Charles Manson Had at Least Three Sons and One Man Thinks Hes a Fourth Kid

One of Charles Manson’s children has spoken out about his notorious father. Read more about the cult leader’s three biological sons.

You likely know concerning the Manson Family, the cult thought to be behind 35 murders, together with the slaying of actress Sharon Tate. But what about cult leader Charles Manson’s precise circle of relatives — and specifically, his children?

Manson, who died in 2017, had at least three organic sons, in line with Newsweek: Charles Manson Jr., Charles Luther Manson, and Valentine Michael Manson. Here’s what we find out about them.

Where are Charles Manson’s kids now?

Tragically, Charles Jr. — Manson’s son with Rosalie Jean Willis — died through suicide in 1993. 

Charles Jr. had changed his title to Jay White, taking his stepfather’s surname. He had a son named Jason Freeman, however he stayed out of Freeman’s existence so as to not tarnish his youth, as CNN reported in 2012. “He just couldn’t let it pass,” Freeman mentioned at the time. “He couldn’t reside it down. He couldn’t are living down who his father was.”

Details are scarcer about Charles Luther, Manson’s son with 2d spouse Leona Rae “Candy” Stevens, who has modified his name and dropped out of the spotlight, in step with Newsweek.

Valentine, meanwhile, changed his identify to Michael Brunner and spoke out about his upbringing in a 1993 KCBS-TV interview, all the way through which he said he felt no connection to Manson. 

"I was too young to remember anything way back in California, and it’s really not part of my life,” he explained. “There’s no reason to treat me any different than the next guy just because of my biological father, and I think people do.”

The Los Angeles Times caught up with Brunner in 2019, when he was working in manufacturing and living with a partner on 56 acres “somewhere in the rural Midwest.”

Is Matthew Roberts one of Manson’s sons?

In 1998, a Los Angeles musician named Matthew Roberts, who was adopted as a child, sought out his birth parents and found his biological mother living in Wisconsin. The woman told Roberts that she met Manson at an orgy in San Francisco in 1967, and that she was certain he had impregnated her.

Believing he had found his biological father, Roberts wrote to Manson and received a letter back from “Prisoner B33920,” who said he remembered the orgy and Roberts’ biological mother.

But a DNA test organized by CNN in 2012 concluded that Roberts and Freeman, Manson’s grandchild, had no common biological ancestry.

“Now there’s no chance of knowing who my father is,” a visibly shaken Roberts told CNN at the time. “That’s the only lead I had, so now I have no chance of meeting or knowing my biological father.”

But in a 2017 interview with Radar Online, Roberts cast doubt on the DNA check, announcing it only proved that he wasn’t associated with Freeman and now not that he wasn’t associated with Manson.

At the time, he wanted to satisfy Manson face to face.

“Everybody has a distinctive and particular type of love for his or her progenitors even if they're other or disturbed or monsters,” he informed the website. “Just him having a look at me and me looking at him could be a lovely profound enjoy. I’ve never identified what it’s like to lay eyes on my organic folks. That can be a big factor for me.”

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