Catherine Louise "Gypsy" Share[1] (born December 10, 1942) is an American criminal who is known as a former member of the Manson Family; she was convicted of witness intimidation in relation to the 1970 trial of the Tate-LaBianca murders.
[2][3] Share was not directly involved in the Tate-LaBianca murders, for which Charles Manson and some of his followers were convicted and originally sentenced to death.
Share was born in Paris in 1942, to refugee parents, a Hungarian violinist father and a German Jewish mother.
Her parents were members of the French Resistance movement during World War II, and committed suicide when their daughter was two.
Before her parents' suicides, her father had made arrangements with a French lawyer, who was secretly helping the underground, to plan his daughter's escape from France.
In early 1967, Share met Bobby Beausoleil on the set of a softcore porn movie entitled The Ramrodder.
They had wanted to prevent her from testifying for the prosecution against Manson, Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten, and Patricia Krenwinkel during the Tate/LaBianca murder trial.
[9] On August 21, 1971, Share, accompanied by Family members Kenneth Como, Mary Brunner, Dennis Rice, Charles Lovett, and Larry Bailey, drove a van to a Hawthorne, California Western Surplus Store.
In addition, they alleged that they planned to hijack a Boeing 747 and threaten to kill one passenger each hour until Manson and fellow Family members were released from prison.
[10] Brunner and Share were convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to prison; they were assigned to California Institution for Women.
There they were held in the special unit that had been created as a death row for Family members Leslie Van Houten, Susan Atkins, and Patricia Krenwinkel.
[citation needed] In 1979, Share was convicted in absentia in California on six counts of mail fraud, interstate transportation of stolen property, and fraudulent use of a credit card.
In July 2006, Share returned to the remnants of Spahn Ranch to be interviewed by The History Channel about her role in the Manson Family.
Similarly, in 2007, Share was interviewed about her years with the Family by forensic psychologist Michael Stone for the American television series Most Evil, on the Investigation Discovery network.
[12] In addition to being featured in interviews, Share was portrayed by Lena Dunham in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), a drama about this period.