme and Sandy Good , who kept the family alive and coordinated their appearances during the trials.

Criminal background

On August 21, 1971, Share was involved in a raid by Manson supporters and members of the extreme right-wing Aryan Brotherhood on a gun shop apparently intended to prepare for terrorist attacks. All involved were caught in the act, Share was injured in the exchange of fire with the police and sentenced to five years in prison for their involvement.

In prison she married Kenneth Como , a member of the Aryan Brotherhood. In 1979, the couple again came into conflict with the law over various frauds. Share was convicted of stolen goods and credit card fraud in this regard. After this sentence and the divorce from Como, Share disappeared from the public eye. In later interviews, she distanced herself from Manson and supported Free Indeed Ministeries , an association of born again Christians to which several former Family members belong.

Share speaks extensively in the documentary Charles Manson: Myth of a Murderer .

Web links

literature

  • Ed Sanders: The Family: The Story of Charles Manson . German translation by Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995, ISBN 3-499-19644-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography of Share on cielodrive.com (English)
  2. ↑ Sanders, p. 54
  3. ↑ Self-description Shares ( Memento from June 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on manson2jesus.com (English)
  4. ↑ Sanders, Chapter 25
  5. ↑ Interview with the Discovery Channel on youtube.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Share, Catherine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gypsy (nickname); Share, Catherine Louise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France