Charles Manson has garnered a number of headlines over the past few years over news that he was set to wed a woman 54 years younger than him. Now, there’s news that the nuptials were called off by the cult leader because he heard that his fiancee was planning to get rights to his body she she could put it on display after he died. One of the reasons Manson thinks this this ridiculous? He doesn’t think he will ever die.
When now 27-year-old Afton Elaine Burton, who also goes by Star, first announced she planned to marry the inmate, she stood by her man. “Yeah, well, people can think I’m crazy,” she said. “But they don’t know. This is what’s right for me. This is what I was born for.” Manson said then that she wasn’t a woman, but a “star in the Milky Way.”
Author Daniel Simone, who is researching an upcoming book called The Retrial of Charles Manson, claims that the engagement is now off now that Manson learned what Afton’s true intentions are. Simone says he’s been in contact with an inmate named Frank Reichard, who heard Afton and her friend Craig Hammond talking in the prison’s visiting area about what they planned to do with Manson’s body. “When they could not persuade Manson to sign a legal document entitling them to his body upon his death, that’s when they hatched Plan B,” which was for Afton to marry Manson.
According to Simone, Manson thinks their alleged plans for his body are ludicrous anyway because “he feels he will never die.”
Afton and her family claim that she is still going to marry Manson, and that everything Mr. Reichard wrote to Daniel Simone was a lie. The couple got a marriage license in November, and according to Afton, they plan to renew it.
“There is nothing in [the story] that is true,” her sister Melissa told Rolling Stone. “This is tabloid crap. It’s totally false and totally ridiculous. It’s bad enough that all this is being publicized, but to have something so outrageously stupid as that is pretty upsetting.”
