Bugliosi’s secret kid
THE obituaries were wrong. Vincent Bugliosi, the Charles
Manson prosecutor who wrote “Helter Skelter,” had a lover, a third child and five grandchildren no one knew about.
Linda Alvarez sent an email out to several public relations firms, saying, “I am looking for a PR agency to represent me in selling a story . . . about the unknown personal life story of Vince Bugliosi.”
Bugliosi died from cancer June 6 at the age of 80 survived by his wife, and their two children,
Wendy Gail, and Vince Jr. But Alvarez bore him a third, Nina.
“I was Vince’s lover from July 1978 to Sept 2001. We lived together at times& we had a child on his birthday August 18, 1981,” Alvarez, 60, wrote.
She kept quiet about their 23year affair until Bugliosi died. “I kept reading about howhe had two children, and it was painful that Nina was being ignored,” gnored,” Alvarez told me. “It’s time for her to be acand
acknowledged.” She and her daugho
daughter have no plans to sue the estate.
Bugliosi met Alvarez when she was working as a cocktail waitress in a Marriott in Tuscon, Ariz., He e later supported supNina her and Nina finansome financially.
“There were some good times, but plenty y that were horrible,” Alvarez said.
Like all marrieded men, he vowed to get a divorce, vorce, Alvarez Alvaromised said. “He promised he would marry me.”
If she wrote a memoir, she said she would d call it, “My Helter Skelter ter Life with Vince Bugliosi.” si.”