He would like to help tackle the drug problems in Ohio, where he grew up, and in Manatee County, where one of the worst epidemics in the state exists. He would like to bring water to impoverished villages in Africa on mission trips. He would like to travel Florida’s west coast in a van and pass out shoes and coats to the homeless. It is part of my story.”įreeman has plans. “I don’t want to be viewed for the actions of my grandfather,” he said. He also spends time at Hardee Correctional Institute speaking to inmates where he sees “so much potential lying dormant.” It took a while to get to that point though, trust me.”įreeman, affable with a good sense of humor, is raising a family in Bradenton and is heavily involved with a local church and its outreach program. “From time to time, every now and then, he’d say ‘I love you,’” Freeman said. Though the first time he saw Manson in person was in a morgue, he spoke with him frequently on the phone. Freeman was largely shielded from the family tree growing up. “Everyone is making bank off my grandfather,” Freeman said.įreeman’s father is Charles Manson Jr., who changed his name to Jay White and committed suicide in 1993, in part because he reportedly couldn’t handle the family name.
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You can find anything on the internet, from Charlie coffee mugs to motorcycle vests to T-shirts that say: “I joined the Manson Family and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.” There are nearly 2,000 Manson items for sale on eBay, and if Quentin Tarantino’s movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio hits theaters next summer as scheduled - a movie about Hollywood centered around Manson - interest will only grow. To wit: A Victorian bedframe a victim was killed on recently fetched $14,000 at auction. Manson was said to have written over 100 songs - Freeman has five recordings himself one was recorded by Guns N’ Roses and another by The Beach Boys.Īs for Manson’s image, it hasn’t really faded in the nearly 50 years since the murders shook America to its core, and all things Charlie still have monetary value, twisted as though it may be. A judge has yet to rule.Īt stake are music royalty rights as well as image and publishing rights. Freeman and his attorney dispute its validity. He says Manson signed a will that names him as the executor. Michael Channels, Manson’s former pen pal, is the other person laying claim to the estate.
Manson was serving a life sentence for orchestrating the murders of nine people when he died at 83. 19, 2017, is currently in battle with a Manson memorabilia collector over the cult leader’s estate, value unknown.
Who saw that one coming?įreeman, a Bradenton resident who was ruled by a California judge to be Manson’s grandson and was awarded his body after he died on Nov. It may bring shoes to the homeless, hope to prison inmates and aid to drug-addled communities. Depending on how a court case shakes out, it may be a vehicle for the betterment of mankind. Freeman, however, sees the image as something more than spooky. Indeed, somewhere between 1969 and last spring, when Charles Manson’s ashes were scattered over the Gulf of Mexico and nearly scared away the red tide, the iconic face of the “Most Dangerous Man in America” became the macabre logo for a commercial brand, kind of like the McDonald’s Arch or the Nike Swoosh, only of Evil.Įven Jason Freeman says of the face that launched 1,000 nightmares: “It’s scary.” And he’s Manson’s grandson. The specter of Charlie is everywhere, it seems, and the wild-eyed, mom-can-I-sleep-in-your-room-tonight face remains as sinister as Satan’s, if not as familiar: It’s on a tattoo at the Siesta Key drum circle, a hat on a guy driving up Interstate 75, a magazine cover in the checkout line at Publix, right above the Frosty the Snowman gift bag, and just in time for the holidays, too.
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