Patricia Hearst Shaw, aka Patty Hearst, has come a long way in the last 34 years. The newspaper heiress was kidnapped by the SLA in Los Angeles in 1974. She was brainwashed and became a militant who robbed banks alongside her captors and called herself Tania.
The granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, publishing magnet, she was apprehended with other SLA members, and served two years in prison for bank robbery before her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter. She eventually received a presidential pardon from President Bill Clinton.
After her release from prison, Hearst married her former bodyguard, Bernard Shaw. She now lives with her husband and two daughters in Wilton, Connecticut. Hearst’s daughters are model Lydia Hearst-Shaw and Gillian Hearst-Shaw. Her niece is model Amanda Hearst.
Hearst-Shaw owns and shows French Bulldogs. Earlier this week, CH Shann’s Legally Blonde was named Best of Opposite Sex at the Westminster Kennel Club show. People outside the sport showed shock and surprise to find out that the winner of this category is indeed ‘the Patty Hearst’ from the past. Those within the dog show circuit are not strangers to the newspaper heiress, who has come full circle in the ensuing 3+ decades.