Catherine Share
| Catherine Share | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Catherine Louise Share December 10, 1942 Paris, France |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Gypsy |
| Known for | Former member of Charles Manson's "Family" |
| Children | 1 |
Catherine Louise "Gypsy" Share (born December 10, 1942) is a former member of Charles Manson's "Family". She was convicted of one or more crimes and served five years in prison. Following her release in 1975, she disassociated herself from the "Family" and sought surgical treatment to remove the "X" that she and others had burned and carved into their foreheads following Manson's lead during Manson's infamous trial.
Share was born in Paris to a Hungarian violinist father and a German mother. Her parents were both members of the French Resistance movement during World War II, and both committed suicide when their daughter was two. Share's maternal grandmother died in a ghetto in Eastern Europe and both of Share's paternal grandparents died in concentration camps. Before her parents' suicides, her father made arrangements with a French lawyer who was secretly helping the underground to plan his daughter's escape.
Through her father's arrangements, Share was adopted by a French woman who later married an American psychologist and they relocated to Hollywood, California. Share graduated from Hollywood High School in 1961. Share's childhood in America was, according to Share, a relatively happy one until her adoptive mother was diagnosed with cancer and committed suicide when Share was 16. Share then lived with her by then blind adoptive father. After her adoptive father remarried, Share dropped out of college and began wandering California, immersed in the 1960s counterculture. In 1965, Catherine Share cut a single for the Autumn label in San Francisco who were already riding high with the Beau Brummels. The recording, under the name of Charity Shayne, was issued in the UK in the 2000s as a track on the Ace/Big Beat CD "Someone to Love".
In early 1967, Share met Bobby Beausoleil on the set of a softcore porn movie entitled Ramrodder. She eventually began an affair with the aspiring musician and, after meeting Charles Manson through Beausoleil, moved to the "Family"'s location on Spahn's Ranch, where the other Family members nicknamed her "Gypsy". She was not directly involved in the Tate-LaBianca murders but would testify at the 1970 trial that Family member Linda Kasabian was the mastermind behind the murders in an effort to absolve Manson of any involvement in the crimes.
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