Charles Manson’s fiancée, 27-year-old Elaine Burton, also known as Star, apparently wanted to wed the convicted mass murderer so that she could gain possession of his corpse, according to author Daniel Simone. Burton and a pal, Craig Hammond, planned to lay out Manson’s remains in a glass crypt. The pair figured their bizarre tomb attraction would draw big crowds and make them rich. But now Manson, 80, does not want to marry Burton and has no interest in spending eternity displayed in a glass coffin, Simone told The Post:
“He’s finally realized that he’s been played for a fool. He feels he will never die. Therefore, he feels it’s a stupid idea to begin with.”
Manson’s and Burton’s marriage license expired on Thursday. According to the authors, Burton and Hammond hatched their plan to display Manson’s corpse about two years ago. Initially, the duo asked Manson to sign a document that would let them take his body when he dies.
“He didn’t give them a yes, he didn’t give them a no. He sort of strung them along. Manson never consented to the wedding in the first place and never will.”
But Burton has now responded to these reports with this statement to Rolling Stone:
“There is nothing in [the story] that is true. 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.”
Yeah well, true or not it doesn’t make this tale any LESS bizarre. As Chris Hardwick said of the story last night on @Midnight:
“I guess she wasn’t marrying a mass murdering lunatic with a swastica tattoo on his forehead for the RIGHT reasons, after all.”
I’ll leave you with this portrait of Charles Manson by John Waters.
John Waters, Cult Leader, 2009, 8″ x 10″, edition of 5
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