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Charles Manson Will Surfaces: Pen Pal Gets Everything

By Gerry W. Beyer

image from https://s3.amazonaws.com/feather-client-files-aviary-prod-us-east-1/2017-11-25/b5974ed6-cc27-4d84-8068-ab56b3d8ed23.pngCharles Manson left the whole of his estate to a pen pal who started writing to Manson in the ‘90s. The individual, who prefers to remain anonymous, wrote over fifty letters to the cult leader before Manson finally replied in 1997. The pair struck up a friendship and the pen pal eventually visited Manson in prison for the first time in 2002. This was the year that Manson penned his will leaving everything, including cash, image rights, and clothing, to the pen pal.

See Charles Manson Will Surfaces: Pen Pal Gets Everything, TMZ, November 24, 2017.

See Chris Spargo, Charles Manson Will: Infamous Cult Leader Leaves Entire Estate and Rights To His Likeness To a Pen Pal While Disinheriting His Family and Friends, DailyMail.com, November 24, 2017.

Special thanks to Joel C. Dobris (Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law) for bringing this article to my attention.

 

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