Where Are Charles Manson’s Children Now? Inside the Lives of the Late Cult Leader’s 3 Known Sons
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Charles Manson had a well-known “Manson Family” cult of followers, but his biological family has long flown under the radar.
Before orchestrating the brutal murders of then-pregnant Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Steven Parent and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca across two nights in August 1969, Manson fathered three sons with three different women — one of whom was one of his first followers.
Manson’s two elder sons, Charles Manson Jr. (who later changed his name to Jay White to distance himself from his father) and Charles Luther Manson (who legally changed his name to Jay Charles Warner), were born about a decade before the slayings that shook Hollywood, while his youngest, Michael Brunner, was born only 14 months before the murders.
Manson — who died at age 83 of natural causes in prison on Nov. 19, 2017 — rarely spoke publicly about his kids, but over the years, details have come to light about familial connections.
Now, the three-part Peacock docuseries Making Manson, which premiered on Nov. 19, features never-before-aired conversations about the late cult leader’s personal life.
Here’s everything to know about Charles Manson’s children: Charles Manson Jr., Charles Luther Manson and Michael Brunner.
Charles Manson Jr. — who later legally changed his name to Jay White — was born to Rosalie Jean Willis on April 10, 1956, according to a birth certificate obtained by Los Angeles Magazine.
According to The New York Times, Manson and Willis married in 1955 and eventually divorced. (She later died of lung cancer in 2009.)
Little is known about Mason Jr., who died by suicide at age 40 on June 29, 1993, per CNN.
Manson Jr. has a surviving adult son, Jason Freeman. When Manson died in 2017, a judge ruled that Freeman was Manson’s grandson and awarded him Manson’s body, The Northwest Florida Daily News reported. At the same time, a battle for Manson’s estate began and is still ongoing several years later, according to the Daily Mail.
Freeman, a former kickboxer and cage fighter, told CNN in 2012 that he never knew his father growing up but sympathized with what he may have been going through. “He just couldn’t let it go … He couldn’t live down who his father was,” he said of Manson Jr.’s death.
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