Hearst attended the University of San Francisco, where he studied business.
[2] During the 1974 kidnapping of Patty Heart by the Symbionese Liberation Army, Hearst's roommate was kidnapped and held hostage after being mistaken for Hearst.
[3][4] Hearst was the executive producer of "A Voyage with Shakespeare with Francis Edmunds," a production at Emerson College in East Sussex from 1985 to 1987.
[5] As of 1987, Hearst was living in Britain and was a certified Waldorf school teacher.
[7][8][9][10][11][12] In 2006, Hearst founded Regenesis Power, a solar energy company.