Charles Manson Had at Least Three Sons — and One Man Thinks He’s a Fourth Kid

Feb. 7 2021, Updated 1:08 p.m. ET

You most probably know about 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 exact family — and particularly, his children?

Manson, who died in 2017, had a minimum of three biological sons, in keeping with Newsweek: Charles Manson Jr., Charles Luther Manson, and Valentine Michael Manson. Here’s what we know 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 modified his title to Jay White, taking his stepfather’s surname. He had a son named Jason Freeman, but he stayed out of Freeman’s lifestyles in order to not tarnish his early life, as CNN reported in 2012. “He simply couldn’t let it move,” Freeman said at the time. “He couldn’t reside it down. He couldn’t reside down who his father was once.”

Details are scarcer about Charles Luther, Manson’s son with 2nd wife Leona Rae “Candy” Stevens, who has modified his identify and dropped out of the highlight, consistent with Newsweek.

Valentine, in the meantime, modified his title to Michael Brunner and spoke out about his upbringing in a 1993 KCBS-TV interview, all 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 forged doubt on the DNA check, pronouncing it simplest proved that he wasn’t related to Freeman and now not that he wasn’t associated with Manson.

At the time, he wanted to meet Manson head to head.

“Everybody has a novel and special type of love for their progenitors even though they're other or disturbed or monsters,” he told the web site. “Just him taking a look at me and me taking a look at him could be a beautiful profound revel in. I’ve never known what it’s like to lay eyes on my organic parents. That would be a big factor for me.”

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