Born: February 20, 1954
AKA: Tania
Kidnapped as a young woman, Patty Hearst was transformed into “Tania” during her nineteen-month odyssey as a captive—and then a member—of the Symbionese Liberation Army. A participant in a number of robberies, she later claimed to have been brainwashed. Although convicted and imprisoned, she eventually received a pardon.
The middle child of five daughters, Hearst was born in San Francisco, California, on February 20, 1954. Her father, Randolph Apperson Hearst, was chairman of the board of the Hearst Corporation—the largest privately owned media conglomerate (a business coporation made up of a number of companies) in the United States. Hearst’s mother, Catherine Wood (Campbell) Hearst, was a member of the governing board of the University of California. Her position earned her a reputation as an outspoken conservative. Hearst’s legendary grandfather, William Randolph Hearst Jr., amassed a fortune as the founder of the Hearst newspaper empire.
Hearst grew up on family estates in Beverly Hills and Hillsborough, California. She spent vacations at family ranches, such as Wyntoon and San Simeon. A one-hundred-and-forty acre estate, San Simeon is the largest single piece of privately owned land on the Pacific Coast.
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