The topics of this article perfectly describe the popular movie title Beauty and the Beast. Candy Stevens is the beauty who was in love and married the murderous beast who was named Charles Manson. Manson was a cult leader in the 1960s responsible for the murder of a number of Hollywood figures. His crimes were so heinous that he was and is described as a monster.
Manson’s criminal records date back to 1955 and despite his morbid crimes, he managed to attract the attention of young women. Before his death, Charles Manson was married to two women and Candy was one of them. They married in 1959, two years after he divorced his first wife, with whom he had a child.
The marriage between Charles and Candy, who was a prostitute, did not last long before the marriage was annulled in 1963. However, before the marriage ended, Candy bore him a son whom she named Charles Luther Manson. A few years after the divorce, Charles was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for several murders. It is important to note that nothing was known about Candy until she became involved with the criminal. She was just another call girl walking down the street at night. What a misfortune to win glory!
Candy Stevens – Biography
Candy Stevens was born Leona Rae Stevens which is all there is to know about the personal life of the beauty who would later be known as the wife of one of America’s most gruesome assassins. It is not known when she was born or who gave birth to her. it is also not known in which city she was born or where she grew up.
Also, there is no record of any form of education for Candy. No one came to identify themselves as his brother or sister. However, it is certain that Candy was a prostitute well known for selling her body for money. And even though prostitution is prohibited and considered illegal, obscene and immoral in most countries, it is still a legal business in a few. In the case of Candy Stevens, although it is unknown where she started the business, she was known to do so in the United States.
More often than not, ladies or girls who turn out to be prostitutes have little or no other choice. They often come from broken, separated, divorced or poor homes and the extremely difficult circumstances they find themselves in push them into the cold streets in search of survival. More often than not, these ladies have no control over the tides of life that throw them in that direction. Maybe it was Candy Stevens.
Candy Stevens gained popularity when she started dating Charles Manson, a notorious criminal. Charles had been in jail before he met Candy and surprisingly, Candy fell in love with Charles. By the time the duo began their romance, Charles was convicted of a felony and was set to face 10 years in prison for his crimes. He was accused of attempting to cash a US Treasury check. he was found guilty when Candy intervened and pleaded in court. His plea was that they were in love and therefore he should be released. This request may have been around in 1959, but I bet it wouldn’t be now. The court listened to her plea and her man was released and the same year,
Unlike the original Beauty and the Beast story, Charles didn’t turn into a prince, rather he got worse. As expected, their marriage failed and was annulled in 1963, the same year she had their son, Charles Luther Mason. Soon after, he began committing his murderous crimes in his family’s cult, which earned him a life sentence. For Candy Stevens, she has moved on, but no one knows where she is. Since the divorce, she has kept her distance from her ex-husband and lived with her son Luther.
Facts About Charles Manson’s Wife
Husband
Apart from Charles Manson, there is no record of any other love story that Candy was involved in. Charles was born in Cincinnati in 1934. He became a criminal at a very young age, and by 1955 he was already committing crimes that had him incarcerated. His criminal lifestyle did not deter women from joining him. He was first married to a teenage hospital waitress, known as Rosalie Jean Wills. Rosalie and Charles were married in 1955 in West Virginia while he was in prison. After serving his sentence, he moved to California with his new wife and she bore him a son, Charles Manson Jr. But as with all his marriages, that didn’t last either; he divorced her in 1958.
Charles Manson died in 2017 of natural causes. However, before that, he was engaged to an American brunette by the name of Afton Burton. She was 26 when she got engaged to Charles Manson who was in prison at the time. The marriage (which would have been Charles’ third) did not see the light of day due to Charles’ poor health which later led to his death.
Dead or alive
It is uncertain if the only prostitute and wife of the late criminal Charles Manson, Candy Stevens, is dead or alive, as nothing is heard of her shortly after her divorce from Manson. Some sources say she is dead while others say she is living away from any negativity associated with her former husband.
